May 13, 2015 · The Pacific Islands region has been spared any serious impact from cuts to the Australian aid program revealed in budget documents released ...

Jun 10, 2015 · “Australia shielded the Pacific from cuts because these island nations are so dependent on aid and it doesn't want to send a message to China ...

Jenny Hayward-Jones is a Lowy Institute Nonresident Fellow and former Director of the Melanesia Program at the Lowy Institute.

2 Jenny Hayward-Jones, “Big Enough for All of Us: Geo-Strategic Competition in the Pacific Is- lands,” Lowy Institute Analysis (Sydney: Lowy Institute for ...

May 15, 2014 · Howes says in total A$590m saved through cuts to some programmes will be reallocated to the Pacific, including about $60 million additional aid ...

Approximately $223 million was spent on economic governance, $103 million on improving the machinery of government and $133 million on cross-mission activities.

May 20, 2021 · The recent budget figures reveal a A$62 million increase for the coming year, raising Australian aid to about A$4.5 billion in 2020-21.

Jenny Hayward-Jones notes that Australia, like other dominant players in their own regions, will always be both damned and praised for its various actions. It ...