On the program this week:<\/p>\n
The Pacific’s biggest political meeting has wrapped up in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara, where Australia has put up $100 million for the Pacific’s new climate fund.<\/p>\n
The ABC’s Foreign Affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic says the decision by hosts Solomon Islands to block development partners from attending this year’s Pacific leaders meeting means regional leaders and officials have more time to discuss matters in detail.<\/p>\n
Fiji’s government is pushing ahead with its controversial plan to establish an embassy in Jerusalem, with the diplomatic post to be opened next week.<\/p>\n
The Pacific Labour Mobility scheme is no stranger to allegations of exploitation and abuse, but a new controversy has emerged over the payment of country officials.<\/p>\n
After a term in office, where she made history as Samoa’s first woman prime ministe,r Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has stepped down from office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the program this week: The Pacific’s biggest political meeting has wrapped up in the Solomon Islands capital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8932,64,63,6898,44,94912,3755],"class_list":{"0":"post-138274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-albanese","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pif","14":"tag-podcast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}