{"id":767651,"date":"2026-06-29T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767651\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:20:17","slug":"australia-and-vanuatu-sign-long-awaited-security-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767651\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia and Vanuatu sign long-awaited security deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia and Vanuatu sign long-awaited security deal<\/p>\n<p>Published 29 June 2026, 7:24 am<\/p>\n<p>Australia and Vanuatu have signed a $500 million strategic agreement \u2014 the first inked between the two countries. It positions Australia as the Pacific country&#8217;s security partner of choice, but it&#8217;s a weaker treaty than originally hoped by the Australian prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia and Vanuatu sign long-awaited security deal Published 29 June 2026, 7:24 am Australia and Vanuatu have signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-767651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767651","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=767651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}