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TESS NEWTON CAIN<\/a>\u00a0 |<\/p>\n

Not content with watching our elections and those of our Pacific island neighbours, I also kept a fairly close eye on the Australian federal elections that took place last weekend. Given that Pacific policy was one area where there were some key differences between the two major parties, there was good reason to take an interest in what transpired.<\/p>\n

So now that we know that the Morrison government has been returned, what do leaders and commentators in the region and the Australian diaspora think this result means for the Pacific? What are they hoping to see from the Morrison government when it comes to sustaining the \u2018Pacific step up\u2019?<\/p>\n

Climate change is essentially where these conversations start and end.<\/p>\n

Please click here to read the full “Australia has voted \u2013 what does this mean for the Pacific?”<\/a> article at the Daily Post, written by Griffith Asia Institute Adjunct Assoicate Professor Tess Newton Cain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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