🔊 'Who is aid ultimately working for?' Mere Nailatikau asks via The Lowy Institute
🔉 Impact negligible at best
🔉 Large disbursements to multinational contractors
🔉Failed localisation attempts
🔉 Inadequate flows to local actors
🔉 Landscape favours expats lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Happy #WorldTeachersDay2022 !
Biggest respect to these humans for what they do!

Happiest Diwali to all. May the coming year be filled with light! #Diwali2022 🎇 ✨💡🕯️💛🎆

moon and sea.

'Few have recognised the shared history is one in which powerful outsiders, including #Australia , have exploited #SolomonIslands ’ land, labour, and resources for their own benefit.' #auspol pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/real-…

Miss you Viti 🇫🇯!
Happy #FijiDay to all 💙

Happy #loveyourbookshop day!
I'll be Harry Hartog Bondi #Sydney this morning from 10am. Come and meetyourgrandma.com 🐵🦎🐟✨

At a #foodsummit Can't help notice re catering. Shud be walkin' the talk. #supportlocal & let's b cheerleaders 4 local cuisines where we can. #khaotommud tis downstairs at breky buffet but not at mtg room. Just as well or u-know-who wud b devouring.Pacific Community PIFON

“Western agencies continue to operate through a deficit lens, thinking for rather than with the Pacific….The Western aid paradigm itself has become akin to a giant Ponzi scheme.”
An important review by fmr diplomats Dame Meg Taylor & Soli Middleby🌺 on Pacific, China & the West.👇🏾

Thankyou for sharing Islands Business islandsbusiness.com/news-break/opi…

“The Western aid paradigm itself has become akin to a giant Ponzi scheme, in which a significant proportion of aid is pocketed by aid intermediaries… that consume each other in a battle for the ‘aid dollar’.” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Soli Middleby🌺 & Dame Meg Taylor

For those of us used to thinking from within the Pacific, and with the Pacific this is a reminder of why it’s important to think how we do. It’s also a timely wake up call for those who don’t. Thanks Meg and Soli Middleby🌺

9dashline.com/article/more-o… Insightful analysis so far by Dame Meg Taylor and Soli Middleby🌺 “Sadly, the geopolitical competition is not over who understands the region …On its current trajectory, this competition looks set escalate both militarisation and dependency in the Pacific”

😍❤️ #Onlinereading of my kids #picturebook meetyourgrandma.com
(inspired by Richard Dawkins
#MagicofReality 🐵🦎🐟✨)
👉 👀 youtu.be/R4Ek2tRNA4Q

🇸🇧Foreign Minister call on PBP to align themselves with the Pacific 2050 Strategy. Partners are asked to await the review of the regional architecture that will define the structure and form of future partnership. 🏝️ leaders to remain in the drivers seat of their agenda.

'Recent scientific research suggests that life in the #universe is rare... even if all potentially habitable planets do in fact harbor life.. That’s like a few grains of sand on the Gobi Desert.' 🤯 theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

#BREAKING : Tiwi Traditional Owner Dennis Tipakalippa has won his landmark case over Santos’ approvals to drill precious Tiwi Sea Country!

The Federal Court of Australia has found that Santos failed to consult Traditional Owners as required.