“While the Pacific Islands Forum is often described as the region’s premier political gathering, it has never been a space owned solely by Pacific nations. From the beginning, Australia and New Zealand have sat at the table.” — Sione Tekiteki.
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Exchanges like the one between Anthony Albanese and Kurt Campbell at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum meeting “would be inexplicable if Australia wasn’t ‘America’s man in the Pacific.’” — Van Jackson, foreign policy analyst.
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“Kanaky is a microcosm of the broader security contest in the Pacific, where external forces are undermining Pacific self-determination and our priorities, causing political and social instability.” — Dr Marco de Jong.
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“Our nuclear-free status is tied in intimate ways to our political independence, and ultimately to our survival as peoples of the Pacific.” — Dr Marco de Jong and Talei Mangioni.
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“No amount of investment in military platforms, and alignment with the AUKUS nations and their beliefs, will deny our demography and geography: we are part of the Pacific.” — Dr Marco de Jong.
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