Scott Morrison to make historic to Fiji and Vanuatu to shore up Australian influence in Pacific

Scott Morrison to make historic to Fiji and Vanuatu to shore up Australian influence in Pacific

ABC News – Monday 14th January, 2019.

Scott Morrison has returned from summer holidays with a herculean political challenge looming — in only a few months he’ll take his Coalition Government to the polls and try to pull off an unlikely election victory.

Key points:
This trip is part of Australia’s re-energised focus on the South Pacific
No Australian PM has visited Vanuatu since 1990
Meetings will focus on free trade and security agreements
But the Prime Minister won’t spend his first week back touring marginal seats or locked in strategic conclaves with his advisers.

Instead, he’ll kick off 2019 by jetting to the Pacific island nations of Vanuatu and Fiji for a state visit.Read more…