Morrison's Vanuatu trip shows the government's continued focus on militarising the Pacific
- Written by Michael O'Keefe, Head of Department, Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
The foreign policy community met with relief the announcement Morrison’s first overseas trip for 2019 would be to Vanuatu and Fiji. The trip is a long overdue symbol of a priority outlined in the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper: “stepping up our engagement in the Pacific”.
There had been much criticism of the PM’s failure to...