Vanuatu
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Sep 11, 2026
Waleed AlyHOST
So it's about time that we did, frankly, um, and so I'm glad that today's the day.
Hamish MacdonaldHOST
Well, Dr Brian Jones was previously the UK's High Commissioner to Fiji, to Kiribati, to Vanuatu.
Hamish MacdonaldHOST
He's now the acting High Commissioner to Australia, and I should just mention that we spoke to him before the news broke about the UK's decision to ban imports of goods produced by Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Hamish MacdonaldHOST
That's obviously a huge story.
15 MINS LATER
Brian JonesGUEST
So the, uh, the, the free trade agreement is, uh, is open to discussion by both governments, and if Australia wished to, to explore its own limits on the number of working holiday visas, then that's entirely Australia's policy prerogative to do so.
Waleed AlyHOST
That's very interesting.
Waleed AlyHOST
I want to ask you about, uh, the Pacific, 'cause, uh, y- as I mentioned at the top, you previously held diplomatic posts in, in Fiji, in Kiribati, in Vanuatu.
Waleed AlyHOST
Obviously, the reporting over the last week or so about the Pacific Island Forum-
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
I love it, I love it.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
And where is this? Vanuatu.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
Vanuatu.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
Wow.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
Wow.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
UC.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
Beautiful.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
UC, Vanuatu.
Ateriano MatiarikiCORRESPONDENT
Lieutenant Colonel Wright says they will continue this work alongside Australia to identify countries who need this help.
Ateriano MatiarikiCORRESPONDENT
He says they are looking into doing work in Vanuatu and Tuvalu soon and expect future requests by Kiribati to clear everything they missed this past operation.
Susana SuiswikiHOST
That's Pacific Waves for today.
Susana SuiswikiHOST
For all episodes, head over to rnz.co.nz forward slash Pacific.
Rowan ReidGUEST
And having a master tree grower meant I was focused on the person.
Rowan ReidGUEST
And what we do in our courses, our courses are designed to go for eight days, and they run regionally, similar to yours, but we run them right around the country, and we've had them in Africa, in Indonesia, Vanuatu, East Timor, but it's all the same.
Rowan ReidGUEST
We get a group of farmers from a region together, We ask them, why would you want to grow trees? We don't go there to tell them, you should grow trees for this.
Rowan ReidGUEST
We start with their, why would they want to grow it? And having identified their needs, we start talking about how trees grow, how you can manipulate their growth, how you can deliver the outcomes you want.
DKHOST
Yeah.
DKHOST
Vanuatu.
ArdeetHOST
So
DKHOST
there's a lot.
Sonya CleggGUEST
As part of my work, I spent a lot of time island hopping in the Pacific.
Sonya CleggGUEST
So I got to spend significant amounts of time on places like Vanuatu, New Caledonia.
Sonya CleggGUEST
I've done shorter trips out to French Polynesia.
Sonya CleggGUEST
And I also run a long-term field project on Heron Island on the Southern Barrier Reef.
Jeremy WellsHOST
Thank you.
ZoePANELIST
Six in Vanuatu.
Manaia StewartHOST
Mm-hmm.
ZoePANELIST
Six in Poland.
ClintHOST
You don't teach geography, do you, Hayley?
MegHOST
No. No. Vietnam, Vanuatu, Venezuela is what we had down in the car brand was Volvo or Volkswagen.
MegHOST
And I love how you said vegetables.
MegHOST
Vegetables.
Viliame KasanawakaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We want to unlock the blue economy.
Viliame KasanawakaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have seen recently in terms of the ICJ report, in terms of climate, what Vanuatu has done.
Viliame KasanawakaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, you know, the smaller developed states, they have been sort of entrepreneurs in terms of the global agenda.
Viliame KasanawakaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think that's what the Abbas recognizes, the urgency that the triple planetary crisis And really it underscores the need for targeted and scale-up responses for small land development states.
Matthew Norris-SilvaHOST
And I also want to pull out that lasting change for Dalsy, who also attended World Assembly.
Matthew Norris-SilvaHOST
She was the student representative for Vanuatu in 2015, and she went on to serve the movement in the Solomon Islands.
Matthew Norris-SilvaHOST
And reflecting on her World Assembly experience at the time, she said this.
Matthew Norris-SilvaHOST
World Assembly was a great time for me to grow in my walk with God.
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