{"id":24043,"date":"2020-10-22T01:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/australia-should-create-pacific-visa-to-reduce-impact-of-climate-change-and-disaster-on-islanders"},"modified":"2020-10-22T01:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:30:02","slug":"australia-should-create-pacific-visa-to-reduce-impact-of-climate-change-and-disaster-on-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24043","title":{"rendered":"Australia should create \u2018Pacific visa\u2019 to reduce impact of climate change and disaster on islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Displacement is growing in the Asia-Pacific region, and a new policy paper argues migration policies must be established now<\/p>\n<p>Australia should establish a new \u201cPacific Access\u201d visa category that could be used by Pacific islanders forced from their homes by climate change and natural disasters, <a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2020\/10\/21\/Policy_brief_10_Climate_Change.pdf\">a new policy paper<\/a> has argued, warning of growing displacement in Australia\u2019s region in coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>Disasters displaced three times as many people as conflict around the world last year, the paper from University of New South Wales\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au\/\">Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law<\/a> says, and the Asia-Pacific region is the hardest hit. Between 2008 and 2018, the Asia-Pacific saw more than 80% of all new global displacement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/australia-should-create-pacific-visa-to-reduce-impact-of-climate-change-and-disaster-on-islanders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Displacement is growing in the Asia-Pacific region, and a new policy paper argues migration policies must be established nowAustralia should establish a new \u201cPacific Access\u201d visa category that could be used by Pacific islanders forced from their homes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,645,388,855,436,591,602,491,56,874,1439,280,563,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-cook-islands","category-fiji","category-kiribati","category-marshall-islands","category-migration","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-tonga","category-tuvalu","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions\/24044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}