{"id":6939,"date":"2019-08-13T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/how-will-australia-spend-the-500m-it-has-committed-to-the-pacific"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:40:48","slug":"how-will-australia-spend-the-500m-it-has-committed-to-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6939","title":{"rendered":"How will Australia spend the $500m it has committed to the Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government says money will fund new infrastructure but do climate investments like this work?<\/p>\n<p>The Morrison government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/australia-will-fund-a-500m-climate-change-package-for-the-pacific-pm-to-announce\">committed to spend $500m on climate change and disaster resilience in the Pacific<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement \u2013 on top of an existing commitment of $300m for 2016-2020 \u2013 marks a significant shift from the Abbott government, which was criticised by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2018\/aug\/07\/abbott-policies-reduced-effectiveness-of-foreign-office-work-on-climate-change\">decreasing the emphasis on climate change in the aid program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/how-will-australia-spend-the-500m-it-has-committed-to-the-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government says money will fund new infrastructure but do climate investments like this work?The Morrison government has committed to spend $500m on climate change and disaster resilience in the Pacific.The announcement \u2013 on top of an existing comm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"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":[247,41,43,324,326,65,59,581,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-global-development","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","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\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6940,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions\/6940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}