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China dominates defence debate between Dutton and O'Connor, with minister warning Australia must 'prepare for war'

Defence Minister Peter Dutton faces off against his counterpart Brendan O'Connor, with the pair agreeing China has changed and Australia must be prepared for war.

ABC News

Australian prime minister defends his country's ties to Solomons

Scott Morrison says he followed security officials' advice in managing relations with the Solomon Islands after the South Pacific neighbor's leader alleged he'd been threatened with invasion.

WEKU

Australia wants calm in ties with Solomon Islands after 'invasion' claim

Australia will respond calmly to the Solomon Islands after it signed a security pact with China, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, dismissing a furious response by the leader of the Pacific nation to Western criticism of the deal.

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Morrison defends management of Australia's ties to Solomons

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is following security officials’ advice in managing bilateral relations with the Solomon Islands after the South Pacific neighbor’s leader alleged he’d been threatened “with invasion.”

The Independent UK

New Zealand foreign minister blames ‘relationship failure’ for China-Solomons security deal

Nanaia Mahuta confirms ‘unwelcome and unnecessary’ deal came as a surprise to New Zealand and Australia, saying the Solomons must provide transparency

The Guardian - AU

Australia 'always there' for Solomons: PM

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the nation hasn't failed in the Pacific region as Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare takes aim at Australia.

AAP

Morrison says Australia still Solomon Islands' first option despite 'secret' security deal with China

Scott Morrison says the government will take a "calm and composed" approach to Solomon Islands if re-elected, after its Prime Minister launched a tirade in parliament about Australia's response to its new security pact with China.

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Penny Wong says annual aid to Solomon Islands is 28 per cent lower on average under the Coalition than it was under Labor. Is she correct?

Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong says the Coalition has spent 28 per cent less on development assistance to the Solomon Islands than Labor did when last in government. Is that correct?

ABC News

Unraveling the Controversies of Chinese Foreign Aid

China’s new aid and security pact with the Solomon Islands is the latest case to raise the question of whether Chinese aid is developmental or a political.

The News Lens

Solomon Islands Prime Minister ups ante with criticism of Australia while praising China during tirade in parliament

The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands launches a tirade in parliament, suggesting Australia and its allies are deliberately trying to undermine his government, criticising the Western response to Russia's invasion and praising China's treatment of Christians.

ABC News

Scott Morrison has not spoken to Solomon Islands prime minister since calling election

Australian PM insists he wants positive relationship, while Manasseh Sogavare says use of ‘back yard’ to describe country is offensive

The Guardian - AU

No contact with Solomons' leader: PM

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has criticised Prime Minister Scott Morrison for not contacting his Solomon Islands counterpart as relations deteriorate.

AAP

Solomon Islands says it will restrict Chinese police

Solomon Islands envoy to Australia says Chinese police stationed there will be under local command.

Al Jazeera

Pacific nations walk geopolitical tightrope over Ukraine war, as nuclear legacy looms

Pacific leaders have broadly lambasted the Russian assault, but some countries have resisted outright condemnation of the superpower

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In 35 years of reporting from Solomon Islands, I’ve never seen the secrecy of the last few months

Journalists have been chased from parliament by police and attacked by the prime minister. Now more than ever we need a free press

Reuters

Solomon Islands to supervise Chinese police operating there -official

China's police presence under a new security pact will boost the capabilities of the Solomon Islands but they will not use techniques seen in Hong Kong, the Pacific island country's top diplomat to Australia said in a radio interview on Monday.

Newsroom.co.nz

Foreign powers already have boots on the ground in Solomon Islands

Terence Wood: Talk of a Chinese military base in the islands shows the impact of politicians stoking our fears of the world – when it's NZ and Australian soldiers actually been called in.

ABC News

Does China's security pact with Solomon Islands really matter to Australia's Pacific Islands voters?

China's security pact with Solomon Islands has been a hot election topic, but Pacific Islanders in Australia say there are more-pressing issues they care about when it comes time to vote.

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Australian leader, facing election, decries China's interference

Australia's prime minister accused China on Saturday of "form", or a record, on interference in foreign politics, after his home minister said Beijing's unveiling of a security deal with the nearby Solomon Islands was timed to influence an election.

ABC News

Solomon Islands security pact with China all part of PM Manasseh Sogavare's plan as 'unpredictable' but 'deft political operator'

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Mannaseh Sogavare is a political journeyman with a plan — a plan to hold on to power at all costs, pit regional players against each other and create a wedge to get more for his country.

The Guardian - AU

Australian election briefing: Albanese out of iso and Morrison’s war of words with Solomons PM — plus lettuce prices tip of the iceberg

Friday: the best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 federal election coverage

Reuters

Solomon Islands PM says won't accept militarisation of Pacific

The Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China because a similar deal with Australia was inadequate, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said, adding his country knew the cost of war and would not be part of any militarisation of the Pacific.

The Guardian - AU

Solomon Islands PM suggests Australia’s reaction to China security deal is hysterical and hypocritical

Manasseh Sogavare says he wasn’t told about Aukus pact until it was public while Scott Morrison accuses counterpart of parroting China’s lines

ABC News

Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare blasts Australia over criticism of China security deal

The Solomon Islands Prime Minister delivers a withering verbal assault on Australia, mocking the federal government's complaints about the secrecy surrounding the Pacific Island country's security pact with China.

AAP

Solomons didn't raise issue over AUKUS: PM

Scott Morrison has hit back at criticism from the Solomon Islands prime minister over a lack of consultation on the AUKUS security pact.

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