How Australia can counter China in the Pacific

Stephen Howes told AFR Weekend that the Labor government’s green card style lottery offering permanent residency to Pacific Islanders could be “transformational”.

“The Pacific is not going to follow Asia’s path to modernisation with industrialisation and centres of factories,” said Howes. “They need a different development model, and migration is part of that.

3 June 2022

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