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Assistance of AUD2.8 million (TOP 4.3 million) was committed by Australia to support Tonga Police's critical role in providing a safe, secure and crime free community, while addressing critical resourcing gaps.

An additional AUD10 million was committed by the Government of Australia to further improve health outcomes for people in Tonga, with the signing of the Tonga Health Systems Support Program Phase 3 on 15 May. 

Around $1.9 billion dollars has been committed over the next five-years to the Pacific, including Tonga, by the Australian Government.

The Australian and New Zealand governments have renewed their commitment to the World Bank’s work in the Pacific through an agreement to strengthen cooperation in the region over the next eight years.

'Lest we forget' the ANZAC Day commemoration in Tonga on 25 April, remembered the day when ANZAC forces consisting of Australian and New Zealand forces (including Tongan soldiers) landed at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War One in 1915.

ANZAC Day will be observed at a dawn service in Tonga on Tuesday, 25 April to commemorate those brave fallen soldiers from Tonga, Australia and New Zealand, who fought and died for world peace. ANZAC Day is a public holiday in Tonga.

A planned multi-purpose packhouse facility for root crops will serve as a processing and packing facility for both frozen and fresh produce in the Eastern District of Tongatapu, to be built under a partnership agreement between a Tongan export business Lotopoha Export Trading and the Pacific Horticulture and Agricultural Market Access Plus Program (PHAMA Plus).

Melbourne Storm is honouring and celebrating seven of the different cultures including Tonga in its NRL playing group, with its 2023 multicultural t-shirt.

Team Up, a sports development program, will continue to fund activities that uses sports as a method to develop and instil life skills in the people of Tonga.