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A delegation from the Australia Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific, are in Nuku'alofa on a week-long visit. They discussed Australian Government infrastructure financing for Tonga through AIFFP and the state of the Tongan economy, Tonga's debt obligations and Australia's ongoing budget support. Discussions on projects included Parliament House reconstruction, the Queen Salote Wharf and ICT cable redundancy,

Australia has provided a further AUD$5 million to support Tonga’s formal and informal business sector impacted by COVID-19.

Tonga Police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have formed a partnership for policing development under a new Memorandum of Understanding, signed yesterday in Nuku'alofa.

Students at GPS Nuku’alofa, GPS Hoi, and GPS Talafo’ou, are now enjoying their new classrooms that were opened recently. The classrooms were repaired and reconstructed after they were damaged by Tropical Cyclone Gita in 2018.

The Australian Government is supporting an initiative to ensure humanitarian and medical supplies are delivered to Pacific Island countries, including Tonga, to mitigate the impacts of CoViD-19.

The Tongan Navy bid farewell to the VOEA Pangai navy patrol boat on 23 April after almost 30 years of service, operating within Tonga and internationally.

A Norfolk Island group is calling to remove land rates forced by the Australian Government, which it says “would lead to dispossession of the island's people”. They want to find an alternative to the new economic and financial regime constructed under Australian Commonwealth legislation.

Grant and sponsorship funding was awarded today by the Tonga Health Promotion Foundation to support healthy living initiatives to strengthen, prevent and control Non Communicable Diseases (NCD's) which have reached a critical level in Tonga.

A $7.5 million Tonga Skills programme funded by Australia aims to develop the skills Tonga needs to get its economy rolling. A steering committee met for the first time yesterday, and will work toward setting up a national skills development system and address a lack of essential skills. The Deputy Prime Minister Hon Siaosi Sovaleni is chairman.