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The UK 🇬🇧 and NZ 🇳🇿 have signed the #TIDES agreement — backing clean energy access across the Pacific.
A $24m initiative, TIDES brings public & private finance together to help Pacific nations shift from fossil fuels to renewables.
Partnership in action. 🌏
#ClimateFinance
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‘I leave believing the bilateral relationship between our two countries has never been stronger, deeper, or broader.’
Today, we bid a final farewell and thank you to High Commissioner @VickiTreadell for her steadfast work to strengthen UK-Australia ties these past 6 years. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
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Delighted to host the #Afghan Women's #Cricket Team to dinner, the final one of my tenure at the 🇬🇧Residence, Westminster House. Stories of courage & hope.
Thanks @catherineordway, @NStottDespoja, many of my fellow ♀️Heads of Missions & team @ukinaustralia for attending.
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With huge thanks to The Governor General HE The Hon Sam Mostyn & Mr Simeon Beckett for hosting a farewell dinner for me with a few friends & colleagues. It was a very special evening.
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Honoured to be appointed British High Commissioner to Australia from April. Huge thanks to @VickiTreadell and our @UKinAustralia network for their great work strengthening ties between our countries. Looking forward to joining you all. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG @SarahMacFCDO has been appointed British High Commissioner to Australia, succeeding @VickiTreadell.
Dame Sarah will take up her appointment in April 2025 🇬🇧🤝🇦🇺
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Thank you @AusHouseLondon for great meetings with State Agents General, Trade & Investment Representatives, and AusHouse friends. Honoured to be appointed. Stoked to work with you all.
🇬🇧 🇦🇺 @UKinAustralia @VickiTreadell @LouCantillon @BCGBrisbane @LysaghtSteph @MariaRennie7
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UK is supporting the response to the #earthquake in #Vanuatu, which has affected about 80,000 people.
We're contributing life-saving aid through @UNCERF and vital hygiene and shelter kits arrived today through our partnership with @dfat
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What a great start to my day - breakfast with #SioneOfaFinefeuiaki & @MaryHuntFCDO.
His passion for the work of his charitable foundation is infectious with #sustainability & #sociallicence core values.
#Tonga is lucky to have such a champion.
@HMAMalone
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A very warm welcome to our new #Swiss colleagues:
HE Nikolas Stürchler, Ambassador to Australia; &
HE Barbara Gonzenbach, Special Envoy Pacific, Ambassador to Kiribati, Nauru, PNG, Solomon Is. & Vanuatu.
Here with @MaryHuntFCDO & I.
We look forward to working with you.
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After years of chaos Britain is back with a voice on the world stage.
As Development Minister my mission is to help bring about a world free from poverty on a liveable planet.
At @ChathamHouse today, I set out the government’s new approach to development.gov.uk/government/speeches/m…
ALT Anneliese Dodds at Chatham House, taking questions from an audience.
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#GoodLuck to Gareth Hoar, all the team @UKinSamoa & @fcdo colleagues, including from our #Oceania Network, joining them to support Their Majesties The King & Queen and the UK's #CHOGM delegation.
🇼🇸 #Samoa is the first Small Island Developing State from the Blue Pacific to host CHOGM.
Read more: bit.ly/3YsbLUy
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Always good to catch up with #Pacific colleagues & to break bread together.
Last night HE Robert Sisolo, Acting HC @CTuihalangingie & Chargé d'Affaires Reupena Matauiau - Solomans Is, Tongan & Samoan colleagues - came to dinner.
We talked #CHOGM, #Climate & #GastroDiplomacy.
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Today is International Day of the Girl Child. Hear from @MaryHuntFCDO, Minister Counsellor, Head of Pacific Development Unit British High Commission Canberra, on what the day means for us.
Read more from High Commissioner @VickiTreadell here: bit.ly/3Nk71cW
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I was delighted to catch up with #Australian Foreign Minister @SenatorWong.
Pictured here with my colleagues Hanno Trayhurn & @MaryHuntFCDO.
From the situation in the Middle East to the #Commonwealth, we covered a broad range of topics.
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A joy to have been working with @FinauSoqo and @ForumSEC to get the UK’s support for the design and mobilisation of the Pacific Resilience Facility agreed and shared with our Pacific partners in Tonga. #ClimateFinance
Lots going on today at #PIFLM53 for UK Minister for the Pacific @CatherineWest1 with engaging and fruitful bilateral meetings and participation in the PIF Dialogue Partners session, at which the Minister announced UK funding for the new Pacific Resilience Facility.
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Rebuilding our development reputation. Genuine partnership with the Global South. Economic growth. Climate action. Empowering women and girls. Equality at the heart of all we do.
Change begins now.
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History-making appointment
Female representation in UK parliament now at 40%. Global average is 26%.
Representation matters.
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Our 🇬🇧 🤝 🇦🇺 #partnership exemplified.
Thank you @AusAirForce @dfat & @hqjoc.
@AnneMacroUK @ukinaustralia @UKDefAus
@AusAirForce & @ukinaustralia are helping transport humanitarian relief supplies to affected communities displaced by the landslide in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬🇦🇺
#YourADF #PNGDF
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Our 1st 🇬🇧 consignment of #humanitarian aid arrives in #PNG following the tragic landslide in Enga province.
Our excellent High Commissioner @AnneMacroUK on the ground to receive it (w. 🇦🇺 colleague Lisa Mollard).
Huge thanks to @dfat for their assistance.
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