AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoOffshore detention food crisis on Nauru: A new Asylum Seeker Resource Centre report says people held in Nauru’s community detention are going hungry, with 99% of 78 interviewees unable to afford enough food on Australia’s $260-a-fortnight allowance; many also report rare access to fresh food and poor access to clean drinking water. Policing powers tweak: Nauru’s policing rules were quietly expanded for community monitoring officers, raising fears the change is meant to blunt Federal Court challenges over deportations. Taiwan pressure in the Pacific: PNG will close Taiwan’s Port Moresby trade mission, prompting US State Department concern about China’s “intimidation campaign”; China praised the move while Taiwan protested. Regional security balancing: Solomon Islands PM Matthew Wale says a US Coast Guard “ship rider” deal will be signed to patrol local waters with Honiara police. Maritime law and seabed mining: The UN’s top maritime court rejected a bid to stop an ISA deep-sea mining inquiry involving Nauru-linked firms, while ordering provisional measures to protect due process. Nauru connectivity: Nauru Airlines ended scheduled Koror and Pohnpei services on its North Pacific route, leaving air links uncertain.
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