Friday, June 1, 2012
For many Australians when they think of the Pacific they think of island paradises, cruises, and white sandy beaches. The reality, for the people of the Pacific, is starkly different. Some four million people across the Pacific, almost half of the entire population, are living in poverty. And tragically in some countries the numbers of child deaths and malnourishment near those of sub-Saharan Africa.
Opinion Pieces,
Water & sanitation,
Poverty,
Asia and the Pacific,
Child Deaths,
Foreign Aid,
Pacific,
PNG,
Solomon Islands,
Tim Costello,
Timor-Leste,
Vanuatu