Australia looks to be withdrawing from the Pacific at precisely the time our Pacific neighbours are calling for increased and urgent involvement from Australia.

Climate change should be at the heart of any new Biketawa Plus regional security declaration, not any afterthought, according to the Edmund Rice Centre's Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) initiative.

From January-March 2018, the Edmund Rice Centre and Pacific Calling Partnership hosted 8 leaders from Kiribati as part of the Australian Government's Australia Awards Fellowship.