{"id":14583,"date":"2022-01-24T07:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14583"},"modified":"2022-01-24T07:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:58:02","slug":"australias-support-to-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/australias-support-to-tonga\/","title":{"rendered":"AUSTRALIA&#039;S SUPPORT TO TONGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is supporting the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)-led effort to support the Government of Tonga following the eruption of Tonga\u2019s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai underwater volcano on 15 January.<br \/>\n<strong>As part of the international response to the volcanic eruption in Tonga, Japan has deployed four transport aircraft, including two Japan Air Self-Defense Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules and two Kawasaki C-2, to move essential humanitarian assistance supplies from Japan to Tonga via RAAF Base Amberley in Queensland.<\/strong><br \/>\nJapan proudly joins Australia and other pacific nations working alongside the people of Tonga as the archipelagic nation recover from the effects of the devastating eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha&#8217;apai volcano and subsequent tsunami.<br \/>\nThe ADF contribution, named Operation TONGA ASSIST 22, includes air reconnaissance using P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, airlift support using C-17A Globemaster III and C-130J Hercules transport aircraft, as well as the deployment of HMAS Adelaide with embarked supplies, helicopters and Army engineer contingent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is supporting the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)-led effort to support the Government of Tonga following the eruption of Tonga\u2019s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai underwater volcano on 15 January. As part of the international response to the volcanic eruption in Tonga, Japan has deployed four transport aircraft, including two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/australias-support-to-tonga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AUSTRALIA&#039;S SUPPORT TO TONGA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}