{"id":14620,"date":"2022-01-26T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:40:12","slug":"australias-support-to-tonga-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/australias-support-to-tonga-2\/","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 \/>\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 <em>Adelaide <\/em>with embarked supplies, helicopters and Army engineer contingent.<br \/>\nHMAS <em>Adelaide <\/em>docked today, 26 January 2022, in Nuku\u2019alofa harbour to commence delivery of humanitarian assistance to Tonga, in a contactless and COVID-safe manner.<br \/>\nHMAS <em>Adelaide\u2019s <\/em>Commanding Officer, and commander of the tri-service contingent on board, Captain Stuart Watters spoke about the effort to assist Tonga which can be viewed at the vision link below.<\/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. The ADF contribution, named Operation TONGA ASSIST 22, includes air reconnaissance using P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, airlift support using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/australias-support-to-tonga-2\/\" 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-14620","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\/14620","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=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}