{"id":25532,"date":"2024-03-04T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=25532"},"modified":"2024-03-04T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:19:20","slug":"new-funding-for-maritime-partnerships-in-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/new-funding-for-maritime-partnerships-in-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"New funding for maritime partnerships in Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian Government will invest $64 million over the next four years, including $40 million in new funding, to enhance Australia&#8217;s Southeast Asia Maritime Partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new commitment, announced at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024, will expand Australia&#8217;s maritime cooperation with regional partners and contribute to the security and prosperity of the region, consistent with the priorities of Southeast Asian countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia will expand government and institutional cooperation with Southeast Asian partners through practical maritime activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include skills development, training and the sharing of technology. Examples of current partnerships include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>conserving coral reefs through the Australian Institute for Marine Science<\/li><li>maritime law enforcement and domain awareness through the Australian Border Force<\/li><li>geospatial mapping through Geoscience Australia<\/li><li>marine environmental governance through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; and<\/li><li>marine protection through the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This cooperation supports the ASEAN Maritime Outlook and the maritime pillar of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia is working closely with Southeast Asian partners to respond to shared maritime challenges and uphold international law, particularly the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will continue to cooperate on those challenges, which include law enforcement, domain awareness, sustainable marine resources, marine protection and conservation, and upholding the law of the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Government will invest $64 million over the next four years, including $40 million in new funding, to enhance Australia&#8217;s Southeast Asia Maritime Partnerships. The new commitment, announced at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024, will expand Australia&#8217;s maritime cooperation with regional partners and contribute to the security and prosperity of the region, consistent with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/new-funding-for-maritime-partnerships-in-southeast-asia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New funding for maritime partnerships in Southeast Asia&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25532","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=25532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25533,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25532\/revisions\/25533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}