The federal government last year announced a plan to end gender inequality, including violence against women, the unequal sharing of domestic and care work and the under-representation of women in leadership.
The island states have often relied on Australia and New Zealand to project their concerns and issues to the US because they have larger representations in Washington D.C. and because they are great friends.
Ferdinand Von Sommer served in the Dutch navy, worked as a writer and journalist, and taught at a Berlin university, before becoming a missionary in India.
Such unverified media narratives reek of xenophobic and racist turpitude, constructed around a shared project of ideological expansion and geographical supremacy.