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.
Such unverified media narratives reek of xenophobic and racist turpitude, constructed around a shared project of ideological expansion and geographical supremacy.
Since 2002, India has been a dialogue partner of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), but meaningful engagement only began in 2014 with the Modi government's establishment of the FIPIC.
The scheme has now diverted three billion containers from landfill and transformed them into new products, while creating around 600 jobs in the recycling sector.