by Richard Butler | 03 Jul 2018 | News
Richard Butler | Foreign Policy Journal | July 3rd 2018
The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu is only the latest developing nation to fall victim to a highly disturbing trend: regional economic giants—in this case China and Australia—playing out their personal rivalries on emerging economies’ soil. Wealthier countries like these are engaged in a constant proxy war for influence, coercing poverty-stricken nations around the world to host their military bases and miring them in debt with gargantuan Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 21 Jun 2018 | News
Richard Butler | PNG News | June 21st 2018
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbul has announced that Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, will visit Australia from 23 to 29 June.
“Australia enjoys a close relationship with Vanuatu, with our two nations sharing strong economic, security and people to people links.
The visit will provide an opportunity for Australia and Vanuatu to enhance our strategic partnership and deepen our economic and security cooperation,” he Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 05 Mar 2018 | News
Richard Butler | Mail Online News | March 5th 2018
He is used to receiving a warm welcome wherever he goes in the world.
But none quite like the one he is he set to experience when he visits the remote Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu next month.
For Prince Charles is to be welcomed with open arms and given a ‘special communication’ to take home to London for his father, Prince Philip, who is, bizarrely, worshipped there as a ‘god’.
https://vimeo.com/301927597
Tribal Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 25 Oct 2017 | News
Richard Butler | Daily Post | Oct 25th 2017
The end of the contracts for Port Vila's Bauerfield Aiport, Pekoa (Santo)and Whitegrass (Tanna) is set for September 2018.
The 340-day contract commencement date started yesterday (Tuesday, October 24), the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Airports Vanuatu Limit's (AVL), Jason Rakau, has announced.
CEO Rakau announced this at the National Tourism Forum underway in Port Vila during a plenary session on how tourism development can be Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 23 Sep 2014 | Radio Show
Australia is known for endless beaches, koala bears, kangaroos, cattle and mining plus tourist hotspots like the Sydney opera house and the Sydney harbor bridge. There is also one more Australian tourist attraction, The Australian Vineyards with clearly defined state by state wine growing areas like the famous Barossa in Southern Australia the Yarra valley in Victoria and the Magic of the Burnett in Queensland so on…..
Richard and Brian talk to Dan Traucki who lives in South Australia Read more [...]
