Narco-subs and drug-trafficking vessels smuggling cocaine to Australia are in the sights of a new $600 million investment in the Pacific.
At the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Palau, Anthony Albanese announced the new "Waqa Moana" pact and investment to target trans-national crime.
At the centrepiece is better surveillance of the vast blue continent which covers 31 per cent of the world's surface.
