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ABC News
ABC News
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foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic

Australian government commits to spending $900 million to boost soft-power in the Pacific region

The Federal Government will unveil a further boost to foreign aid to the Pacific in next week's budget, promising to lift development spending by a total of almost $1.4 billion over the next four years.

Labor pledged ahead of the election that, if it won power, it would ratchet up development assistance to South-East Asia by $470 million in coming years, while lifting spending in the Pacific by $525 million over the same period.

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