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Australian Federal Election 2013 Click here for information on the Australian Federal Election on 14 September.
A Consular Officer will be in Miami on 27 & 28 June to conduct interviews for passport clients. Click here for more information.
US Marines march on ANZAC Day in Darwin		Australia and the United States progress 1150 Marine Corps rotational deployment to northern Australia from 2014 Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Minister for Defence Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren Snowdon today announced that Australia and the United States have agreed to progress to a larger six month rotation of around 1,150 US Marines to northern Australia from 2014. The majority of the Marines will be accommodated at Robertson Barracks, with a smaller aviation support contingent of around 130 personnel at RAAF Darwin, along with four heavy lift helicopters. (more)
Wambo Coal Mine in the Hunter Valley, NSW [Pic: AusAID]		AusAID supports reform in Myanmar's mining sector A 17-person high level delegation from Myanmar completed its first mining study tour in Australia, hosted by AusAID. The Australia–Myanmar Partnership for Reform, announced during President Thein Sein’s visit to Australia in March ($20 million, 2013–2015), will help Myanmar to develop its mining sector in a way that is equitable and environmentally sustainable, and that maximises benefits for Myanmar’s people. (more)
Severe drought in the Marshall Islands is putting lives at risk and impacting on agricultural productivity. [Pic: AusAID]		Australian emergency drought assistance increased to the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Bob Carr has announced Australia will fund transport of life-saving water and emergency food by sea and air, and repairs to existing desalination equipment, to respond to severe drought in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Senator Carr said the $385,000 commitment follows the announcement of $100,000 in emergency funding to the island nation on 6 May 2013, due to a request for assistance by the Government of the Marshall Islands. (more)
Australia To Engage Civil Society As G20 President In 2014 The Australian Government is very pleased to announce that the Reverend Tim Costello AO will chair the Australian Civil Society 20 (C20) Steering Group. The Australian Government is strongly committed to ensuring that G20 deliberations in Australia next year are fully informed by the expertise and knowledge of civil society. (more)
Supporting food security and rural development in Indonesia [Pic: AusAID]		Australia joins global partnership to combat malnutrition Australia has joined the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and over twenty other governments in a commitment to beat hunger and improve nutrition. Signed at a Summit in London on June 8, the Global Nutrition for Growth Compact will bind the international community in its efforts to make nutrition one of the world’s top development priorities. Everyday more than 8,000 children across the world die from complications caused by a lack of nutrition. In some countries such as Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Cambodia and Laos, over 40 per cent of children are stunted. (more)
Prime Minister Julia Gillard		PM: Speech to American-Australian Association Dinner "...There’s a certain pragmatic genius in organisation in which the order of the words “Australian” and “American” seems interchangeable, depending upon whose signature block is on the correspondence. Perhaps that is how it ought to be between friends, equals and allies – and it reflects the seamless way our people share lives in our countries. Both nations have diasporas who not only enrich the world through their values and commitments but now serve the nations of their birth in the wider world..." (full speech)
Koshi River Basin, Nepal [Pic: Nabin Baral / ICIMOD]		World Environment Day shines a light on food security, consumption and production This year, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and its partners are asking people to think about the amount of food they waste on World Environment Day with the slogan: Think. Eat. Save. In 2013–2014, AusAID will spend an estimated $411 million on programs designed to increase food security in by improving agricultural productivity and rural livelihoods and building community resilience across the Pacific, South Asia and Africa. (more)
BPOV MEAO (behind point of view, Middle East Area of Operations)		Point of View - Afghanistan by Shaun Gladwell .. on exhibit @ Embassy until 21 June Point of View - Afghanistan features video and photographs from Shaun Gladwell's attachment to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in Afghanistan and the Middle East as Australia's Official War Artist in 2009. The exhibition comprises work that formed part of Gladwell's official commission for the ADF as well as photographs he took of Australian and American soldiers during his time in the war zone. It is the first time video has been used as a medium by a War artist.(more)