A close-up view of
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What Australia’S Doing
A close-up view of Australian aid to Oceania
Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock, answering an MP’s question on aid to Oceania, had the following list of Australian aid projects in the region inserted in the House of Representatives’
Hansard for May 22, 1979.
Explaining the table, Mr Peacock said: ( A ustralia is undertaking about 160 projects in Oceania in 1978-79, and the anticipated expenditure for each is based on current estimates. Individual pro jects and expenditure in 1978-79 are listed in the table as is the number of Australian nationals employed. The total allocation for Oceania (excluding Papua New Guinea) for 1978-79 is $22.9 million. For each project the approximate maximum number of Australian nationals employed or expected to be employed at any time during the year is shown. These personnel are employed either: as aid experts or advisers appointed and paid directly by the Aus tralian Development Assistance Bureau; by managing agents and consultants; by host governments with some funding provided by the Australian Government.’
The table is reproduced below:
Fiji Post Graduate Certificate in
Teacher Training
35 000 1980-81 5 Handicapped children’s adviser 56 000 1980-81 1
Sheep industry study
42 000 1978-79 4 Fijian Affairs and Rural
Development
200 000 1979-80 —
Plant quarantine
2 000 1979-80 1 Small project programme 150 000 1980-81 — Suva sewerage studies 13 000 1978-79 6
Fiji pine scheme-sawmill
adviser 2 000 1978-79 1 Staffing assistance scheme 550 000
Ongoing
40
Fire fighting equipment for Fiji
Pine Commission 14 000 1979-80 — Suva Sewerage Construction 420 000 1980-81 4 Steel for Government shipyard. 300 000 1979-80 Native Land Development
Corporation agricultural
operations officer
48 000 1980-81 1 Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati) Tarawa sewerage scheme 920 000 1980-81 3 Tractors and trailers 19000 1978-79 Airfield construction grant 240 000 1978-79 —
Hangar for airport
40 000 1978-79 1 Construction plant and
equipment
930 000 1979-80 —
Community high school
3000 1978-79 —
Independence film
34 000 1979-80 4 Refrigerators — vaccine storage 9 000 1978-79 — Civil service review 13 000 1978-79 1
Staffing assistance
25 000
Ongoing
Tarawa Teachers College — teacher education program ... 33 000 1978-79 5 New Hebrides Heavy works unit and
equipment
350 000 1978-79 2 Pilot launch 180 000 1979-80 2
Housing — agricultural field
assistants — grant 48 000 1978-79 —
Air navigation: approach
warning system — grant 8 000 1978-79 —
Agricultural transport
55 000 1978-79 —
Pineapple study
1 000 1978-79 1 Bush clearing unit 50 000 1978-79 —
Statistical equipment
10 000 1978-79 — Ports and harbour study 17 000 1978-79 2 PWD management study 28 000 1978-79 3
Cocoa study
5000 1978-79 1 Civil aviation transceivers 35 000 1978-79 Airfield construction grant 40 000 1978-79 Radio Vila — construction 250 000 1980-81 4 Air navigation aids 50 000 1979-80 — Rural water supply 315000 1979-80
Phytosanitary services
80 000 1980-81 1 Santo youth hostel 16 000 1978-79 — Niue Motor vehicles 65 000 1978-79
Hydrology survey
37 000 1978-79 4 Solomon Islands
Co-operatives adviser
14 000 1978-79 1 Meat marketing expert 3 000 1978-79 1 Road construction adviser 43 000 1978-79 1 Metrication expert 33 000 1979-80 1 Agricultural stores grant 30 000 1978-79 — Beef cattle development 120 000 1981-82 5
Bridge design study
120 000 1978-79 6 Chainsaws and attachments 38 000 1978-79 Pasture grazing trial 36 000 1979-80 2
Independence film
23 000 1978-79 6
Telecommunications study
8 000 1978-79 6
Broadcasting study
8 000 1978-79 6 Animal production research assistant 6 000 1979-80 1
Project Cost 1978-79 Terminates (financial year) i Aust. nationals Cook Islands
Bridge construction
$A 150 000 1978-79 2 Conservation adviser 15 000 1978-79 1
Staffing assistance
50 000 Ongoing 4 Northern Islands Development 50 000 1980-81 1 Fiji Rice schemes 12 000 1979-80
Co-operatives advisers
2 000 1978-79
Land Survey Project
270 000 1982-83 13 Pine Scheme Fire Adviser and
Project Awards
8000 1978-79 1 Land Evaluation Adviser 2 000 1978-79 Rice Seed Handling Plant... 15 000 1978-79 Water legislation adviser 1 000 1978-79
Road Sealing Project
7000 1979-80 Navua Central Irrigation 4 000 1978-79
Suva Water Supply Study
45 000 1978-79 2 140 Foot Barge 18000 1978-79
Aerial Survey
150 000 1979-80 3
Salt Development
13 000 1980-81 1
Weighbridges
60 000 1978-79
Pilot Food Processing Study
2000 1978-79 Outer Island Airfields 91 000 1978-79 Yalavou Beef Project 910000 1988-89 8
Waterpipes - rural supply
129 000 1978-79 Rural electrification 150 000 1978-79 Bitumen sprayers for P.W.D. 60 000 1979-80
Hydro-electric implementation 1
500 000 1981-82 30 Air services and airfields study.. 8000 1978-79 2 Rural telecommunications
equipment
32 000 1979-80
Ginger processing study
5 000 1978-79 2
Fiji Institute of Technology
technical books 2000 1978-79
Solomon Islands Broadcasting
Corporation broadcasting
transmitters 266 000 1978-79 9 Economists - central planning office 32 000 1979-80 2
Lungga hydro-electric design
study
777 000 1978-79 10
Ports and shipping study
20 000 1978-79 5 Pasture research and
development
109 000 1978-79 3 Eye surgery team 38 000 1978-79 7 Advisers special committee on
provincial government
26 000 1978-79 2
Staffing assistance
210000
Ongoing
12 Maintenance - White River Flats 12 000 1978-79 Cattle under trees 79 000 1978-79 2 Land records and legislation 47 000 1978-79 I Rural water supplies and sewerage 120 000 1979-80
Broadcasting phase II
300 000 1980-81 12 Lungga access road 200 000 1979-80 2
Housing pool
150 000 1979-80 -
Reef investigations
5000 1978-79 3
Butchery equipment
45 000 1978-79 - Henderson airfield reseal 200 000 1979-80 6 Agricultural stores grant 38 000 1978-79 - Education curriculum
development
5000 1978-79 5 Development Bank of The Solomon Islands — loans officers 5000 1980-81 4 Tonga
Accountant — commodity
board 6000 1978-79 1
Vava’u fisheries development... 8000 1978-79 -
Agricultural machinery pool
260 000 1978-79 -
NGU hospital upgrading
705 000 1978-79 1
Telephones — phase I
280 000 1978-79 - Government housing grant 18000 1978-79 — Metrication adviser
Earthquake reconstruction
30 000 1978-79 1
supervisor
9000 1978-79 1 Importation of livestock 15000 1979-80 —
Garbage trucks
70 000 1978-79 — Handicrafts booklet Telecommunications 20 000 1978-79 —
identification study
14 000 1978-79 3 Water schemes 85 000 1978-79 — Earthquake rehabilitation grant 13 000 1978-79 —
Agricultural fencing materials..
Telecommunications 15000 1978-79 —
equipment
11 000 1979-80 - Staffing assistance grant 90 000
Ongoing
4 Plant quarantine facilities
Tonga High School extension
1 000 1978-79 1 grant
Ancillary telephone exchanges
105 000 1979-80 — grant 40 000 1978-79 — Vava’u bulk fuel storage 20 000 1980-81 1 Nukualofa fire service 60 000 1979-80 1 Development bank grant Electric power schemes— 150 000 1978-79 — Ha’apai and Eua 250 000 1979-80 — Desiccated coconut factory Tuvalu 100 000 1980-81 2 Deep water wharf Funafuti 405 000 1980-81 5 Marine training school Western Samoa 275 000 1979-80 1
Vehicular ferry
30 000 1978-79 1