Today we celebrate World Environment Day and the achievement of Michael Taiki, an Australia Awards Scholarship graduate from the Master of Environmental Management at Charles Darwin University. Michael graduated in 2020 at Charles Darwin University, proudly receiving the Power and Water Corporation Award for Outstanding…

To celebrate International Girls in ICT Day, we profile Priscilla Salote Kalo, the Systems and Applications Support Officer at the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu, a 2016 Bachelor of Net-Centric Computing graduate from the University of the South Pacific and an Australia Awards Pacific Scholarship recipient….

Dr Errolyn Tungu, the Acting Medical Superintendent for Vila Central Hospital and the first female Obstetrician-Gynaecologist for Vanuatu is a great supporter of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated on 11 February. ‘My passion is working with women and contributing to…

Australia Awards graduate, Sherol George, has been with the Vanuatu Skills Partnership as the Disability Inclusion Coordinator since 2016. In this position, Sherol has driven change across the skills sector to ensure the successful participation of people with disabilities – and shifting attitudes to recognise…

Australia Awards alumni Fremden Yanhambath, Director of Vanuatu Skills Partnership, says the global pandemic has been the catalyst for the Partnership to reinvent itself as the context it operates in changes. ‘This crisis has given us the opportunity to do more than what we used…

As COVID-19 cases were entering the Pacific region earlier this year, the Vanuatu government responded by setting up a technical working group to develop a contingency plan for the Ministry of Education & Training. Dick Hopkins, an Australia Awards alumni, was at the forefront of…

Vanuatu’s economy relies significantly on tourism and with borders closed due to COVID-19, the tourism sector has largely collapsed. Businesses are struggling, with some closing their doors and many others being forced to downsize the number of staff they have employed. For the first time…

Dr. Jimmy Obed, Australia Awards Scholarships Alumni and Senior Psychiatry Registrar, Vanuatu Central Hospital, leads on Mental Health Psycho-Social Support Sub-Cluster, COVID-19 Response Dr. Jimmy Obed is Vanuatu’s only Ni-Vanuatu psychiatrist. He completed his studies at the University of Melbourne in 2019 and is now…

Australia Awards alumna, Elvie Tamata, was invited to present her research paper at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference in December 2019, held at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. “It’s my first time to attend an academic conference and I…

It was early 2010 and Viran was a mother of two very young children when her husband was given an Australian Award to study at the University of Canberra. She had no desire to separate her young family and wanted to support her husband, so…