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Australia's new Indo-Pacific Broadcasting Strategy seeks to bolster Pacific engagement and resilience by promoting media training, facilitating exchanges, and improving communication channels between governments and media, aligning with Australia's strategic defence and regional interests.

Summary

  1. Increases Pacific access to Australian content and fosters regional engagement.
  2. Focus on media-government exchange to build trust in institutions.
  3. Rapid internet growth heightens misinformation risks.
  4. Technological advances enable fake content and personas.
  5. Stronger government-media communications and legislative support needed.
READ: As technology distorts information, Pacific governments and media must cooperate

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