Security Assistance: Region and Anne Ruston

security assistance: In recent months, Ruston has been at the sharp end of trying to fix that jetting to-and-fro between Australia and far-flung Pacific Islands, as part of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's step-up in the region, according to The Japan Times. The policy includes more aid, more security assistance, more diplomats working in the region and, crucially, more face-to-face contacts. I think we would have to accept some criticism, Anne Ruston, Australia's minister for international development and the Pacific, said Friday. ; We have perhaps not put as much attention and effort into our own region as we should of. It is, in large part, a response to Beijing's growing economic, political and military activity in the region. It has certainly, more recently, been forced to be refocused back onto our own region. I think we've had our focus gazed much further afield for a very long time, said Ruston. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.