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The PICQ Digital Literacy & Financial Inclusion Initiative supports Pacific migrants in navigating online migration processes, accessing financial services, and using digital tools for remittances and employment. By providing culturally tailored digital education and advocating for accessible tech solutions, this initiative ensures Pacific workers can fully participate in migration pathways without digital exclusion

The Community Connections Program is an initiative created to support participants of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) Scheme. The main objectives are to provide support and training to Pacific and Timor-Leste workers who travel to Australia for temporary and long-term employment across various industries. The program aims to promote better engagement between workers and their host communities, build social scaffolding, and mitigate the risks of worker isolation.

The Pasifika Womens Alliance is a non-political, nonsectarian, not-for-profit culturally diverse network consisting of women who have migrated to Australia from 22 Pacific Island countries and territories. The alliance seeks to build and strengthen a Queensland sisterhood of Pacific Islander women and to raise the awareness of members as to their rights and responsibilities as citizens and encourages their participation in all aspects of community life.

The Alternatives to Child Detention Peer Learning Platform brings decision-makers together to improve humanitarian settlement for children across the Indo-Pacific region.
The Alternatives to Child Detention Peer Learning Platform is an informal regional grouping of policy and implementing agencies within the governments of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Thailand, as well as civil society and international organisations focused on advancing practical progress towards alternatives to detention in the region.

The AFL Cape York Tri-Series brings together Papua New Guinean, Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal Youth for cross-cultural exchange through sport. Using Sports Diplomacy, the initiative provides a platform for leadership development, cultural sharing, and social inclusion. Through mentorship, workshops, and on-field collaboration, young athletes engaged in cultural traditional foster ting stronger regional ties, mutual understanding and long term opportunities.

The PALM scheme is a labour mobility program that allows eligible Australian businesses to hire workers from 9 Pacific islands and Timor-Leste when there are not enough local workers available.

The Australia Pacific Technical College is a development-cooperation funded vocational training programme operating in Pacific countries. More than 17 000 have graduated from the programme since its inception in 2007, with 83 percent successfully employed. The programme was not designed specifically to promote emigration, but to build skills in islands where local skill basins were insufficient and skilled workers were deployed from developed countries.

The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union comprises a bilateral treaty between Tuvalu and Australia, as well as a commitment articulated in a joint leaders' statement to uplift their broader bilateral partnership. It was signed by Prime Minister Albanese and Prime Minister Natano on 9 November 2023.

The key features of the Falepili Union are:

The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study is the pre-eminent source of information on social cohesion in Australia. Running since 2007 and with surveys of the Australian population conducted annually since 2009, the study provides a rich and long-running set of data on social cohesion, immigration, multiculturalism, migrant settlement and integration and a range of other topical issues.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has launched a plan to develop a National Anti-Racism Framework. The Framework will be a long-term, central reference point to guide actions on anti-racism by government, NGOs, business, educators, health professionals, police, other justice authorities, civil society, and the community.