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This week’s Pacific Islands Forum is looking set to feature a showdown between Australia and Pacific Island Nations. Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said that he will ask Pacific Island nations to improve standards of governance and economic management before Australian aid is granted. PNG businessman Allan Bird says that economic management should be taken out of the hands of the government and aid directed to individual projects but Dr Charles Hawksley from Wollongong University disagrees.

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