Through #CAPRED, 🇦🇺 is helping to build a stronger, more competitive and resilient agricultural sector in 🇰🇭. Met lots of Australian and Australia-supported agrifoods, agricultural input and agritech companies at CAFE26. Congrats to @TinaDITH and MAFF on this great initiative.

The @NewColomboPlan continues to bring young Australians out into the region we call home. Great to meet Alannah and Hae-Yun yesterday to talk about their experiences in Cambodia, their studies and work in the community.

Another step forward as we continue to deepen education ties with Cambodia. Western Sydney University has signed an MoU with the Australian International School of Phnom Penh to expand pathways to study in Australia and enhance academic collaboration and student mobility.

Climate and energy, humanitarian assistance, access to water, gender equality and inclusive growth. Key areas where Australia and @OxfamKH are working together in partnership with 🇰🇭. Great to discuss our collaboration with @Oxfam Executive Director, Amitabh Behar, today.

Education is an enduring pillar of 🇦🇺-🇰🇭 ties. Great to join representatives from Victorian government, universities, TVET providers and schools last night to highlight Victoria’s status as a premier education destination and provider for Cambodia.

Churchill said “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. DC-Cam’s work documenting Cambodia’s history, including its most tragic periods, is invaluable. Thanks to HE Youk Chhang for showing us around DC-Cam and the Queen Mother Library.

Recovery & restoration can be a decades-long process. Australia has supported this in Cambodia, but some efforts are very local. Touching to visit the urn library to see remains left behind by families fleeing conflict in the 1980s, and work being done to facilitate their return.

Pchum Ben brings families and communities together, not just in Cambodia but also around the world. In Melbourne’s Springvale South, Australians of Cambodian heritage also gathered to celebrate this deeply important cultural tradition.

Very warm congratulations to @MiltonDickMP, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, for his election as President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union!

The Australian Embassy in 🇰🇭 will be closed on 12 October and reopen on 13 October. If you are an Australian requiring urgent consular assistance during this time, please call 023 266 500 (local) or +61 2 6261 3305. Wishing everyone a peaceful, safe and wonderful Pchum Ben 🙏

Education partnerships are an investment in Cambodia’s future. Another one was signed today - an articulation agreement between the University of Newcastle and EAMU, creating additional pathways for Cambodian students to study in Australia. Great collaboration between 🇦🇺 🇰🇭 🇸🇬.

More pathways = more choices and opportunities. Great to welcome Western Australian government representatives to 🇰🇭 as they partner with schools offering the Western Australian Certificate of Education, a qualification providing direct access to universities in 🇦🇺 and beyond.

If you want to invest in a nation’s future, you need to invest in its people. This is what Australia is doing in Cambodia through @AustraliaAwards. Excited to join the Induction Day for intake 2027 as 55 impressive Cambodian scholars begin their Australian education journeys!

When individuals are resilient, nations are resilient. That’s why 🇦🇺 has worked to support a strong, inclusive and responsive social protection system in 🇰🇭. Welcomed Cambodia’s strong progress on social protection at the launch of Social Protection Week yesterday.

Australia’s experience is that genuine political contest generates stronger governance. Met representatives from the Khmer Will, Candlelight and Grassroots Democratic parties today to discuss upcoming elections and the importance of civic space and political participation.