There is no must do here, when a legitimate mining license can be cancelled on the whim and caprice of a madman/PM and handed as a gift to China. No amount of increased "aid" will change anything.

If a few cargo cult communities want to sell their soul to the devil, it can't be something we can alter by getting into a bidding war with China.

Besides, those same funds would be better spent and now upgrading our own military preparedness for the upcoming war and our self-defense, self-sufficient defense manufacturing capability. And there isn't a minute to waste!
Alan B.

Looks like they're hoping to dump 360 million tonnes of acidised tailings into the sea....

On one hand the South Pacific Crowd is bleating imminent inundation yet on the other hand they wan't outsiders waste money there ?
Buy some sense from Amazon or Alibaba !