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November 2022 Vol 48 No 11

CONTENTS

16 17 27 35

5 Editor’s Note 17 COP27: Less prayer, more presence
6 Briefs 18 COP27: A tick for loss and damage
8 Whispers 22 Vanuatu water efforts get GFC boost
22 PICs struggle to access GFC

COVER STORY: FIJI VOTES 27 Development indigeneity and existing tables
10 We Say: Disunity, fear and personal attacks 30 U.S.- Pacific partnership abrogates established
11 Youth apathy or activism? order

13 Social media and Fiji’s 2022 election 32 Japan’s recycling town
14 Jobs, debt, inflation and representation 35 Toa Samoa: One for the history books
16 Vote for a ‘vibrant, functioning democracy’ 41 Sydney Road Blaks: Aboriginal and Island
students told history comes to life
44 Movers and Shakers

On our cover: The Hands that Raised Me by Henry Matai These pieces are my way of showing I will always remain a child of
“My identity was set far beyond and still within the touch of my village no matter how I grow. I am still wide eyed wonder finding
western dogma. I am the after and still-after the fight to take back safety amongst the Via leaves and ‘Wai Dranu’ (fresh water) of the
indigenous identity and tell our own stories, still looking for ways to Rewa Delta. It takes a village and mine provided the hands that raised
tell those stories in my new millenia. The meld of tv programs and me, these hands continue to hold me. To give me reassurance that I
nights by fires listening to my grandfather’s tales. I am the culmina- belong.”
tion of the firm hands and storied tales of the aunties and uncles who Henry Matai is a young Fijian artist. This work was part of the
stood for the fight to be able to give me my stories. recent 37% exhibition at the Centre for the Arts Suva.

American Samoa ............US$10.00 French Polynesia .............. CPF500 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Samoa ............................T12.00
French Polynesia .............. CPF500
Australia ....................... AU$6.00
Solomon Islands ............. SL$30.00
New Zealand .................NZ$10.00
Australia ......................AU$10.00 Guam..........................US$10.00 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Samoa ............................T10.00
Hawaii ......................... US$6.00
Cook Islands ................... NZ$6.00
Niue ...........................NZ$10.00
CNMI ..........................US$10.00 Hawaii ........................US$10.00 New Zealand .................. NZ$6.00 Solomon Islands ............. SL$20.00
Tonga .............................P10.00
Federated States of Micronesia ......
Kiribati ......................... AU$6.00
Tuvalu .........................AU$10.00
Palau ..........................US$10.00
Cook Islands ..................NZ$10.00 Kiribati ........................AU$10.00 Niue ............................ NZ$6.00 Tonga .............................P10.00
Marshall Islands .............. US$6.00
US$6.00
Papua New Guinea .............K15.00
FSM ............................US$10.00 Marshall Islands .............US$10.00 Palau ........................... US$6.00 Tuvalu .......................... AU$6.00
Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
Nauru .......................... AU$6.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$4.35
Fiji Islands.......................F$8.00 Nauru .........................AU$10.00 Papua New Guinea .............K10.00 Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
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