HMAS Farncomb (Collins class) prepares to berth alongside its home port of Fleet Base West, Western Australia. (CoA / Kylie Jagiello)
2022

Pacific Islands in the wake of AUKUS

By Kaliopate Tavola Australia also needs to temper its geopolitics under Indo-Pacific/AUKUS to allow breathing space for PICs to determine their respective China, et al, policies. This would necessarily mean

Nadi Hash Harriers
2022

Hashing for fun, well-being and harmony

By Jason Jett “…You don’t know where you’re going, and where this adventure will lead you.” “There is no racism in hash,” said David Jamieson, owner of Yacht Help Fiji,

Lala Sowane
2022

Movers and Shakers

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has reshuffled his cabinet with the return of Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce and Industry Minister Sam Basil and Defence Minister Solan Mirisim

IB December 2021 cover
2021

Whispers

MSG boss shuffling After months of uncertainties, the sub-regional bloc of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) may be moving to announce its new Director General early in the New Year,

Fijiana Sevens team
2021

Honourable mention: The Fijiana Sevens team

Fiji’s Women’s National Sevens team, the Fijiana, brought joy to a COVID-ravaged nation this year with their bronze-medal performance at the Olympic Games. They have gone on to finish the