Page 3 - Islands Business March 2022

March 2022 Vol 48 No 3

CONTENTS

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Photo: LACW Jacqueline Forrester/ADF

5 Editor’s Note 32 Australia hands over Blackrock as China concerns re-
emerge
6 Briefs
36 Tonga’s volcanic eruption prompts resilience
8 Whispers
38 Movers and Shakers
10 Teleworking realities
40 Music: Cobb seeks ‘Freedom’
11 Greenhouse: Coworking and community making
14 When home is an office, a church and a school

16 Work scheme to deal with ‘slave labour’ conditions
20 Pacific losing ground on clean water and sanitation
24 Katerina Teaiwa: Navigating the Pacific studies canoe Fiji cover: Greenhouse Coworking founder, Ronna Luna
Pastorizo-Sekiguchi. Photo: Sera Tikotikovatu-Sefeti
25 The cost of politics
26 Women MPs should be the norm, not a novelty: Bale

28 “The game plan from the outside is to divide and
conquer”: Puna
Regional cover: Illustration: Honson Chan

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