Pacific Magazine and news round up about Pacific peoples.
- Auckland was the venue recently for the launch of a new book "Visions of
the Pacific", published by the Cook Islands Ministry of Culture. It contains reflections from the 1992 South Pacific Festival of Arts that was held in Rarotonga. The book was launched by the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Sir Geoffrey Arama Henry KBE;
- kaikōrero: Sir Geoffrey Arama Henry KBE.
News round up:
- The disbarred former Attorney General of Western Samoa is now in charge of the
nation's financially troubled airline. He was struck off last year for mishandling client's trust accounts, and misconduct of $79.000. He has since paid back the money.
- A NZ party Labour Parliamentarian has criticised moves by the Labour Party to put
more Māori , Pacific Islanders and women in Parliament, saying it is 'almost apartheid
in reverse.' Positive discrimination has been promoted in several Labour documents
recently including a draft on Labour's selection processes.
- New Zealand's Immigration Minister Roger Maxwell has proposed contracts whereby sponsors would pay visitors who became overstayers. He has discussed the issue with Immigration and a round of talks with Pacific Island groups as part of the review of the existing policy. MP Phillip Field opposes the idea.
A five member team from the Australian Army returned home after completing a four
week employment with the Solomon Islands bomb disposal unit in Honiara.
Fiji's Prime Minster Sitiveni Rabuka has accused the Indian community of stoking the
fire of international opposition to Fiji's racially biased 1990 constitution.