Journalist & writer on South Pacific. Invincible strangers: Biography of 20th Century Samoa. https://nitter.cf/t.co/8o6wQKesC3
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Joined April 2015
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Every British🇬🇧 passenger train (subway excluded), on a typical day, from first departure to last
A racist piece of French satire
New Zealand's dream of new frigate plainly clashes with Blue Pacific commitments to Pacific Forum michaelf27.substack.com/p/fr…
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Many of Winston Peters' stories are set in a distant past, somewhere between the invention of the saddle and the Asian financial crisis
A bit of a tussle to claim credit in today's Flydubai drama... Some reports say the pilot was New Zealand trained, while Israel media now saying the stand by rescue pilot, originally said to be from New Zealand, was actually from Fiji...
When French Polynesian authorities seized nearly 5 tonnes of cocaine at sea earlier this year rather than bring it ashore they dumped it in the Pacific - seems they were smart. Fiji put tonnes of cocaine in a High Court exhibit storage where some one has swapped it for flour.
Colonial District Officer hails native
Michael Field retweeted
Tennessee’s botched attempt to execute Christa Pike, as witnessed by her attorneys, demonstrates why the death penalty truly is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.
All execution methods are inhumane and unacceptable.
The death penalty must be abolished, everywhere.
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Being a virtual Australian colony now has some advantages for Tuvalu.
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Body guards for Samoa PM Laʻauli Schmidt, claiming it illegal for media to photograph the man, seize reporters cameras to remove images. Problem is no one can identify law banning media from taking pixs of him. Hiding his appalling health?
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Thirty years after Fiji's Reeves Commission declared “unfinished constitutional business”, Fiji still wrestling with military power, coup immunity, ethnic identity and civilian authority. A new review proposes major changes.
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