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Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, Pasifika!! General news on Education, Health, Community, Business, Politics, Religion, Cultural & Social issues. For more info feel free to email [email protected].

Public health champion Dr Collin Fonotau Tukuitonga, Cricket legend Ross Taylor, Pacific language advocate Mele Ah Sam, ...
05/06/2022

Public health champion Dr Collin Fonotau Tukuitonga, Cricket legend Ross Taylor, Pacific language advocate Mele Ah Sam, rap musician Bill Urale and opera singer Jonathan Lemalu are among the Pacific peoples honoured in today's Queen's Birthday Honours. Nesian Village salutes them!

Dr Collin Fonotau Tukuitonga a Pacific champion during the COVID 19 pandemic has been made a Knight in the Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours List 2022. “Dr Tukuitonga , a Niuean, has been a champion of many health initiatives from ...

A walking group called Brotherz Keepers is spreading awareness of healthy living and positive mental health among Pasifi...
14/05/2022

A walking group called Brotherz Keepers is spreading awareness of healthy living and positive mental health among Pasifika men. The group recently completed a 45km walk around Auckland to mark the end of a five-week walking challenge. The challenge saw around 60 participants from across the country and the Pacific taking part.

A walking group called Brotherz Keepers is spreading awareness of healthy living and positive mental health among Pasifika men.

Samoa-born chef Monica Galetti, 46, is undoubtedly one of New Zealand’s most successful chefs. She’s worked in one of th...
18/04/2022

Samoa-born chef Monica Galetti, 46, is undoubtedly one of New Zealand’s most successful chefs. She’s worked in one of the finest restaurants in the world and risen through the ranks to hold positions most will only ever dream of - a feat made even more astonishing by the fact that she is one of a small handful of female chefs running kitchens in haute cuisine restaurants.

Samoa-born, New Zealand-raised, with a hugely successful career built in the United Kingdom, chef Monica Galetti is at the top of her game - and she’s not here to pull punches.

From choir singing as a teenager in Samoa, to training to be an early childhood teacher in New Zealand in his 40s, Salam...
13/04/2022

From choir singing as a teenager in Samoa, to training to be an early childhood teacher in New Zealand in his 40s, Salamo Sooalo's life has by no means followed a traditional path. Salamo began singing in his local church's choir in the late 1980s, and eventually began helping to coordinate church choirs around Samoa in the early 1990s.

Salamo wants an ECE that combines Faʻa Sāmoa with the values of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Samoan kept asking slave in New Zealand by Samoan matai 🇼🇸 speaks out.
10/04/2022

Samoan kept asking slave in New Zealand by Samoan matai 🇼🇸 speaks out.

He was lured to New Zealand with promises of money and a better life, but instead he was kept as a slave, repeatedly assaulted and cut off from his family.

The Shepparton Culture Kitchen project is bringing a piece of traditional Samoan cuisine to the Goulburn Valley this wee...
01/04/2022

The Shepparton Culture Kitchen project is bringing a piece of traditional Samoan cuisine to the Goulburn Valley this weekend with A Taste of Umu. Developed by local Samoan woman Leaisa Pele in collaboration with artist Jamie Lewis, attendees will be able to immerse themselves in Samoan culture, plus enjoy some culinary delights.

The Shepparton Culture Kitchen project is bringing a piece of traditional Samoan cuisine to the Goulburn Valley this weekend with A Taste of Umu.

As NewZealand's Covid-19 death toll rises, Māori and Pasifika are dying at an alarmingly disproportionate rate. Collecti...
28/03/2022

As NewZealand's Covid-19 death toll rises, Māori and Pasifika are dying at an alarmingly disproportionate rate. Collectively they make up 37% of all deaths across the pandemic, and Pasifika have the highest death rate per 100,000 cases than any other ethnic group in the Omicron outbreak.

Collectively they make up 40% of all deaths across the pandemic.

Former Samoan NFL star gets top state official appointment in the US.
16/03/2022

Former Samoan NFL star gets top state official appointment in the US.

In November, the Anchorage Assembly passed an ordinance to prevent Mayor Dave Bronson’s appointees from serving for long periods of time without being confirmed by the Assembly. That was then — when the Assembly didn’t like the mayor’s choice for the Anchorage Library directorship and wanted...

Efeso Collins says Auckland needs to be a unified city where people understand each other. This desire helped shape his ...
15/03/2022

Efeso Collins says Auckland needs to be a unified city where people understand each other. This desire helped shape his decision to run for mayor of the largest city in the country.

Fa'anana Efeso Collins is hoping to become Auckland City's next mayor.

Seasonal workers being paid as little as $3.20 per hour have faced a Senate inquiry after allegations they were threaten...
12/03/2022

Seasonal workers being paid as little as $3.20 per hour have faced a Senate inquiry after allegations they were threatened for previously giving evidence. Two Samoan fruit pickers were to have their employment terminated after they gave evidence to the Australian Senate last month, if not for their government's intervention, according to the Samoan high commissioner.

Two Samoan fruit pickers were to have their employment terminated after they gave evidence to the Senate last month that they were paid as little as $3.20 an hour.

Moemoana Schwenke, a Samoan-born University of Wollongong student and daughter of former Miss Samoa and Miss South Pacif...
09/03/2022

Moemoana Schwenke, a Samoan-born University of Wollongong student and daughter of former Miss Samoa and Miss South Pacific winner, who went to Glasgow last year to speak on behalf of Pacific Island nations at the climate conference is among the NSW Women of the Year awardees in Australia.

Moemoana Schwenke travelled to the COP26 climate change conference to raise the plight of Pacific nations

Samoan farmworkers in Australia were pressured to quit a union by a senior Samoan government official who warned them no...
01/03/2022

Samoan farmworkers in Australia were pressured to quit a union by a senior Samoan government official who warned them not to defy him because the order came from the Government of Samoa. The comments by Samoa’s labour attache to Australia involved potentially significant breaches of Australian and international labour law. It is a breach of the Fair Work Act to coerce workers to quit or join a union.

Samoan farmworkers in Australia were pressured by a senior official from their government to quit a union - a potential breach of Australian and international labour law.

Once Jason Tiatia ended a professional rugby career that took him round the world with the New Zealand Sevens team, he r...
27/02/2022

Once Jason Tiatia ended a professional rugby career that took him round the world with the New Zealand Sevens team, he rekindled a desire to keep the Samoan language relevant. Now the 42-year-old is a senior academic staff member at Ara Institute of Canterbury.

Once Jason Tiatia ended a career that saw him travel the world with the NZ Sevens team, the Ara Institute of Canterbury academic rekindled his...

During World War II, Pago Pago, on Tutuila, was a lightly-manned base in the Samoa Islands vital to preserving communica...
25/01/2022

During World War II, Pago Pago, on Tutuila, was a lightly-manned base in the Samoa Islands vital to preserving communications between the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Though the U.S. Navy was tasked with holding it, the 7th Marines were ordered to fortify the garrison. But they didn’t do it alone. The Samoans, who were American nationals, would help the 7th defend Tutuila’s 52 square miles of mountainous and jungled terrain.

Members of the 1st Samoan Battalion defended their homelands.

A co-head of the School of Māori and Pacific Studies, Associate Professor Jemaima Tiatia, has been promoted to Acting Pr...
23/01/2022

A co-head of the School of Māori and Pacific Studies, Associate Professor Jemaima Tiatia, has been promoted to Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific at the University of Auckland which makes her the first Pasifika woman to be appointed to pro vice-chancellor level at any New Zealand university, she said.

The School of Māori and Pacific Studies co-head is now Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific, the first Pasifika woman to hold a role at this level.

A 57-year-old Tongan man being hailed a real-life Aquaman for surviving 27 hours at sea after Saturday's devastating tsu...
23/01/2022

A 57-year-old Tongan man being hailed a real-life Aquaman for surviving 27 hours at sea after Saturday's devastating tsunami struck his island said he went under nine times before latching onto a log and making it to safety.

A 57-year-old Tongan man being hailed a real-life Aquaman for surviving 27 hours at sea after Saturday's devastating tsunami struck his island said he went under nine times before latching onto a log and making it to safety.

A stalwart of the Counties-Manukau community and former police officer Alf Filipaina says when he found out he was getti...
01/01/2022

A stalwart of the Counties-Manukau community and former police officer Alf Filipaina says when he found out he was getting a new year honour he immediately thought of his mother.

A stalwart of the Counties-Manukau community Alf Filipaina says when he found out he was getting a New Year honour he immediately thought of his mother.

Seventeen people have been recognised in the Queen's New Year's honours for their services to Pacific communities in Aot...
01/01/2022

Seventeen people have been recognised in the Queen's New Year's honours for their services to Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Faumuina Professor Fa'afetai Sopoaga leads the New Year's Honours list for Pacific recipients. She was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to Pacific health and tertiary education.

Seventeen people have been recognised in the Queen's New Year's honours for their services to Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Ezekiel Fiso is no stranger to awards. But getting an award from the prime minister just might be his highest accolade –...
27/12/2021

Ezekiel Fiso is no stranger to awards. But getting an award from the prime minister just might be his highest accolade – so far. The Porirua 21-year-old, who describes himself as a “proud Samoan” who wants to serve the community, was this month selected as one of eight winners of 2021 Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards.

Ezekiel Fiso, who has already achieved much in his 21 years, wants to continue to serve the community.

TONGA'S M**H PROBLEM: Spike in drug use has caused problems across Tongan society, with arrests doubling in two years an...
28/11/2021

TONGA'S M**H PROBLEM: Spike in drug use has caused problems across Tongan society, with arrests doubling in two years and children severely affected. **h

Spike in drug use has caused problems across Tongan society, with arrests doubling in two years and children severely affected

Meet New Zealand’s only registered Samoan woman architect T’iafelelea’i Carinnya Feaunati, a Wellington-based registered...
21/11/2021

Meet New Zealand’s only registered Samoan woman architect T’iafelelea’i Carinnya Feaunati, a Wellington-based registered architect and cultural design adviser at DesignGroup Stapleton Elliott, who also teaches at Victoria University’s School of Architecture.

Te Kāhui Whaihanga’s Susan Strongman speaks to T’iafelelea’i Carinnya Feaunati, a Samoan woman making moves in architecture.

Victoria’s Werribee beach is a long way from the shores of Samoa – Logan Tapula’s ancestral homeland – and for a time, t...
17/11/2021

Victoria’s Werribee beach is a long way from the shores of Samoa – Logan Tapula’s ancestral homeland – and for a time, that distance seemed insurmountable. When Australian-born Logan was two years old his mum took him to Samoa for a family reunion.

Leaving the beaches of Samoa for the suburbs of Melbourne created a void in Logan’s life, one that could only be filled by returning to his roots.

Pacific scholar and senior university sector leader Toeolesulusulu Dr Damon Salesa has been appointed as the next vice-c...
15/11/2021

Pacific scholar and senior university sector leader Toeolesulusulu Dr Damon Salesa has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of AUT - Auckland University of Technology - the first Samoan and Pacific Islander to ascend to the top position at one of New Zealand's universities.

EducationIndigenousInnovationPacific ReportNew ZealandResearchSyndicate Pacific scholar Dr Damon Salesa named AUT’s next vice-chancellor By APR editor - November 15, 2021 0 89 SHARE Facebook Twitter tweet Toeolesulusulu Dr Damon Salesa ... excited to be leading AUT, "a pacesetter in the social, ed...

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