Stories From The Pacific
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Melanie Kawa: PNG rugby union star makes brunch club confessions
Melanie Kawa: PNG rugby union star makes brunch club confessions
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For centuries, Pacific Islanders have been sharing stories across the region, Stories from the Pacific honours that tradition, allowing the audience to hear in-depth personal stories from right across the Pacific.
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- Melanie Kawa: PNG rugby union star makes brunch club confessions · 29 minMelanie Kawa lives and breathes rugby union. You may recognise her from her time playing on the field when she was captain of the Papua New Guinea Palais women's seven team or…
- PNG filmmaker Alana Hicks talks about creative storytelling, professional liars and shapeshifting · 30 minBorn in Papua New Guinea and raised in Australia, award-winning writer and filmmaker Alana Hicks has built a career weaving resilience, humour, and identity into unforgettable…
- PNG artist Lesley Wengembo fulfils a grandfather's prediction · 29 minWhen Lesley Wengembo was just 10 years old, he picked up a pencil and drew a portrait of his grandfather. His grandfather looked at it and made a prediction that would shape the…
- Monica Paulus was accused of sorcery, so she became a human rights activist for PNG women · 29 minMonica Paulus is a human rights activist and co-founder of both the "Highlands Women Human Rights Defenders Network" and "Stop Sorcery Violence". Monica is a protector of women…
- Tamatoa Tepuhiarii's island may be slowly killing him but he will not leave · 29 minMaohi scholar and anti-nuclear testing activist Tamatoa Tepuihiari’i grew up in French Polynesia and had a humble childhood, but something sinister had occurred on his island…
- Lydia Gah's story of survival is harrowing, but by telling it, she hopes to educate and save others · 29 minLydia's story of her marriage with her first husband details 12 years of significant abuse, but she's using it to educate others who may be experiencing something similar.
- Thomas Manglona II's journey to elevate Chamorro voices · 30 minFor Thomas Manglona, journalism is life. Hailing from the island of Rota, Thomas is a native Chamorro multimedia journalist, whose work in covering government, social justice and…
- Filmmaker Agapetos Aia-Fa'aleava is asking the hard questions · 43 minAgapetos Aia-Fa'aleava has always been compelled to speak up against social injustice, and when she learned a law in Queensland had let pubs and clubs deny entry to Pasifika…
- While the Bougainville Crisis raged around her, Llane Munau believed she was on a holiday · 30 minLLane Munau is a filmmaker from Bougainville. The Crisis began she was 10 years old and her father decided to move the family inland to escape the brunt of the violence. In the…
- Teaote Davies built a sea wall in Kiribati · 30 minThere is a children’s book that can be found in schools across Kiribati called Teaote and the Wall. It’s about one woman’s quest to build her own sea wall to protect her home in…
- William Kadi saved an island from mining, but that’s just his day job · 30 minA big mining company. A small island. And a lawyer just two years into practice. William Kadi from the Solomon Islands’ western province took on the case on behalf Wagina’s 2,000…
- Tau'ili'ili Alpha Maiava is on a mission to bring extinct sounds back to life · 30 minWhen Tau'ili'ili Alpha Maiava plays the nose flute, he is transported back in time. He knows it is the same sound his ancestors heard 400 years ago. But this sound, along with…
- For Visila Koliqaqaru Lagilagi, boxing is life · 30 minWhen Visila Koliqaqaru Lagilagi started boxing, she didn't know where it would take her. She just knew it made her feel strong. It's a strength that she has had to draw on many…
- Matt Howard’s life-changing decision to capture his Micronesian community through a camera lens · 30 minMatt Howard was excelling in his career as a paralegal in the military, but after falling in love with the storytelling tools of a camera, he risked it all to follow this new…
- Kumu Michelle Manu is reviving the practice of the Hawaiian combat-martial art, "Lua" · 30 minKumu Michelle Manu teaches her students to live a life of "intentional movement". These students are learning the ancient combat martial art of Lua which was once practiced by…
- Kim Sasabone: The Vengaboys star reflects on her Moluccan roots · 30 minFor millions of people around the world, Kim Sasabone needs no introduction. As the lead singer of Vengaboys, she's helped sell more than 25 million records worldwide, and the…
- From growing up during Fiji's coup to the Torres Strait: How comedian Jay Wymarra flipped the comedy script · 30 minA proud Gudang/Yadaykenu and Saibai man, Jay Wymarra is a hilarious comedian, fierce drag performer and self-confessed "black nerd". Born in Townsville, raised across Canberra…
- Maps made of memory: Kathy Martin's story of culture, identity and growing up Micronesian · 30 minFor Kathy Martin, maps aren’t something you find on your phone — they’re inherited, passed down in the way your aunty cuts fish or says your name like it belongs to the land…
- Accidental activist Isaac Nasedra: From university mix-up to fierce Pacific political voice · 30 minBorn of Fijian heritage, but raised in the heart of Western Sydney, Isaac Nasedra accidentally stumbled into environmental forensics, due to a university admissions error, only…
- From Fiji to the Frontlines: Dr Suhailah Ali on climate justice, mental health and saving the Pacific · 29 minIn this episode of Stories From the Pacific, our guest traces her journey from a curious child in Fiji — gazing out across the ocean — to a leading neuroscientist exploring how…
