Sitemap - 2022 - Michael Field's South Pacific
As Iran burns, its navy cruises Polynesian waters
Coup-prone Fiji stumbling toward another as army joins police on streets
Wave flags for Australian soldiers
Fiji’s ancien régime get vengeful
Fiji - out with the old, in with the older
Guadalcanal prisoner: Man you were shakin’
Tonga’s princess royal rails against democracy
Fiji election cops pull in veteran activist
Fiji voting on anniversary of Bainimarama’s coup
Bainimarama reinventing Fiji’s coup history
My blood has been split for Sāmoa
Fiji justice and Sri Lankan judge mess
Obscure Indian group claim Fiji Islamic jihad
Assassination: ‘try and keep on playing’
From modest grade to pork prime cuts
Fiji’s PM Bainimarama plays race cards
Sāmoa’s Aso Pogisa; massacre on Beach Road
'Please give us good coverage' - PNG
Fiji media and that political kissing story
Obey the message - Tuimaleali’ifano
No food left but plenty of wine - a Pacific voyage
Bougainville: ‘You die today, we will kill you’
Americans adrift in Pacific for decades
American ship explodes in Āpia harbour
Methodist decline in Tonga as LDS rises
Swains Island abandoned says US Census
Nauru’s president dies in line of duty
No navy in American Sāmoa backwater...
Stealing Pacific soils to enrich western farmers
Eden serpents corrupting high moral race
Amerika Sāmoa looking for a role
Coast watcher children - ‘best for her’
US military's multi-million dollar Pacific radar
Tupua Tamasese returns: ‘Great Sāmoan Welcome’
Workings of human heart mysterious
Brave lads - murdering coast watchers
Suva, fine dining and oddly colonial street names
Scion and head of a Sāmoan royal house
'Trivial' Pacific nations win POTUS notice
Washington talanoa; historic or tautalatala?
Fiji’s Minister for Most Things plots elections
Silent Steve: ‘Mau inactive – so am I’
Fiji’s invisible man reveals himself at memorial
Tonga’s missing sky millions re-emerge in law suit
Carpetbaggers and faith healers
Fishing boats & subs in Pacific
Richardson fired as administrator
Fiji buying arms from North Korea?
When US threatened Solomon Islands
Fiji Airways losses finally revealed in Parliament
Fiji’s political master threatens democracy
Sāmoa mo Sāmoa - foolish motto?
Short history of New Zealand diplomats
Halfway around the world just for you
Take teeth... and really annoy them
Man, country, social credit and China
Sāmoa's right of determination - ‘oh no’
Chicken Little’s China S'Pacific bases
Intimidation of Ta’isi, not reason
Covering tsunami, death and disaster
Caroline Kennedy heading back 80 years
As sea level rises, families flood in
Too pompous to save mother and child
Profiting from selling a nation’s flag?
Pacific’s white autocrat & Rin Tin Tin
Only politicians & diplomats celebrate Pacific communiqué
As politicians plot Pacific futures…
American Sāmoan governor's suicide
Kiribati playing a risky treaty game
Risks and rewards in lending cash to Fiji
‘Being a Sāmoan by birth, blood and sentiment'
Nights are warm & its hard to sleep
‘and like children, they will get over it…’
'Few lazy old chaps will die... no loss'
Choke point; strategic risk or just remote?
Logan’s madness: burn down your school
Fiji rugby and Bainimarama’s vengeance
'Villages are as if extinct... everything is sick’
Banaba: place of most wretched events
'There is sickness in this boat!'
China’s aggressive Pacific domination
Tu’u’aulafo i tagata’ese ‘ailililo
Mana’o Papalagi i ‘ele’ele o Samoa – ia umia sa’oloto
O le Mau a Samoa o se aganu’u…po o le tala fa’asolopito?
O ai na fanaina le pulu na maliu-fasia ai Tupua Tamasese?
Go home Logan, look after your sheep
‘…Prussians came from Auckland’
Stay quiet and leave war to Great Powers
‘Seize German Wireless... at Sāmoa’
Carlson's Raiders force action
Sāmoa invaded by US Marines - again
Good man, but he is too tricky
Preserve Sāmoan nation, not exterminate
Destination: ‘real South Sea-ish….’
Matā’afa’s cry: evil men name boy as king
Secret work, that was all that was said