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Michael Field

@michaelfieldnz

Journalist & writer on South Pacific. Invincible strangers: Biography of 20th Century Samoa. michaelf27.substack.com

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It's people like that who make you realise how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. TOM LEHRER (1928 - 2025)

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The day Samoa nearly sparked world war & ended it with dignity, bread, & breath. - Mata’afa said guns were private property of each man & some had paid big prices: ”they loved their guns; they had cut much copra and worked hard to obtain them.” open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27…

The day Samoa nearly sparked world war & ended it with dignity, bread, & breath. - Mata’afa said guns were  private property of each man & some had paid big prices: ”they loved their guns; they had cut much copra and worked hard to obtain them.”
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Former Solomon Islands cabinet minister discovers off Malaita a drifting ghost boat suspected of being a drug smuggling vessel. No sign of people or drugs. facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

Former Solomon Islands cabinet minister discovers off Malaita a drifting ghost boat suspected of being a drug smuggling vessel. No sign of people or drugs. 
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The red X on this shipping frequency chart shows where the vessel was found. It is on the main shipping route from the South Pacific into Ironbottom Sound and Honiara. It is also a transit route north of Guadalcanal to the Coral Sea and Australia.

The red X on this shipping frequency chart shows where the vessel was found. It is on the main shipping route from the South Pacific into Ironbottom Sound and Honiara. It is also a transit route north of Guadalcanal to the Coral Sea and Australia.
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1/7 Russians realised quickly that they could influence Trump by appealing to his vanity. China has used the same tactic to control Tonga's aristocrats. This vast building in central Nuku'alofa is shaped like a coffin. For me, it symbolises the death of Tongan sovereignty.

1/7 Russians realised quickly that they could influence Trump by appealing to his vanity. China has used the same tactic to control Tonga's aristocrats. This vast building in central Nuku'alofa is shaped like a coffin. For me, it symbolises the death of Tongan sovereignty.
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Yes, and there have been reports over the last year or two of cocaine bricks floating ashore at places like northern Tonga and Fiji. Wonder where the people ended up

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Discovery of a likely powerful cocaine running boat (but without cargo or people) on edge of Solomon Islands Ironbottom Sound (red X marks spot) is near vast mainly Chinese fleet of tuna boats (green on Global Fishing Watch chart). facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

Discovery of a likely powerful cocaine running boat (but without cargo or people) on edge of Solomon Islands Ironbottom Sound (red X marks spot) is near vast mainly Chinese fleet of tuna boats (green on <a href="/GlobalFishWatch/">Global Fishing Watch</a> chart).     facebook.com/groups/Pacific…
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Revealing video & sound track of abandoned narco sub found in Solomon Islands facebook.com/reel/144888289… facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

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Old conspiracy arises again: Lawyer & former military officer Aca Rayawa claims he was ordered to execute current Prime Minister Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka on the night of November 2, 2000, but refused. facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

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Across Auckland as families sheltered from heavy rain and occasional snap of thunder, Auckland netball maintained their "never cancel schoolgirl competition" at Windmill Road - complete with a disgusting and soggy sausage sizzle. Girls are tough in Auckland

Across Auckland as families sheltered from heavy rain and occasional snap of thunder, Auckland netball maintained their "never cancel schoolgirl competition" at Windmill Road - complete with a disgusting and soggy sausage sizzle. Girls are tough in Auckland