Futa Helu / "The ocean of humanity is fed by the rivers of many cultures."

Scott Hamilton Opinion polls suggest that many young Jewish people living outside Israel have abandoned Zionism. In the United States, for example, a poll found that most Jews under the age of forty did not support the behaviour of the Netanyahu government, and that a substantial minority no longer considered Israel central to Jewish identity. Here in Tāmaki Makaurau I've watched with admiration as large numbers of Jews, most of them younger people, have marched on Queen Stre

The Dangerous Logic of Trish Deans and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Korean anti-fascists burn the flag of Imperial Japan at a protest in Seoul against Japan's continued refusal to compensate the 'comfort women'. A statue memorialising these women can be seen on the left of the photo. The Devonport-Takapuna board has voted against allowing Auckland's Korean community to put a statue of a 'comfort woman' in Barry's Point Reserve. If the ethnonationalist logic the board us

Scott Hamilton Photo from the website of the Vanuatu Daily Post Tributes have flowed for the late Dan McGarry, who was for many years the editor of the Vanuatu Daily Post. McGarry died in the last week of March, at the age of only 62. He had been travelling in Papua New Guinea when he felt ill. He was evacuated to Brisbane and underwent a heart bypass operation, but died shortly afterwards. McGarry's reporting honoured the complexity of Melanesia. He was suspicious of theoris

Compiled by Bridgette Amilcar, sent as a guide & warning to Reef Shark 'We should not be defined by the smallness of our islands, but by the greatness of our oceans.' —Epeli Hau'ofa 'Fear made the palagi's car The colour of the superior sea' —Allen Curnow 'Tonu, Tonu, Tonu, Seka, Seka, Seka. Ko manu o kauvaka e solo valevale' —Tuvaluan children's song, 'Avaga Sina mo Loutali e' 'I cannot see my land clearly. Isn't this symptom of a psychotic state?' —Robin Hyde 'Toro cak