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Palau, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are pointing the finger at the likes of New Zealand and Australia, accusing them of influencing the vote that resulted in their candidate being snubbed for the forum s top job. Today The Detail s Jessie Chiang talks to RNZ Pacific news editor, Koro Vaka uta, about why the leadership vote was about so much more than just a position; and what the Micronesian absence could mean. Since 1971 there s only been one Micronesian representative as secretary general, he says. The Forum has “managed to reach consensus on this position all but one time . but this vote it was so close nine to eight in favour of the Cook Islands Henry Puna. ....
“Since 1971 there s only been one Micronesian representative as secretary general,” he says. The Forum has “managed to reach consensus on this position all but one time . but this vote it was so close nine to eight in favour of the Cook Islands Henry Puna.” Losing out to Puna was Micronesian candidate Gerald Zackios from the Marshall Islands, which has formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan. That’s a position that Palau president Surangel Whipps Jr has referred to in a recent article in The Guardian, suggesting some members are bowing down to the shadowy influence on China in the Pacific by voting against Zackios. ....
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“You go back to the 1960s and 70s when New Zealanders invited the Pacific workforce to fill the booming manufacturing industry, the freezing works and the forestry and you trace where the people were in South Auckland, in the Waikato regions in Tokoroa, Rotorua and up north, and you will find people who descend from relationships during that workplace,” he says. “Now that our communities have migrated to the regions, they are settled, they’ve got jobs and are really putting their roots in the ground. I’m seeing that more and more. “And I’m trying to describe it as the Generation Six Bs – people who are brown, obviously, but they’re brainy, they’re beautiful and bicultural. They’re bilingual, and they’re bold.” ....
Brainy, bold and bicultural : The new Māori-Pasifika generation that s changing the face of Aotearoa 6 Feb, 2021 08:07 PM 11 minutes to read Hine Funaki: I can t turn off the fact that I walk in these multiple different worlds. Photo / Supplied Hine Funaki: I can t turn off the fact that I walk in these multiple different worlds. Photo / Supplied RNZ There s a brown, bi-cultural generation changing the face of New Zealand. That s according to the Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, who previously told RNZ Pacific that as many as two thirds of New Zealand born-Pasifika now had Māori whakapapa as well. ....