FPR Podcast Launch: On the Record & Pacific Dispatch
FPR launches two new audio formats: On the Record, our interview podcast, and Pacific Dispatch, our audio essay series. Episode 1 of each is out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Today, Fiji Political Review launches two new audio formats. On the Record is our interview podcast: conversations with the people shaping Fiji's political, constitutional and governance future. Pacific Dispatch is our audio essay series, read aloud. Both are available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
On the Record · Episode 1
Dependency or Development? Fiji and the Vuvale Union
Andrew Levula speaks to FPR's Lanieta Tukana about his new article, examining whether Fiji's closest partnership risks becoming its deepest dependency. Australia and Fiji have signed the Vuvale Union, a framework agreement spanning security, the economy and people-to-people ties, and one of the sharpest questions in Pacific development is whether agreements like it build self-reliance or erode it. They discuss what a dependency trap looks like in practice for a small island state, why the agreement's full text remains unpublished despite cabinet approval, the migration of more than 15,000 Fijians in the past 15 months, and what genuinely indigenous-led development would require for Fiji to grow on its own terms.
Pacific Dispatch · Episode 1
If the Land Disappears
Tom reads “If the Land Disappears,” the first Pacific Dispatch audio essay from Fiji Political Review. What happens to a country when the land it was built on goes beneath the sea? Not metaphorically, literally. It's a question international law has never had to answer, and for the Pacific it now comes with a deadline. This essay examines what rising seas mean for statehood, for maritime boundaries, and for peoples who have lived on their islands for three thousand years.
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