Pacific Dispatch
The Vuvale Union's labour history problem
Australia's 32nd Recognition Day arrives seven weeks after the Vuvale Union treaty was signed in Suva. Both share a labour history neither Canberra nor Suva has fully reckoned with.
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Long Read
The Corridor
Australia's mandatory AI standards run 3,000 words without mentioning the Pacific. FPR names the structure behind that silence, digital subimperialism, and asks the only question that matters: can the Pacific do to data what it did to the sea?
Analysis
When the Quad Comes Calling: Multilateral Architecture and Fiji’s Embedded Alignment
On 25 May, the Vuvale union appeared on the Fiji Parliament's order paper. The next day, the Quad named Fiji pilot for its first joint infrastructure project. The timing was coincidental; the architecture it exposed was not. They reveal how Fiji's strategic position is being shaped, and by whom.