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Across Oceania Islands Discovery

Locality: Sydney, Australia

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24.01.2022 "Vanuatu on a mission to rescue Australia's mango harvest from ruin" (...) A second planeload of 160 seasonal workers from Vanuatu landed at Darwin just before lunch today. If Australians are still able to tuck into a juicy mango this season they will have them to thank for it. (...)... Vanuatu has had no cases of coronavirus. (...) Farmers and the seasonal workers themselves are paying for the flights and the $2500 for the quarantine, not taxpayers. (...) Growers said their arrival had "saved" the harvest. Mangoes are the Top End's biggest horticultural crop, worth more than $100 million. With most NT industries such as tourism on their knees because of border closures, the cash-strapped Territory could ill afford the crop being ruined. In a normal season, about 1000 workers are need to pick the mangoes, drive chaser bins and work in packing sheds. Backpackers traditionally form the backbone of the mango army, not this year. with Australia retreating behind its island fortress. Campaigns to attracted Australians to do the work have mostly failed. The NT Government launched a campaign which promised to call home-grown pickers local heroes. The hard sell didn't stir any patriotic stampede to the farms, especially not in the build-up heat. It's 41 degrees in Katherine today. The arrival of the second planeload has been delayed but is a welcome sight for Top End growers. The Pacific Island seasonal worker program was hastily constructed by the Federal Government to save the mangoes, and many other horticultural crops around the nation. (...) With more than 300 of these workers following the harvest from Darwin down to Katherine, where most of the nation's mangoes are grown, it is hoped it will be just enough to save the bulk of the crop from spoiling on the tree. The Australian taxpayer has paid little, farmers and workers themselves are paying the bulk of the costs of flights and quarantining. So when you see mangoes in the supermarket again, remember Vanuatu which has come to the rescue." See more

23.01.2022 Monday blues are different in Fiji. @lauren.emma.art Mantaray Island Resort, Yasawa Islands, Fiji

15.01.2022 FIRST FLIGHT since border closure!! Air Vanuatu Airbus FIRST A220-300 takes off from Montreal

08.01.2022 The traditional chiefs of Tanna have not yet stopped the last three days of celebration of Nekowiar, of which the Toka is part It will be a grandiose event, the last having taken place over five years ago. Domestic Port-Vila / Whitegrass flights have been full for several weeks, with residents of the island returning by the hundreds to participate in this gigantic custom of traditional exchanges

06.01.2022 "Every man is torn between two needs. The need for the Pirogue, that is to say of the journey, of tearing away from oneself, and the need of the Tree, that is to say of rootlessness, identity. Men constantly wander between these two needs, giving in sometimes to one, sometimes to the other until the day they realize that it is with the Tree that the Pirogue is made. " Melanesian myth of Tanna, Vanuatu