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Sistas, Let's Talk — 251 episodes

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Five years on: Sistas Let’s Talk looks back on five years of platforming Pacific women’s issues

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Why do so many Pacific men refuse to wear condoms?

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Will banning polygamy in Papua New Guinea improve safety for women and children?

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How the Pacific drug crisis impacts women

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From excitement to fear: What it’s like being pregnant for the first time

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Stigma kills: How Fiji’s HIV crisis impacts mothers and babies

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Positive bystanders: How to take action when you witness gender-based violence

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What GBV survivor support really looks like in the Pacific

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The power of friendship seeing women through the best and worst times

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Trailblazers in lab coats: Meet the Pacific women changing lives through science

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Why singing brings joy: Pacific voices explain the power of music

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Protecting the bubus: combating elder abuse in the Pacific

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Beyond the bills: The grassroots push helping Pacific women rewrite their financial futures

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Hidden struggles: Confronting perinatal mental health challenges across the Pacific

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Why is getting vaccinated a challenge across the Pacific?

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Being alone and being lonely aren't the same thing

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Who is working to bring an end to child marriage in the Pacific?

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Too many Pacific women die in childbirth. How can they be saved?

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The challenges of raising neurodivergent children in the Pacific

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Meet the next generation of Pacific women fighting for change

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What does a Vanuatu council’s ban on menstruating women selling food say about kastom, period hygiene and respect for women?

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Pacific period health: What happens when you can't access pads or clean water?

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The dark side of connection: How cyber abuse impacts women and children

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Fewer than 8 per cent of Pacific politicians are women, but more women are now putting their hands up

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How Pacific men and boys are joining the fight against gender-based violence

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Ozempic isn’t the cure: Tackling Pacific obesity through education

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What ovarian cancer taught me

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‘Women are the seed keepers’: How empowering women is key to addressing climate change

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How living in the diaspora led this Elder to an Olympic icon

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How education changed Matilda Sweman's life

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The crusade against sorcery-related violence in PNG

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The benefits and challenges of educating girls in The Pacific

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Caregiving is work: Why paid maternity leave is critical for child maternal health in the Pacific

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Is customary law appropriate when dealing with sexual and gender-based violence in the Pacific?

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Women in Sport: from grassroots to the world stage

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The meri blouse, urohs and island dress are now part of Pacific women's identity, but challenges loom

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Tackling Emotional Abuse

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‘They're the custodians of stories and skills’: Why grandmothers are so important in the Pacific

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How do women in the Pacific manage financially after the of loss their spouse?

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The Pacific women filmmakers telling stories through their cultural lens

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How does period pain hold women back?

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Why is a first birthday so important in the Marshall Islands?

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Accessing birth control in the Pacific

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How the Haus Meri in Papua New Guinea is being transformed to give women a political voice

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What is perimenopause and why should we talk about it?

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How to be an overbearing Aunty

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Having conversations about sex will change your life

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How do we raise boys to become good men?

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Being the eldest sister in the Pacific

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Can birthing traditions and modern medicine work together?

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Exposing the child sexual abuse crisis in the Pacific

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How Well Do You Know Your Own Body?

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Why is the Pacific music industry male-dominated?

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Preventing cervical cancer with a simple swab

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Can Pacific women find love on a dating app?

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Breast cancer: Why do so many women wait until it's too late?

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Rose Pihei never planned to become a politician, but the Bougainville Conflict changed everything.

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Meet the women taking tourism into their own hands

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Caregiving is work: Why paid maternity leave is critical for child maternal health in the Pacific

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'My mum is my backbone': What happens when your parents are your biggest cheerleaders

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‘They're the custodians of stories and skills’: Why grandmothers are so important in the Pacific

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Meet the Pacific women who took the world’s biggest issue to the world’s highest court

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How art and cultural practices bring communities together to tackle sustainability

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The Pacific women filmmakers telling stories through their cultural lens

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Pacific family gatherings — how do you celebrate?

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Church hymns, food and caretaking mental health in Western spaces

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How living in the diaspora led this Elder to an Olympic icon

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How education changed Matilda Sweman's life

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Having conversations about sex will change your life

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Tackling Emotional Abuse

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INTRODUCING — The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior

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The benefits and challenges of educating girls in The Pacific

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How Debbie Kaore left a violent relationship and how her love for sport gives her strength

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Meet the Pacific Women Olympians Pushing Boundaries

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How to be an overbearing Aunty

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How to embrace the power of technology and stay safe online

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Sistas rewind: Favourite interviews from women entrepreneurs in business and farming to connecting South Sea Islanders to their Pacific roots

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‘Women are the seed keepers’: How empowering women is key to addressing climate change

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What ovarian cancer taught me

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Self care isn't selfish, it's about survival: Healing from Family Violence

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Pacific women kick goals from the rugby fields to policy-making

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How Florence Swamy helps build peace, from grassroots communities through to the Fijian military

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Is customary law appropriate when dealing with sexual and gender-based violence in the Pacific?

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The meri blouse, urohs and island dress are now part of Pacific women's identity, but challenges loom

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How the Haus Meri in Papua New Guinea is being transformed to give women a political voice

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How Pacific women can navigate saying no

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How does seasonal work impact the women and communities left behind?

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There's been a cultural shift in kava consumption. What impact has this had on women?

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Single mothers tell their stories to break down stigmas

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Rose Pihei never planned to become a politician, but the Bougainville Conflict changed everything.

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Exposing the child sexual abuse crisis in the Pacific

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Meet the "neurospicy" Samoan sisters changing workplace culture

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Why do women put up with pain?

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The traditional childbirth rituals connecting modern Maori women to their ancestors

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Can birthing traditions and modern medicine work together?

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Why do women still do so much unpaid work?

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Can Pacific women find love on a dating app?

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Colourism: Casting of Nani in Lilo & Stitch just the tip of the iceberg

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Why is the Pacific music industry male-dominated?

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Tuiga of the past and present – how the Samoan headdress has evolved

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How women are changing the face of the church across the Pacific

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What's it like being a sex worker in the Pacific?

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How Well Do You Know Your Own Body?

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Pacific women and the tapa Revival

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Inspirational women fight against HIV in the Pacific region

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Family support is vital to coping with teenage pregnancy in the Pacific

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Polygamy in Modern-day PNG

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Professional women bringing their knowledge home

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What feeds our obsession with sugar?

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Putting the 'best' in best friendships

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Women in Sport: from grassroots to the world stage

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Meet the successful business leader from Papua New Guinea who wants more women to believe in their own value.

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How Well Do You Know Your Own Body?

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For better or worse: the changing custom of bride price

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In Conversation with Emeritus Professor Tagaloatele Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

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As climate change threatens more Pacific communities, how important are women’s voices in finding solutions?

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What's it like to be a woman boss in Papua New Guinea?

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How does a PNG Highlander end up working on the high seas?

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Women Chiefs & Traditional Power

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What is perimenopause and why should we talk about it?

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Why is a first birthday so important in the Marshall Islands?

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How are Pacific beauty queens breaking the mould?

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How does seasonal work impact the women and communities left behind?

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What is it really like to work on the PALM scheme if you're a woman?

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Celebrating Our Grandmothers

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How does period pain hold women back?

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Women in Sport: from grassroots to the world stage

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Bird of Paradise Dame Meg Taylor

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The Pacific women who make us laugh

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Sistas rewind: Favourite interviews from tattoos to press freedom

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There's been a cultural shift in kava consumption. What impact has this had on women?

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Let's talk about sex

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Remembering Aitape: 25 years on from the devastating tsunami

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Remembering Aitape: Part One

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How can social media change the lives of Pacific women and those around them?

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Meet the "neurospicy" Samoan sisters changing workplace culture

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Breast cancer: Why do so many women wait until it's too late?

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Colourism: Casting of Nani in Lilo & Stitch just the tip of the iceberg

139

Preventing cervical cancer with a simple swab

140

Pacific conversations that will bring you joy

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If something were to happen today, would you have the financial knowledge to survive?

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How women are changing the face of the church across the Pacific

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What happens when you experience birth trauma?

144

Meet the Australian South Sea Islanders reconnecting with their Pacific heritage

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What is it really like to work on the PALM scheme if you're a woman?

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How Samoa's Warrior Queen took on a men's tradition and inspired a generation

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How do we raise boys to become good men?

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How women bear the unique brunt of PNG's escalating tribal violence

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Beauty Pageants in the Pacific region

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Let's talk about sex

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Meet the Pacific women keeping their culture alive

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Wednesday 08 March 2023

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Breast cancer: Why do so many women wait until it's too late?

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How do you balance being a modern Pacific woman from a deeply traditional culture?

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Papua New Guinea women are facing an epidemic of violence. Is it time for men to fix the problem?

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If something were to happen today, would you have the financial knowledge to survive?

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What is it like to be a conservationist in the land of a thousand tribes, Papua New Guinea?

158

Are women the solution to the Pacific's diabetes epidemic?

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Giving birth during natural disasters

160

Being the eldest sister in the Pacific

161

Dissing the sistas

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Meet the women keeping the ancient art of Pacific storytelling alive

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Music legends Vika and Linda Bull on how their Tongan heritage shaped them

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Why is it so hard for Pacific women writers to publish their books?

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How the Black Sistaz use music as activism

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What's behind the rapid rise of HIV cases in Fiji?

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Women living with disability in the Pacific

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How do women in the Pacific manage financially after the of loss their spouse?

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One woman's crusade to preserve traditional Pacific food and healthy eating

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What does it take to make a career in music for Pacific women?

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Cheating: Should I stay or should I go?

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Access to safe abortion

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How rituals help in mourning

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How women eco-warriors are fighting on two fronts

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The crusade against sorcery-related violence in PNG

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Do we have a drinking problem?

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Giving birth during natural disasters

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Tackling illiteracy: How these women transformed their lives

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Meet the women keeping the ancient art of Pacific storytelling alive

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Women behind bars in the Pacific

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Are women the solution to the Pacific's diabetes epidemic?

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What's it like being a sex worker in the Pacific?

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Dame Carol Kidu continues the fight for women in PNG's election

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How is elderly care changing in the Pacific?

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Dissing the sistas

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How one woman is using her Christian faith to liberate West Papua

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Professional women bringing their knowledge home

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Women living with disability in the Pacific

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Lazy men in the Pacific

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The Pacific's chlamydia epidemic

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Women and Press Freedom in the Pacific

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Being the eldest sister in the Pacific

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LGBTQI in the Pacific

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Women behind bars in the Pacific

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Women and Infertility in the Pacific

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Cervical Cancer in the Pacific

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A love letter to our special female friends

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Pacific Women and the Spirit World

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How the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption impacted women

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Accessing birth control in the Pacific

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The political plight of women in Papua New Guinea

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Social media and beauty standards in the Pacific.

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Inspirational women fight against HIV in the Pacific region

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Pacific Women Seasonal Workers

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How Not to Date Your Cousin!

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The Women of West Papua's Independence Movement

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Pacific Island Women and Breastfeeding

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Pacific University Challenge

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Decolonising Hair in the Pacific

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Traditional Pacific Food Revival

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Eco Warriors: Pacific Women fighting climate change

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You have to see it to be it

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Pacific Women and the Spirit World

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Pacific Women in small business

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Islands Christmas

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Bougainville’s women: the fight for independence and healing.

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Pacific women and the tapa Revival

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Pacific women in STEM

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Pacific women and the Covid 19 vaccine

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Beauty Pageants in the Pacific region.

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'Colourism is an issue': What the first Melanesian beauty queen thinks about Pacific beauty pageants today

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Decolonising Hair in the Pacific

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"Mama, there's always hope": How one woman battled cervical cancer, while pregnant, during COVID-19

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Cervical Cancer in the Pacific

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Breaking Up: Pacific Island women and divorce

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One woman's battle against Pacific cultural norms to leave her 20-year marriage

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How a terrifying spiritual experience led one woman to connect Tongan culture and western medicine

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Pacific Women and the Spirit World

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Giving Birth in remote Papua New Guinea

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Meet one of the women working to reduce childbirth complications in remote PNG

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You have to see it to be it

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Pacific Women in trades

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Pacific Women fighting Period Poverty

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Pacific Women in small business

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Traditional Pacific Food Revival

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Pacific Women and Mental Health

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The Grass Ceiling: Pacific Women in Sport

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Eco Warriors: Pacific Women fighting climate change

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Pacific Women Finding Love

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Women and Obesity in the Pacific

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Could relationships be contributing to the loss of Indigenous languages across Vanuatu?

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Found in Translation: Women keeping Pacific languages alive

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'I didn’t know that I was in an abusive relationship': Alicia Sahib's journey to family violence advocate

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Pacific Women Surviving Gender Based Violence

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Absent Partners: Pacific Island couples living apart

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Pacific Island Women in Fashion

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Pacific Women in Politics

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Bride Price: How are modern women across the Pacific dealing with it?

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Women and Traditional Tattoos: A New Era

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Women in the time of Covid

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Sistas, Let’s Get Talking