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Sistas, Let's Talk — 257 episodes

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Ambition and hope: Three Pacific women on life in their 20s

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Bougainville’s Theonila Roka Matbob on taking down a mining giant and winning the Goldman Prize

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How traditional and legal adoption conflict for children from the Pacific

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Beyond the disaster: Meet the women on the frontline of landslide relief in PNG and Bougainville

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Surviving a rough patch: how some couples get through the hard times

6

How colonialism has shaped colourism in the Pacific

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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?

10

How the Pacific drug crisis impacts women

11

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

12

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

13

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

20

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

27

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

32

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

33

What ovarian cancer taught me

34

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

35

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

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How education changed Matilda Sweman's life

37

The crusade against sorcery-related violence in PNG

38

The benefits and challenges of educating girls in The Pacific

39

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

40

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

41

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

47

How does period pain hold women back?

48

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

51

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?

55

Being the eldest sister in the Pacific

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Can birthing traditions and modern medicine work together?

57

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?

60

Preventing cervical cancer with a simple swab

61

Can Pacific women find love on a dating app?

62

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

83

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

85

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

91

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

92

How Pacific women can navigate saying no

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

94

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.

97

Exposing the child sexual abuse crisis in the Pacific

98

Meet the "neurospicy" Samoan sisters changing workplace culture

99

Why do women put up with pain?

100

The traditional childbirth rituals connecting modern Maori women to their ancestors

101

Can birthing traditions and modern medicine work together?

102

Why do women still do so much unpaid work?

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Can Pacific women find love on a dating app?

104

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?

106

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

108

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

109

How Well Do You Know Your Own Body?

110

Pacific women and the tapa Revival

111

Inspirational women fight against HIV in the Pacific region

112

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

113

Polygamy in Modern-day PNG

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Professional women bringing their knowledge home

115

What feeds our obsession with sugar?

116

Putting the 'best' in best friendships

117

Women in Sport: from grassroots to the world stage

118

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

119

How Well Do You Know Your Own Body?

120

For better or worse: the changing custom of bride price

121

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?

123

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?

125

Women Chiefs & Traditional Power

126

What is perimenopause and why should we talk about it?

127

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

128

How are Pacific beauty queens breaking the mould?

129

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

130

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

131

Celebrating Our Grandmothers

132

How does period pain hold women back?

133

Women in Sport: from grassroots to the world stage

134

Bird of Paradise Dame Meg Taylor

135

The Pacific women who make us laugh

136

Sistas rewind: Favourite interviews from tattoos to press freedom

137

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

138

Let's talk about sex

139

Remembering Aitape: 25 years on from the devastating tsunami

140

Remembering Aitape: Part One

141

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

142

Meet the "neurospicy" Samoan sisters changing workplace culture

143

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

144

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

145

Preventing cervical cancer with a simple swab

146

Pacific conversations that will bring you joy

147

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

148

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

149

What happens when you experience birth trauma?

150

Meet the Australian South Sea Islanders reconnecting with their Pacific heritage

151

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

152

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

153

How do we raise boys to become good men?

154

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

157

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?

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

Giving birth during natural disasters

166

Being the eldest sister in the Pacific

167

Dissing the sistas

168

Meet the women keeping the ancient art of Pacific storytelling alive

169

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

170

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

171

How the Black Sistaz use music as activism

172

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

173

Women living with disability in the Pacific

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

Cheating: Should I stay or should I go?

178

Access to safe abortion

179

How rituals help in mourning

180

How women eco-warriors are fighting on two fronts

181

The crusade against sorcery-related violence in PNG

182

Do we have a drinking problem?

183

Giving birth during natural disasters

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Tackling illiteracy: How these women transformed their lives

185

Meet the women keeping the ancient art of Pacific storytelling alive

186

Women behind bars in the Pacific

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

188

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

189

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

190

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

197

Women and Press Freedom in the Pacific

198

Being the eldest sister in the Pacific

199

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

203

A love letter to our special female friends

204

Pacific Women and the Spirit World

205

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

206

Accessing birth control in the Pacific

207

The political plight of women in Papua New Guinea

208

Social media and beauty standards in the Pacific.

209

Inspirational women fight against HIV in the Pacific region

210

Pacific Women Seasonal Workers

211

How Not to Date Your Cousin!

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The Women of West Papua's Independence Movement

213

Pacific Island Women and Breastfeeding

214

Pacific University Challenge

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Decolonising Hair in the Pacific

216

Traditional Pacific Food Revival

217

Eco Warriors: Pacific Women fighting climate change

218

You have to see it to be it

219

Pacific Women and the Spirit World

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Pacific Women in small business

221

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

224

Pacific women in STEM

225

Pacific women and the Covid 19 vaccine

226

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

229

"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

235

Giving Birth in remote Papua New Guinea

236

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

242

Pacific Women and Mental Health

243

The Grass Ceiling: Pacific Women in Sport

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Eco Warriors: Pacific Women fighting climate change

245

Pacific Women Finding Love

246

Women and Obesity in the Pacific

247

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

248

Found in Translation: Women keeping Pacific languages alive

249

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

250

Pacific Women Surviving Gender Based Violence

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Absent Partners: Pacific Island couples living apart

252

Pacific Island Women in Fashion

253

Pacific Women in Politics

254

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

255

Women and Traditional Tattoos: A New Era

256

Women in the time of Covid

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