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Shipmaster fined $15k over cattle deaths resulting from MV Statesman 2016 Bass Strait voyage

A judge says "commercial needs" were given priority over the welfare of cattle who died from injuries they suffered during a storm in the Bass Strait, with the captain fined $15,000.

ABC News · Jan 25, 2023

‘We have to keep our culture’: indigenous pageant celebrates Fiji’s traditional afro hairstyle

The Buiniga, a unisex hair style that looks similar to an afro, is in danger of dying out due to western representations of beauty

The Guardian - AU · Jan 17, 2023

The Fijian island being strangled by vines

Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines – and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by climate change, is only making things worse

The Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2022