New Flags Flying - Pacific Leaders Remember
Contents
Pacific leaders talk about the times of change as they remember their journeys to independence and self government.
(Western) Samoa, independent 1962
- Samoa background
- Interviews with Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi & Tofilau Eti Alesana
- Significant events in Samoa since independence
Cook Islands, self-governing 1965
- Cook Islands background
- Interviews with JH Webb & Sir Tom Davis
- Significant events in Cook Islands since independence
Nauru, independent 1968
Tonga, resumed independence 1970
- Tonga background
- Interview with HM King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
- Significant events in Tonga since independence
Fiji, independent 1970
Niue, self-governing 1974
- Niue background
- Interviews with Sir Robert Rex & Hon. Young Vivian
- Significant events in Niue since independence
Papua New Guinea, independent 1975
- Papua New Guinea background
- Interview with Chief Sir Michael Somare
- Significant events in Papua New Guinea since independence
Solomon Islands, independent 1978
- Solomon Islands background
- Interviews with Hon. Solomon Mamaloni & Sir Peter Kenilorea
- Significant events in Solomon Islands since independence
Tuvalu, independent 1978
- Tuvalu background
- Interview with Hon. Bikenibeu Paeniu
- Significant events in Tuvalu since independence
Kiribati, independent 1979
- Kiribati background
- Interview with Sir Ieremia Tabai
- Significant events in Kiribati since independence
Vanuatu, independent 1980
- Vanuatu background
- Interview with Father Walter Lini
- Significant events in Vanuatu since independence
Marshall Islands, independent 1986
- Marshall Islands background
- Interview with Hon. Kessai Note
- Significant events in Marshall Islands since independence
Federated States of Micronesia, independent 1986
- Federated States of Micronesia background
- Interview with John Haglelgam
- Significant events in the Federated States of Micronesia since independence
Palau, independent 1995
Perspectives of Pacific women
- Perspectives of Pacific women
- Interview with Hon. Sandra Pierantozzi (Palau)
- Interview with Carol Kidu (Papua New Guinea)
- Interview with Hon. Fiame Naomi Mata'afa (Samoa)
Foreign presence and future Pacific
About this project: acknowledgements
New Flags Flying
"Independence is deciding about being yourself, which is your right…to be shackled by a system outside of yourself is not human"
Sir Peter Kenilorea
Between 1960 and 1990, strong winds of political change stormed across the Pacific.
After the storm, bright new flags were flying over Pacific capitals as the leaders took their people into an uncertain future.
This video gives a taste of the interviews and photographs that are part of the New Flags Flying project. (12′41″)