Pacific Pulse Podcast

Why are Indo-Fijian women underrepresented in contact sports?

Race, patriarchy, poverty, and the arrival of a period has kept generations of women invisible in Fiji's sports scene.

Australia is battling its worst diphtheria outbreak. Here's how you can stay safe

Diphtheria is a bacterial disease we thought we'd left behind, but gaps in adult vaccination and overcrowded housing conditions have given it a foothold again.

Elaine Munroe hands out syringes to drug users to prevent HIV's spread because pharmacies won't

Sitting across a trafficking route where meth and cocaine is passing through Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Solomon Islands, not all drugs leave.

As forests fall in West Papua, communities warn of impacts on food and health

Indonesian biofuel projects are tearing through forests in West Papua and pushing people off their customary land

In California, Sela Langi is sewing to serve her Tongan community

For Tongans in the diaspora, sewing can be the thread between culture, identity and your island home.