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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1993Vol. 63, No. 7

Pacific

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

Islands

Monthly

July 1993

Police Brutality

Inside

Exclusive PNG’s Prime Minister Paias Wingti explains his govern ment decisions The plight of squatters in New Caledonia Fiji’s television soap opera Has Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs become its House of Lords?

The far reaching impli cations of the Mabo ruling

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Cover illustration by Talat Mehmood