Inside

Jk COVER: Pacific Islands get a more co-ordi- I nated medical assistance from Australia. A I new scheme will ensure that all island states benefit from the visiting surgeons.

4: Letters 6: Govt bails out bank 11: Misleading AIDS data 20: Defining wilderness 24: Workers fight oppression 28: PNG’s budget 32: Return of the Nauruans 35: The Galapagus guru 42: Changing hands atSPC 44: Diplomacy: Pacific style 48: Niuatoputapu - where time stands still

Sports

50: Dynamic Dymock 52: Bachop brothers: True sons of Samoa 54: Pacific players aiming for higher goals

56: Befriending a

dugong

58: Who’s next PM?

Views

David Barber: Hardening atti tudes towards non-whites.

Alfred Sasako:Tradition or growth

Special Report

A look at reefs around the region * and how they can be saved.