Inside

COVER: Pauline Hanson’s controversial fj f and untempered remarks on racial issues £ I have branded her a “racist” and brought ■i I into the foreground and the public forum what may always have been lurking just beneath the surface of Australia’s multiculturalism - the great race debate.

4 Letters 10: The lost boys 19: Robbery 20: Trading places 23: Pacific spies 25: Government accounts and

accountability

37: The Boutros-Ghali incident 38: Chewing the qat 44: Marina’s mission 45: Uncovering the past 48: Striking oil 51: Annie expands her horizons 53: The politics of music 55: Medical insights

57: Voyage to Tonga

Views

6: Debbie Singh (SPC): Bravo, SPC 7: David Barber (NZ): Uniting to save our resources 8: Jemima Garrett (Aust): APEC gears up for action 9: Alfred Sasako (Forum Secretariat): Readying for the 28th Forum

Special Report

am A region in

mourning

The region gathers in the Republic of the Marshall Islands to pay its last respects to the country’s president, Amata Kabua, who died in Hawaii in December.

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tragedy

Polynesian Airline’s fateful flight PH2II, which has killed three, brings under scrutiny the dead pilot’s past record, posing questions from both inside and outside the organisation on the airline’s operations

Sport

40: Bodyworks 42: Manu Samoa bounce back... again