Pacific Personalities Interview: Joycelin Leahy
By Sabrina Habu What motivated you to start creating art? My biggest motivation is my passion for it and once I am in the flow, there is a powerful transformation that takes place. It is very spiritual. From childhood, I have always created art, so it is part of my ‘living’ culture. I have made bilums and tapa cloth with aunts and grandma, made headdress with uncles and cousins, and painted walls, made dresses, drew in the sand, performed in village dramas and took part in si
Pacific Personalities Interview: Claire Kidu
Claire Kidu is a fashion artist from Kairiru Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Having navigated multiple obstacles in her career, Claire found her passion in a foreign country, studying the Branded Fashion Degree at Billy Blue College of Deisgn at Torrens University. She aims to one day work in a slow fashion brand, focusing on working with Papua New Guinean artists, artisans and designers. She hopes to use her education to document some of the works and processes of Papua New
Data Protection in the Pacific: Obligations for Telecommunications and Banking Businesses
By John Ridgway, Dirk Heinz and Brad Phillips In comparison with most of the world, coordinated data protection and privacy legislation in the Pacific is relatively unsophisticated – in fact, it is pretty much non-existent. With this in mind as a starting point, can companies operating in key sectors such as telecommunications and banking in the Pacific do what they want with confidential customer information and data? Of course not! Businesses who collect, store and use pers
