In September this year Sunday Paper reporter Mell Chun spent 10 days on an island in the South Pacific which you may have heard called New Caledonia. This is the land of a Melanesian people called The Kanaks who were violently colonised by France in 1853 and remain under French occupation today.

In May 2024, a new French Law sparked a Kanak uprising and brutal suppression by the French military in which many Kanaks were killed, jailed and deported. Since then, discrimination against the Kanak people has intensified in every sphere of life that the colony controls. Healthcare, housing, work rights, transport, education and the justice system.

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The Sunday Paper Podcast is produced on Wurundjeri land, this land was invaded, stolen and remains under occupation. Colonial violence continues, as does Indigenous Resistance.

A special thanks to Free Kanaky Solidarity Naarm for translation, research and advice

And to Francisco Bhagwan for permission to use the track ‘Pasifika Rising’ in this piece.

The podcast is compiled, mixed and edited by Mell Chun.

Matt Chun is our Executive Producer.

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