living in Tongariki and elsewhere. He says Aboriginal descendants today face discrimination in Vanuatu. “It’s very hard, we are always under discrimination,” he says. “They look down on us ...

One, Vanuatu policeman Pakoa Rudy Rolland, says the problem has become so bad that more than 480 Aboriginal people on the island of Tongariki are fringe dwellers, living as second-class citizens ...

David Abel, a former Vanuatu MP and a descendent of a Pacific ... Pakoa Rudy Rolland, a police officer on Tongariki Island, told The Australian newspaper last week that hundreds of people with ...

Minutes later, I'm jostling with dozens of tripods and camera-wielding tourists, all here to witness the stone giants of Tongariki emerge out of the darkness and into the russet colours of dawn.

Islands such as Emau, Tongoa, Tongariki, Mataso and Aniwa appear to have suffered disproportionately from Cyclone Pam. Three out of four people in rural Vanuatu live in rural settlements ...