Māori and Pasifika communities are calling for their traditional performing arts to be formally recognised as sport and active recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Western sporting systems fail to recognise Indigenous forms of movement, physical skill, and cultural expression, one researcher says. 

Kanak leaders share their vision for decolonisation beyond politics by freeing the mind, spirit and forging relationships with Indigenous and First Nations group across the region.  

Stan Antas is a Rastaman from Vanuatu who still goes to church, speaks out on teachers strikes, advocates for West Papua's right to self-determination, and uses his music with Stan and the Earth Force to champion the marginalised across the Pacific. He deliberately keeps the Rasta label out of his music so the message reaches everyone, because livity is about doing good, not belonging to a movement.

Stan Antas, of roots-reggae band Stan and the Earth Force, grew up with his father playing Bob Marley and asking him to sit with the lyrics.

Grand Chief Sinewami explains why he stepped away from the Customary Senate and helped establish Inaat Ne Kanaky as a new space to restore genuine Kanak customary authority

Kanak activists say you can’t separate women's safety, autonomy and dignity from the wider struggle against colonial power in New Caledonia. 

Some names carry meaning that can shape how you’re seen and how you see yourself. I think of my aunty Kelera Whiffin, whose maiden name Vakaloloma — meaning pity or sorrow — haunted her until she remarried. 

Fiji pauses to farewell high chief and former President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau in a state funeral that revealed the soul of a nation.

Practical theologian Dr Jill Gowdie has spent her career exploring how faith is lived in everyday life through education, leadership, and personal story. She’s also helping shape the upcoming Waves of Hope conference in Fiji later this year, with papers currently being accepted through April. Ahead of that gathering, she joins Pacific Soul to reflect on lived theology, hope, and what spirituality, or as she says, "God with skin on" looks like in daily life.