Item 130 - Vanuatu press clippings, articles, reports and notes

Includes: (1) Bombs, bribery and ballots in New Hebrides (Pacific Islands Monthly, Jan 1976); (2) Boycotts and tailspins in the condominium (Pacific Islands Monthly, Apr 1977); (3) New Hebrides – of storms and high commissioners (Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1977); (4) Supervised pandemonium in the condominium (Far Eastern Economic Review, 2 Jun 1978); (5) Special section on Australasia and Oceania (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Jun 1978); (6) New Hebrides (Woroni, 1 Aug 1978); (7) Stand-off for New Hebrides (Pacific Islands Monthly, Aug 1978); (8) Yen gathers pace in New Hebrides (Pacific Islands Monthly, Sep 1978) (9) All change at the top in the New Hebrides (Pacific Islands Monthly, Sep 1978); (10) A Pacific storm is brewing (The Bulletin, 31 Oct 1978)

(11) Storm Brewing in New Hebrides (The Age, 10 Nov 1978); (12) No confidence in government (Canberra Times, 16 Dec 1978); (13) We want real independence – on our terms (PNG Post-Courier, 2 Feb 1979); (14) New Hebrides (The Age, 18 Apr 1979); (15) For France, for Britain, or for themselves? (Sydney Morning Herald, 20 Apr 1979); (16) Double-trouble in pandemonium (Nation Review, 3 May 1979); (17) Trouble Brews in Paradise (The Age, 39 Oct 1979); (18) New Hebrides Freedom vote (The Age, 15 Nov 1979); (19) New Hebrides warned on aid (The Age, 16 Nov 1979); (20) Landslide win to Vanuaaku Party (Canberra Times, 17 Nov 1979);

(21) Post-election violence (Canberra Times, 21 Nov 1979); (22) Secessionists ready to take action (The Age, 21 Nov 1979); (23) Problems in paradise (The Australian, 23 Nov 1979); (24) Island election tests France (The National Times, 24 Nov 1979); (25) ‘Uprising’ in New Hebrides (Canberra Times, 23 Nov 1979); (26) Vanuaaku to influence Pacific area (Canberra Times, 25 Nov 1979); (27) The Schizophrenic Bureaucracy (The Age 27 November 1979); (28) Insurrection in New Hebrides ‘over’ (Canberra Times 27 Nov 1979); (29) Civil disorder threat in French influence islands (National Times, 1 Dec 1979); (30) A slow boat to the islands of Oceania (News Weekly, 29 Oct 1980)
(31) Vanuaaku Viewpoints Vol. 7(8) (Smol Nius): New movement – “Natatok Efate”, Oct 1977; (32) Vanuaaku Viewpoints Vol. 8(1) (Smol Nius): Land Rights, Jan 1978; (33) Actualite Dans Le Pacifique: Melanesie, Nouvelle-Hebrides. Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, 51-52, Tome XXXII, Jun-Sep 1976. Printed (p/c), 5pp; (34) Christopher Plant: Current developments in the Pacific. New Hebrides 1977: Year of crisis. Journal of Pacific history, Vol. 13 No.3 (Galley Proof). Printed (p/c), 10pp; (35) Report on visit to the New Hebrides by Gordon Bryant. Visit between 8th and 23 January 1978. Ts. (p/c) 16pp.;

(36) “Vanuaaku declares peoples provisional government”. Povai, Vol 3 No.1 Apr-May 1978 (published by the Pacific People’s Action Front, Suva) Printed (p/c), 4pp; (37) “New Hebrides”. Department of Foreign Affairs Backgrounder, No. 141 9 Jun 1978. Ts. (p/c), 2pp; (38) The New Hebrides: A doubly oppressed colony. A collection of documents produced in conjunction with the tour of New Zealand by Mr William Edgell and Mr Fred Kalo of the New Hebrides National Party. nd Ts. (roneo), 16pp; (39) Miscellaneous notes and index cards. Ms. c17pp.