Culture is more than something we inherit – it’s something we create, question, and carry forward.Host Neisau Tuidraki (Kokonati Talk, Vosa) sits down with Isabella Naiduki (Digressions of a Fijian) and Talica Tamanitoakula and Christine Aukusitino (Two Brownish Girls) for a talanoa on arts and culture as identity, resistance, and record‑keeping.

Moving across diasporic experience, taboo topics, and creative practice, the episode unpacks stereotypes, cultural appropriation versus appreciation, and what it means to make Pacific culture visible – and accountable – through audio storytelling. Podcasting emerges as a way to document change, preserve voices and family histories, and create space for Pacific women’s stories in a male‑dominated podcast landscape.

It’s a reminder of the power of telling our own stories – for our families, our communities and those who come after us.

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Between the Waves is co-created by Mere Nailatikau, Elvina Ogil, Kalani Reyes, Arieta Tora Rika, Neisau Tuidraki and Heather Jarvis, as part of doctoral research supported by the University of Tasmania.

It is recorded and published from the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders, Past and Present.

Our theme music is by Tropic Thunda and graphic design by Kitiana of Dua Studio.

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