# ![@MichaelFieldNZ Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::3165026894.png) @MichaelFieldNZ Michael Field

Michael Field posts on X about fiji, samoa, tokelau, new zealand the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::3165026894/interactions)
![Engagements Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::3165026894/c:line/m:interactions.svg)

- [--] Week [------] -84%
- [--] Month [-------] +738%
- [--] Months [-------] +193%
- [--] Year [-------] -31%

### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::3165026894/posts_active)
![Mentions Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::3165026894/c:line/m:posts_active.svg)

- [--] Week [--] -20%
- [--] Month [---] +29%
- [--] Months [---] +59%
- [--] Year [---] -26%

### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::3165026894/followers)
![Followers Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::3165026894/c:line/m:followers.svg)

- [--] Week [-----] +0.24%
- [--] Month [-----] +2.10%
- [--] Months [-----] +2.50%
- [--] Year [-----] +2.60%

### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::3165026894/influencer_rank)
![CreatorRank Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::3165026894/c:line/m:influencer_rank.svg)

### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  75.61% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  5.49% [finance](/list/finance)  3.05% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  1.83% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.22% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1.22% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.61% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  0.61%

**Social topic influence**
[fiji](/topic/fiji) #301, [samoa](/topic/samoa) 9.15%, [tokelau](/topic/tokelau) #59, [new zealand](/topic/new-zealand) #1825, [tonga](/topic/tonga) 5.49%, [french polynesia](/topic/french-polynesia) #55, [nauru](/topic/nauru) 5.49%, [australia](/topic/australia) 4.88%, [vanuatu](/topic/vanuatu) 4.27%, [sea](/topic/sea) 2.44%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@fijitimes](/creator/undefined) [@fijisun](/creator/undefined) [@nzairforce](/creator/undefined) [@marinetraffic](/creator/undefined) [@sunfiji](/creator/undefined) [@globalfishwatch](/creator/undefined) [@suzyiam](/creator/undefined) [@judithcollinsmp](/creator/undefined) [@briantamakinz](/creator/undefined) [@realdonaldtrump](/creator/undefined) [@nznationalparty](/creator/undefined) [@washingtonpost](/creator/undefined) [@olympics](/creator/undefined) [@awapress](/creator/undefined) [@marinenationale](/creator/undefined) [@qantas](/creator/undefined) [@flightradar24](/creator/undefined) [@chrisluxonmp](/creator/undefined) [@radionz](/creator/undefined) [@kokeshimum](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[2131KOBUSHIDE (21)](/topic/$21) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Cook Islands ship resisting US Navy Large Cook Islands flagged oil tanker trying to evade the US naval blockade of Venezuela. Bertha operating within shadow fleet and spoofing its position will have severe implications for Cook Is & NZ. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2008406233477157017)  2026-01-06T05:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"As I was implying yesterday there is the scope given the Tokelau/Swains/AmSam/Cooks borders. chances are Trump doesn't know about the Guano Act but he might. Clipperton (currently French) is an interesting one. So to Penrhyn another of the NZ Realm @MichaelFieldNZ @realDonaldTrump Thanks for that Michael. What do you think the chances are that under Trump renews its interest in Tokelau and the northern Cooks @MichaelFieldNZ @realDonaldTrump Thanks for that Michael. What do you think the chances are that under Trump renews its interest in Tokelau and the northern Cooks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2009478989308678343)  2026-01-09T04:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A brilliant little insight into the amazing world of Kiribati aviation and its scatted atolls - flown by a Fijian pilot. https://www.facebook.com/reel/895498786384319 https://www.facebook.com/reel/895498786384319"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2010550988973977978)  2026-01-12T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Mixed reviews for Fiji Water"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2017687773969604683)  2026-01-31T19:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"An @NZAirForce P8 Poseidon has since [--] Jan been operating from Faaa Tahiti and out across to Pitcairn Island - area suspected as key transit point for cocaine smuggling https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2017775461934502078)  2026-02-01T01:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Looks like whole population of Pitcairn Island turned out to watch @NZAirForce P8 Posiden fly over. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2017784140670914754)  2026-02-01T02:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"France seized [----] tonnes of cocaine near Bora Bora - then destroyed the evidence and released the crew. Days later a mystery freighter limped into Rarotonga. The Pacific is left holding the consequences of Paris new seize and release doctrine. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/bora-bora-cocaine-mysteryr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/bora-bora-cocaine-mysteryr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2018094652084339011)  2026-02-01T22:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"US embassy in Vanuatu seeking local donations to keep their Facebook account going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2018113283233022280)  2026-02-02T00:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A favourite S'Pacific pixs: Pitcairn Islanders gather to watch an @NZAirForce P8 (left) on patrol over their marine reserve. This month [---] years before their ancestors gathered on a nearby beach and set fire to HMS Bounty. https://michaelf27.substack.com https://michaelf27.substack.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2018168689355530532)  2026-02-02T03:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"New Zealand is supporting US demand that it be allowed to inspect "foreign research stations" in Antarctica Literal ICE agents banging on doors of Italian Indian British Russian & Chinese bases More madness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2018536494617817414)  2026-02-03T04:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"You have to cut something of a dash when you are Aotearoa's new ambassador to the Kingdom of Tonga. Brody Sinclair and top hat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2018903568464715849)  2026-02-04T04:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Peter Thiel appears at least [----] times in the Epstein files: can John Key and the @NZNationalParty explain why they gave him New Zealand citizenship. What was the deal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2018908392572805305)  2026-02-04T04:44Z [----] followers, 51.1K engagements


"Fiji Govt deny Prime Minister Rabuka was hit by a stone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019155598470967753)  2026-02-04T21:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji makes the front of the dying @washingtonpost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019509142281736573)  2026-02-05T20:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"No [--] on Wellington Best Sellers book list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019625365157847239)  2026-02-06T04:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Covert Aotearoa NZ military & civil mission Operation Kiwa just scored first success: [----] km away from Auckland busted a ship with [----] tonnes of cocaine - street value NZ$1.8 billion. And not a politician anywhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019634604886618284)  2026-02-06T04:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Samoa police reveal writer & poet Sia Figiel died a "self-inflicted death by hanging." She was in prison accused of the murder of poet Dr. Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019642636630695962)  2026-02-06T05:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Saturday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019877916331618628)  2026-02-06T20:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"International Space Station will be visible throughout Aotearoa tonight from around 9.21pm as it passes right over Northland Auckland Tauranga Bay of Plenty and Gisborne. This will be a particularly bright pass for observers in the North Island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019926236789969255)  2026-02-07T00:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Details underwraps: NZ cyber security Five Eyes unit - GCSB - played major role in a $1.8b cocaine drug bust on high seas east of Tahiti - 4.25tonnes of cocaine dumped in ocean but smugglers & ship freed to try again https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/operation-kiwa-and-mirage-of-pacific https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/operation-kiwa-and-mirage-of-pacific"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020333697887871147)  2026-02-08T03:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"His Majestys Armed Forces of Tonga might not be terribly threatening toward any one but their female unit looks fashionably cool in their German influenced uniforms https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020350624265822405)  2026-02-08T04:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Monday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020602145670832204)  2026-02-08T20:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And made in Pukekawa just south of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand That Lays commercial was the saddest thing surrounding potatoes since the potato famine in Ireland or maybe when Dan Quayle spelled potato incorrectly. That Lays commercial was the saddest thing surrounding potatoes since the potato famine in Ireland or maybe when Dan Quayle spelled potato incorrectly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020684791063228781)  2026-02-09T02:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Tuesday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020970872169975872)  2026-02-09T21:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Eighty three unvaccinated Samoan children died - many of them were the fault of RFK Jr - as the truths come out. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/rfk-jr-samoa-trip-senate-confirmationCMP=share_btn_url&fbclid=IwY2xjawP3S-hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeFLdu1cALEDT0Nt_ZCIPrlwbeAl-vjdadPCixi-D-5xIV1Y_gtmg6f7fewI4_aem_rj1PBIPbBvsUwLCc-JP5xg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2021002263230337258)  2026-02-09T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The two great Aotearoa NZ table anxieties: are we top "per capita" and "are we beating Australia" @Olympics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2021270195151700008)  2026-02-10T17:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Wednesday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2021427255143178727)  2026-02-11T03:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Thursday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2021694642237190350)  2026-02-11T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji has just told the United Nations that they own the Mineriva Reefs not Tonga. there was an Australian aid supported shooting match over this previously https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/minervas-time-for-wisdomutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/minervas-time-for-wisdomutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2021854478903992610)  2026-02-12T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Friday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022076902555660750)  2026-02-12T22:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My guess is more ships pass through Jomard Passage in Papua New Guinea than ships in the Bass Strait. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/choke-point-a-strategic-risk-or-remoteutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web 🚨 THE WORLD RUNS THROUGH [--] STRAITS Trade Oil LNG Military power. Key chokepoints: Malacca 25% of global traded goods Hormuz 25% of global oil of LNG Singapore 50% of global seaborne trade Gibraltar Atlantic Mediterranean Bosphorus Black Sea outlet https://t.co/ivIxAeHXmX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023147464552026382)  2026-02-15T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Why did French authorities after seizing cocaine let MV Raider Togo flagged & uninsured sail out of French Polynesia & into Cook Islands where it is in distress & causing problems for a small Pacific state. Were French authorities aiding drug trade https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2017469545699758317)  2026-01-31T05:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Cook Is Govt explain presence in Rarotonga of Togo flagged ship connected - in some way - to [--] tonnes of cocaine seized in French Polynesia. Statement makes it plain Papeete police & military have been vague careless & confusing about what happened https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2017808847239581781)  2026-02-01T03:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Startling: French authorities decided not to prosecute cocaine traffic passing through French Polynesia waters fearing it will overwhelm Papeete courts. Drugs to be dumped at sea & smugglers sent on their way. Administrative not justice. Will alarm nations facing the traffic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2017823907345317899)  2026-02-01T04:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"After bombing the hell out of life in the Marshall Islands American diplomats in Majuro say they are too poor to run a Facebook account"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2018160111974522954)  2026-02-02T03:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Second huge cocaine seizure in couple of weeks in French Polynesia: [----] tonnes of cocaine "seized and destroyed". Official announcement gives no word on fate of ship or smugglers. Last month's 4.87t was thrown in sea & ship & smugglers let go. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019178946370367674)  2026-02-04T22:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Togo flagged ship Raider caught in last month's nearly [--] tonne cocaine seizure in French Polynesia has left Rarotonga and is heading for Sydney according to @MarineTraffic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019182137224683864)  2026-02-04T22:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"French authorities aided by NZ Customs make another large cocaine seizure in French Polynesia - [----] tonnes which follows last month's nearly five tonnes. Latest seizure also dumped in international waters & vessel & crew allowed to sail on https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2019222820870664353)  2026-02-05T01:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Another narco submarine in the Pacific - abandoned its cocaine gone Arno atoll Marshall Islands. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2021117097867395349)  2026-02-10T07:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On [--] April [----] a South Pacific Island Airways Cessna 402B lifted off from Pago Pago bound for Faleolo. It was a short flight- about [---] kilometres. Routine. The kind of hop people barely think about. It never arrived. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/night-flight-that-never-arrivedr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/night-flight-that-never-arrivedr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022493687444566244)  2026-02-14T02:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Saturday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022517482624524659)  2026-02-14T03:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Just over a year ago Spokane Washington said they would move a prominent statue that marks the achievement of one of their sons who killed "savage foe". Samoans in [----]. The statue is still in a prime place. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022882952921960805)  2026-02-15T03:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Australia spent $21 m on new boat harbour in Tuvalu - yesterday its first day of use proved a disaster. Canberra tried to save money with small outboards & badly designed boat. Fortunate no one died. Australia has a bit more to learn in colonisation https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020340542404722795)  2026-02-08T03:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"You counting Green Island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022866786316886399)  2026-02-15T02:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"He'll be running for president next our liberties are vanishing before our eyes https://t.co/ngIJo9SngZ our liberties are vanishing before our eyes https://t.co/ngIJo9SngZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022886668370612310)  2026-02-15T04:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I was once promised the governorship of Tokelau - a divine part of the Pacific marking a hundred years of New Zealand rule - free to read https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/not-paradise-lost-found-or-regainedr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/not-paradise-lost-found-or-regainedr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020672452003778908)  2026-02-09T01:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I was once promised the governorship of Tokelau - a divine part of the Pacific marking a hundred years of New Zealand rule - free to read https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/not-paradise-lost-found-or-regainedr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/not-paradise-lost-found-or-regainedr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020673070147731696)  2026-02-09T01:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Without announcement NZ Govt has lifted limits on numbers of foreign fishing boat crews that can now work NZ waters: "unlimited" numbers of Indonesians Cambodians Vietnamese etc will work NZ catch including export hoki. Sanford & Sealord welcome back slave fishing @AwaPress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022116542855651816)  2026-02-13T01:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Latest French Polynesian drug post; cocaine dumped in Pacific crew and tug set free 💥2.4 TONS of cocaine seized by the @MarineNationale on the high seas nearby French Polynesia ⚓ On Feb [--] [----] a vessel was intercepted revealing [---] bales for [-----] tons of cocaine. ➡ This brings 2026s total seizures to [----] tons worth $2.4B https://t.co/o3QqC9IA65 💥2.4 TONS of cocaine seized by the @MarineNationale on the high seas nearby French Polynesia ⚓ On Feb [--] [----] a vessel was intercepted revealing [---] bales for [-----] tons of cocaine. ➡ This brings 2026s total seizures to [----] tons worth $2.4B"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022801367782277607)  2026-02-14T22:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Wellington's hugely talented Anna Fifield in latest NatGeo feature on North Korea https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Zu8WlImwrwY https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Zu8WlImwrwY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022923721980387784)  2026-02-15T06:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"14 tonnes of cocaine in six weeks. From Fiji to the high seas east of F'Polynesia multi-tonne shipments are moving through S'Pacific. My [----] running sheet tracks of seizures the patterns & the unanswered questions. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/south-pacifics-narco-highwayutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/south-pacifics-narco-highwayutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023188910382416242)  2026-02-16T00:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is a $21m Australian investment in Tuvalu opening today - climate change new boat harbour. Fortunately all survived. Tuvalu under Australian rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2020032057536311494)  2026-02-07T07:09Z [----] followers, 43.3K engagements


"Will she reach Oz Cocaine smuggler MV Raider about thousand km off NZ says it going to Sydney. French Polynesia removed [----] tonnes of cocaine & then let ship & [--] SAmerican crew free. But they lost US$1.5b in cocaine - some one is not happy https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/bora-bora-cocaine-mystery https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/bora-bora-cocaine-mystery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2021437195568152966)  2026-02-11T04:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Today's @Qantas Santiago to Sydney great circle flight reached Antarctica: passengers on the starboard side might have had awesome views of sometimes active volcano Mount Siple [----] metres @flightradar24"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022885833444045136)  2026-02-15T04:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Rugby league bores me but as @chrisluxonmp has just agreed to give each Origin spectator a $100 subsidy to watch a game can I have my $100 in cash - be nice to subsidise a cut of lamb over winter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023148460376285635)  2026-02-15T21:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/night-flight-that-never-arrivedutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/night-flight-that-never-arrivedutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023184598906413303)  2026-02-15T23:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Why is @radionz always broadcasting storm witnesses who say "I've never seen anything like it" What have they got against expert quotes from people who have seen worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023239990805688485)  2026-02-16T03:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Bora Bora drug smuggler Raider now about [---] km north of Cape Reinga Aotearoa NZ with crew of Hondurans who lost [--] tons of cocaine to French Polynesia police heading for Sydney. French didnt want them in Papeete jail will Australia @MarineTraffic https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/bora-bora-cocaine-mysteryutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/bora-bora-cocaine-mysteryutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022776342128034128)  2026-02-14T20:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"New cocaine bust on high seas near French Polynesian: [---] tonnes of cocaine from tug looking vessel.Since beginning of year [----] tonnes of drugs seized at sea adding [---] kg seized at Papeete worth an estimated $2.4 billion. Most destined for Australia https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2022778331960381804)  2026-02-14T21:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Lady Swimmers of Island Bay would be undeterred"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023191301731315866)  2026-02-16T00:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Monday February [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023194563368960447)  2026-02-16T00:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"RT @kokeshimum: [--] day after meeting Liz Truss the Queen was dead. So fingers crossed everyone. 🤞🤞🤞"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023222285449269290)  2026-02-16T02:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Problem for @nzfirst is that its fate is not immortal its one man pony show is [--] years old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023266601676775821)  2026-02-16T05:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"George Will at his most brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=gwdHz1Xnfm0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=gwdHz1Xnfm0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/2023278422034903458)  2026-02-16T06:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Tuesday September [--] @fijitimes @sun_fiji"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970224875110633536)  2025-09-22T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Guam smaller than Fijis Suva metro transformed into most expensive military outposts in Pacific. From Frances Maginot Line to Japans Gibraltar of the Pacific costly fortresses have a habit of being bypassed bombed or rendered useless https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/guam-fortress-or-mirager=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/guam-fortress-or-mirager=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970346305320100012)  2025-09-23T04:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And this. a helpful notice from New World Island Bay Wellington"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970352830860202180)  2025-09-23T05:01Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements


"Wonder if Jacinda Ardern is heading toward a Nobel Peace Prize"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970390709028167808)  2025-09-23T07:32Z [----] followers, 30.7K engagements


"Malietoa responded: To all Smoa: On account of my great love to my country and my great affection to all Smoa this is the reason that I deliver up my body to the German government. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/yield-to-invincible-strangersr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/yield-to-invincible-strangersr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970605394868478458)  2025-09-23T21:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Google Maps have updated the reference to sunken New Zealand warship Manawanui in Samoa & published a new photo of the wreck: on the way to becoming a world class wreck dive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970630258908107135)  2025-09-23T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Don't know if any bookies giving odds on @NewZealandMFA now (100 to [--] it will be no recognition) but if he was going to do it he'd have announced it already. This is all sham: he's hoping to be saved by something else. According to @rnz_news Peters is still in NY personally consulting every member of the UN to decide whether to recognise the state of Palestine. Maybe he should have read the reports from our diplomats before he left for the UN and listened to the NZ public. Laughable. According to @rnz_news Peters is still in NY personally consulting every member of the UN to decide whether to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970681410806776056)  2025-09-24T02:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Great thing about posting anything on Jacinda Ardern is that it brings out a torrent of cookers a great opportunity to mute each of them and their two followers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970685173932138681)  2025-09-24T03:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Thursday September [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970956023008723100)  2025-09-24T20:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Nauru worlds smallest republic with [-----] people once repository of Russian Mafiamoving into crypto (Nobody else in the Pacific is doing it says Pres David Adeang) many new projects with China in pipeline & is working with US on deepsea mining https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1970962098009276806)  2025-09-24T21:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Friday September [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1971327364736090389)  2025-09-25T21:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"German public opinion manipulated by blatant imagery of sex and brown women favoured annexation. Author Otto Ehlers in his [----] book Samoa Die Perle der Sudsee provided readers with a tantalising ration of nearly naked women . https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/looking-up-samoa-on-the-mapr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/looking-up-samoa-on-the-mapr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1971344787702989172)  2025-09-25T22:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If Aotearoa New Zealand's health system alarms check out the one in the Solomon Islands https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1971423309364592944)  2025-09-26T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Saturday September [--] @fijitimes @sun_fiji"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1971722771962253406)  2025-09-26T23:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"As Trump unseals last of Amelia Earhart records note for record her bones are in Fiji - for a long time in a wooden box in ceiling at Government House. How it got there is a complex & sad story. & don't forget Fred Noonan. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/grasping-at-coral-or-finding-ameliar=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/grasping-at-coral-or-finding-ameliar=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1971807602654040225)  2025-09-27T05:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Happily can watch Fiji TV news. Saturday's news on @1NewsNZ fails to show on website - everybody must have gone to the rugby https://t.co/qzbcKCMEcV Saturday's news on @1NewsNZ fails to show on website - everybody must have gone to the rugby https://t.co/qzbcKCMEcV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1971819084632481793)  2025-09-27T06:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Couple of coup plotters meet in Washington - Fiji's Rabuka and US Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972022064711377344)  2025-09-27T19:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Eighteen horses and six ponies from New Zealand have just arrived by air in Tahiti - warm nights and enriching local bloodstock ahead. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972146466274804209)  2025-09-28T03:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Nauru will next month hold a referendum on extending its parliamentary term from the current three years to four. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972394545477452080)  2025-09-28T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Monday September [--] @fijitimes @sun_fiji"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972403903691153436)  2025-09-28T20:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Spot the difference: Fiji's Rabuka Vanuatu's FM. with Trump . dolls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972415951846207539)  2025-09-28T21:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Two heavily armed ships carrying radioactive plutonium mixed oxide from France to Japan could shortly transit Tasman Sea Coral Sea & SW Pacific near PNG & Solomon Islands. No course announcements made & ships now AIS dark https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972466210836193625)  2025-09-29T00:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"For Nauru a country long stripped and exploited first by phosphate mining now by foreign powers the election is less about who governs and more about whether Adeangs high-risk experiments can keep the place solvent https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/nauru-votes-with-fractions-not-partiesr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/nauru-votes-with-fractions-not-partiesr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972498367579357355)  2025-09-29T03:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Samoa has today declared an "economic" state of emergency - appears to be out of cash. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972524107129668045)  2025-09-29T04:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Tuesday September [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1972784030182768710)  2025-09-29T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Wednesday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1973238381783261691)  2025-10-01T04:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Thursday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1973547047233134767)  2025-10-02T00:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama guilty of one count of unwarranted demand made to a public official while former Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho found not guilty of two counts of abuse of office https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1973578415459672257)  2025-10-02T02:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Smoas Warrior in a Belgian Cabinet: From Human Zoo to Rugby Pitch: Smoa's Chance to Reclaim Warrior Atifu from Belgium. His dismembered body in filing cabinet at Royal Museum of Art & skeleton is in Universit libre de Bruxelles. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/samoas-warrior-in-a-belgian-cabinetr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/samoas-warrior-in-a-belgian-cabinetr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1973839626965336465)  2025-10-02T19:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Friday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1973916082928050240)  2025-10-03T01:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Saturday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1974223741711495416)  2025-10-03T21:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Intriguing: Do Smoans have Native American ancestors Belgium university DNA tested Atifu a circus exhibit from [----] who died (from measles in Brussels) & found him 94% Polynesian & 6% American (perhaps acquired before Europeans ever entered Pacific). https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/samoas-warrior-in-a-belgian-cabinetr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/samoas-warrior-in-a-belgian-cabinetr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1974284722214945235)  2025-10-04T01:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] ethnic Indians 52% of Fiji population. Today school rolls hint its just 20.5% & if so [------] Indians may have left Fiji since 2017s census. Worse Fiji's overall population is stagnant & may crash soon https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1974645475283440049)  2025-10-05T01:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Monday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1974936606235877514)  2025-10-05T20:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Vanuatu has just wrecked one of its Australian supplied patrol boats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975011858768875953)  2025-10-06T01:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Vanuatu new Australian patrol boat RVS Takuare run around & maybe beyond recovery. Second Guardian patrol boat wrecked after Fiji did same to maiden voyage boat RFNS Puamau last year. Today anniversary of sinking of HMNZS Manawanui - S'Pacific tough waters https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975029687643701287)  2025-10-06T02:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Three of [--] Australian built & gift patrol boats + [--] Aug 2021: Samoas Naufanua II wrecked off Savaii. + [--] June [----] Fijis RFNS Puamau wrecked in Lau Islands + [--] Oct [----] Vanuatu RVS Takuare grounded off Epi Island https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975035450273444150)  2025-10-06T03:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Any payment for the [--] or so plus Samoans murdered by NZ Police in [----] including high chief Tupua Tamasese The New Zealand Government has made a payment to the Government of Samoa following the grounding and sinking of HMNZS Manawanui in October last year. 📣 Press release: https://t.co/cUXYGIUipd 🤝 The New Zealand Government has made a payment to the Government of Samoa following the grounding and sinking of HMNZS Manawanui in October last year. 📣 Press release: https://t.co/cUXYGIUipd 🤝"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975089603712634977)  2025-10-06T06:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Samoa 1899: One was a huge affair the biggest boat in Samoa probably the biggest rowing boat in the world. It was [---] feet (41.4 metres) long it cost $4000. The American gunner sent a Hotchkiss shell through it from stern to stern at the first shot." https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/burning-samoas-villages-and-boatsr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/burning-samoas-villages-and-boatsr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975295532060057945)  2025-10-06T20:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Tuesday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975299186460635273)  2025-10-06T20:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Vanuatu's Australian provided patrol boat RVS Takuare was anchored but drifted say authorities. Described as wrecked but some salvage appears underway. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975323953452445728)  2025-10-06T22:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Wednesday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1975751788104949845)  2025-10-08T02:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Aerial picture of Vanuatu patrol boat - a recent gift from Australia - grounded on a reef. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976067876282065171)  2025-10-08T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Full emergency declared @FijiAirways Boeing Max Christchurch to Nadi https://www.flightradar24.com/FJI450/3c93f5b4 https://www.flightradar24.com/FJI450/3c93f5b4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976118132218400843)  2025-10-09T02:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Strange German executive jet flies into scene of Christchurch Fiji Airways emergency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976126597918044292)  2025-10-09T03:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In Samoa Mataafa forces were sheltered from direct fire as they poured bullets into Anglo-Americans who were being wounded among them a man with a great gaping bullet wound in his shoulder into which I could put my thumb. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/samoas-unknown-price-at-vailelesr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/samoas-unknown-price-at-vailelesr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976369872180523089)  2025-10-09T19:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Australia to send hundreds of foreign criminals to detention in Nauru; NZ security firm training up local Nauruans in case Oz prisoners rise against them. S'Pacific aid development taking a sinister look https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976387664313233450)  2025-10-09T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Friday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976389037998080101)  2025-10-09T20:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@GlobalFishWatch chart of heavy highseas fishing between NZ & Fiji - against @MarineTraffic chart showing luxury yachts & gin palaces (shown in pink - fishing boats brown or unidentified) escaping through same seas ahead of cyclone season"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976409647625208094)  2025-10-09T22:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Vanuatu wreck: So why misuse a patrol boat for a task the landing craft was made for If the patrol boat was chosen to make a political statement or to impress that is not responsible leadership. @mercoglianos https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/whats-wrong-with-pacific-shippingr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/whats-wrong-with-pacific-shippingr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976507215516401793)  2025-10-10T04:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"An unpopulated just under kilometre square island between Aotearoa New Caledonia and Fiji has become the latest hideout for a digital pirate fleet. https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-pacific-shipping https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-pacific-shipping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1976720859961475429)  2025-10-10T18:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Nauru voters in referendum with election decisively reject extending parliamentary term from three years to four"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1977417506647364079)  2025-10-12T16:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Nauru's President David Adeang wins his parliamentary seat in general elections. Note fractions of vote - Nauru uses positional voting system or Borda method. Adeang now has to win presidency in [--] member parliament https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/nauru-votes-with-fractions-not-parties https://michaelf27.substack.com/p/nauru-votes-with-fractions-not-parties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1977459225346634062)  2025-10-12T19:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Monday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1977475422616219971)  2025-10-12T20:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Pesi Fonua of Tonga - a towering figure in Pacific journalism and culture - has died. https://matangitonga.to/2025/10/13/announcement-passing-pesi-fonua-publisher-editor-matangi-tonga https://matangitonga.to/2025/10/13/announcement-passing-pesi-fonua-publisher-editor-matangi-tonga"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1977515733061153238)  2025-10-12T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Tuesday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1977838805207146789)  2025-10-13T20:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Re-elected as President of Nauru David Adeang https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1977922245063479297)  2025-10-14T02:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Wednesday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1978296072121307584)  2025-10-15T03:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Smoa slow growth over decades facing difficulty of losing people to Australia & NZ. It has a total fertility rate of [----] but those births mostly translate into exports: children raised for markets overseas. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/emptying-pacific-islands-withoutr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/emptying-pacific-islands-withoutr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1978915679232258241)  2025-10-16T20:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Smoa 1899: Menaced by bombardment by the American admiral they (Smoans) only became more resolute. We had then the cruel and ridiculous spectacle of two great powers. uniting their forces to give battle to some handfuls of natives. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/mataafas-cry-evil-men-name-boy-asr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelf27/p/mataafas-cry-evil-men-name-boy-asr=2rgq5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1978924295779746194)  2025-10-16T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Surely this is a crime Why is @JudithCollinsMP silent S. [---] of Human Rights Act [----] makes it a crime to intentionally publish distribute or use threatening abusive or insulting words or material that excite hostility ill-will contempt or ridicule. @BrianTamakiNZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1978994445199556900)  2025-10-17T01:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fiji dailies for Friday October [--] @fijitimes @fiji_sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1978996424508420468)  2025-10-17T01:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@MichaelFieldNZ @JudithCollinsMP @BrianTamakiNZ The Attorney-General is one of the people we would most expect to be silent The senior law officer should absolutely not be interfering in Police charging decisions or risking contempt of court in placing pressure on judges or potential jurors. @MichaelFieldNZ @JudithCollinsMP @BrianTamakiNZ The Attorney-General is one of the people we would most expect to be silent The senior law officer should absolutely not be interfering in Police charging decisions or risking contempt of court in placing pressure on judges or potential jurors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1978996832471531705)  2025-10-17T01:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Samoa's just elected prime minister Laauli ale Schmidt unable to stand and is being kept at Middlemoore Hospital in New Zealand. He was earlier this month medivaced on a private jet. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1979049294234620162)  2025-10-17T04:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Samoa PM Laaulialemalietoa Schmidt needs rest & is currently unable to stand or walk as precaution to avoid any complications following surgery. In Auckland hospital & cannot travel back to Samoa yet - acting PM Toelupe https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/1979279637856555218)  2025-10-17T20:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Tuvalu getting a double hit - just weeks after #COP21 low lying nation overwhelmed for second time this year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/681946981145690112)  2015-12-29T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"What a day for #Tokelau: 1st they lose 40% of their revenue as US bails on tuna treaty. Now they whacked by cyclone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/682012322685034500)  2015-12-30T01:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Cyclone Ula has been born: battered Tokelau and Samoa already and curving down for a swipe at Fiji & onto NZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/682255679189417986)  2015-12-30T17:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"#CycloneUla heading across the Lau Group and northern Tonga this afternoon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/682742570573643776)  2016-01-01T01:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"#CycloneVictor is big a nasty - and is projected now to take a right hook straight at Niue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/688465499550683136)  2016-01-16T20:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Breakthru in the Pacific - first female head of govt Hilda Heine of the Marshall Islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/692140393652228096)  2016-01-27T00:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A great speech from the Pacific's first female head of govt Hilda Heine of the Marshall Islands https://www.youtube.com/watchv=MI8XKN7C9RU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=MI8XKN7C9RU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/692164690072440835)  2016-01-27T01:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Russian military in Fiji - we've been here before; [----] cartoon when Muldoon was in a panic over Russians in Tonga"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/697162598177837057)  2016-02-09T20:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Tonga's Haapai was whacked by Cat [--] Cyclone Ian - now it is on track to be savaged by #CycloneWinston"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/698784698126852097)  2016-02-14T08:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Glory days of travelling to Tokelau @jellsmoor. Nauru's Cenpac Rounder even had staterooms for officials"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/702926687772635136)  2016-02-25T18:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A sport you never heard of and so awesome - fautasi racing in Pago Pago American Samoa https://www.facebook.com/samoanewsamericansamoa/photos/pcb.793218757478888/793217324145698/type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/samoanewsamericansamoa/photos/pcb.793218757478888/793217324145698/type=3&theater"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/721640551846518784)  2016-04-17T10:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Museum of Samoa revealing remarkable pixs: a funeral procession of Mau leader Mataafa Faumuina Fiame Mulinuu 1948"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/722536083901165568)  2016-04-19T21:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"#CycloneAmos near Samoa's Cape Mulinuu home of warrior princess Nafanua & entrance to Pulotu the underworld"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/723362049414168576)  2016-04-22T04:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Tonga facing major disaster as king lounges around in Hawaii"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/742586493319839744)  2016-06-14T05:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"No help as Tonga faces disaster - but the king has gone off boating in Hawaii"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/742587093646348288)  2016-06-14T05:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Scandal Tokelau run by Murray McCully as a colony of NZ has the world's highest diabetes rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/745369057122099200)  2016-06-21T21:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"In Murray McCully administered Tokelau 30% of all adults are diabetic. Scandal @ninetonoon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/746088651851894786)  2016-06-23T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"What's wrong here: Tokelau (NZ colony) earns only US$2m PA in licensing. Look at boats there http://globalfishingwatch.org/map http://globalfishingwatch.org/map"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/776588668894982146)  2016-09-16T01:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Tuna fishing licensing earns Tokelau US$9m a year - or US$6300 for every Tokelauan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/791025130293960704)  2016-10-25T21:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"#Netanyahu @FijiPM #Bainimarama"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/795807515858464769)  2016-11-08T01:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"First cyclone of S'Pacific season lurking in Coral Sea: storm battered New Caledonia on alert again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/803297616238784512)  2016-11-28T18:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Tokelau after buying useless helicopters now bans tourists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/830919041577480192)  2017-02-12T23:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Little economic fact: NZ's invasion of Samoa led two years later to biggest ever govt budget surplus of 2m ($263m today) til then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/841136477589262336)  2017-03-13T03:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Yes there was a surplus but by [----] invasion & military administration of German Samoa had cost NZ [------] or $205 m in todays money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/841141068292739072)  2017-03-13T04:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Peter Thiel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/880644032493441025)  2017-06-30T04:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Another fishing observer vanishes this time in Nauru: where Asian nations strip-mine its tuna @GlobalFishWatch https://www.facebook.com/mjfield/posts/10156449828668066 https://www.facebook.com/mjfield/posts/10156449828668066"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/880956461420916740)  2017-07-01T01:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"All Blacks are big softies compared to Tokelau women who play their rugby on coral http://pacificguardians.org/blog/2017/10/17/fakaofo-women-dominate-atafu-in-opening-touch-rugby-rounds/ http://pacificguardians.org/blog/2017/10/17/fakaofo-women-dominate-atafu-in-opening-touch-rugby-rounds/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/920011247793332224)  2017-10-16T19:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Samoa mo Samoa - in New Zealand cabinet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/923445267197714432)  2017-10-26T07:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Cook Islands & Marshall Islands likely to be on an EU tax blacklist out on December 5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/933818543895744513)  2017-11-23T22:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Season's first cyclone Low risk at moment as it bubbles over Solomon Islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/937400964213981184)  2017-12-03T19:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Pacific UN vote on Jerusalem [---] in favour including NZ PNG & Samoa. Nine against included Micronesia Nauru Palau Marshall [--] abstained including Australia Fiji Kiribati Solomons Tuvalu & Vanuatu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/943915501587009540)  2017-12-21T18:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"In Malaita Solomon Islands villagers last week killed [---] dolphins - they need their teeth for currency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/973650500049448960)  2018-03-13T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Large US flagged purse seiners dominate tuna fishing in NZ's Tokelau this year - new administrator is Ross Adhern @jacindaardern father @GlobalFishWatch https://www.facebook.com/photo.phpfbid=10157519845653066&set=a.176515288065.157399.518203065&type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/photo.phpfbid=10157519845653066&set=a.176515288065.157399.518203065&type=3&theater"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/979089920991027200)  2018-03-28T20:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"In light of today's news that China might build a base in Vanuatu: a [----] NZ cartoon on reports Soviet Union wanted bases in Tonga & Tokelau. Nothing new in leverage game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/983539957452103680)  2018-04-10T02:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Public broadcasting will seldom have a viable business case; it has superb social cultural & political case. Doesnt that count https://x.com/publicaddress/status/997214695760183296 The last two paras of Mark Jennings story get to the nub of it I suspect. The minister was unable to present a coherent business case. And RNZ and NZ On Air both well-acquainted with their own needs and strategic plans can't go around her. https://t.co/6T9kUlgCBA https://t.co/UY5apHbKT6 https://x.com/publicaddress/status/997214695760183296 The last two paras of Mark Jennings story get to the nub of it I suspect."  
[X Link](https://x.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/997246209210249216)  2018-05-17T22:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing