‘Pleasant Island (The Pacific Solution)’, 2017. Artist: Sara Oscar.
‘By chance they discovered the heart of my home
And gave it the name phosphate
If they were to ship all phosphate from my home
There will be no place for me to go
Should this be the plan of the British Commission
I shall never see my home on the hill’
– Nauruan song, 1910
In 1993 Nauru settled a landmark international legal case in which Australia agreed to pay reparations for mismanagement of the island’s natural resources.
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