This week we’re back in New Caledonia to explore how cheap Indonesian nickel has paralysed what were some of the largest majority Indigenous owned mines in the world.
Once a big part of redressing inequalities between the European and Indigenous Kanak populations, many now lie silent.
We go inside the Koniambo mine to meet former workers and struggling local businesses.
Reporter Cooper Williams went to New Caledonia with Yasmine Wright Gittins for this story, filmed by Nicolas Job.
This story was also supported by the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific journalism through the Walkley Foundation.
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This story was also supported by the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific journalism through the Walkley Foundation.
‘The Pacific’ is hosted by Johnson Raela and Alice Lolohea.
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