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Talei MangioniTalei Luscia Mangioni is a Fijian and Italian woman who was born and raised on Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation (Sydney, Australia) where she is currently based. She is especially passionate about the issues of disarmament, nuclear abolition and decolonial storytelling. She is a PhD Candidate in Pacific studies at the Australian National University researching the imaginative and creative legacy of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement. She is also an amateur artist who enjoys making films and visual art. She works as the editor of the New Outrigger, as a research officer for the Oceania Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and as a research intern for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Geneva.
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Articles written by Talei'Will to fight together': Fiji has taken another bold step in the battle against nuclear weapons (co-authored with Vanessa Griffen)
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RIMPAC COLLAGE
This is a digital collage of research I have done on Australia’s historical reporting of Australian participation in RIMPAC since 1971 as one of the four founding members. The bottom layer of material was found in defense-related newspapers and magazines, one of which explicitly states “national newspapers seldom take a great deal of interest in military exercises involving Australian forces overseas”. I think this can give us some insight into the everyday Australians' lack of awareness of our active desecration of Kanaka Maoli lands, seas and skies at RIMPAC every two years. This is overlaid with a variety of colorful logos, designs and images found in the periodicals of or related to the regional Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific and Protect Kaho’olawe 'Ohana that resisted RIMPAC from its beginning. As an alternative press and source of information, the Pacific grassroots disrupted the silences of the Western media news cycle and educated people across the region on the devastation caused by RIMPAC for over 50 years. 
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