Mona Ainuu

And then outside of the capital building, there's two ministers smoking.

And then I go up to the minister and I go, hey, ministers, what do you think about the Italki, which means they're indigenous people and their businesses in Fiji and their communities? They're like, oh, we have no idea.

And this is the Italki minister and this is the economic, the business minister of operations.

They had no idea.

And so I reached in my bag, I pulled out my paper and I go, I just interviewed between 15 to 20 different indigenous businesses across Singatoka, Ovalau, Nadiri, Raki Raki, you know, across all around Fiji.

And so, do you know those island-weaved leaf hats that they wear? The locals, the black indigenous locals, which is my, you know, our Torres Strait ancestors, when they saw these light-skinned Pacific Islander boys come out of the come out of the water, they took their hats off and all the oil was dripping on their head.

What they did was these Pacific boys, these Niuean boys, they're brothers, they stole all the corn beef on the boat before they jumped off because they thought they would starve.

And so that's the famous corn beef story of how I'm related to the minister of climate change, Mona Ainu from Niue.