Specific word required. A commission named for this word organized a 1972 “Festival of Arts” and a transnational university that employed Ron Crocombe (“KRO-cum”), who formulated its namesake postcolonial “way.” This word names “British Western” territories that included a tripartite mandate mined by Albert Ellis’s BPC and an Anglo-French condominium. This word names a 1901 “Labourers Act” that deported kidnapped cane workers called “Kanakas,” and a multinational diaspora whose visa overstayers were targeted by Robert Muldoon’s dawn raids. This word names a “solution” that detained asylum seekers at facilities like Manus (“MAN-us”) under John Howard. The 1986 Treaty of Rarotonga created this region’s namesake nuclear-free zone. In 2006, Frank Bainimarama’s second coup led this region’s namesake forum to suspend Fiji. For 10 points, the Polynesian Panthers organized what region’s “Islanders”? ■END■
ANSWER: Pacific [or Pasifika; accept Pacific Ocean, South Pacific, Pacific Islanders, Pacific Islands Forum, South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone, Pacific solution, Pacific Labourers Act, Pacific Community, British Western Pacific Territories, University of the South Pacific, or Festival of Pacific Arts; prompt on south by asking “followed by what word?”; prompt on islands or islanders by asking “preceded by what word?”] (The BPC was the British Phosphate Commission.)
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