Photo Credit and Excerpt from themandarin.com.au
I watched our children trundle home from their first day back at school, their giggles drifting across the heat-haze of dusty roads.
It reminded me of the girl I once was, and of thousands of girls across our Blue Pacific for whom school is not guaranteed. I was one of the fortunate ones: my parents invested in me, and I had access to a good education.
It was my mother who nudged me toward politics. When I veered off this path, she pulled me back to it.