Part 2. A History of the New Zealand-Pacific Islands relationship

Helen du Plessis-Allan's  view of  Pacific Islanders is that they "don't count". They  are of no importance to New Zealand.  She sees them as  "welfare spongers" and Nauru as a "hell hole". Good talkback host she may be,  and her provocative comments probably increase her ratings, but she is abysmally ignorant of New Zealand and Pacific Islands history.  She claims to be interested in politics but politics without history is like  a three-legged horse.  

[Note: I have used the modern names for the islands mentioned.]

Part 2. A  History of New Zealand-Pacific Islands relationship

For most of the 19th Century Britain, France, Germany and the Unites States were competing to increase their world-wide  colonies,  and their "last grab for empire" included the Pacific.