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In 1975, Jean-Marie Tjibaou, whose name was to become synonymous with the pro-independence movement in New Caledonia, organised the Melanesia 2000 Festival in Noumea. The idea behind this Festival was to bring together Kanak from all over the Territory in an attempt to revive their culture and pave the way for a new 'postcolonial' identity. Tjibaou produced a play-pageant of 'Jea Scenique', which was an adaptation of the Kanak foundation myth, Tea Kanake. A quarter of a century later, Dewe Gorode, a Kanak writer and activist who had been opposed on political grounds to Melanesia 2000, also adapted this foundation narrative in her play, Kenake 2000, written for the 8th Pacific Arts Festival, which took place in Noumea in 2000. After comparing the tenets, versions and implications of this foundation myth produced by Tjibaou and Gorode, we present an interview with Gorgode, who is today Vice-President of the New Caledonian government, in charge of culture.

This article traces evolving perceptions in Australia of France and the French Pacific from the 19th century to the present day. In particular, it looks at the considerable changes that have taken place since the 1980s to the present: nuclear testing, self-determination in France's Pacific territories (particularly New Caledonia), memory of war, joint military operations, new strategic partnership, culture.

Dans la première décennie du 6esiècle, Jacob de Sarug, dans un de sesmemre, de ses sermons poétiques, a décrit la façon dont le paroissien moyen écoutait un sermon:Quand le prédicateur parle sur le thème de la perfection, ça le laisse indifférent ; quand il raconte des histoires sur ceux qui ont excellé par leur zèle pour la justice, notre paroissien perd sa concentration, il est dans la lune ; si un sermon commence sur le sujet de la continence, il s'assoupit ; s'il continue en parlant de la sainteté, le voilà endormi. Mais si le prédicateur parle de la rémission des péchés, c'est alors que votre chrétien moyen se redresse. Ça, c'est parler de sa propre condition. Il se reconnaît. Son cœur se réjouit ; il ouvre la bouche ; il gesticule ; il prodigue des louanges sur le sermon : parce que le prédicateur traite, à ce moment, un thème qui lui tient à cœur.