title: Off the Deep End: Tonga's Continental Shelf Politics
abstract: Tonga had gone off the deep end. It proposed to grow its ocean territory in length by 60 nautical miles southeast and southwest. Hardly anyone knew the particulars, apart from a select group of senior bureaucrats in the Government of Tonga persevering to make it happen. The Tongan public paid closer attention to who might come into government at the November 2014 election and whether any women would get voted into parliament.&#x0D; Local media had spoon fed this slant to the masses which uncriti
journal: Te Kaharoa