The women’s rugby achievements demonstrate that Fiji’s national sport, truly belongs to everyone – PM

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says sports can contribute to improving health and education, creating employment, stimulating economic development and realizing human rights and gender equality.

While acknowledging the accomplishments of the Fiji Women’s Rugby team during the Launch of the Fiji Rugby Women's 2023 Campaign in Nadi, Rabuka says the magnitude of our women’s achievements has demonstrated to everyone in Fiji and the world that Fiji’s national sport, truly belongs to everyone.

The Prime Minister adds this is evident in the immeasurable impacts that PacificAus Sports is making in ensuring that Pacific and Australian athletes are not only training and playing together at the highest levels but also forging dizzying heights of excellence and friendship.

Rabuka says the Government is committed to seeing this partnership grow not only as an enabler for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but more importantly and as Mandela said in 2000: “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where there was only despair.”