The lack of response in this column on the suggestion from Savusavu to cede Fiji to Australia seems to indicate that we agree with it.

Having lived in Australia for 16 years and wishing to live there permanently, I concur with the thought if our current leadership and the Australian Government agree.

But, as a Fijian and looking back at what we have gone through and achieved through the years as a nation after independence, our current Government is able to pull us through with the help of other nations without being ceded to any of them.

From a Christian perspective, we all agree that Fiji should always put God first and I believe that despite what the nation is currently going through, we will rise again through the grace of God and still be the way the world should be.