ABSTRACT
What is Asia? Culturally, it is not a series of discrete parcels that match the borders of countries. For centuries Asian influences have paid scant regard to where one country ends and another begins. Attitudes and ideas have washed through the region unhindered by nationality. Centers of defined culture exist, but they blur at their margins, thanks to migration and population drift; and so Asia is both nuanced and interconnected. Oceana by contrast consists of discrete parcels of land separated until the 20th century by the tyranny of water. Oceana is defined as the South Pacific regions west of French Polynesia and east of Australia, which is included, and south of the Northern Marinas south to New Zealand, which is also included. This list includes Australia, Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands, as well as numerous other smaller island territories. In this section we explore the existing legislative infrastructure in the context of our governance model. The mappings of the legislation to the nine control domains is outlined in Appendix A.
