 the water between the tip of Australia and New Guinea, and there's islands all down through there, and he lives on one of the low islands, which means it's a coral cay, it's only a few metres above sea level, and their island is literally being eaten away year by year by rising sea levels. They're losing metres and metres of beach every year, metres and metres of land, there's assaults going in and killing the trees, and yes, he was in front of a group of