public in a variety of ways: from pride in seeing the stories and realities of Pacific families being told, through to derision and dissatisfaction that the social issues facing Pacific peoples were possibly again being over-represented in public. In all honesty, this broad range of reactions was precisely the types of responses The Salvation Army wanted this report to evoke. Research projects or reports should never be a panacea to the issues or challenges they attempt to document.

However, they should act to inform, educate, challenge, encourage or even

agitate the reader.

We have titled our follow-up report This Is Home."--Page 5.