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Home / Columns / By Eliana Viali. • 29 October 2023, 12:00PM Talofa Samoa and welcome back to your weekly Physiotherapy column! Today's column is written by PhysioChoice in Australia – enjoy! Abdominal separation is an issue that’s usually thought of as something that happens to women after their abdominal wall has been stretched by carrying a child, but it is something we see in people who have not carried children.

Do you run a business? A small business? How are you holding up? I was encouraged on Monday at the Samoa Chamber of Commerce meeting, seeing and networking with business owners from different industries. It is good to be in a room with people who are smarter, more experienced and have been in the business longer than you. When I am learning, I am growing. Samoa is resilient and there is no shortage of the entrepreneurial spirit.

Before jetting off on a whirlwind trip to Brussels, Stockholm, and the NATO Summit in Vilnius last Friday, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins gave a speech setting out his vision of the country’s foreign policy. Besieged by domestic policy challenges for much of his six months in office, it was Hipkins’ first big set-piece address on New Zealand’s place in the world.