South Pacific Schools Chess

Three news stories turned up yesterday and today concerning junior and schools chess in 3 different South Pacific countries (including Australia).
The most significant one is a push to have chess included on the school curriculum in Victorian schools. The obvious objection is what would it replace in the currently crowded time table. My vote would be for the right-wing revisionist history classes soon to be introduced. Full story in The Age.
Second story is from Fiji, where the FMF Chess Games is being used to promote chess in Fiji Schools. The Fiji Chess Federation is a very hard working federation, shown by its holding of the most recent Zonal, and I hope there hard work pays off.
And a final story from New Zealand, where the Papatoetoe Central School won the South Auckland Zone and are off to the NZ Schools Chess Finals.