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Have you heard what they are paying for it in Sydney?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Pasifika meet in Australia, it is often kava that dominates: now, it is the absence of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The traditional brew, made from the kava plant and central to so many of the Pacific\u2019s social interactions, is in vanishingly short supply, an unlikely, unhappy, corollary of Covid shutdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the shortage is harming businesses across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kava\u2014usually brackish, bitter and mildly euphoric\u2014is made by crushing the roots and rhizome of the kava plant, and mixing the powder with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is drunk, as Faonetapu Takiari, president of Pasifika community group the United Nesian Movement, told the Guardian, whenever Pasifika gather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKava is present at nearly every Pasifika occasion from formal ceremonies to social gatherings and used as a medium to share our culture, carry out traditions and promote social cohesion through&nbsp;<em>talanoa<\/em>&nbsp;[conversation]\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Please click here to read the full \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/23\/calls-for-a-covid-kava-bubble-as-supply-from-pacific-to-australia-dries-up\">Calls for a Covid &#8216;kava bubble&#8217; 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