Calls for a Covid 'kava bubble' as supply from Pacific to Australia dries up

With little of the homemade Pacific brew available in Australia, prices have skyrocketed, and there’s been a spike in seizures at the borderThe questions are asked quietly, but urgently: “Kava, do you have any? Do you know where to get any? Have you heard what they are paying for it in Sydney?”When Pasifika meet in Australia, it is often kava that dominates: now, it is the absence of it. Related: The great kava boom: how Fiji's beloved psychoactive brew is going globalRelated: