Tagata o te Moana. 2010-10-09. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Johnny Blades, Radio New Zealand International. In this weeks programme:

Deadly flooding brings devastation in West Papua; Fiji's former prime minister charged with breaching the country's emergency regulations; Chile's government under pressure over demands by Easter Islanders for the return of their ancestral lands; The Pacific Freedom Forum says changes to the editorial leadership of the Fiji Times reflect a lack of media freedom in the country; There has been a muted response to a suggested timeline of when the Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands could leave; A Samoan academic says Samoa is seen as a one-state party given the lack of an effective opposition party; An economist at the University of the South Pacific says island countries need to push for labour mobility provisions to be written into any agreements on regional economic integration; The use of Tahitian in the French Polynesian assembly remains illegal.