Tagata o te Moana. 2011-02-19. 17:30-18:00.

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

New Caledonia's government falls; New Zealand's aid spent is under the spotlightl; we look at the resilience of the Pacific and hear that the cost of food has arisen astronomically; There's no softening on the region's stance toward thhe Fiji regime; an honour from France for a Māori diplomat; just three witnesses were heard from in the first week of what's expected to be four in the trial in Tonga of four men facing manslaughter by negligence charges over the sinking of the inter-island ferry, MV Princess Ashika; The way New Zealand's development aid is delivered in the Pacific has been under the spotlight again this week with criticism that the government's too focussed on getting "value for money"; Speakers at the Resilience in the Pacific conference in Wellington have discussed the challenge of leadership facing Pacific Island countries in their bid to improve people's basic standards of living; Tuvalu's Prime Minister Willie Telavi says a recent protest that caused his government to implement the Public Order Act for the first time ever, was the first step in a bid to topple his administration; The Hawaii legislature has voted in favour of civil unions this week, the second time in ten months; The late New Zealand diplomat, Tia Barrett, has been made a Knight of the French Legion of Honour to recognise his contribution to relations between France and New Zealand.