Tagata o te Moana. 2011-05-07. 17:30-18:00.

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

Australia looks set to send asylum seekers back to Manus Island in PNG - but is it a good idea? We hear about the impact of multi national medical aid being offered in northern Vanuatu over the past fortnight; Bougainville's worries about lawlessness and criminality in the south of the main island and how this might hamper its vote on independence; A former Fiji soldier, suspended over an alleged plot to mutiny, says the latest case is typical of the regime of Commodore Frank Bainimarama; The opposition Tautua Samoa party leader, Vaai Papu Vaelupe, has lost his parliamentary seat after the Electoral court found him guilty of bribery and treating; People in the Pacific may have to get used to eating different kinds of food as the effects of climate change impact on crops; There's a call in Fiji for an end to the shark fishing; and Niue Tourism's senior development manager says there was a 10-to-one return from the island's biennial arts festival.