Tagata o te Moana. 2011-06-25. 17:30-18:00.

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

Vanuatu readies for its sixth change of leader in a little over six months; Fears about the Fiji super fund; Why did Solomon Islands revalue its dollars? A rebel group from Bougainville lays out what needs to happend before the province can consider development; The Tongan government has advised Fiji that a former Fiji senior officer, Lieutenant Col Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, won't be extradited; The state of Papua New Guinean maternal health care is a concern for the International Confederation of Midwives, which is holding its triennial conference in Durban; Officials in the Cook Islands are concerned that if the quality of lagoon water around the island of Rarotonga doesn't start to improve, that the damage could become irreversible; Mt Horeb school on the outskirts of the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, hosted a New Zealand delegation this month to express its gratitude for the assistance given towards the cost of running it; and new writers and scholars in the Pacific say exciting new voices are emerging in the region.