Tagata o te Moana. 2012-10-20. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman of Radio New Zealand International.

In this weeks programme:
The mounting concerns over Australia's over shore processing of people seeking refugee status; Fiji begins the next stage of the process of developing a new constitution; a formal recognition after 70 years for coast watchers killed by the Japanese on Kiribati; ; Are charter schools the answer to retaining Pacific languages in New Zealand; A study that will look into the prevalence of mental illness in Samoa, is intended to help establish what type of mental health care is best suited for the country; Five military personnel in Fiji have been accused of embezzlement from the military's pay office; New Zealand has gifted Samoa 63 years of law reports, which Samoa's chief justice, Patu Falefatu Maka Sapolu, calls essential tools of trade for judges and lawyers in any common law jurisdiction; There's an exhibition mixing contemporary and traditional Pacific at the Dunedin School of Art.