Tagata o te Moana. 2012-11-03. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman of Radio New Zealand International. Programme content provided by broadcaster.

In this weeks programme:
A refugee's advocate says the situation on Nauru is explosive; Vanuatu looking at complicated coalitions as discussions over a new government start; A call in Fiji for the interim regime to step aside in the lead up to the election; A former Fiji army commander isolates what needs to change in the organisation; The Pacific's struggle to cope with waste; A former French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse is back in court to appeal against his four-year jail sentence and fine of 110,000 US dollars for running a network of phantom jobs from the mid-1990s to prop up his party; The former chief executive of New Zealand's Ministry of Pacific Islands Affairs has been appointed the Director of Public Health at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community; An international NGO, the Coral Reef Alliance, says a Columbia University study which suggests how Fiji's coral reefs should be managed shows a promising approach.