Tagata o te Moana. 2013-02-23. 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:
Fiji's government increases restrictions on would be politicians and the media; What is going on down at the Papua New Guinea/Indonesia border; The governor of the US territory of the northern Marianas surprises everyone by resigning to avoid a Senate trial following his impeachment; in Bougainville the chatter is about re-opening the huge Panguna mine but that may still be years away; French Polynesia's pro-independence member of the French Senate, Richard Tuheiava, is returning to New York to lobby for the territory to be re-inscribed on the UN decolonisation list; An Australian academic is calling for changes in the way Australian governments treat the Pacific to ensure it is able to maintain strong stable relationships with island nations; Campaigners for compensation for the effects of France's nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific hope a fly on the wall documentary will help highlight the issue to people in France.