Tagata o te Moana. 2013-06-15. 17:30-18:00.

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

In this week’s programme:

1. Members of The United Front for a Democratic Fiji, an umbrella political group in Fiji, say there is still a role for a united opposition force despite the registration of four political parties.

2. Nauru's new president, Baron Waqa, says his priority is forging stability of government following months of political deadlock.

3. Samoan tourism leaders are divided on whether the industry is in crisis.

4. Papua New Guinea's Petroleum and Energy Minister William Duma says the development of a third major Liquefied Natural Gas project underlines PNG's status as a major global energy player.

5. Despite reports in the Papua New Guinea media that negotiations to re-open the huge Panguna mine on Bougainville are ready to start, a landowner leader Lawrence Daveona, says there are a number of pre-conditions that must be met first.

6. The new government in Vanuatu says it's meeting the vast majority of its commitments laid out in a list of policy plans after it came to power.

7. Lawrence Foanaota, a Honiara-based academic, says sorcery beliefs may be holding back social and economic development in the Solomon Islands.