Tagata o te Moana. 2013-07-27. 17:30-18:00.

A weekly wrap-up of news, issues and current affairs from the Pacific. The programme is broadcast nationwide every Saturday evening on Radio New Zealand National and is produced by the newsroom of Radio New Zealand International. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s news system:

1. The new refugee arrangement between Australia and Papua New Guinea has met with widespread disapproval, although both governments are claiming significant mutual benefits.

2. Australian academics say a plan to send boat people seeking asylum to Papua New Guinea undermines Australia's legal and moral obligations under the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

3. On a visit to Nauru on Friday the Australian minister of immigration, Tony Burke toured the island's Australian run detention facilities for asylum seekers, just a week after a destructive riot there caused an estimated 55 million US dollars in damage.

4. The police in Tonga say the issue of school violence is not a law enforcement issue, but a national crisis that everyone should be responsible for.

5. Solomon Islanders are being urged to take responsibility for their country's stability as the Regional Assistance Mission marks a decade since its deployment to quell violent unrest.