Tagata o te Moana. 2013-12-21. 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 speaker of Papua New Guinea's parliament [i.e. Theo Zurenuoc] says the government cannot stop him removing what he describes as inappropriate cultural artefacts from the country's iconic parliament building.

2. Tulele Peisa, a non-government organisation in Papua New Guinea's Bougainville says they need more help to cater for dozens of families wanting to more to main island from the Carterets.

3. A Canadian man who cycled around the world to raise awareness of human rights abuses in West Papua says Indonesian media have insulted him by distorting comments he made about prisoners' conditions in Papua.

4. An Australian academic says sorcery-related killings in Papua New Guinea are still largely hidden.

5. It's likely the Cook Islands government could pay millions more a year to guarantee Air New Zealand a profit to fly the Los Angeles to Rarotonga service.

6. Fiji's Financial Intelligence Unit says Australia's big four banks stopping small money transfers to the Pacific is unjustified and could be catastrophic for local economies.

7. A New Zealand academic is working with the United Nations Development Programme to look at how Papua New Guinea can ensure its burgeoning resource wealth is used to improve people's living standards.