Tagata o te Moana. 2014-06-21. 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. Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill is standing firm despite a major political storm which has engulfed his office this week, casting uncertainty over his future.

2. Australia's asylum seeker policy has been upheld after a ruling by an Australian court.

3. Ten weeks after devastating floods affected fifty thousand people and killed at least 21 in Solomon Islands authorities are still struggling to help the homeless recover.

4. New Zealand's first act of the First World War, the taking of Samoa from the Germans in 1914, and the legacy of this, has been commemorated at the Auckland War Museum.

5. A New Zealand academic (i.e. Malakai Koloamatangi) says an eminent persons' group should be sent to Nauru by the Pacific Islands Forum to try and resolve a political crisis.

6. A village farm programme aimed at providing jobs in Samoa is now sending produce to most of the resorts and hotels on the main island.

7. New data released on humpback whales in Oceania, collected over a 20 year period, has prompted calls for the species to be better protected.