Tagata o te Moana. 2014-08-09. 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. Debate has opened up in Fiji in the run up to elections.

2. Fiji's Citizens Constitutional Forum has postponed its series of panel discussions on the elections.

3. A group in Australia, including those prominent in academia, the arts, medicine and the law, along with faith based and non government organisations, is calling for an end to Canberra's asylum seeker regime.

4. The police in Tonga are investigating a video posted online that appears to show a police officer repeatedly punching and kicking a boy at a rugby game.

5. Concern over the impact on Vanuatu's sovereignty appears to be at the heart of opposition to the government's Capital Immigration Investment Plan.

6. The small Pacific country of Palau has come under the spotlight after hosting this year's Pacific Islands Forum leaders' summit.

7. The second of the two Solomon Islanders [i.e. Eroni Kumana] who helped save Lieutenant John Kennedy during World War Two has died.