Tagata o te Moana. 2015-02-21. 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 government has received a timely boost in its fight to counter tuberculosis.

2. A Solomon Islands community theatre group [i.e. Stages of Change] empowering women to break down taboos around gender-based violence will release a book, documentary and toolkit this week as the two-year project wraps up.

3. The Tongan government is hopeful that a meeting with the New Zealand foreign minister [i.e. Murry McCully] will lead to suspended aid being released.

4. The United States government is being asked to declare an economic disaster for the U.S longline fishing fleet in American Samoa.

5. There are calls for changes to Australia's Pacific seasonal work scheme if it is to achieve its intended aim of providing work for up to 40,000 people.

6. A New Zealand group [i.e. Council for International Development] is calling for the Government to support the development of robust United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

7. World Rugby and the Samoa Rugby Union are singing from the same songsheet, following talks in Apia.