Tagata o te Moana. 2015-03-28. 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 Vanuatu government has acknowledged some communities have not received any aid, two weeks after category five Cyclone Pam struck the country.

2. The prosecution in French Polynesia's espionage trial has requested a two-year jail sentence for the disgraced former president, Gaston Flosse, for espionage and abusing public funds.

3. The cabinet in the Norfolk Island legislature is to go ahead with a referendum to ask the people what they think about Australia's plans to remove the island's autonomy.

4. A special secretary to the former Prime Minister of Solomon Islands says an inquiry into New Zealand's spy agency's activities in the Pacific should include people like himself.

5. The United Nations Development Programme in Papua New Guinea says it will do all it can to assist the Autonomous Bougainville Government in carrying out upcoming elections.

6. The former Fiji-based academic Brij Lal says pressure from Australia may be the only way he can return to his homeland.

7. The Cook Islands could see radical changes in the way domestic violence is dealt under the Family Law Bill.