Tagata o te Moana is a weekly Pacific programme, broadcast on Radio New Zealand National (Saturdays at 5.30pm). It features news, interviews, and discussion of issues. Presented by Don Wiseman.
The programme for 8 September 2007 includes the following:
- Martial law in Fiji: A Fiji NGO says the re-imposition of the public emergency regulations in Fiji is a smokescreen by the military regime, to cover issues such as the judiciary that's no longer functioning independently or effectively. Frank Bainimarama says the regulations are necessary.
- French Polynesia is in political disarray as the territory faces new presidential elections next week. The instability has prompted some politicians to ask the new Māori King to defer his visit, planned for next week. Walter Zweifel reports.
- The fallout from the presence of Julian Moti in the Solomon Islands continues to reverberate through Melanesia. This comes as the Solomon Islands Police Minister has officially rejected a request by Australia for Moti's extradition. Canberra wants the controversial new Solomon Islands Attorney General to return to face child sex charges, dating back nearly a decade in Vanuatu. There is confusion over whether the case is still open. Johnny Blades reports.
- The question of whether Solomon Islands should adopt a federal system is again on the agenda. The nine provinces are pushing for a constitutional congress to support a draft constitution backing a federal system. Linda Skates reports.
- New Caledonia's Tjibaou Cultural Centre is unique, in terms of its architectural design as well as the exhibitions it features. Its Director, Emmanual Kaserhou, was recently in Wellington - he speaks to Dubravka Voloder about the centre.
- Australian businessman Ian Melrose is spending millions of dollars on an advertising campaign, condemning the current and past Australian governments for their lack of action over the way the Indonesian military operates in Papua. He says successive governments have all ignored reports of human rights abuses and mass murder in the Indonesian province.
- Sport: The United Nations Samoa office has entered into partnership with the Oceania Football Confederation and Samoa's Soccer Federation to use their sport to promote the 'millennium development goals', to be achieved by 2015. The goals include eradicating hunger and poverty, combating HIV/AIDS, and promoting gender equality.