Tagata o te Moana. 2008-10-04. 17:30-18:00.

Items are:
New Zealand is told it needs to do better in understanding and helping Melanesian countries;
The Commonwealth Secretary General's Special Envoy to Fiji, Sir Paul Reeves, says New Zealand and the Fiji interim government need to sit down and talk;
A Port Moresby workshop aims to get more women into Melanesian parliaments;
The leaders of small Pacific island countries issue pleas at the UN over the impacts of climate change;
American Samoa confronts a surging population;
Samoa 's tourism facilities are bursting with a big increase in visitor numbers;
The University of Auckland has published what's thought to be the world's first textbook for people wishing to learn Cook Islands Māori .