Tagata o te Moana. 2009-05-23

Tagata o Te Moana is a weekly round up of news from the Pacific from Radio New Zealand International, broadcast on Radio New Zealand National on Saturdays at 5.30pm. This week's edition is presented by Don Wiseman and the items are:

Anti Asian violence continues in Papua New Guinea;
More calls for New Zealand and Australia to adopt a new stance on Fiji;
Australian taxpayers are paying tens of millions of dollars for top level consultants in Papua New Guinea who earn nearly $US300,000 a year tax-free;
Anti independence parties in New Caledonia try to put aside their differences to form a new Government;
Samoan villagers are told to plant taro before undertaking seasonal work in New Zealand;
Tonga's Prime Minister, Feleti Sevele, dismisses claims that the government and monarchy are not supporting the process of political reform;
The New Zealand Prime Minister's first Tonga Fellow says she is looking forward to learning from the New Zealand health service;
And, Pacific rugby legends see opportunities in the expanded Super 15.