Tagata o te Moana. 2009-08-15

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:

Suggestions that civil unrest could follow the Tongan ferry sinking;
Violence in Noumea leads to the largest protest march in a generation;
New Zealand and Pacific Island countries are far apart on climate change measures;
Suspicions that Fiji interim Government officials sneaked ino the Forum summit last week in Cairns;
The impact on PNG's fledgling tourism industry from this week's plane crash on the famed Kokoda track;
A new campaign by the Papua New Guinea Opposition to seek public support to topple Siir Michael Somare;
Pacific leaders move for the first time to formally tackle gender violence;
Short wave radio returns to much of Vanuatu.