Tagata atu motu.

The Pacific island community in Auckland has been abuzz during the past month over the impact of a recent television panel discussion on how much support Pacific island families should give to their church.
During the first "Fono" programme which featured on Tagata Pasifika, one of the panelists Pefi Kingi was asked to give hew views, and didn't pull any punches.
Her view was rejected on the programme by a church minister on the panel, but since the programme went to air, it's been discussed at a meeting of the powerful PIC ministers Auckland fraternal.
Tagata Pasifika producer Susana Hukui says she's heard second-hand about the criticism and she's naturally concerned.
Susan stands by her Fono programme and the right of panellist to give their opinions on issues revelant to NZ's pacific island communities.

A Pacific Festival planned for Auckland next month has become a casualty of the goverment's foreign affairs budget cuts.
Wendy Lee, a spokesman for the festival organisers, says the Auckland development education centre can no longer afford to stage the film festival because the goverment has scrapped its funding for deveolpment education.

Auckland balloonist Dianne McKee returned home this week pleased at the outcome of the first South Pacific hot air balloon meet which she helped to organise in Fiji.
Te Reo o Aotearoa's Fiji programmes producer Finau Tuisue spoke in Suva with Dianne who explains how the first hot air balloon meet in the South Pacific came about.