TAGATA O TE MOANA 03/12/2016

A weekly Pacific magazine programme features New Zealand and regional Pacific news, issues, information and music. This programme is also simulcast domestically on Radio New Zealand National.

It's ten years since the then head of Fiji's military Frank Bainimarama seized power in Fiji in the country's fourth coup in 20 years; More mass arrests at West Papuan demonstrations are clouding Indonesian government claims that it is trusted by indigenous people of Papua region; An Amnesty International researcher, who was recently in Nauru, says she cannot believe the Australian attitude to the asylum seekers and refugees; Almost a week after its glamorous launch, there's little sign of a new mobile app hailed by Fiji's government as a 'multi-billion dollar venture,' but dismissed many others as a con; Efforts are being made to get more Pasifika people working in New Zealand's public sector. Kiribati is making slow but steady progress towards effectively preventing cervical cancerhttp://www.radionz.co.nz/international/programmes/tagata-o-te-moana/audio/201826275/tagata-o-te-moana-for-3-december-2016