TAGATA O TE MOANA 10/03/2018

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.

PNG's quake affected communities still in urgent need of aid and assistance; Vanuatu struggles to review cyclone hola damage; Fiji's Citizens' Constitutional Forum says Fiji's history means it's important to clarify whether the country has new statistics on its ethnic make-up; A human rights activist has expressed frustration at redactions inreports by New Zealand dipomats about their visits to Indonesia's Papua region; The Nauru government is delighted with its plans for a Court of Appeal but one of the island's former chief justices has some reservations; Pacific countries sit well behind the the UN's target for women's participation in decision making processes and its desired parliamentary membership of 30 percent; Niue auctions off ukeleles to raise money for education on the eve of their renowned ukelele festival.

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