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Refugees with temporary visas to settle in Nauru say they are losing faith in both the local government and Australia's to help them build a meaningful life on the island. Audio

Samoa is encouraging people to help offset carbon emissions caused by the Small Islands Developing States conference being held there in a month. Audio

France says it will join the United States in urgently supplying arms to ethnic Kurdish Peshmerga forces who were put on the defensive by the Islamic State rebels earlier this month. Audio

Western Pacific fisheries managers are angry that four Asian nations are refusing to provide data that would help determine the current level of tuna stock. Audio

The Samoa Ministry of Health says it is planning a mass clean-up to curb a chikungunya virus outbreak there, by spraying public spaces and checking people at the border. Audio

Aucklanders are being asked to help monitor tonight's king tide. Audio

A group in Australia, including those prominent in academia, the arts, medicine and the law, along with faith-based and non-government organisations, is calling for an end to Canberra's asylum seeker… Audio

Fiji's largest church is planning its biggest conference in years, and says it doesn't expect to have the same kind of run-ins with the government that has plagued previous ones. Audio

New Zealand's Cook Island language week has prompted community leaders to call for urgent intervention over the declining number of Cook Island Maori speakers. Audio

Issues of sovereignty are central to opposition to a Vanuatu government scheme linking citizenship sale and investment. Audio

A coalition of farmers and environmental groups in Hawaii is backing a county law which is being challenged in court by the world's biggest biotech trade association. Audio

Ellie Laks is the owner of more than 170 rescued animals and author of a new book My Gentle Barn. Audio

The last of a duo of Solomon Scouts who were responsible for the rescue of John F. Kennedy during World War Two dies. Audio

The former president of French Polynesia and says the current president, Gaston Flosse, could be personally benefitting from a proposed new casino in Tahiti. Audio

The President of Kiribati says the Government's purchase of land in Fiji is a valuable investment for the people of Kiribati that should reap benefits if Fiji maintains political stability. Audio

Repatriated flood victims in the Solomon Islands are being told it is their own responsibility to rebuild their homes. Audio

A journalist in the Solomon Islands says the creation of a new trade union this week could start a fresh chapter for workers' rights in the country. Audio

A Tonga youth worker says raising the drinking age will have little effect on the country's drinking problem. Audio

A journalist in Tahiti says the building of a proposed new casino will do nothing to improve French Polynesia's tourism woes. Audio

Author Ruth Entwistle Low has explored the history of droving in her new book On the Hoof, the Untold story of drovers in New Zealand. Jack Curtis started work as a drover as a child in the 1940s. Audio

Fed-up residents in Nelson want the council to do more to fix flooding problems in the city centre. Audio

New figures on tuna populations in the Pacific show that the region's bigeye stocks have been critically depleted. Audio

A Fiji academic in Australia says the Pacific Islands Forum is going through a turbulent phase but still maintains its relevance. Audio

The President of the Jittu Land trust in Fiji say government authorities have ignored their pleas for help over the forceful eviction from their land. Audio

The Venture Investment Fund has helped more than a hundred new companies get started with seed capital, but many more are still looking for help. Audio