Pacific Waves for Saturday 4 October 2025

6:04 AM.PNG a 'pawn' in defence treaty - former military chief; Pacific weekly news wrap; Ta moko artists study Maori ancestral heads; Tuvalu families celebrate language week through games. Audio

6:03 AM.A former military chief in Papua New Guinea claims the country is a pawn in a pivotal defence treaty it approved with Australia. Audio

6:02 AM.RNZ Pacific bulletins editor Christina Persico with the weekly Pacific news wrap. Audio

6:01 AM.Over the past year a group of ta moko artists have studied more than two hundred toi moko, or Maori ancestral heads at Te Papa with the hope of identifying their iwi and eventually returning them… Read more Audio

6:00 AM.In Aotearoa Tuvalu families have been getting active and going back to their roots for Tuvalu Language Week. Audio