23 Nov 2015

Dateline Pacific evening edition for 23 November 2015

From , 4:06 pm on 23 November 2015

The opposition in Vanuatu is urging the president not to dissolve Parliament; a member of the Opposition in Fiji accuses the country's Acting Prime Minister of making racist "ape-like" gestures towards him in Parliament; a large increase in Fiji's military budget is condemned as unnecessary; the rugby great Jonha Lomu is remembered at the first public memorial service in Auckland; a new grassroots movement in American Samoa is trying to save the tuna canneries; a group of fa'afafine, akavaine and fakaleiti are hoping to challenge norms and empower others through dance.