1 May 2017

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 1 May 2017

From , 5:05 am on 1 May 2017

A funding grant worth $2 million is on offer to do research into Maori and Pacific youth mental health in New Zealand.A campaigner against deep sea mining says locals have threatened to take up arms if a seabed mining project in Papau New Guinea goes ahead; New Zealand gets a new foreign minister this week after eight years of Murray McCully; . A campaigner against deep sea mining says locals have threatened to take up arms if a seabed mining project in Papau New Guinea goes ahead; new book contains rare private photograph collections of Germans in Samoa; A seminar held at A.U.T (Auckland University of Technology) this week focused on tourism and development in the Pacific. This was led by NZ's ambassador for Pacific Economic Development Matua Shane Jones.