Dateline Pacific evening edition for 30 June 2017

Thousands farewell the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands in Honiara; the Fiji government promises wage and benefit increases in its budget for the coming year; a children's rights advocate in Vanuatu says an abuse case highlights glaring deficiencies in the country's child welfare system; the over-representation of New Zealand's Pacific people in negative statistics will be targeted at an event in Porirua and the Bougainville Government says it will not give way to a landowner group opposed to the return of Bougainville Copper Ltd to the troubled Panguna mine.