7 Nov 2017

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 7 November 2017

From , 6:06 am on 7 November 2017

Manassah Sogavare has been ousted as prime minister of Solomon Islands in a vote of no-confidence; a group of Pacific women in New Zealand affected by breast cancer want people to know that early detection is a key to long-term survival; education has been described as the key to a long term solution for Papua New Guinea's problem of domestic violence; the evacuation of Vanuatu's Ambae island has raised many health concerns - but one that's often overlooked is sexual and reproductive health; roll fixed for next year's independence referendum in New Caledonia, and; a magnitude-6.8 quake has struck about 200km southwest of Apia, Samoa, but no tsunami threat has been put in place.