Dateline Pacific evening edition for 16 November 2017

The new Solomon Islands prime minister Rick Hou says he is committed to passing the anti-corruption bill recently tabled in parliament; the polls have closed in Tonga in an election dubbed one of the most significant in the country's history; Vanuatu's Special Envoy on Climate Change has resigned in protest at what he says is the government politicising his island's volcano disaster since eruptions escalated in late September; the New Zealand opposition is sceptical of the Prime Minister's claim that progress has been made on Australia being willing to accept the offer to resettle 150 refugees from offshore detention centres; and; a traditional Pacific storytelling event debuts in New Zealand, part of the Pacific Heritage Arts Fono 2017; two sports from Tahiti are expected to compete at the Pacific Mini Games depsite a government boycott.