Dateline Pacific morning edition for 8 March 2018

An analyst says New Zealand is risking its status in the Pacific because its economic strategy is undermining its political strategy; A disease resistant variety of Rhinoceros Beetle is threatening the Solomon Islands' valuable coconut and palm oil export industries; Delays in distribution of relief supplies and in damage assessment are adding to anxieties for quake-affected communities in Papua New Guinea's Highlands; New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has visited cyclone damaged Tonga as part of her whirlwind trip across the Pacific; Fiji has hit back at the deputy prime minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, who said Fiji's leadership should apologise for bringing Indonesia into the Melanesian Spearhead Group.