Dateline Pacific evening edition for 16 October 2018

Bougainville and Papua New Guinea have agreed on what question will be posed in a referendum on independence tentatively set for June next year; Papua New Guinea's civil society organisations say the logging industry is robbing the country of hundreds of millions of kina every year; members of the so called Nauru 19 fear the government is continuing to blacklist them despite their court case being thrown out; a sports tourism and training enterprise and a major pipe-laying company are just two examples that have been held up to encourage Pasifika people to enter the business sector for themselves; dealing with the effects of climate change, while protecting the livelihoods and cultures of the Pacific were the key issues discussed at a recent meeting about tourism in the region; the Fijian Drua have finished top of the regular season standings in the Australian National Rugby Championship.