Dateline Pacific for 9 October 2019

A litany of failures led to the sinking of a ferry in Kiribati last year which killed 95 people, a Commission of Inquiry has found; Health ministers have agreed on a set of priorities for the work of the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific Region; Tahiti's Economic, Social, Environmental and Cultural Council reviews mining code; An Australian journalist covering refugee detention on Manus Island has made an artwork that he's brought to New Zealand; a Cook Islands marine scientist and dive school operator is returning to New Zealand with the aim of entering politics.