Dateline Pacific for Monday 16 December 2019

UNICEF has hit back at online measles antivaxxers saying their message is extremely damaging and its impact has the potential to kill young vulnerable children and in fact good progress is being made in Samoa to tackle the measles epidemic through mass immunisation efforts; Australian judge Geof Muecke was brought in by the Nauru Government in 2018 to hear the trial of a group that had protested over the removal of the judiciary and suspension of much of the opposition from parliament in 2015; the director of the Pacific Community's Oceanic Fisheries Programme says there is no room for complacency in the way the region's tuna stocks are managed, and; the International Finance Corporation wants to show investors in the Pacific how to tap into the enormous potential in green buildings.