25 Jul 2015

Tagata o te Moana for 25 July 2015

From Tagata o te Moana, 1:00 am on 25 July 2015

A refugee advocate says the mother and brother of a sexual assault victim in the Nauru asylum seeker detention tried to commit suicide; The Governor of Manus in Papua New Guinea says people in his province have had their reputation tarnished; There are moves afoot in the Pacific to help those forced by climate change out of their home lands; A federal epedemiology team has arrived in American Samoa to help with the response to a dengue fever outbreak; Norfolk Island's People for Democracy says there are early signs it has strong support on the island; The removal of about 50 teachers from Ministry of Education files in Solomon Islands following a nationwide assessment; A woman who gave birth to triplets in a remote village in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province took six days to reach a hospital.