Tagata o te Moana for 8 September 2018

The leaders of the 18 Pacific countries and territories that make up the Forum ended their summit in Nauru by signing a major commitment on regional security; Journalists who attended the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru have been criticised for focusing on refugees; The Papua New Guinea and Bougainville governments can't agree just what question to ask in the Bougainville referendum on possible independence; Pasifika university scholars are burdened with 'invisible cultural labour' says a New Zealand academic; The American based Samoan actor, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, has announced he's been cast to play Hawaii's King Kamehameha in an upcoming Hollywood film; Students at an Auckland school are hoping to help turn the declining rate of Tongan Language speakers in New Zealand; The head of a team aiming to desex and microchip 800 dogs on Rarotonga over the next four months, says it will help make the dog population on the island much more manageable; and the dynamic relationships between the people of the Pacific underpin a major new art exhibition opening in London this month.