Don Wiseman
Dateline Pacific evening edition for 22 October 2015
A spokesperson for the Solomon Islands Prime Minister's office says the government ministers who have resigned will be replaced as soon as possible; An NGO in West Papua calls for greater focus from… Audio
Dateline Pacific morning edition for 22 October 2015
The bid by Vanuatu MPs to have their pardons re-instated fails; Bikini Islanders in the Marshalls struggle to use US displacement funding as they see fit; Police and soldiers in Fiji have been charged… Audio
Vanuatu MP's bid to re-instate pardons fail
Vanuatu's Supreme Court has ruled that the speaker of parliament, Marcellino Pipite's, move to pardon himself and 13 other MPs earlier this month was unconstitutional. Audio
Graves of Milan Brych's cancer patients washed away
Graves in Rarotonga's so-called Brych yard are being washed away by the sea. This is the cemetery where many patients of the disgraced 1970s cancer therapist Milan Brych are buried. There seems to be… Audio
Police and soldiers in Fiji charged over 2012 assault
: Fiji's DPP lays charges against police and soldiers over the assault of a recaptured prisoner uploaded to the internet nearly three years ago. Audio
Call for action as Cook Islands graveyard washes away
Graves are being washed away from a cemetery on the coast of the Cook Islands main island of Rarotonga and the government is yet to act. Audio
Soaring child obesity levels one focus at WHO meeting
Childhood obesity in Pacific Island Island countries and other regions around the world is the focus at a WHO meeting later this week in Ghana. Audio
Focus on curbing criminality in Bougainville's Buin
The police in Bougainville are calling on chiefs in the Buin region to step up to counter the lawlessness there. Audio
PNG needs national response to sorcery violence - Oxfam
A call for a national focus in Papua New Guinea on what is fostering increased sorcery-related violence. Audio
Tagata o Te Moana for 17 October 2015
Vanuatu and the controversial pardon of 14 MPs that was then undone; the struggle for journalists to get into Nauru; refugee and rape crisis organisations slam the Nauru government for releasing the… Audio
Vanuatu MP pardons overturned
Vanuatu's President, Baldwin Lonsdale, has overturned pardons given to 14 MPs by the politician filling in, in his absence from the country. Audio
Women's anti-corruption march in Vanuatu still on
There are still plans for an anti-corruption march in Vanuatu, despite the decision by the country's President overturning a pardon issued last weekend. Audio
Oxfam says PNG drought is fostering domestic violence
Domestic tensions are developing in the Papua New Guinea highlands as the impacts of the drought and resulting food shortages take effect. Audio
Pair of Aust lawyers barred from PNG
An executive member of Australia's peak legal body says reports that two Australian lawyers have been banned from entering Papua New Guinea raises serious questions about judicial independence. Audio
Niue this week marks its WWI contribution
This week Niue is to commemorate the centenary of the departure of troops to serve in the First World War. Audio
Nauru govt appears to be taking an increasingly strident stance
The Nauru Government appears to be taking an increasingly strident stance as it battles opponents to its controversial moves. Audio
Tagata o te Moana for 2 October 2015
Climate change migration the focus of Kiribati summit; Marshalls Foreign Minister given international award; PNG Governor says aid to drought hit Chimbu not enough; Australia scores an own goal on… Audio
