Mike Field
Mike Field signs off from Nine to Noon
After 17 years reporting on the Pacific on Nine to Noon, Mike Field signs off. Today, he talks about his long investigation into murder and slave labour in the South Pacific, and reflects on some of… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Free speech is under renewed attack in the Pacific with Fiji running sedition trials - including against its major newspaper - and Samoa restoring criminal libel to silence a vexing blogger, the… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
A new prime minister in the Solomon Islands, elections in Tonga, Australia pushes a Chinese company out of Melanesia and plans for floating cities in French Polynesia are unveiled. Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Pacific political turmoil - elections in Tonga and no-confidence bid in the Solomons, a bitter airline row between Samoa and Virgin and is a 20-year-old online Pacific news service a victim of Trump… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
China has just paid a massive subsidy to its fishing fleet so it can keep fishing for Pacific tuna, Samoa's prime minister returning to plotting and purges and revelations that New Zealand was nearly… Audio
Pacific correspondent - Mike Field
Why the American ambassador doesn't need to lecture the Pacific on nuclear explosions; in Samoa the famed Aggie Grey's Hotel is being sold to a group of Chinese and New Zealand developers; and an… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Digital disruption is creating a quiet sovereignty battle over who controls the upper air space over the South Pacific, a beetle is threatening disaster for Papua New Guinea's important coffee… Audio
Epidemic: the story of Robert Logan
Can you imagine if 20 per cent of the people you know suddenly died? How would you feel if the people in charge blocked doctors from helping them? For Samoans in 1918 this wasn't a hypothetical… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
The Marshall Islands has lost one of its great founding figures, former foreign minister Tony de Brum; Tokelau's Ulu or head, Siopili Perez, has issued an unusual statement in the wake of the… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
China's security raid on Fiji raises questions of justice and sovereignty, controversy about plans to mine for phosphate in French Polynesia and debate over the control of the air space over the South… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Chinese trade statistics prove revealing, Australia tries to block a Solomon Islands fibre link saying because its Chinese it threatens security and it is writ day in the Papua New Guinea elections. Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Amidst voting chaos, Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill looks to be returning to power; a new World Heritage site is declared in French Polynesia; and where are Amelia Earhart and Fred… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Samoa's prime minister has used a new book to slam Helen Clark for her apology to Samoa over colonial excesses - he says she doesn't understand politics - and he reveals that he believes he was the… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Ramsi, the regional peacekeeping operation in the Solomon Islands ends this month after 14 years - has it been a success? Papua New Guinea's election gets heated and a NZ missionary deported, and what… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
An invasive snake is destroying Guam's ecosystem but there is a fight back with bombing of forests with dead mice. Ramsi, the regional peacekeeping operation in the Solomon Islands, ends this month… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Kava is bringing boom time for rural people across the South Pacific, uproar as Tonga's prime minister cancels the 2019 South Pacific Games, and a remarkable new photo book on the Germans in Samoa. Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
The Pacific nations are now the most Mormon nations in the world, strange events in American Samoa with Vice President Pence, why build Munda airport?- and an update on Cyclone Donna. Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Samoa's police are searching for a blogger - but have locked up the wrong woman; TPP might be dormant but a Pacific Island trade deal about to be signed and Tonga's prime minister reckons there are… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Auckland's typhoid outbreak, a century on from the influenza epidemic in Samoa, Papua New Guinea's Grand Chief Michael Somare says farewell after 49 years in politics, and is Fiji's Sitiveni Rabuka on… Audio
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
A dirty ship looking for a South Pacific port, what's killing Rarotonga's dogs, Tokelau fears New Zealand's colonial hand over and kava prices rocketing. Audio