Tagata o te Moana. 2011-09-17. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman, Radio New Zealand International. In this weeks programme:
Fiji's new decree restricting workers in essential industries hits those that aren't essential; The chances of Sir Michale Somare overturning a declaration his parliamentary seat was made vacant by his long medical absenc; Samoa improves access to dialysis and the scrap continues in French Polynesia over whether the territory should be re-inscribed on the decolonisaiton list; A growing number of men seem interested in undergoing training to be village birth attendants in rural areas in Papua New Guinea; The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, is to launch a campaign to register all births in Solomon Islands by 2015; and New research by an independent think tank suggests the New Zealand government should expand its seasonal worker scheme in the Pacific and recommends greater transparency in the country's foreign aid programmes;