Tagata o te Moana. 2012-08-25. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman of Radio New Zealand International.

In this weeks programme:
Papua New Guinea formally agrees to open Manus Island for an Australian asylum seeker detention camp; Fiji Constitution Commission brushes off criticism from the Commodore; an advocate for a higher minimum wage in Fiji resigns in protest; an advocate for the nuclear test victims of Rongelap dies; The outgoing chairperson of the Fiji Wages Council say he resigned because he is fed up that wage increases continue to be delayed; The Pacific Islands Forum and the New Zealand government are being called on to be more pro-active and supportive of independence for West Papua and to push for open access to the Indonesian province; The Director of Education in Tokelau says education needs to be a priority, and she wants to see changes in the system; The New Zealand Archives has a huge collection of images of this country's involvement with Samoa, and has been making them available during events making Samoa's 50 years of independence; There are questions over the role of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Applied Geoscience and Technology Division, or SOPAC, in the deep sea mining industry; and an activist in New Caledonia's early pro-independence movement says the idea of a referendum to determine the territory's name is just an attempt at appeasement by the local government.