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A weekly wrap-up of news, issues and current affairs from the Pacific. The programme is broadcast nationwide every Saturday evening on Radio New Zealand National and is produced by the newsroom of Radio New Zealand International. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s news system:
1. Lawyers in New Zealand and Australia are rallying over concerns about human rights and rule of law in Nauru.
2. The King of Tonga, Tupou VI, was crowned this morning in the Free Wesleyan Centenary Church in the capital, Nuku'alofa.
3. A Norfolk Island group [i.e. Norfolk Island People for Democracy] launched a campaign this week to seek United Nations support for their push for self determination for the island.
4. Papua New Guinea's prime minister Peter O'Neill has called for an investigation into allegations of high-level money laundering.
5. Papua New Guinea's former police commissioner, Geoffrey Vaki, has been sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour.
6. The Kiribati minister of education [i.e. Maere Tekanene] says the school curriculum will be improved to ensure young people know more about sex, but more information also needs to come from the home.
7. The President of Kiribati Anote Tong says whatever action the world decides to take at climate change talks in Paris, it comes too late for low-lying island nations like his own.
8. The Pacific Games have been officially opened in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby.