TAGATA O TE MOANA 16/06/2018

A weekly Pacific magazine programme features New Zealand and regional Pacific news, issues, information and music. This programme is also simulcast domestically on Radio New Zealand National.

Papua New Guinea's government has declared a state of emergency in Southern Highlands province after supporters of losing candidates in the regional election went on a rampage in the provincial capital; A look at the impact of 40 years of Fijian participation in the UN's peacekeeping forces and militarism on Fijian society; There are calls for a formal system to help the descendants of blackbirded Pacific Islanders find their relatives; The largest church in Samoa has locked horns with the Prime Minister over a new law that requires church ministers to pay tax; Pacific community reaction subdued to the government's budget at a post budget breakfast in Auckland; One of the most prolific writers in New Zealand has produced an account of the crafty schemers in the early days of European settlement in the region.

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