Episodes

  • Tagata o te Moana for 31 August 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 31 August 2024
    Aug 31 2024
    I'm Don Wiseman and today the Pacific Islands Forum summit, the next stage of the Kiribati election process. Deep sea mining drawing closer, there's upset in PNG after a journalist is shut out of a visit by the incoming president of Indonesia., and a call for spiritual leaders to be sent to NZ with RSE workers.
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    32 mins
  • Tagata o te Moana for 24 August 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 24 August 2024
    Aug 24 2024
    Malo e lelei in Tagata o te moana today - The impasse over New Caledonia, we hear from a new woman MP in Kiribati and what can we expect from the Forum summit in Tonga and Palau claims that China is weaponising tourism.
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    31 mins
  • Tagata o te Moana for 17 August 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 17 August 2024
    Aug 16 2024
    At the midway point in the Kiribati election newcomers to parliament could hold significant sway. Concerns are being raised on Guam about a build up in US military assets. Winston Peters visits the North Pacific, and later on an all-female Pacific-crewed research vessel arrives in Tonga.
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    30 mins
  • Tagata o te Moana for 10 August 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 10 August 2024
    Aug 10 2024
    The Kiribati election is drawing close; Fiji's soaring drug issues; The people of Guam are not happy as the US plans its new missile architecture; Google is keen to translate more Pacific languages; RNZ Pacific gets a new shortwave transmitter, and Tahiti's waves rein in Olympic surfers.
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    32 mins
  • Tagata o te Moana for 27 July 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 27 July 2024
    Jul 26 2024
    More violence in PNG; France says it will talk about New Caledonioa in September; Is mining the ocean floor now very close? A media operator in Solomons unjustly targetted by Facebook; How to save the forests of PNG; Is divorce in Fiji putting kids on the street? What Pacifika abuse victims now expect.
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    31 mins
  • Tagata o te Moana for 13 July 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 13 July 2024
    Jul 12 2024
    Today, the problems with a lack of land for homes in Papua New Guinea. France ships out armoured cars for the securiity forces in New Caledonia, and questions are raised about invoking custom practice as mitigation in court trials in Samoa.
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    32 mins
  • Tagata o te Moana for 22 June 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 22 June 2024
    Jun 21 2024
    On Tagata o te Moana this week: Still no clear path forward for New Caledonia a month after crippling unrest in the French Territory; We check in on the situation for New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens in West Papua; New research looks at the cost of service for Pacific communities in Aotearoa; And there is stiff competition in the Micronesian Games underway in Majuro.
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    30 mins
  • Tagata o te Moana for 15 June 2024

    Tagata o te Moana for 15 June 2024
    Jun 15 2024
    The focus in PNG's Enga is on relocating survivors and the surrounding communities; The role of slush funds in the PNG no confidence saga The people of Vanuatu back a constitutional reform its advocates say will end the persistent political instability.
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    31 mins