28 Apr 2018

Tagata o te Moana for 28 April 2018

From Tagata o te Moana, 8:00 am on 28 April 2018

An Australian priest has used Anzac Day to highlight the plight of refugees and asylum seekers held in detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island;The Vanuatu Government says it has received a number of offers of land to accommodate Ambae Islanders forced to move by the latest volcanic eruption; Pacific leaders have joined an ambitious commitment to eliminate malaria from the Asia-Pacific by 2030; A film documenting the journey of Micronesian soldiers in the US military raises awareness about the challenges they face on their return home; The managing director of the Fiji magazine Islands Business believes a police case against him was designed purely to intimidate; Contrasts between Vanuatu's Melanesian people and their Polynesian languages has given rise to a new theory on Pacific settlement and an Auckland summit hopes to get more Pacific people inspired to pursue a career in tech.