Tagata o te Moana for 7 March 2026

Coming up on Tagata o te Moana: New Zealand will provide an additional $20 million to flood resilience work in Tuvalu. A new study has found that 85 percent of Pacific nurses in New Zealand have become informal interpreters in the work place. Pacific governments try to keep a lid ...  Show more

Coming up on Tagata o te Moana: Mass walkout from government sparks a political crisis in Solomon Islands. Also, Former Samoa prime ministers weigh in on the merits of bestowing foreign dignitaries with chiefly titles. And The Greens promise to fill funding gaps for ASB Polyfest ...  Show more

On Friday, Hawaii's largest utility company agreed to pay the largest share of a settlement worth more than $4 billion to plaintiffs affected by last year's deadly wildfires in Maui. Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on August 17, 2023. N ...  Show more

Once again, commercial vessels sailing in the Red Sea are being attacked. Our correspondent explains why <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/07/17/as-the-houthis-sink-two-ships-in-one-week-the-world-shrugs?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.n ...

As today's show begins, we're following the breaking news overnight of a growing tsunami threat extending from Russia all the way to the West Coast of the US, the result of a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake. Tsunami alerts have been issued for all of the Hawaiian islands, where ...  Show more

Headlines: Joe Biden’s first address since Trump win, Optus fined $12 million for outage, National Cabinet meeting today to consider social media ban and Australia’s biggest frog count gets underway! Deep dive: Bonnie Blue is a 25-year-old Only Fans creator inviting “barely legal ...  Show more