Tagata o te Moana for 7 March 2026

Coming up first on Tagata o te Moana: One in five Pasifika children in NZ living in poverty. Call for probe into violent confrontation in PNG jail. And a Fiji academic says coalition parties in the country's government could become election rivals. All that and more stories from ...  Show more

Coming up first on Tagata o te Moana: A former Fiji prime minister and police chief are charged with inciting mutiny. We look for mentions of the Pacific in the Epstein files. And are you of Maori and Pacific descent? Find out how you might be able to save a life today. All that ...  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