Facebook's ban on Australian news content sparks concern among Pacific Islanders, Australia's Minister for the Pacific says Facebook's move will make it harder for people in the region to access high quality journalism, graduates from the Australian Pacific Training Centre are finding it increasingly difficult to land a job and there are questions around whether the new social media platform Clubhouse is 'anti-Pacific'.

New Caledonian congress member Patricia Goa says the likely election of a pro-independence President would boost the 'yes' vote at next year's third referendum on whether the French territory should gain independence.

Controversial plans for a fish processing hub are being revived in PNG, Marshall Islands powers ahead with its COVID-19 vaccination program, a New Caledonian congress member says a pro-independence president would boost the yes vote at next year's third referendum on independence from France, and we look at the impact Facebook's shock ban on Australian media could mean for Radio Australia and our Pacific audience.

Marshall Islands leads the way with COVID-19 vaccinations with nearly a third of its adult population receiving the US-supplied Moderna vaccine. But health authorities want to wait until a single-dose vaccine is approved before expanding to remote communities.

A project stalled by government and landowner disputes is back on the table as fisheries authority tries to take back control.

New Caledonia's congress has elected its first pro-independence government since 1999. Pro-independence officials have won 6 seats, while French loyalists will hold five.

The crisis at the University of the South Pacific continues with the institution's governing council unable to decide on a response to the vice-chancellor's deportation from Fiji.

The Congress of New Caledonia is set to elect a new government today and there are expectations the independence movement will gain a majority. The vote was triggered when five politicians resigned at the start of the month, triggering a collapse of the government.

On the program today: Pacific countries could get their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in around two months time, USP's governing council unable to decide on the future of its vice-chancellor, a look ahead to New Caledonia's election of a new government and the result of voting in a PNG highlands electorate is still not clear more than three years after last national election.

A vaccine hesitancy expert says a delay in resuming measles vaccination in Samoa, after the death of two babies, left many people susceptible to the virus ahead of the 2019 epidemic