Pacific Beat

A New Zealand MP raises concerns about forced marriage in the country's pacific community, and we speak to Australian anti-violence campaigner Rosie Batty about her upcoming trip to Papua New Guinea in support of her Pacific counterparts.

Tensions remain on Manus Island as police investigate a shooting incident after a dispute between defense force soldiers and asylum seekers over access to a nearby soccer field. And, a Samoan voyaging canoe travels to remote communities to inspire younger people to take up traditional sailing skills.

Fears of more violence after shots fired at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. And, the Pacific's fastest woman Toea Wisil fails to fire at Australia's richest footrace, the Stawell Gift.

Beekeepers in PNG call for help in beating a mite that could devastate their hives and the country's honey industry. A Samoan voyaging canoe travels to remote communities to inspire younger people to take up traditional sailing skills.

Fears of more violence to come after shots fired at the Manus Island detention centre on Friday. And, we get a sense of what it's like to work as a journalist in Papua New Guinea's second-biggest, and possibly most violent city.

The challenges of working as a reporter in Lae where murders, robberies, carjackings and riots are commonplace and TED talks return to Suva with creative thinkers from the Pacific sharing stories and ideas on this year's theme - 'An Ocean of Ideas'

We get an update on ex-Tropical Cyclone Cook which is due to slam New Zealand with its biggest storm in decades. We hear from the Samoan church leader who thinks Pastors should not have to pay tax to the government.

Claims the PNG news media were excluded and barred from asking questions during the recent visit by Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Many in Papua New Guinea are in mourning today following the death yesterday of Susan Karike Huhume, the designer of the country's flag.

A call for Austraian to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign and to recognise the Papua New Guinean carriers from World War Two and a project to wind back excess salt consumption in Fiji and Samoa finds there's still work to do to improve people's health.

Anti-corruption officers in Solomon Islands make another high-profile arrest. And, there's been yet another legal twist in the saga of the 14 former MPs jailed for corruption.