Fiji's top health officials acknowledge they may need to introduce stricter lockdowns. Child violence under the spotlight in PNG after a father allegedly killed his two children in Port Moresby. And, a frog the size of a new born baby.

A body that washed up in Vanuatu forces temporary COVID-19 measures, what happened and why there are now questions about whether Australia could have done more, pluse there still isn’t a government in Samoa, two weeks after the national election.

Will Facebook's education campaign in PNG and Fiji stem the flow of misinformation about COVID-19? A Chinese resort company pays the price for causing environmental damage on a Fijian island. And with two Pasifika teams on track to play Super Rugby next year, could a Five Nations Championship for the southern hemisphere be on the horizon?

Increasing concern among frontline workers in PNG that they are being left out of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. Tonga's national men's rugby coach backs a call for star man Charles Piutau to be given automatic eligibility to play for the Ikale Tahi. And rugby history as a Moana Pasifika women's team takes to the field for the first time.

In this edition:

Australia asked to commit one million locally-made vaccines to Papua New Guinea as COVID-19 cases there surge. Papua New Guineans living in Australia fret for their loved ones back home as the country's COVID crisis worsens. India sends 100,000 vaccines to Fiji under its vaccine diplomacy push. A group of Ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers is back on the job after disappearing in regional Queensland. And a tourism campaign targeting the world's most famous Samoan, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, generates plenty of attention.

New COVID-19 restrictions will start in Papua New Guinea on Monday as case numbers surge and officials plead with people to take the virus seriously. The worsening COVID-19 situation in PNG has prompted refugee advocates to renew

And a group of Samoans have staged a small protest outside a courthouse in Brisbane against the attempt to extradite a man to Samoa to face an allegation he plotted to assassinate the country’s prime minister.

Growing concern in PNG over the possibility of a COVID-19 catastrophe. Rising coronavirus numbers ramp up tensions on the Bougainville-Solomon Islands border. And two of the Pacific's top female weightlifters hope to make it to Australia soon and step up their Olympic preparations.

We see how Vanuatu has put the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand's seasonal worker programs, hear about the thousands of Tongans still stranded in Australia due to COVID-19 related border closures, and look into the Oceania Weightlifting Institute's move to kick-start its program by relocating from New Caledonia to Melbourne.

We remember the legacy of Papua New Guinea’s Grand Chief and PNG's founding father Sir Michael Somare, hear how COVID-19 has impacted a PNG-Australian woman living in Melbourne, and look into the concerns around Papua New Guinea's airport quarantine program with leaked documents highlighting holes in the system.

We head to PNG where another health supplement is being marketed as an alleged miracle treatment, examine New Caledonia 1st pro-independence government, and look at impact of Facebook's ban on Australian news in the Pacific.