Tagata o te Moana for 27 August 2016

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People on Fiji's devastated Koro Island are foraging for wild food, milling their own timber and sewing fishing nets out of vines to survive six months after Cyclone Winston; There's a tone of reconciliation in Papua New Guinea as the academic year resumes after disruptions at the country's three main universities; New Zealand and Australia have been urged to come up with a joint plan to deal with asylum seekers without putting them through detention at a protest in Wellington; Incentives for Pacific doctors and strategies for tackling health issues have been workshopped in New Zealand this week; The Papua New Guinea government's 2016 PNG Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook shows a collapse in revenue for a second consecutive year; A businessman in the Cook Islands is planning a small hydro electricity operation to satisfy some of Rarotonga's night time power needs; An American is trying to help troubled youths in Tonga with getting them into skateboarding; DNA experts are to investigate a collection of 18th century pigtails believed to be from the Bounty mutineers who settled Pitcairn Island in the late 1700s.

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