8 Jun 2018

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 8 June 2018

From , 5:05 am on 8 June 2018

Cook Islanders go to the polls next week with voters on 15 islands electing 24 Members of Parliament; the World Mosquito Programme says new funding from New Zealand will help protect Fiji from dengue, chikungunya and zika; the increase in foreign aid announced by New Zealand's new government has been spun to sound better than it actually is, an academic says; a New Zealand fruit grower says his industry can no longer survive without Pacific workers; new postgraduate programme launched to address shortage of higher nursing qualifications in Samoa.