Tagata o te Moana for 1 September 2018

What does the future hold for the evacuees of Vanuatu's volcanic Ambae Island?; The Australian appointed to run Fiji's police force in the wake of the 2000 coup, has died after a battle with bowel cancer. A former senior Fiji diplomat says he was well respected in the country but his time there was tumultuous, leading to the illness which overcame him; Problem gambling advocates in New Zealand are calling for electronic gaming machines to be eliminated in vulnerable communities like South Auckland; Thirty centuries of Samoan tattooing have been chronicled in a new book 'Tatau' released last month; Tahiti awaits sign-off for South Pacific's biggest tourism project; A candidate in last year's Papua New Guinea general election says there is still a need for reserved parliament seats for women, and; Youth revitilise traditional Polynesian wayfinding skills sailing an Auckland to Norfolk voyage.