Aid And Development

Kiwi Sue Gardiner is one of Tonga's 107,000 residents - she has lived there for 18 years. She talks about the impact of Cyclone Gita on the locals and the attributes that will get them through.  Audio

Seasonal workers from Vanuatu are the grunt force of New Zealand's growing wine industry, but questions linger over the treatment of workers. Johnny Blades went to Blenheim to learn more. Audio

For the first time we hear from women working under the RSE scheme supporting their families back home in the Solomon Islands. Audio, Gallery

A New Zealand company recruiting seasonal workers from the Solomon Islands has faced threats and extortion while there. What impact could this have on New Zealand businesses and the migrant workers… Audio, Gallery

Two years ago the world was gripped in a Zika panic as the mosquito-borne virus infected millions and spread across 80 countries. Thousands of babies were born with horrific birth defects after their… Audio

It may go down as one of the most memorable and haunting images of 2017 - the Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in West London, ablaze in the early hours of the morning, fire spreading at… Audio

Fifteen years since Timor-Leste proclaimed independence, a new generation tries to move on from its traumatic past. Sally Round investigates how the country's faring.

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The exodus of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh has become an urgent humanitarian crisis. In this week's Voices, Lynda Chanwai-Earle and Justin Gregory present a disturbing first-hand account from an… Audio

The importance Australia's giving to the Pacific islands in its foreign policy white paper is being welcomed as over due - but there's some awkward contradictions. Audio

A Norfolk Island businessman, Brett Sanderson, says comments by the acting Australian minister for overseas territories about the island are outrageous. Audio

Bridge International Academies is attempting to fix the global education crisis in some of the most impoverished places on the planet. It's a chain of inexpensive private schools with the backing of… Audio

We've been reporting this week about the evacuation of the entire population of the Vanuatu island of Ambae. Eleven thousand people are living in the temporary centres hastily set up to house them… Audio