Dateline Pacific evening edition for 1 October 2018

Papua New Guinea investigators in Federated States of Micronesia after an Air Niugini airplane crashed in the Chuuk lagoon; Two key defendants acquitted after a legal battle over an anti-government protest in Nauru can't get their passports returned; Indonesia lashes out at Vanuatu over its representations about West Papua at the UN; The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has hit out at suggestions Pacific labour could fill shortfalls in the Aged Care sectors, and; Norfolk Island assures residents that services will not be affected if New South Wales ends its links with the island.