Tagata Pasifika

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Tagata Pasifika
Format	current affairs talk show
Starring	Robbie Magasiva Beatrice Faumuina
Country of origin	New Zealand
Production
Running time	60 minutes per episode
Broadcast
Original channel	TVNZ

Tagata Pasifika is an English language New Zealand programme which screens on TVNZ's TV ONE and on Māori Television. This programme is made to specifically meet the niche market of New Zealand's Pacific Islander population.

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Tagata Pasifika features current events from both New Zealand and Polynesia.

The show features report coverage of Pacific Island cultural events such as the annual Pasifika festival along with arts and profiles.

Leading up to New Zealand's 2005 General Election Tagata Pasifika interviewed the leaders of the major political parties, including Prime Minister Helen Clark and Winston Peters, on their policies and how these affected Pacific Islanders.

TAGATA PASIFIKA was first coined in the mid 1980s as a reference to people with genealogical connections to islands within Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, French Polynesia and all others scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean but had chosen to live in Aotearoa New Zealand and identified Aotearoa New Zealand as their home base. There has been some dispute over the correct spelling of Pasifika, sometimes spelt Pasefika, Pacifica, Pacifika. TAGATA PASIFIKA is generally accepted as correct and publicly reinforced by the Television New Zealand programme now also known by the same name but was previously spelt TANGATA PASIFIKA.