Dateline Pacific evening edition 11 March 2019

Thousands more midwives are needed to improve PNG's horrendous maternal mortality rate; Bougainville and PNG commit to collaborate on the independence referendum; West Papua leaders who criticise military operations there are facing prosecution; we look at Vanuatu's ambitious plan to quadruple the number of visitors to the country in a decade; tattooing combs may have been invented in Tonga, nearly 3,000 years ago.