Correspondent's Notebook
Archive for May, 2008
Radio in Iran
30 May 2008
Deborah Steele, the head of news and current affairs at Radio Australia, last week visited Iran – part of George W Bush’s axis of evil – and whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been accused of inciting genocide by the Australian government.
Fiji’s interim PM threatens to call off elections
23 May 2008
As this week ends, in Fiji once again there are doubts the Pacfic Island Nation will hold the elections its promised the world. On Thursday, speaking in Fijian, interim Prime Minister and coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama, told a gathering at Nadoi village outside Suva, if the country’s chiefs and politicians don’t accept the political and electoral change he wants, there will be no election in March 2009.
Campbell Cooney, Radio Australia’s Pacific Correspondent, delivers this week’s Correspondent’s Notebook.
Sichuan quake response points to changing China
16 May 2008
The devastating earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province has focused the world’s attention on the latest natural disaster in Asia – and on the Chinese government’s handling of the crisis.
Our correspondent Karon Snowdon reports from China.
Making the most of PNG’s business opportunities
9 May 2008
Each year, captains of industry from Australia and Papua New Guinea get together for their annual agenda setting meeting – The Australia PNG Business Forum.
The 2008 Business Forum was held in Cairns, this week, and while issues of importance to the hugely lucrative energy and resources industry were discussed, it was the small and medium sized enterprise sector that got much of the attention.
Here’s Radio Australia’s Pacific Economic and Business Reporter, Jemima Garrett.
The language barrier in Tonga
2 May 2008
For correspondents travelling and reporting from their regions of responsibility, language is always a major barrier.
More often than not the barrier’s very simple.
Your language is different to those you want to talk to.
Sometimes you share a language.
But as Radio Australia’s Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney found out last week in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, where he was covering the national election, often even that’s not enough.