Correspondent's Notebook
Archive for August, 2009
Playing the blame game
21 August 2009
Radio Australia’s Bruce Hill discusses what he says he thinks is becoming a recurring pattern among the leaders of the Pacific.
Promoting sweet potato in Solomon Islands
14 August 2009
Today, the work being done to promote the wonder foods of the Pacific.
Radio Australia reporter Joanna McCarthy recently spent ten days in Solomon Islands.
She visited some of the most remote and economically deprived parts of the Islands – and experienced first-hand the hospitality and generosity of the locals, as well as the wonders of the home-grown foods.
Serious agendas
10 August 2009
Climate change, Fiji and free trade dominated last week’s Pacific Islands Forum meeting in the Australian city of Cairns.
Radio Australia’s correspondent Linda Mottram reflects on a summit that was unusually serious.
Pacific media’s meeting
4 August 2009
Australia Network’s Pacific correspondent Sean Dorney attended the recent meeting in Vanuatu of the Pacific Islands News Association, PINA.
Against expectations, the Pacific’s main media organisation decided not to shift its secretariat out of military-ruled Fiji, despite the media censorship imposed by the interim government of Frank Bainimarama.