Correspondent's Notebook

Ferry commission un-Tongan in conduct

26 February 2010

Hello, and welcome to Correspondent’s Notebook, I’m Campbell Cooney, Radio Australia’s Pacific Correspondent. This week the Tongan Royal Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the inter island ferry, MV Princess Ashika, began taking testimony from its final witnesses.

Australian govt not insulated from embarrassment

19 February 2010

Hello and welcome to Correspondent’s Notebook. I’m Linda Mottram in Canberra where politics have become rather less predictable than the scholarly Prime Minister Kevin Rudd probably ever imagined possible. The immediate cause is ceiling insulation.

Happy New Year

12 February 2010

In China, and throughout the diaspora, people are marking the Year of the Tiger. People born under this most auspicious of signs are both courageous and unpredictable.

Connect Asia presenter Sen Lam looks at this year’s Spring Festival, which also coincides with Valentine’s Day, leading some inventive souls to dub it the “sweetheart Chinese New Year”.

One year on

5 February 2010

It’s a year since the horror and devastation of the Black Saturday bushfires in country Victoria. Among those who reported on those wrenching events was ABC reporter Michael Vincent, who returned this past week to the town of Kinglake. This is what he found.