Correspondent's Notebook
David Cameron looks to the past for the UK’s future
28 January 2011
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This month William Hague made the first visit to Australia by a British Foreign Secretary in 17 years, and he was in time to enjoy the English cricket team’s win in the Ashes test.
But as Karon Snowdon reports the message dealt with far more than sport.
Laos’ cluster bomb legacy
17 December 2010
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Laos has the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily bombed country on earth, and the legacy of the US bombing campaign of the 1960s and 70s lives on today.
Twenty thousand people have been killed or injured by unexploded ordnance, or UXO, since the war ended and many of the victims are children. Joanna McCarthy visited Laos to meet some UXO survivors.
Landowners riding PNG resources boom
10 December 2010
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Landowner companies are one of the unique features of the corporate landscape in Papua New Guinea.
With the economy riding a resources-led boom they too are hoping to scale new heights. Radio Australia’s Jemima Garrett has been investigating how this unusual and entirely home-grown business sector is getting on.
Nature of the crime
3 December 2010
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Australian authorities have been putting a good deal of effort into repairing relations with India, after the battering their country received over attacks on Indian students last year.
But Australia’s image is still tarnished in South Asia, and Huey Fern Tay reports a new Australian play has unearthed even more detail of the troubles faced by Indian student victims.
Low profile
26 November 2010
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Radio Australia’s Campbell Cooney takes a look at this year’s climate change conference in Cancun.
A Kingdom in transition
19 November 2010
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This week, we travel to the Pacific kingdom of Tonga, a country undergoing major political change: on the verge of democratic majority rule for the first time.
In the lead up to Thursday’s historic election, Bruce Hill has returned to capital, capital, Nuku’alofa, reflects on a country and people in transition.
Uranium deal lays diplomatic course
12 November 2010
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Linda Mottram reports from Canberra, where sensitivities surrounding uranium have resurfaced.
A capital of ideas
5 November 2010
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Moscow correspondent Norman Hermant travels to Kazakhstan, where the central Asian republic’s new capital, Astana, has become something of an architectural laboratory, undergoing one of the world’s most profound and unusual transformations.
Correspondent notes change in Solomon Island
29 October 2010
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Sean Dorney, Australia Network’s Pacific Correspondent, has just spent nine days in Solomon Islands. He says the amount of traffic on the streets is one sure indication that the tension times, which locked down the capital, Honiara, for so long, are over. Honiara has no traffic lights and there are so many vehicles now that minor traffic jams occur regularly each day.
