Correspondent's Notebook
Bali’s harmonious festival
15 October 2010
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Katie Hamann travels to Bali where this year’s Ubud Writers Festival has recently concluded after attracting more than 130 poets, writers and artists from around the world.
World debut
8 October 2010
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Radio Australia’s Liam Cochrane takes a look at the recent overseas antics of Australia’s political leaders.
Passion for the game
1 October 2010
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Australian sports fans are gearing up for this weekend’s National Rugby League grand final between the Sydney Roosters and the St George Illawarra Dragons.
But as Liam Fox reports, the passion of Australian league fans pales in comparison to their Papua New Guinea counterparts.
Days of memories
24 September 2010
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Pacific correspondent Campbell Cooney has a recording of the names of Samoans who lost their lives in last year’s tsunami. Here’s his story about it, nearly a year on in the lives of those who survived.
Rumours fill Fiji’s information void
17 September 2010
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Bruce Hill recently spent a week in two entirely separate countries. Granted, both of them were called Fiji, but there the similarities ended.
Cambodian musings
10 September 2010
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Radio Australia’s Linda Mottram reports from Cambodia on her small glimpse of the country.
Unequal invasions
2 September 2010
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After four hectic years in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Radio Australia reporter Katie Hamann recently relocated to the island of Bali with her partner, former ABC Indonesia correspondent Geoff Thompson, and their son.
Australian leaders play small-target politics
20 August 2010
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Canberra correspondent Linda Mottram takes a look at what has been the 2010 Australian election camapaign.
Finally, a foreign policy focus
13 August 2010
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Canberra correspondent Linda Mottram reports that after four weeks of the candidates in Australia’s very close national election being on the hustings, voters have finally been given a glimpse of the two major parties’ foreign policy agendas.
Solomons poll leads to ‘king-making period’
6 August 2010
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Radio Australia’s Pacific correspondent, Campbell Cooney, reports from Honiara on the conduct and aftermath of Solomon Islands passionately-contested national election.
He examines what ordinary voters expect from their elected representatives, and looks ahead to the next phase in the political process.
