Pacific reacts to Australia’s new prime minister

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:14

Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, will also chair the Pacific Islands Forum in the lead up to the August meeting of leaders in Port Vila, but does she offer the region fresh hope? Derek Brien, PiPP Executive Director, and Fei Tevi, Secretary General of the Pacific Conference of Churches, join Barbara Heggen and Isabelle Genoux on Radio Australia’s In the Loop programme to discuss what this may mean for the Pacific island countries.

Listen to the discussion here

 

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