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- 16:55 - Telstra offering free calls to customers who have relatives in the Gaza Strip (audio)
Telstra's Martin Barr gives specific details to David Hardaker
published: 07/01/2009 (Middle East, Israel, Gaza) - 13:45 - Will Israel be forced to back down in Gaza because of international pressure? (audio)
Dr Glen Barclay is at the Australian National University, and is speaking with Shon Walker
published: 07/01/2009 (Middle East, Israel, Gaza) - 06:15 - At least 30 killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli missile strike on a U-N run school in Gaza (audio)
Marius Benson has been speaking to Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
published: 07/01/2009 (Israel, Hamas, Gaza) - 09:20 - High-profile members of Australia's Jewish community condemn the violence in Gaza strip (audio)
Antony Loewenstein, co-founder of the Independent Australian Jewish Voices, tells Anna Hipsley his organisation is not anti-Israel, rather it's critical of the Government's policy and the way the majority of the Jewish community reacts to it
published: 05/01/2009 (Israel, Hamas, Gaza) - Sunday 11:00 - ABC NewsRadio's Out of Africa with Fiona Ellis-Jones (audio)
An in-depth look at African cultural, political and economic affairs, featuring news stories and extended interviews from across the continent
published: 04/01/2009 (Africa) - Friday 17:15 - The United States has handed back the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad to Iraqi control (audio)
David Hardaker discusses the handover with Parliamentary Secretary for Defence in the Rudd government, Mike Kelly who spent a year in the Green Zone as a colonel in the Australian Army
published: 02/01/2009 (Iraq, Baghdad, Green Zone) - 07:15 - A remembrance of Helen Suzman - for decades the sole dissenting voice in South Africa's all-white apartheid-driven parliament ... (audio)
Patricia de Lille is leader of the opposition Independent Democrats in the South African parliament - and she's speaking to Marius Benson
published: 02/01/2009 (South Africa) - 16:15 - Five MILLION die in The Democratic Republic of Congo - and the savagery of the Lords Resistance Army underscores the horror ... (audio)
John Barron talks to World Vision's Tim Costello, and Africa specialist Jim Terie.
published: 31/12/2008 (DR Congo, Africa) - Tuesday 18:20 - Serious concerns about conditions for the one and a half million citizens of the tiny coastal strip that is Gaza (audio)
David Hardaker speaks to Chris Gunness of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and one of Israel's leading journalists, Aluf Benn of the Ha'aretz newspaper
published: 30/12/2008 (Israel, Hamas, Gaza) - 16:45 - Acting Prime Minister's call for an immediate halt to Gaza attacks did not go far enough according to Australian Friends of Palestine (audio)
The group's Dr Bassam Dally tells David Hardaker Australia has failed to show an even handed approach to the conflict
published: 30/12/2008 (Israel, Hamas, Gaza) - Monday 18:50 - Death toll of 300 claimed in the bloodiest conflict to hit the Gaza Strip since the six day war of 1967 (audio)
David Hardaker asks the Director of the Peres Centre for Peace, Ron Pundak if he's surprised by the extent of the Israeli air assault
published: 29/12/2008 (Gaza, Israel, Hamas) - 08:15 - Israel continuing to carry out air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza: the death toll is approaching 300 (audio)
To look at what lies behind the Israeli action, Marius Benson speaks to Anthony Bubalo, a Middle East expert with the Lowy Institute
published: 29/12/2008 (Israel, Hamas, Gaza) - 07:20 - Australia joins other countries in renewed calls for Zimbabwe's ruler Robert Mugabe to share government with the opposition MDC (audio)
For a response from Zimbabwe, Marius Benson has been speaking to the opposition MDC spokesman, Nelson Chamisa
published: 23/12/2008 (Zimbabwe) - Protesters in Thailand who've taken control of Bangkok's two main airports are bracing themselves for a possible intervention ... (audio)
Craig Knowles is an Australian journalist who works with AsiaWorks in Bangkok ... he tells Cate Carrigan the Thai PM appears to be losing patience
published: 28/11/2008 (Thailand) - Will China be firmly back in the US diplomatic spotlight, under Barack Obama?... (audio)
Harry Harding is the Professor of International affairs at George Washington University and a visiting fellow at the US studies Centre at Sydney University - he's talking here with John Barron
published: 25/11/2008 (China, US) - Diamonds may be a girl's best friend ... but for many people in so called 'conflict zones', they are a path to misery and death ... (audio)
Fiona Ellis Jones examines the role that the diamond trade has played in the deaths, and displacement, of millions of people
published: 20/11/2008 (Conflict diamonds) - Australia's diplomacy to the world under scrutiny today - with both sides of politics facing embarrasment ... (audio)
Shadow Foreign Minister Helen Coonan is speaking to Marius Benson
published: 19/11/2008 (Asia, US) - Humanitarian groups warning of a potential disease epidemic among the tens of thousands of Congolese who've fled renewed fighting ... (audio)
ABC NewsRadio's Fiona Ellis-Jones takes a deeper look at one of Africa's longest-running conflicts
published: 11/11/2008 (Congo) - Does the world REALLY hate America, or just some of her policies? ... (audio)
Steven Kull is the director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes in Washington and spoke to Anna Hipsley
published: 07/11/2008 (US)
