NAURU: Govt wants deal over closure of Aust asylum camp

• Print
• Email

Updated January 31, 2008 16:08:50

The President of Nauru wants Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to agree to a new aid deal for his country within a month. This is to soften the economic impact of the closure of Australia's asylum seekers processing camp on the island.
Sean Dorney reports from the State House processing centre which the media was banned from entering for almost six years.

Presenter: Sean Dorney, Australia Network's Pacific correspon

• New Caledonian women struggling to benefit from employment boom
• New taro varieties developed
• Pressure on French Polynesia to put fishing boats into use by 2009
• Greenpeace database blacklists pirate fishers
• Vanuatu to get a significant wage increase
• Solomons confirms presence of Giant African Snails
• Fiji Reserve Bank accused of not performing
• Solomons murder not related to ethnic tensions