Australia: Rethink on US missile defence system

Updated February 26, 2008 21:18:09

Australia's new Labor Government previously rejected the missile defence system being developed by the United States as a threat to disarmament and destabilising to Asia. But now the Rudd Government is signalling a rethink about whether Australia will join the US States and Japan in creating an anti-missile system.

Presenter: Graeme Dobell
Speakers: Australia's Defence Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon; Australia's Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith; Dr Ron Huisken, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, Canberra