Push for Australians to learn Asian languages

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Updated April 22, 2008 12:49:04

Australia's 2020 summit recommended more language teachers, with the Foreign Minister saying every Australian student should be studying a second language by 2020.

Presenter: Graeme Dobell
Speakers: David Hill, professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Murdoch University; Dr George Quinnhead of the Southeast Asia Centre at the Australian National Universtiy.

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