Fiji's proposed Peoples Charter struggling to gain support

Updated June 25, 2008 19:41:42

Fiji's National Council for Building a Better Fiji, is struggling to gain support for the proposed People's Charter. The People's Charter is being proposed by Fiji's interim government as a way of removing race based politics in Fiji. The national council is the body with job of implementing the proposed changes and getting Fiji's diverse public on board. But the idea is losing support even amongst those who originally backed it.

Presenter: Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney
Speakers: John Samy, Fiji's National Council for Building a Better Fiji; Fiji's Interim Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimararma; Australia's Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith; Council Co Chair, Archbishop Petero Mataca