Sunday Profile with Monica Attard

Each Sunday at 9.05pm Monica Attard talks to people of interest and influence who are playing a role in public life.

Monica Attard began Sunday Profile in 2002. A national interview program, Sunday Profile focuses on key issues in Australia, providing listeners with detailed analysis of stories, background information and key interviews with major players.

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Interview: Paul Kelly, political journalist and author

Paul Kelly has covered federal politics since the early 1970s. He's covered 16 federal election campaigns and written six books on Australian political life.
Kelly bemoans the lack of passion and colour in politics now and he has an interesting insight into how the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is faring after his brutal ousting from the top job - having just spent time with him in the United States.
But no doubt, perhaps like most of you, he's tired of the spin, the repetitive messaging of modern day election campaigns.
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The former Prime Minister of Fiji, Sitiveni Rabuka
16/07/2010 | Major General (Ret.) Sitiveni Rabuka led two Fijian military coups and became the country's democratically elected Prime Minister. Rabuka experienced the highs and lows of Fiji's relations with Australia and New Zealand but current relations, he says, are at an all time low as Commodore Frank Bainimarama leads his country into isolation.
Archibshop Denis Hart
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NRL Chief Executive David Gallop
02/07/2010 | David Gallop, the head of the National Rugby League has had to deal with a seemingly endless stream of scandals and discipline issues in the code. What drives him be the public face of rugby league in Australia?

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...The reality is that if you are going to bring that sort of tax in, what you have to do is to make sure you consult the industry so they when they look at their global operations - all these mining companies by and large are global.

I mean you mentioned one Queenslander. I mean frankly he's a bit player in all this. You're looking at the real global players like Rio Tinto, like BHP Billiton, like Vale which is a Brazilian company, like Xstrata. They look at the world. They will say well where is the highest risk? Now they will invest where the certainty is when they have uncertain times.

Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie on the Federal Government's proposed mining tax