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Commonwealth News - Issue 439 | 20 May 2009 Full text version
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Top experts address Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting
Solutions exist, but political will is required, keynote speaker Professor Sir Andy Haines tells delegates
UK bill to clip the wings of vulture funds
Proposed law seeks to ban creditors from making money at the expense of developing countries
Four more Commonwealth countries make bid for additional areas of seabed
Commonwealth assists Guyana, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Tonga
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Around the Commonwealth
Melbourne-based writer Christos Tsiolkas takes the Best Book gong in Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
Profile: Dawn Quist, education expert
A former school teacher who for the last 15 years has worked as an education adviser for the Commonwealth talks about her work to improve teaching standards in Belize
From the Archive: Sydney regional conference, February 1978
Commonwealth stands firm against terrorism after fatal bomb attack

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Reports by Will Henley

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