Tania Nugent

Tania Nugent is a television presenter and producer with Australia Network. She began her TV career in Papua New Guinea, producing and presenting children’s television programs for EMTV. Tania joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 to present the award winning education program Behind the News and has worked in children’s and educational television ever since. She hosts the daily education show Nexus on Australia Network and has been involved in the program since its inception.

Tania is a Papua New Guinean, born in Port Moresby. Her mother is from Finschhafen in the Morobe Province and her father is an Aussie. She attended boarding school in Brisbane for five years, lived and worked in Port Moresby for three years, before moving to Australia for family and career opportunities.

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Clement Paligaru

Clement Paligaru is a presenter of Radio Australia’s popular interactive radio program “In the Loop”. He has been working at the ABC for fifteen years and has reported extensively on the Pacific region during this period. This included a long stint as producer of Radio Australia’s flagship Pacific Beat program.

An Indo-Fijian, Clement was born in Fiji and arrived in Australia as a teenager. On the eve of completing a Masters in Economics thesis about India’s economic reforms, he left academia for a career in radio.

Today, he remains passionate about Australia’s engagement with the Asia Pacific region. And he occasionally combines his knowledge of both regions to write for publications such as Lonely Planet’s guidebooks.

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