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Australian PM: Holiday caused "great anxiety" during wildfires

22/12/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Australian PM: Holiday caused "great anxiety" during wildfires

Australian leader Scott Morrison apologises for going on holiday during wildfire crisis.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologised for causing "great anxiety" by going on holiday during a mounting wildfire crisis. We hear from a fire-fighter in rural New South Wales that has been affected.

Also in the programme:  Why male academics are better at talking up their own work than their female colleagues; and we speak to an academic on the origins of the musical Cats.

(PICTURE: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison listens to New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons during a tour of the  control room in Sydney. CREDIT: EPA/JOEL CARRETT)

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