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The Price of Survival by Robyn Archer. The Tenth Manning Clark Lecture

ABC National Breakfast Radio with Fran Kelly, Monday to Friday 6am to 8.30am

Radio Australia + Asia Pacific - Asia Busines News

Karen Barlow report on Lateline, The world's worst predictions on catastrophic climate change have become a more likely reality.

National audit on our biodiversity 'Australia is losing mammals to extinction and near-extinctions faster than any other developed nation in the world.'
What can we do?

World News 6 30 pm + 9 30 pm, [weekly] - Twitter SBS

SBS World Iran Coverage

Neda Salehi Agha Soltan,
a 26-year-old Tehran philosophy student. Died on Streets of Iran.

Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel peace prize winner Ms Shirin Ebadi, has told Al Jazeera that she is prepared to represent the family of a young woman shot dead during a protest in Tehran.

Amnesty International in-depth human rights group report on the recent conflict in Gaza.

And there is This: Democracy advocate charged with subversion in China.

In an emotional speech, Mr Georgiou has described the Howard government's immigration detention policies as "cruel and contrary to Australia's best values". He asked, "Do we charge drug dealers? Serial paedophiles? Sadistic murderers? Multiple rapists the cost of their detention?"

Virginia Hausseger's 7 30 report on Mahboba Rawi who travelled Australia raising money to feed, house and support orphans and widows in Afghanistan. Mahboba's promise. Search more NATO Entering New Stage in Afghanistan | Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer talks to Leigh Sales on Lateline, explaining NATO purpose and intentions.2.7.09.

 

The Asia-Pacific Chamber Music 2009 Competition Live On Air from Melbourne on Classic FM until the 5th July. Turn it up Sunday afternoon, through the Finals Ð 4.00pm.

Do the school children in your community SING? Primary school students nationwide.... together with their teachers and parents, are being urged to enter their school in the third ever FLAME Awards, to help showcase the value of music in schools. Get involved - Win a $15,000 poole, download the entry form for your school here. Entries close 5pm AEST on Friday 17 July 2009

Latest Grace Notes with Classic Breakfast host and innovative media arts and music personality Emma Ayres.

"Clap your hands, tap your foot, dance, sing, whistle. There's endless music you can make just with your body," says Nicholas Conard at Tubingen University. Researchers say they have found a five-hole flute made from the radius bone of a griffon vulture and two fragments of ivory flutes in a cave in the Swabian Jura mountains Germany. more

Giant prehistoric kangaroos wiped out by hungry Ice Age hunters, reports Sophie Tedmanson in Sydney.

Third of open water sharks 'face extinction' and same with many porpoises and dolphins

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S u n r i s e Childrens Village:
Coming Soon: 1st October 2009. S u n r i s e Childrens Village
Cambodian Singers and Choir appearing at the Sydney Opera House. Tour of 40 odd students who practice together at least four hours a day. Opera House Tickets help the small cambodian orphanage that has been raising funds since it began in 1993. The singers are hoping to sell sell 2600 seats - so come along.

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Keeping an eye on things is Latelines Business News with Ms Ali Moore Broadband: Where are we up to. Building a National Broadband Network in Australia. What do you think? 2.7.09	The Big Four: Economics correspondent Steve Long - Banks, and what is happening to the little guys. "Crisis? What global financial crisis, say big banks". World Bank outlook moves from grim to grimmer. Strong share market falls are pointing to the possible end of the three month rally, by Sue Lannin and Brigid Glanville Stephen Roach speaks to 7.30 Report speaks with Kerry O'Brien from Hong Kong. On the first day of the new financial year, just how is the Australian economy weathering the global storm.
Is a Global revival of Faith Changing the World?	John Micklethwait, CEO of the Economist discusses his new book "God is Back" - how the global revival of faith is changing the world with Tony Jones. Video and Transcript.
Queensland Futures	Ever heard of guilt free tourism? - Queenslands State Government has launched a strategy to reduce the environmental impact of tourism in Queensland. The project will work to help tourism operators to minimise their carbon footprint by adopting new practices like reducing fuel consumption. This is at the same time as Environment Minister Peter Garrett announces $52m allocated for Barrier Reef water quality. Celebrity white humpback Migaloo marks start of Australian whale annual migration season. Three new dinosaurs fossils found in Queensland Outback Down Under.
The World Headline from Australia GREG Combet hopes he and the government can open the door with Family First.	'duped on climate science' Fielding, a social and pro-family conservative, released a statement says 'he was unwilling to risk thousands of livelihoods with "sky rocketing electricity prices and job losses on unconvincing green science.' more
COUNTERPOINT	The Wong and Fielding climate debate: an assessment, discussed with Michael Asten Professorial Fellow: School of Geosciences Monash University
Where is Australia now on ETS'- sssss .....	Climate chairman seeks early emissions deal reports Michelle Grattan. "MAL Washer, chairman of the Coalition backbench climate change committee, has added to the pressure for an early emissions trading deal, saying ideally legislation should be passed when Parliament resumes in August."
Third part SCENARIOS-Possible outcomes for Australian carbon trade laws.	Climate Change in Australia. PM Kevin Rudd said to Opposition Mr Turnbull, "Rather than voting not to vote, which is what the Liberals have done here, let's get on with the business of acting and getting things done. Australian citizens are watching: Climate scheme Bill put off. Climate Change Minister Senator Penny Wong attacked the opposition over its tactics on the carbon pollution reduction scheme. The UN meeting on climate change in Copenhagen is scheduled for December.

A national report shows Aboriginal people still make up a disproportionate number of South Australia's prison population. | Gap widening between indigenous, and other Australians | COAG focuses on economy and indigenous life quality. | An expert on Indigenous policy says the Federal Government needs to change its approach to the widening gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. |

A win for the ALP: Coalition backed $1.6bn alcopop tax, but not without some huffing and puffing amid the drawn out alcopop saga. Relieved Health Minister Ms Roxon said the dissent of a handful of Coalition MPs over the alcopops tax hike is a sign the Opposition is in disarray. She said. Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull cannot keep the Coalition in line. She said "They're a mess; the Liberal Party just don't know where they stand on this." This is as four Coalition MPs defied their leaders and voted against the legislation and many others abstained.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says "she has put all government departments on notice after audit reports found problems in planning key services". In a report the auditor-general said, 'there has been a lack of coordination between government agencies .....'

Julia Gillard urges Israel to "Stop West Bank settlements". Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's statements that back the U.S. Obama's administration call for a freeze on settlement activity by Jewish settlers on the Palestinian West Bank. It is important. The most important statement in modern time. Ms Gillard said Australia had expressed humanitarian concerns on behalf of the Palestinian people. She used the meeting to announce that Australia would be providing $10 million additional funding for assistance to the Palestinian Authority, particularly for health and education.

People in Gaza are "trapped in despair" says Red Cross. "Seriously ill patients are not receiving the treatment they need. The water supply is patchy, sanitation on the point of collapse," and "There is not the cement or steel to reconstruct neighbourhoods hit by Israeli strikes".|Unable to rebuild their lives, 1.5 million Palestinians remain trapped in rising poverty | Annie's Letters

AUSTRALIA TALKS- Discussion on Mental Health Services in Australia " Weaving webs of support in many ways:Finding employment is often one of the biggest challenges facing people with a mental illness, and it is not often you get to hear a positive story like this. Peter Waters CEO, ERMHA, updates the progress being made at ERMHA with Fran Kelly on Breakfast. [ Find http://www.ermha.org]

Lateline: Claims that an asylum seeker influx will strain facilities: Sharman Stone claims that "No country can afford an open door policy in relation to migration".... [But does that mean we turn our backs to those humans fleeing war torn or related degree's of persecutions? - Where are our foreign, community aid strategies in all this mess?
We need to come to terms with REALITY....] And other Lateline stories 3,7.09

Victims of a warming world may be caught in a bureaucratic limbo unless things are done to easeÑand better still, pre-emptÑtheir travails

40 humanitarian agencies or more including the United Nations urge Israel to lift its crippling blockade of Gaza. This also as the U.S. steps up pressure on Israel regarding the Gaza Strip. The U.S. also wants Israel to impose a moratorium on new tenders for building in Jewish settlements. However, the U.S. needs to clarify its position on the 1997 veto where the UNSC resolution, sponsored by France, Portugal, Sweden and UK called onthe 'Zionist entity to cease its Jewish settlement activities and come into compliance with the Fourth Geneva Convention'.

Human Trafficking: The African Union has launched a new initiative to combat human trafficking on the continent. The launch came on the same day the U.S. added six more African countries to a blacklist of countries trafficking including, Angola, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Senegal and the United Arab Emirates and the Antilles, a self-governing Dutch territory in the Caribbean.]

Connecting women around the world: Everyone suffers when women bear the brunt of global poverty says Cherie Blair. "The United Nations Food Programme estimates that seven out of 10 of the hungry of the world are female. Women make up the same proportion of refugees. Women are also the main victims of the traffickers, of violence in the home or in conflict. While tragically hundreds of million of people are still denied their most basic human rights, it is women who suffer most." Find 6 Degrees project

The world needs to respond says. Tim Costello of World Vision. No 'wolf's tears or scare tactics' on depth of food crisis in Ethiopia. The stockpiles are empty. On top of this the Ethiopian Government's decision to prioritise fertiliser imports before food aid at its crowded Djibouti Port.

Climate change is a major driver in the migration of tens of millions of refugees - A report says climate change is becoming a major driver in the migration of tens of millions of people battered by storms, droughts and the inundation of their lands by sea water. Estimates of the number of climate...| Preparing for Copenhagen in December, will rich countries undermine developing countries? | Dispute on CO2 cuts forms roadblock to Copenhagen BONN, Germany (Reuters) - A small reference on page 776 of a mammoth U.N. scientific report to cuts in greenhouse gases far deeper than those on offer by rich nations has become a main roadblock towards a new... ANALYSIS/The Star |

Acid sulphate soil disaster on the Murray River by Anna Salleh

Not to Give Up on the Murray .... but to address the 'Big Bend' in the Murray waterways of South Australia. Professor Mike Young explains 'Australia has just experienced the ninth consecutive autumn with well below average inflows, and it's been the third driest year in more than a century of records.' This is as Chairman Michael Taylor of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority said, "The basin is under enormous stress as a result of past water-allocation decisions, prolonged drought, natural climate variability and emerging climate change." The new authority has now released a "concept statement" to basically outline what the authority will do during the next 12 months to put a draft management plan together. More on buybacks, the complex water issues or what Federal minister for water Penny Wong has to say on the topic of Commonwealth agreements... all the latest on Bush Telegraph. The river is now two metres below its normal level and you can walk across the Murray River, in South Australia, by foot.

With the Murray River, only opinions flow freely Going, going ... says Peter Ker. Lake Bonney in South Australia is slowly evaporating after being disconnected from the Murray River. Photo: Angela Wylie

ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has a chat about digital new media, with Phillip Adams.

Australia Talks Talkback with Paul Barclay - join in for a national conversation nightly weekdays. Call on 1300 22 55 76 (1300 CALL RN)

Bush Telegraph with Michael Mackenzie - Country Viewpoint and Country Viewpoint on Pool 11am weekly. More Rural Stories - [also find global forum called "Circle Blue", where Civic Knowledge about Water and Agriculture counts] And, Lake Eyre in full view with the ABC Rural from Marree , and Roxby Downs, William Creek, Parachilna in outback South Australia.

Philosophers Zone and By Design with Alan Saunders, a presenter who always offers a treat to be reakoned with.

Awaye! [Listen Up] with Danial Browning. -Special Feature: Find the sound and the stories of Emma Donovan, singer - song writer, translator of Gumbaynggir language whose insight reveals what a song means to a writer and how her vision and her efforts combined with a desire to communicate reflects her deep compassion for humanity. Link to Emmas website on from Awaye!

Spread the word - The Emma Academy Project is building a school for the forgotten children of Sudan. Meet fundraiser, singer/songwriter, author and former child soldier Emmanuel Jal.

Shells 'thinning due to fossil fuels

Jellyfish joyride with Anthony Richardson - a talk with Phillps Adams Late Night Live

O c e a n--- A c i d f i c a t i o n

No chips, no fish: ocean acidification by Mike Pope : Oceans cover 70 per cent of the earths' surface and constitute its largest carbon sink, absorbing about one third of human CO2 emissions over the last 200 years. However, in recent decades the level of those emissions has increased to the extent that their continued absorption by ocean water is changing and will further change its natural alkalinity with a pH of 8.2 units. Pure water has pH of 7.0 so strictly speaking, oceans are not becoming more acidic: they are becoming less alkaline. More on this article go to National On Line Opinion. Leave a comment.

"planktonic foraminifera" what is it?

Carbon dioxide emissions from modern society are turning the ocean more acidic and some sea creatures are already suffering, according to research to be discussed at a major global science conference. BBC |SBS

Our Oceans are Changing, as the Carbon dioxide balance changes is causing ocean acidity.... reducing calcification in Southern Ocean planktonic foraminifera, critical for the foodchain: Climate change: Acid oceans transform marine life, says study | Carbon dioxide threatens marine life | Rising ocean acidity cutting shell weights | Rising ocean acidity cutting shell weights | more

Images of W a t e r and looking at Ocean Garbage

Green maize: The UN adviser warns against relying on foreign trade to bolster agriculture. " Food is not another commodity" Jack de Groot Chief Executive Officer of CARITAS Australia Age of the Unthinkable - global warming, terrorism, food shortages and nuclear weapons.... we need to change says author Joshua Cooper Ramo

Food Waste - Jon Dee Founder of 'Do Something'

National Interest: Are we 'Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System' is the topic of the book by Dr Raj Patel

Where there is a Will there is a Way, if only we could realise it!

When a Nation Talks... reconnecting "The simple life" | What's in the Fair Work?

Australia Talks

The Corroboree Frog [Pseudophryne corroboree]. Once, abundant in the snowy Kosciuszko region.... is internationally famous, an Australian icon among amphibians, is under threat.

With just 200 breeding adults left, living in their alpine habitats, since drought over the past six winters... a report by Sarina Locke

Minister for Climate Change, Ms Penny Wong said from the beginning; Climate Change is a Economic Equation.

Widows of Iraq: The plight of Iraqi widows and Children. | Saving Africa's Witch Children: The Niger River Delta in Africa is a living hell for many of its people. Thousands of small children in Nigeria, from babies upwards, are branded witches in the name of God. Interview with Gary Foxcroft Stepping Stones Nigeria. Four Corners Documentary.

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Topical National and International Events Guests and news on the cultural arts.

Gary Quinlan to be Australia's next Ambassador to UN reports Michelle Grattan, and we watch with keen interest. | On Australia's multilateral diplomacy, reports Linda Mottram

'Nation Building and Jobs Plan' - 'Confidence Frankness and Honesty' says Lindsay Tanner - Manna is a key word here Australia. And, as Lindsay Tanner said during early June, The "Liberal Party's credibility on debt and deficit has been completely blown away by Joe Hockey who's admitted that if they were elected they would continue with the stimulus package the Government has put in place".

The IMF boss endorses support for Washington's stimulus package. He says urgent stimulus needed to avert another Great Depression. says IMF. Time he said is a factor given the time it all takes. He was citing delays in the United States caused by the political transition, and in Europe because of the EU's political processes.

Heather Ridout speaking for industry welcomes the$155m apprenticeship scheme. She said, "It's very well-directed, it's very timely, it's very necessary". Heather Ridout said, "I think the Government is very sensible to have put measures like this is place.

Have Your Say

Knowledge is Power: "Are you worried about your job, or your home?" SBS wants to know. To canvas what is happening, SBS asks if you would like to tell your story and if you would like to be part of an SBS story. Australia's Federal ALP offers the nation a $42 billion stimulus package. What's in the stimulus package? Find the SBS webpage Breakdown of the Package on SBS website.

Compare the Stimulus package to this story "What are your job prospects?" |ABCD/tick and especially if you consider foundation of the "The next mining boom" as discussed by Dr Peter Lilly Director: Minerals Down Under CSRIO. The problem however it does little to help resource key problems of population, or over represented populations.... but does help in other ways.

Reducing carbon footprint is never a waste of time however; Reducing carbon footprint 'waste of time'| And nowhere and everywhere at once without a true strategy.... "Recycling threatened by falling prices". [Where's the mirror?]

Groups unite in praise of largesse | "Life Matters". These topics discussed help | Housing, social implications and other issues inside the potential stimulus spending. I draw attention to issues of Underemployment.

We despise the poor, but not the rich - Sparing a generation from poverty would cost a fraction of the bank bailout by Debra Orr [ Always a good read]

A Russian judge orders new investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, following the acquittal of three men.

The global economy faces a grave crisis if private credit flows are not restored warns Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Mondays parliament. 23.2.09

February 2009: The Global Financial Crisis [preview version] -By PM Mr Kevin Rudd - 2.2.09

7 30 Report: Live interview with Kevin Rudd. Kerry O'Brien speaks live with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd following his unveiling of the government's economic stimulus package. Find transcript 2.2.09

Backgroud Briefing: The other climate debate. | Find Energy Solar Energy discussion, the other Bill the ALP's trying to get through government. a) 20% of our power supply from renewable energy by 2020 b) double the amount of clean power in the Australian market.

Perestroika and Glasnost' quoting Gorbachev's call for 'change and openness' from the essay, "The revolutions of 1989 will shape the leaders of tomorrow" by Mary Dejevsky in the UK.... and referencing the 'hushed-up legacy of Tiananmen' more

Archive Sunday Profile: Louise Arbour appointed to take over from Gareth Evans as President of the International Crisis Group. |National Interest. With all the tensions felt throughout the world, hearing Gareth Evans giving reasonably positive news on the growing progressive support for the non-proliferation policy helps. Looking forward to seeing Gareth home. Audio [Find web links]

Breakfast Audio - Minister Penny Wong, Dr Richard Dennis, Andrew MacIntosh [ETS Critics] and Heather Ridout [ETS start-date?] 26.2.09

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong 23.2.09 - 7 30 Report transcript | Malcolm Turnbull 24.2.09

Early years discussion on Greens Senator Bob Brown + Opposition on emissions trading design Andrew Robb - Nations Senator Leader Mr Barnaby Joyce aggressively argues the economics of Climate Change.Lateline 24.2.09

Emission Trading discussions on
Rearvision and Latenight Live

Business chiefs to advise on ETS compensation Australian says another Make ETS 'catch-all', says think tank

Recaping and interview from 2007 with Robert Shapiro . And then given the devaluation of paper money ... "Everyone" needs some Gold says Dr Marc Faber.

"What would John Maynard Keynes', father of Keynesian economics, being saying about the world situation today?