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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.'
The ALP team would work inclusively to find common ground on
critical issues like;
economic reform, health care, education,
transport, infrastructure, Indigenous affairs and, foreign policy.
Compared to the alternative, I see the ALP as being the only party that
could embrace the depth of ideas, challenges and policies that are
ahead given the diverse election result, which is an historic demand
for change, in the way we do politics, across Australia.
Australia's Economy in strong position, says Wayne Swan
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The ABC and SBS networks
encourage everyone to donate to their preferred overseas aid agency or
to UNICEF, the United Nations Children Fund, which is appealing for $45
million to cover cost of water, hygiene, emergency food and sanitation
for more than one million children and their families."
http://www.unicef.org/
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Running on empty: Most important story taps
at the core of serious issues that will undermine the future of our
economy.Else we...?
Climate Change politician analysis:
Find out why we are really in such a pickle
Dick Smith and the ABC on the
"Population" & "Puzzle" and the Q & A "Population" debate with the audience.
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle, what it tells us as we head for Mars.
Climate change & Environmental
Refugees [Just look at what is happening in Pakistan today.....??] How much more to do we need to see before we understand the ecology of the 'whole' globe is changing?
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Concerning Hung parliaments. Last weeks archival interviews as various personalities spoke on the issue below.
Audio - National Interest ****
Science Show: Government support for science and research in 2010 and beyond & Government ministers - job description ***** Science Show celebrates 35 years
Sunday Profile
Interview with Adam Bandt after he's nailed an historic victory in the seat of Melbourne, becoming the first Greens candidate elected to the House of Representatives at a general election.
Insiders ABC: MP Tony Windsor interview plus terrific analysis from Panel before and after the Michael Bowers, segment Talking Pictures Find video and transcripts.
"Greens sign formal deal with Labor". interview with Bob Brown on 7 30 Report.
Interview with transcript and video on ABC 7-30 Report and find Member for Denison Andrew Wilkie, talking to Fran Kelly on Breakfast RN. Also hear the opinions of last weeks activities on the Fridays Breakfast panel.
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Holding on to an April message - given it is important....
Australian
Politicians asked to be brave about Reforms.
This is and
example of what we all know yet fail to address: Former economist warns of dark numbers.
Martin
Feil, a former government economist is warning that our economy is not
as healthy as we might wish to believe.The employment number for
example "is a very difficult number when you have got three million
people in the Australian workforce that are only employed part-time or
25 per cent of the workforce". In regional areas he said, "unemployment
in outer areas of Melbourne or Sydney, that there is a very big part of
our population that doesn't fit into the service sector very easily."
MAtin Feils new book is called, "The Failure of Free Market Economics".
Professor
Ross Garnaut said to an Australian
Treasury in
Canberra recently... 'Australians face the risk of falling living
standards for the
next decade as the country has fallen into a reform malaise'. He said,
"The Australian public had come to expect too much prosperity too
easily and the country's political culture had become too timid to make
tough reforms".
He told his
audience that "The Rudd and Howard governments had rewarded
companies and industries for demanding special subsidies and handouts,
a ''culture of rent-seeking,'' and that the "renewal of the mining boom
would not save the economy in the medium term".
Regarding
citizens he said,
"The
public had developed unrealistic expectations: ''Nineteen years
without recession, and with rising average living standards, is
unprecedented in Australia and unusual in the world''.
Professor
Ross Garnaut then said,"We have two big challenges ahead.
First, we
have to reduce public expectations of rising living
standards.
Second,
we have to change the political
culture to
raise productivity growth'' through a wide range of reforms.
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Oil platform explodes off La. coast; crew rescued,
The first person to distill gasoline from crude oil was Benjamin
Sillman Jr., a chemist from the prestigious Yale University -
watch video
The real solutions can only come through new energy technologies. We're
surrounded by a sea of energy. There's no energy crisis... If anything
it's a crisis of ingenuity or creativity or imagination...
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Help
Stop de-forestation
Chimpanzee Experiments are Cruel
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Palm oil - Borneo - and the black market
fate of the Orangutan, millions of years of
evolution
and how agriculture, poverty and progress threatens the Worlds Great
Apes. Paul Raffaele Author, journalist explains how critical the
situation is in Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya,
Cameroon and Northern Borneo.
More on SBS Dateline with
other stories about the world as we live.
Help
International Animal Rescue - Primate
rescue and other forest animal rehabilitation
Indonesia's
carbon-rich peat forests are disappearing at a rapid
rate with disastrous consequences.
'The End of the Line', a new film that makes dire
predictions about the future for the $100 billion global seafood
industry, is certain to trigger strong debate about the sustainability
of the domestic industry. Find audio interview with Director Rupert Murray. Find End of the Line
website
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Late
Night
Live with
Phillip Adams ABC Radio
National Mon-Thur 10pm repeated 4pm the following day [6pm WA]
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Late
Night Live with Phillip Adams.
Three New Orleans locals join
Phillip to discuss the politics and culture of the city. They also talk
about issues affecting the people in both the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina and the recent Gulf oil spill.
'The
unconscious civilisation' and what's wrong with
it. " CLASSIC LNL: Interviews John Ralston Saul - Top Discussion
Why Do We Lie? - Ask
psychologist Dorothy Rowe who argues that our private and public lives
are of the same. She says ' the two are indivisible' [more!]
miacats archive favoriates on
LNL
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BookShow with
Ramona Koval
Weekly, Radio National 10am and 8pm
Bookshow
Blog - great stuff!
Find Letter Vox. A
innovative space to talk about
your favourite words, writings or books.... and find all
the other web-side activities.
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Writing about life in fragile territories: The Bookseller of Kabul case with
resource links and lots of information. Affronting cultural values is
always difficult. Especially when they are so foreign and historically
practiced over centuries. 'Asne Seierstad went to live in the home of
Shah Muhammad Rais in Kabul in 2002, just after the fall of the
Taliban. and Mr Rais's family were not impressed and took the author to
court.' The authors honesty is in the "subjective" approach. It is her
story about what she saw. It is her perspective of a rule she adopts
"not to show the material" to those you write about until it is
written. In journalism and writing this is a choice. Any political
journalist knows this. Again. Top inquiry from Ramona. Without reading
the book I couldn't judge, therefore comment although I do feel
affronting the role of womens subjection in any country is extremely
important. It is a learning for all of us given we are supposed to be
aware of how close our perspective could be to "colonialism[s]". [Thank
Gads I checked the Bookshow blog, I almost missed this one.]. As Richard Holloway would say.... Let us question all!
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Xtra Special Credit to the Book Show. As I listened to it this evening I
couldn't believe the content. Just the kind of conversation I needed to
listen to at no time sooner then it appeared. From Metaphor to Model: What
Victorians Understood about Markets That Modern Economists Often Miss.
Ramona Kovals interview with Professor Mary Poovey deserves a repeated
listen. Mary Poovey Professor With Chair; Academic Director Institute
for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University.
Her book "Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain".
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The Reel Truth
on Books
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Cool!
Filmakers Vocation: Logie type experience, listening to Filmakers Adam Elliot, Sue Maslin and Camille Chen share their reading habits.
A Talk about scriptwriters, producers.... writing and making film. Sure
thing, reel thing inside the cover on reading books.****
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Like the sand shifting through an hourglass.
Sand is all around us, while we drink coffee, when we are sleeping,
walking. Wherever we are, sand is shifting,Fugue on the MagnificatFugue
on the MagnificatFugue on the MagnificatFugue on the MagnificatFugue on
the MagnificatFugue on the MagnificatSamstag ist hier persistence and insatiable curiosity moving.... on the go. Geologist Michael Welland is the author of Sand: A
Journey through Science and the Imagination. It won the 2010 John
Burroughs Medal awarded for a distinguished book of natural history.
Can you hear the wind?
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Gutkind on 'creative non-fiction'
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Simply adored Lee Gutkind on non-fiction-
a breath of fresh air for those of us who are not
involved in publishing yet stiil like to write....for whatever reason".
No wonder "Vanity Fair called Lee Gutkind the godfather of creative
non-fiction (whose proponents include George Orwell, Truman Capote,
Norman Mailer and Dave Eggers)."
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Grace walks in a
Nutshell. Just as well we get to hear him twice. How one grows
into mindfulness when you get to hear a proactive champion, say all the
things that you want to say.... articulately. Make this podcast your
feature. Grab its call and join the mob who never fail to share the
idea that we can have a "greater world" practically.
The Bookshow: Meet John Ralston Saul, President of International PEN,
author of "The Collapse of Globalism" and other great works.
A key civic thinker, advocating the value of local and
international. The value of you living in a time and in a place.
Interview with Adam Spencer, 702
Melbourne and article The great fallacy of Western philosophy
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Home
Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Barry Lopez's looks at
discribing words, Their ownership and representation and the ways
we
relate to them in daily life. He put down his camera and take up the
pen.... and spoke about this experience with Ramona Koval in a way that
circled many of the things we feel, think and sometimes try and say in
as many words, only for some it takes an entire lifetime to cover all
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Pico Iyer on
the
the Dalai Lama and John Sutherland about
his new book Magic Moments among just some of the wonderful
conversations Ramona presented during the Summer Series. |
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In
conversation with Richard Holloway
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Power - Miracles
- Beauty -
Between the Monster and the Saint. Let us turn the
noise down. Let us question all - tis everyday politics to claim back
the right to ask what is morality and religion... Helps
to hear Richard Holloway when we feel there is no point in all the
things we trade or share .... which is our humanitarian "power". We
need to challange Power says Richard
Holloway. I adore him for this. He encourages those of us who act on
what we know. He says, shows, tells and teachs you to see; "No this will not
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Biography: A
Very Short Introduction
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In one very
long breath. Hermione Lee maneuvers with
our taste for wonder and reason as she discusses different ways to see
strategies, ethics, and principles that might be required for writing
about 'one person compared to another'. On the Bookshow we hear her
tell us about her new book, "Biography: A Very Short Introduction".On the art
of writing biography at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. [Hermione Lee's
webpage.]
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Miacat's_Archive
Book Notes
Random
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When real "change" Matters
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This is Good News. News
of courage, a small moral opportunity, a start amid a haystack. A bill
that identifies the conflict minerals of gold, coltan, cassiterite,
wolframite or their derivatives sourced from the Democratic Republic of
Congo "Last year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton spoke out against
the trade in "conflict minerals" that has funded a cycle of conflict
there that has left more than 5 million people dead since 1998,
displaced countless more, and spawned an epidemic of sexual and
gender-based violence." Now, President Obama has signed into law a
measure that will require corporations to publicly disclose what they
are doing to ensure that their products don't contain these minerals.
The DRC has formally expressed its support for this law and has thanked
both the US executive and legislative branches of government. This is
one of several steps we are taking to stop this illicit and deadly
trade.
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Let us keep focus on H a i t i
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Six months on, one million still homeless in Haiti
Australians donated some $9.5 million to World Vision
to help Haiti in the Earthquake Appeal. With coming rains however Haiti needs more.
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Haiti,
with World Vision
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http://www.sbs.com.au/news 6 30 pm + 9 30
pm weekly with more on the Web
SBS Insight Tuesday 7 30 pm
Insight website Repeat Friday 1:30pm,
Monday 3:30pm
Living Black Monday 6pm
website repeated Tues
3 30pm & Friday 1 pm
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Open Ongoing Letter to Australia
Bob MaynardBob MaynardBob MaynardBob MaynardDoes true
leadership have the wisdom to inspire a local people everywhere?
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