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Transform everyday moments into something
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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
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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?
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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?"
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| 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
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
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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.
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| Is a Global
revival of Faith Changing the World? |
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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. |
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| Queensland
Futures |
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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.
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'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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 |
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Acid
sulphate soil disaster on the Murray River by
Anna
Salleh
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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
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ABC
Managing Director Mark Scott has a chat about
digital new media, with
Phillip Adams.
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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
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[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.
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The
Spiegeltent |
HUSH
- It's great to have music in the hospital!
Buy CD,
music recordings to create a collection, to
help children and their parents during medical
procedures.
Topical
- provocative and proud of it: Steve
Austin's. Talkback
and blog.
ABC
Nightlife weekly,
followed by
Overnights with Trevor
Chapel - Talkback
and Quiz ABC Queensland.
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Music
Show :Live
podcast or play catch up.... Festival
headliner singer, poet and artist Patti
Smith Archive. Music
Show with Andrew Ford The
Spiegeltent
What's
on in the pool? Creative
work with the Pool community - upload your
own music, photos, videos, documentaries,
interviews, animations and more on the ABC.
It's a collaborative space where we become
the makers.
Find
Links on Life
Matters
An Australian human rights act
Drawing
the Line - questioning clubs
- culture clubs that appear to be based
on gender. 'Should
the gentleman's club become a relic of the
past?'
Small-scale
technology initiatives generating real change
in the developing world
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One
Laptop per Child
(OLPC) - initiative
Rwanda.
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Closing
the digital divide
in
places like India and Africa
Showing
us how channelling a re-purpose
with 'little
things'
can have a simple technological approach.
The
DakNet- Bhoomi system, rethinking
connectivity in developing nations - is
a Wi-Fi transmitter and receiver fitted
to the local bus in Orissa - India, providing
enroute internet resources to villagers.
Find transcript on Future Tense. [google
DakNet
or Map this'Store-and-Forward'
service.]
TxtEagle
project, is leverage on an underused
work force in some of the poorest is yet
another clever idea at work in Kenya called
the TxtEagle project. [ google TxtEagle|
more]
Is there need to question the West's preconceptions
about the future technological needs of
the world's poor. More from Future
Tense .
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Shells
'thinning due to fossil fuels
Jellyfish
joyride with Anthony Richardson
-
a talk with Phillps Adams Late
Night Live
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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
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National
Breakfast with
Fran Kelly , 6 am - Selection of comprehensive
coverage and analysis of national - regional -
local and international current Affair's - Listen
in or download Audio
ABC
Radio National AM with Tony Eastly
- Find interviews on audio podcast and transcripts
on local, national and international affairs
World
Today with
Peter Cave: Find
interviews on audio podcast and transcripts on
local, national and international affairs
ABC
Radio National PM with Lisa Miller and Mark Colvin.
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on local, national and international affairs
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7
30 Report with
Kerry O'Brien - - video and transcript weeknights
Lateline
Leigh Sales and Tony Jones - video and transcript
weeknights
Lateline
Business with Ali Moore - video
and transcript weeknights
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Unconscionable
and at Odds:Australian
Aboriginal prisoner 'cooked to death' in van
: A
coroner found that an Aboriginal man was "cooked
to death" after he spent four hours in the back
of a security van in searing heat with no air
conditioning as it drove across the goldfields
of south-west Australia. The man was 46-year-old
Aboriginal person - Concerning the credibility
of staff workers in human agencies and services
everywhere, let no form of moral deficiency
or states of obvious moral systemic contrivance
be rewarded. Scrutinise your workplace! Do not
allow this kind of disgraceful conduct to be
overlooked. Especially in the light of G4S,
and the two guards who transported Mr Ward.
Alma Ata.
"Who
Killed Mr Ward".
WA Department of Corrective Services, a death
in custody...a failed 'duty of care'. ABC
TV's Four Corners program. Watch video or
repeat screening or Read the -
Program Transcript of Liz Jackson's report
"Who Killed Mr Ward?The case of
Mr Ward is as distressing as the report about
the "89-year-old bedridden man who was
found extremely distressed and covered in blood
on Anzac Day at the State Government-run Karingal
Nursing Home". Later it was revealed
he had also been attacked, or severely bitten
on the face by plaguing mice..... Alert.
There is simply NO EXCUSE!
Knee-weak
to the bitter end.
Mr Zappia did not comment on the report
but told News Limited the $30000 has been spent
on team camps and football equipment. Suspicious
allegations and claims come less than a week
after Mr Zappia quit as Sharks boss following
the release of secret recordings of conversations.....
Report: Dying fan 'sent Zappia thousands'. Who
is Mr Zappia? | Same with this: Fear of Police
and the investigation into use
of Taser Guns as victim sues ....Australia's
QLD police admitted evidencethat shows an officer
last week fired a 50000-volt
Taser 28 times into a man who died minutes later.
The
Qld police however continue to defend the use
of Taser guns. | Taser
company denies gun killed man | Taser
trial finds flaws in use
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Mindfulness
required:
"Trickle-down effect" affects many consumer
goods, it is based on trickle-down economics, policies
that generally do not work... I reference this as the
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan said in reponse to the
Business Council, "...an increase in the GST would have
a "savage impact on people on modest incomes, and that's
why we've ruled it out". See Stephen Long's report,
"Halve
company tax, slash capital gains tax, hike up GST: BCA
plan unveiled" on ABC's PM.
Lateline Business
with Ali
Moore. Michael Rowland's report Obama
unveils financial regulation changes, And live Washington
interview with economist Dean Baker, co-director
of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research, who
believes the U.S. government already had the power it
needed to stop the bubble from bust .... that the issue
is "regulatory
enforcement".
There's
no dead cat bounce when you 'play for real', with housing
figures. However. A song to sing to bring
on the 'green shoots of recovery' is alsways
a song worth considering. BIS Shrapnel says first home
buyers are rushing into the market and, could start
a recovery.
Retirement
age raised but ageism remains an core issue -
7 30 Report. Report
by Deborah Cornwall
Boardroom
shake-up or is it a purge for Australian Agricultural
Co. The annual general meeting of Australia's
biggest cattle company is expected to be 'a stoush',
as seven contenders fight it out for five board positions.
Goodone:
The Ethicist take on the news. Randy Cohen says,
Mass
layoffs relegate people to the status of disposable
objects .... A company can mothball its welding
robots (although I hear the new models can wake themselves
up and contact some kind of killer robots of the future
who will travel back in time and terminate us all)".
Making
Ends Meet on Newstart?
If there is one thing that is difficult to talk about
with people in Australia, it is about the difficulties
faced when you are unemployed. As a Nation we have moved
forward little on understanding this issue since the
days of the Frazer Government, when things [if you remember]
got extremely nasty. Today the base rate for the Newstart
[unemployed benefit] allowance is $227 per week. This
is $90 less than the single aged pension. I welcome
the Welfare Rights Network efforts to challenge government
backbenchers to live on that amount, to see, in their
words, 'how the hundreds of thousands who missed out
in the Budget make ends meet.' You "Try
to live on $32 a day.... " Julia
Gillard on 7 30 Report on Unemployment figures.
| Study
finds employers shun minorities Report by Emma Griffiths
Need
a Equity Focus: Australia's
banks are under real fire after new figures show their
fees charges rose by eight per cent last year to nearly
$12-billion.... I want to also say HOW unfair it is
for rural people who have no option but to use their
local postoffice ATM, where there is no access to a
real bank. These customers are being forced to pay the
unreasonable usage ATM fees as well as being told by
the Banks to 'change
their behaviour' to avoid the $1.2bn in penalty
fees.... I strongly believe all this is unreasonable
and that the whole issue with Banks over fees is utterly
out of control. | Deeper
in debt: a
history of consumer credit
Independent
Federal MP Rob Oakeshott, speaks to Lyndal Curtis in
Canberra about MP perks.
"the most important office in this country is the
citizen and, you know, we really need to invest as individuals
in the community in the political process......."
Given
there is a lack of transparency, MP Rob Oakeshott said
"MPs are part to blame in not willing to have the
honest discussion with the community about their worth
when they are on the job compared to when they have
left and it's created a system of backdoors..."
[I like this guy.... more and more!] - Michelle Grattan:
perks,
clerks, the intervention
Equity
concerns on the table in Federal Government:
The Fair Pay Commission will announce its
decision on any increase to the minimum wage in July.
| Mr
Swan says Small business tax to be reduced
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From July 1 the Government would would reduce factors
applied to pay as you go PAYG tax instalments that are
paid on a quarterly basis |
Australia will prosper after economic crisis: Wayne
Swan | Stimulating
Debate on why an
"Open Door" policy is
right in a Job Servicing Network
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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
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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
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The
shock would have been "concussive" without
stimulus. Am gratful to all the sweat. Am positive about
resilence. It is a choice of each citizen, to do what
they can to help.....]
Organisational
cultures are simply outmoded."Downturn
a gateway to work-life balance". 10
Hundred Million points Garima Verma.
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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
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47
million old Ida,
could be a close relative of the common
ancestor of monkeys, apes and people..... Found
in the Messel Pit, Germany, the European fossil is 95%
complete presenting us with more understanding of the
paleobiology of any Eocene primate found yet. Ida, was
a young female with opposable big toes and a talus bone
linking her directly to humans. More
from Colin Groves Professor of Bioanthropology at the
ANU Dr Holly Smith Associate Research Scientist and
Paleobiologist at the University of Michigan. [Amazing
story].
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Find
News on Rural Report News..... Bush
Telegraph The
ecology of friut bats, fish, water, soil and agricultural
market survival, "How Climate Change can Help
Feed the World" plus much more with music and
arts
hosted by Michael Mackenzie. | Landline
- find video updates
NOT
ON: Sounds to me like these so called 'multi-global'
business branches do not know the difference between
'right and wrong' unless an authority comes down hard
on them. Appalling Industry
rejects responsibility for workers' rights overseas
The World Today [I am not surprised Pacific Brands
are among these companies. How unattractive.]
Is
the global community capable of co-operating and adjusting
to a lesser ambitious and more modest growth cycle
so that planet earth can provide a liveable environment
to sustain the future generations? Is it Australia
yes, perhaps and maybe but.... what about China? National
Online Forum -
Leave Comment. "China's ambitious growth
plans unsustainable" by Arthur Thomas.
Carbon
pollution reduction scheme and agriculture
By Cathy Pryor on Bush Telegraph
What seems a negative is actually a positive story
today... Meet David Pearce, executive director, Centre
for International Economics; David Crombie, president,
National Farmers' Federation; Senator Christine Milne,
deputy leader Greens', all in a conversation that
I found highly productive.
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
AT
LONG LAST
:
A
recycling plan is in motion after leaders agreed to
work on the introduction of a national scheme
to keep electronic waste products like old phones,
computers and televisions hardware out of landfill.
While details will not be decided until later this
year, the scheme will most probably involve a small
levy on electronic goods to pay for collection and
recycling.
Birds
instil a sense of wonder in us, not least because
of their ability to fly. Jeremy
Mynott:
Birdscapes
Froglet
rescue program
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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
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Garnaut
Climate Change Review
Phillip Adams conversation with Professor Garnaut
on his current thoughts on the Climate Change process.....
June
9th - 2009 -
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TRUST IS ABOUT RESPECT THAN IT IS WITH RESPECT
I TRUST YOU WILL GET IT RIGHT, NO
TIME TO WASTE - Green
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During
February, Australia suffered its worst heatwave on record,
temperatures exceeded 110 F
(43C) for
at least 3 days running.... . It was even as hot as
87 F at Melbourne airport at one stage. Parched, there
is a worry too that Australia emits more carbon dioxide
per head than any nation on earth...
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Minister
for Climate Change, Ms Penny Wong said from the
beginning; Climate Change is a Economic Equation.
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FOUR
CORNERS Heat
on the Hill, a Liz Jackson Report.
- Found
the grpahics explainng how the caps work, most informative.
more
Lateline:
Will Steffen
"we have the tools we need to meet the challenge,
so lets get on with it". 11.3.09
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Do
farmers need to switch to an income which is less water
dependent? And, listen to Australia's
chief scientist, Penny Sackett, who
may help answer some of the burning questions.
In
the media, Business groups push the Opposition to
broker a deal with the Government on emissions trading,
despite
deep divisions within the Coalition on the issue.
Political satirists like Senator Joyce however swear
blasphemy. As a leader of regional interests he has
blandished our concerns in collusion with the highest
sector of emitters, disregarding a large proportion
of households living in rural communities. Senator Fielding
is equally unimpressive
believing with the sceptics that there is no link
between carbon emissions and global warming or, of the
need for Australia [ a major world emissions emitter,]
has a role to play as a responsible leader in implementing
a Emission's Trading Scheme..... without being prodded
or pushed. Here is Senator
Fielding's thoughts after coming back from the U.S.
The only hope here is his word "open"....?
We
need a plan that works for the National Interest.
Australia's Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says
the government is being mindful of the impact of the
financial crisis and the new scheme on businesses....
this is after the government announced changes during
May. Before Minister
Penny Wong left for Paris where she attended therecent
round of American-led negotiations to help forge a new
global climate treaty due to be signed by the end of
the year. Before she left, Minister Penny Wong spoke
to ABC Breakfast.
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When the senses come from
the heart
Jennifer
Byrnes 1st Tuesday of the Month is Books
ABC Fora
- Engaging and interesting speeches and debates
from all over the world.
Counterpoint - with Michael Duffy and
and Paul Comrie-Thomson as if we can hear them
both tweeking the blue-ribbon line like a geniune
Peter and Paul.
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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
DATELINE
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Repeated Thurs & Mon 2 30 pm
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National Breakfast
Radio: With Fran Kelly, Monday
to Friday 6am to 8.30am |
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National and International Events Guests and
news on the cultural arts.
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Gary
Quinlan
to be Australia's next Ambassador to UN reports
Michelle
Grattan, and we watch with keen
interest. | On Australia's multilateral diplomacy,
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'Nation
Building and Jobs Plan'
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'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
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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.
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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?
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Rudd
unveils
mortgage rescue plan,
includes a deal with banks that would allow jobless
Australians to delay mortgage repayments.
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"Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice around the world."
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Deadset
Set Correct Yasmin Alibhai-Brown:
Over Gaza and the need to help bring about PEACE....
"There is too much unfinished business, too much
reckoning left over. Peace without equality and credible
scrutiny is itself a violation of human rights, an
affirmation that some nations are beyond the reach
of the law."
How can it be ignored; "For the one and a half
million traumatised and wounded souls in that small
strip, unendurable agony goes on. The very earth they
stand on burns and cracks." And, neither
am I a writer
indulging in the 'tendency
to hyperbole or neat metaphor'. |
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World REALITY: Invest in girls
to help economies: Davos " Nike's chief executive,
the head of Unicef and Melinda Gates agreed on Saturday
that there's a simpler way to help rejuvenate many of
the world's economies: invest in the education of girls
and make sure they don't become victims of the global
financial meltdown." more
|In Australia Gender
pay gap closes for Gen Y but not for long
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BookShow
with Ramona Koval
Weekly Radio National 10am and 8pm and 7pm Fridays.
Find
Letter Vox.
A innovative space to talk about your favourite
books, with a special place to do it.
First
Person - Book Readings
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Questions
being raised as to why there isn't more literary
material written about life in remote Australia
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Fictionalising
remote Australia: Affronting Yes. Timely
Yes. Questions fly as Rosemary Neill Journalist
for The Australian and author of White Out:
How Politics is Killing Black Australia discusses
the role of writers, and what they write or
tell when it comes to stories about life in
rural and remote Australia. |
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HUMBUGGING
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Need
some good medicine, some fun and a belly laugh.
Try this one. It's fun, it is true and well,
I am not sure that there is more of it today...
it's just that it's slightly different, perhaps?
Ramona Koval talks to Robert Dessaix, Australian
author "On Humbug". |
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A
rare mother-of-pearl. Thought challenging,
perceptive, provocative, and clever humor.
Simply remarkable. Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian writer, leaves
us breathless as she opens the Sydney Writers
Festival. Find the audio.
Chimamanda
Ngozi Arichie is the author of a number
of books, has a number of awards. Her latest
new collection of short stories is compiled
as "The Thing Around Your Neck".
[transcript].
Also
find a snip of Seun
Kuti's new album called "Many Things".
Seun Kuti is a Nigerian singer and who will
be playing at the Opera House, as part of
Vivid Sydney. | Music
show live with Andrew Ford.
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Early
June,
Encounter
and The
Spirit of Things both programs line
up a captivate moment for conversation with
Richard Holloway and others. Richard
Hollaway recently also appeared at the Sydney
Writers Festival.
"Between
the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on
the Human Condition" is the latest book
by Richard Holloway. If his book is as captivating
as his conversation with Ramona Koval at
the Sydney Writers Festival [aired live
on Radio National] then perhaps I might
do more to shroud my neon-bright green envy...
given the tease for all, was just as engaging
by podcast. I adored the concept that suggests
we as humans are a whole world consciousness
having a look at ourselves. That it is the
history and use of power itself that is
a core issue to be contended with. Things
always get so fresh and appealing when a
true secular humanist with a strong background
in spirital awareness promotes reason for
aesthetic contention in debate. Open our
minds and hearts Richard Holloway, it was
a joy listening to you and Ramona both sparkle.
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Mia's
Movietime favourites and
always up for what is said by film critic Ms Julie
Rigg. Get latest Transcripts and Mobile Phone movie
touch down favourites. Links and videos.
A
Focus on Daily Life... perhaps? Reading Julie
Riggs own discription of Terence Davies 'Of
Time And The City' is in turn a mise
en scene tender, indignant tremulous, connecting
a music counterpoint symphony and telling us ' there
is nothing else like it in current cinema'. [Phew
wee] - Go to Movietime
Interview.
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Late
Night Live with Phillip
Adams.
Robert
J. Shiller Economist & author; Arthur M. Okun Professor
of Economics at Yale University; author of 'Irrational
Exuberance' and 'The Subprime Solution'.
Whenever
Phillips find someone who can perhaps help us solve
a problem, I like to hear about it too. Lights, Camera
Action, take a Jellyfish
joyride with Anthony Richardson Scientist with the
CSIRO's Marine and Atmospheric Research and the Ecology
Centre at the University of Queensland discussing the
way jellyfish are impacting with serious consequences
for the marine life and the fishing industry.
We
have individual and collective duty to protect the
marine environment and carefully manage its resources.
Rubbish.
What do we really know about it? We need to develop
a market recycled goods and greenhouse emissions were
they are properly taxed. As rubbish piles up there is
a huge amount of money to be made from new (and some
old) technologies. Tell us more Mr
Edward McBride, Energy and Environment Correspondent
for The Economist.
Consider
this: Indigenous Housing: Myths and Realities. Why
is housing for Aboriginal Australians still in such
a dire state and what's needed to improve it? a
discussion with Paul Pholeros, Architect and Director
of Healthabitat.
If
democracy is to ever truly work then perhaps Cobus
de Swardt Head of Transparency International has
'unleashed a constellation of issues on how we govern
global finance' in his discussion about the need to
develop new frameworks to make public companies and
governments more accountable. [More More More please!]
Are
our cities sustainable? Food, Clothing Shelter....
Rivers, reefs - our agricultural output. Casting a net
toward greater knowledge adding timescape content to
our time, if you are comparing the 'perfect storm' to
modern reality to the story above .... Late
Night Live with Phillip Adams
Interesting,
Philipp Blom Historian, author and broadcaster talks
about 1914 which saw the emergence of a new European
world - one dominated by
changes in technology, by globalisation and immigration,
consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry
of the superpowers. A period dominated by speed and
deeply anxious about sex. Latenight
Live The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the
West, 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom |
Artworks
- "Stories of Love and Hate" the theme of
a theatre
project
In
the National Interest
- Topical, Social and Political Current Affairs with
Petr Myres.
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ROBERT
Fisk - "World:
When did we stop caring about civilian deaths during wartime?"
It is what
is required Everywhere Fisk:
War reporters used to prefer morality over impartiality
The
Accidental Guerrilla:
Dr David Kilcullen.
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