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Bee's Bee's and more about Bee's on the Science Show with Robin Williams.

Link to stories on Life Matters |The Productivity Commission is currently doing a study on the not-for-profit sector, but the word 'volunteer' is missing from the terms of reference. |Violence against older women|Talkback/The transformative power of music and so much more.Dance and feel your life blood flow

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Author of the book Crunch Time.
 Tony Kevin has a number of strategic views and is a fine speaker advocating the issues of John Keynes, until now so selectively misunderstood by most liberal thinkers.

 

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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.r 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.

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. Qld Talkback and blog.

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Worry me not: Cultural diversity is a driving force of development, not only in respect of economic growth, but also as a means of leading a more fulfilling intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual life.
 

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Regarding the 2010 elections, I will be focusing on what happens in the Senate. This Senate has been unworkable.

What else could be improved?
 
'I'm thinking of the poverty of our own making.' FInd the Spirit of Things. Audio discusion with advocate for change in the Catholic church. Questioning the attitude towards women given that 'women hold up half the sky'.....she says.
 

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H A I T I

Well they are talking about it.... A Marshall Plan for Haiti | Local ownership is said to be a central theme for such a plan in Haiti more

Google 'Other ways to help'

A different approach: The United Nations has launched a major food distribution program in Haiti aimed at feeding 2 million people in the capital Port-au-Prince.

Please donate, help the people of Haiti. Go to the United Nations or the Red Cross, to World Vision or the many Aid Donors who are working hard to help the people of Haiti.

Water for Haiti from Oxfam - Oxfam's emergency response team for Latin America is based in Haiti, working with public health, and water and the various sanitation team...

Find out more and help children join UNICEF
Food for Haiti from CARE Australia
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Emergency Architects Haiti Fund If you want to give money towards Emergency Architects Australia's project in Haiti, you can do so by going to their website and following directions. All donations are tax deductible. [ By Design]
   


I won't quit, says Obama

Obama delivered first State of the Union address

One year in office

I won't quit on "health care, jobs, bipartisanship," he said.

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Ms. Pelosi said, "It means, we will move on many fronts, any front we can". "We'll go through the gate. If the gate's closed, we'll go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole-vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people, for their own personal health and economic security, and for the important role that it will play in reducing the deficit."

Australia, we are living in a period of unprecedented species loss.

More than 40 environment groups across Australia are signatories of the 'Boobook Declaration'. The Boobook Declaration is a call to action for biodiversity in Australia. Find the podcast on Bush Telegraph and go add your name beside others on www.boobook.org.au

A Late Night line Special
Food Chain: Is Australia's foodchain being challenged by climate change?
   

Critical and Pressing issue and one quite small when you think on the scale of what is predicted as coming! Seachange is on our doorstep. Are we to ignore our national interests as a humanly aware, knowledgeable proactive society, reading the headlines over espresso cafe. Torres Island communities fear rising sea levels.

The Australians are being accused of neglecting island communities in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea that are threatened by climate change, after it rejected pleas for financial assistance..... despite providing A$millions to remote Pacific Island nations..... find more visual links by tagging the 'more info' link on the right of the Youtube page.
   


Stop small minded politics!

Still Waiting. Four Months Now and still "Calls for Australian intervention over Merak port asylum seekers" |Ambassador Peter Woolcott went to Jakarta for two days of talks with the Indonesian foreign affairs and immigration departments.... what is the outcome? more reports

ALERT to HEALTH ISSUE: Listen to this podcast

Deported: Humanitarians sent back to Australia after trying to raise awareness of the long running stand-off between a group of Sri Lankan Tamils and Indonesian authorities.

Indonesia asks Australian help on asylum seekers

Heavily pregnant woman, an asylum-seeker writes to Therese Rein requesting her HELP.

AUSTRALIA'S ambassador for people smuggling issues, Peter Woolcott, is said to be told in Jakarta tomorrow morning he must do more to help resolve the asylum-seeker standoff at Merak, including offering resettlement to two dozen of those on board.

Our knowledge about what needs to be done to help change the world must influence the politics of our everyday life or we are absolutely nowhere!

Jonathan Safran Foer author of 'Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' talks to Ramona Koval about his new book, Eating Animals. Not a new topic but one creating much interest as writers such as Nick Earls and the wonderful Donna Lee Brien alongside their audiences are becoming increasingly conscious and concerned about the food chain. Where our food comes from and what exactly is in it. This is even more interesting when you consider medical experts are predicting that this generation is on track to have a shorter lifespan than their parents. | As well I do hope you get to watch the ABC 7 30 Report this week as the team open the year with many voices discussing the issues required to craft change to cope with Australia's future population growth. Find Transcripts and vidpods.

Scoop the News: Heading toward Change. Intergenerational Report entitled Australia to 2050: Future Challenges will be launched by Treasury... So what does Australia think?

Planning for the Future: Australia's population debate needs a greater focus for debate.

Interview with Kevin Rudd on 7 30 Report ABC 7 30 Report
[Thursday 29th Jan 2010]

SBS reported the Prime Minister puts Climate change, Work Choices and healthcare reform as the key election issues, in a retort to Tony Abbott. [You wonder we're getting into here? ]

Keep up day to day - weekly on Breakfast RN

Some hope for a return of Mr Turnbull, no doubt. Someone with a bit more savvy on economic forcasts and with vision of a greater social agenda would help piece progress foreword national intelligence, if the opposition were self confident or purposeful.

Ms Ridouts Blog

Round Table with a number of informed voices supporting the potential need to prepare for Australia's Future needs in a growing community. Guest on 7 30 Report include industry expert and CEO of Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, Ms Heather Ridout. Find Vidpods and Transcripts as they become available. ABC 7 30 Report

________________________________ Remember Copenhagen?

Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri said, time is running out for the world to act to halt climate change. He said, "If we don't reach a binding agreement by 2010, then clearly we are losing time and that will make it much more difficult and much more expensive for the world." Rajendra Pachauri urges India to assist the most vulnerable countries in Africa and small island states. To India he said, "Indian authorities must express and show concern for protecting the ecosystems of this planet and should not allow their words or actions to be interpreted as being only in India's interest."

Prof Ross Garnaut says Australia's position could have been strengthened if Parliament had passed the emissions trading scheme before Copenhagen. Sceptic Abbott is gleeful saying Australia 'failed' at Copenhagen on the ETS. Given he aims his statements at the Prime Minister, and we all voted for this Prime Minister I take this critic to mean all of us who voted for Climate Change. Abbott has since watered this down in statements saying the "Copenhagen result disappointing".... [arr arr but] ..... "You were the one that built Copenhagen up"... He suggests that Copenhagen was a vindication for no ETS. How do we figure.... Mr Abbott as he also reports "a 5% cut in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions is an adequate pledge for now". Keel over, do we laugh, hoot or cry? This guy is all over the place or is he now trying to two-up his mate, Mr Malcolm Turnbull? Find Malcolm's blog and tell me what you think?

The lesson from Copenhagen is this: governments are elected; NGOs are not. said Mary Dejevsky and I think she has it right. Unfortunately, politics can't always meet the moral ground. With such high stakes and so many double negatives Penny Wong has said, "The reality is, the Greens have taken a position in relation to targets that the Government was not able to negotiate on." |For this reason, Ms Penny Wong rules out Greens deal to pass emissions trading schemey..... |The Rudd Government said it will reintroduce the ETS during Febuary ...We wanted more from Copenhagen said Climate Change Minister Penny Wong. She is firm about what the government took to Copenhagen. Many, including the Greens are wanting to see Australia raise it carbon emission targets.....| more in Aust, about China, ... Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), and news OS

Don't hold your carbon dioxide in says economic business commentor Alan Kohler

Fabulous artists, concerts and music playlists. Transform your best everyday moments into something magical with Classic FM - Tickets to Win.

Go Classic FM. A most liberating and gentle pianist Emanuel Axe. Podcast Weekend Life or simular festive feasts on ABC Classic FM

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Shells 'thinning due to fossil fuels

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

 

  Even with 1C rise, arctic sea ice would disappear in summer.....
'The Empathic Civilization'
"Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases"

Now lets see. Is it true .... 'the idea that human beings' essential nature is rational, detached, autonomous, acquisitive and utilitarian. Can it be argued today, with all that we know now that individual salvation lies in unlimited material progress here on Earth? - Gads, you decide.

In his book 'The Empathic Civilization'....or could it be about 'rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era. Jeremy Rifkin author also states that - "If human nature is as the Enlightenment philosophers claimed, then we are likely doomed." He says, "It is impossible to imagine how we might create a sustainable global economy and restore the biosphere to health if each and every one of us is, at the core of our biology, an autonomous agent and a self-centered and materialistic being."

Why are We Changing Maps?
 The Geopolitics of Emotion: Saturday Extra has some food to chomp before picking up the paper and grabbing a special to loop Dominique Moisi with his discussion on The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World'

The Future is with our next Generations

Historically Palling: Where are the Women? Top positions in business, politics, the arts or the sciences are still overwhelmingly occupied by men.

 Need Action: Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby said, "the time has come for all citizens to make it clear that they demand an end to the under-funding of public education, where the future of our nation will chiefly be written." He said, "It constantly amazes me that leaders of government in Australia who have themselves benefited from public education go along with inequity in the distribution of public funds for schooling." Justice Kirby highlighted the achievements of Australian Nobel laureates who had attended public schools, including this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, Elizabeth Blackburn.

The 'Marine Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Report Card' for Australia. (CSIRO).... Project manager and scientist Dr Elvira Poloczanska said, "On both sides of the continent there is clear evidence of ocean warming and this is already bringing sub-tropical species south into temperate waters, and in the case of the giant kelp forests in Tasmania, appears to be having a severe impact in just a few years.He said, "This research is relevant for anyone with a recreational interest or financial investment in our coasts and oceans..." more on this report.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef in trouble: Prospects for the survival of Australia's Great Barrier Reef report it could be "functionally extinct" within decades.....

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?

"Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth..." Building an Encyclopedia of Life?

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Need a Global Solution. Global Solution Required. "42 million people around the globe are currently displaced due to conflict and persecution, including 16 million refugees and over 26 million people displaced from their homes within the borders of their own countries. Of these, less than one per cent will be offered a permanent resettlement place this year." Amnesty International

The world's growing Human Rights Deficit. We need all nations to find a coordinated global approach regarding asylum seekers, to find durable solutions for the millions of people forced to flee their own countries.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other major contributors to the coalition fighting in Afghanistan call for a Afghanistan summit. Prime Minister Mr Rudd told media he welcomes a proposal for a conference on Afghanistan.

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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

 

 
 

 

BookShow with Ramona Koval
Weekly, Radio National 10am and 8pm

Find Letter Vox. A innovative space to talk about
your favourite words, writings or books.... and find all
the other web-side activities.

First Person Readings

   
Pico Iyer on the the Dalai Lama and John Sutherland about his new book Magic Moments among just some of the wonderful conversations Ramona presents during the Summer Series.
   
In conversation with Richard Holloway
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 do and may the heavens fall!"
   
Lapham's Quarterly
on Medicine
Lewis Lapham never fails does he. Now find out how, why and what writer Lewis Lapham has collected from the last 3000 years on doctors, patients, nurses, surgery, health and disease. Look in your own mirror as he got me to look in mune. Can you see yourself gaze? Lapham's Quarterly
on Medicine - and I look forward to what he present next about time andwriting on religion? [http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/]
   
Running Wild
Action as well as words is all in Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo. Among the most beautiful explanations about writing for children I have ever heard. A delight for the spirit and why the need to have a self bound adventure. Michael Morpurgo sounds like a wonderful person to know, his book a story for anyone who could imagine what it might be like to take off far into the jungle. An inspiration is the coversation between Michael Morpurgo and Ramona - here's 10 for the mischief.
   
The Infinities
John Banville speaks to Ramona Koval from Dublin. Marvellous work Ramona. This Irish author does not disapoint those of us who are hungry to know how the work of such a mind for writing works. Tops!
   

 

Biography: A Very Short Introduction

by Hermione Lee

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.]
   
Some of Mia's_Notes Random 2009

Cate Kennedy's The World Beneath... it was the refreshing way Cate spoke of her craft that most inspired me. What is the difference between a short story and novel. Cates audio interview with Peter Mares.

 
 
 

MovieTime- Movie reviews, interview, forums andall the hot news behind-the-scenes.
Friday 8.30am and repeated Sunday 11.30am Radio National.

 
 

Late Night Live with Phillip Adams ABC Radio National Mon-Thur 10pm repeated 4pm the following day [6pm WA]

 

 

Late Night Live with Phillip Adams.

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.

'The unconscious civilisation' and what's wrong with it. " CLASSIC LNL: Interviews John Ralston Saul - Top Discussion

Jill Tarter - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ***

miacats random notes on LNL
 

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94th Tour de France 2009 starts July 4th to Sunday July 26th
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