Listen Now - 2010-03-14 | Download Audio - 14032010
Figures show that the number of babies taken from mothers at birth is rising dramatically, particularly in NSW. Judgments must err on the side of child safety, but there's concerns some babies are taken needlessly. One couple is suing for $18 million. Reporter Hagar Cohen Read Transcript
Listen Now - 2010-03-07 | Download Audio - 07032010
Not only in Australia, but around the world, the Catholic Church is rocked by news of sex abuse scandals. The vow of celibacy is often blamed, but it is more than that. The Church encourages a kind of adolescence in its priests, a co-dependency, and a terrible and immature loneliness. Reporter, Stephen Crittenden. Read Transcript
Listen Now - 2010-02-28 | Download Audio - 28022010
Many wonder why they are not just shot out of the water on sight, but in fact the merchant cargo ships, the insurers, and the many State navies are also caught in a mesh of overlapping laws of the sea. And countries like Denmark, the EU and the US are at loggerheads about how to handle it all. Reporter, Stan Correy Read Transcript
Listen Now - 2010-02-21 | Download Audio - 21022010
Mozzies are waiting as each day travellers arrive carrying the dengue virus. They want a sip of blood, and will spread it all about within days. Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito, has also arrived, and it bites so viciously, it's called 'the barbecue stopper'. Our changed garden culture suits them perfectly. Reporter Ian Townsend. Read Transcript
Sunday 9am
repeated Tuesdays 7pm
Sunday 21 March 2010
Perhaps it's all too hard - Guantanamo, Republican hatred, Afghanistan, the global financial crisis and unemployment. The health bill may just pass, and if so, would make history. Barack Obama is working in a house of cards, many stacked against him. But he can hold it together, says Professor Mark Danner at the Sydney Ideas Forum. Photo by Dominique Nabakov.
Annoying criminal hackers or devastating cyberwars: are governments keeping up?
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Forty years ago an Australian shearer from Grenfell, gripped by religious mania, set fire to one of the most holy sites in Islam – the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and started a global Islamic political movement. In the Middle East, Rohan's burning of the mosque still sparks conspiracy theories and deep anger.
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10.45am AEDT
First Person
Serialised reading of published autobiographies
