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Monday 01 December 2008
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As the political year winds down, Christian Kerr discusses the essential similarities between the Prime Minister and the leader of the Opposition. He also pays respect to the Sydney Morning Herald's Alan Ramsay, who retires from the paper, taking with him that all-important corporate memory of Australian politics.
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Ehud Yaari is one of the most respected political analysts on Israel. He talks about the upcoming Israeli election and how the new US administration will affect Middle East affairs.
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As a resource economist, Michael Hanemann deals with the supply, demand and allocation of resources. This subfield of economics is interested in the primary sector of the economy, and is trying to better understand the role of all natural resources in the economy and plan how to manage them.
Friday 28 November 2008
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Most politicians would say they entered politics wanting to make the world a better place. But as they rise through the political ranks it becomes clear that the path to power is marked by compromises—small compromises for the greater good. It is the tension between the drive to gain a position of power and influence over policy and the need to maintain personal principles that many committed politicians feel deeply. This program explores the reasons that drove three politicians to become dissenting voices.
Originally broadcast on 19/6/2003.
Thursday 27 November 2008
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Acclaimed Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan discusses his new novel Wanting, along with his experience of co-writing the film script for Australia and the strange nature of the writer's life, in a conversation recorded at Hobart's historic Theatre Royal.
Wednesday 26 November 2008
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Bea Campbell talks about the reaction in the UK to the Labour Government's Pre-Budget Report: does the plan to raise taxes and expand spending herald the death of New Labour?
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What does the 21st century hold for Turkey? At the beginning of the 20th century Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey, said that Turkey's future was in Europe, not the Islamic East. The ultimate realisation of that vision would be for Turkey to join the EU, but the move towards EU membership over recent years has thrown up some paradoxes: Turkey's economy has been modernised and there is more political freedom, but at the same time the population has become more religious and secularism is increasingly under fire.
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The Japanese city of Hiroshima will be forevermore associated with the first use of an atomic bomb. It is argued that its function was to end the Pacific War in 1945; but when did the bombing of civilians become an acceptable way not only to conduct war but to end a war? And what have been the global consequences of the international scientific community's quest to create a nuclear weapon?
Tuesday 25 November 2008
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This week Bruce talks about the president-elect's economic team.
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For thousands of years, until about 70 years ago, streets were full of human and animal life. There might have been the occasional milk cart or sulky or Hansom cab clattering by, but essentially the street outside your home was a place the kids could play cricket without worrying too much about being run over by anything going faster than a billycart. But today, the streets are a no-man's-land.
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Beatrice Falkiner was a respectable Melbourne matron in the 1930s. Her daughter Joan married an Indian prince who was a Muslim and already married. Taley Mohammed Khan ruled over a small and dusty principality in the north-west of India, far away from Bombay or Delhi. He brought Joan to live there; she converted to Islam and took to wearing saris, but remained in many ways a Melbourne girl of her time. Joan's fascinating story has been told by her cousin once removed, Suzanne Falkiner.
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