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The Public First Program Editorials from the Public First Program aired on Gippsland FM 104.7, Thursdays at 11:00am (AEST). An alternative viewpoint on local, national and international events. Often polemic, always controversial. Highly researched and presented by Shane Elson an award winning radio commentator and producer. Available free of charge. Only ask is that, if used, quoted or otherwise referred to, that proper acknowledgement be given. Login to Add this to your Playlist Format : Blogs PodcastDirectory.com's listings of the The Public First Program Podcasts
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April 2009 #1 - Foot Spas R US
Updated: 2009-04-08 08:10:00 Description: On my way to work on Wednesdays, I sometimes take the long way round. On the longer route I pass a 'spa'. Its housed in a renovated factory type place. You know the kind, all angles, glass and cement. Very trendy and upmarket. The kind of place you ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2009 #1 - TV or Bust Updated: 2009-03-19 09:30:00 Description: Have you ever had one of those months where its suddenly the end and you are hard pressed to recall what you did over the last 30 or so days? If so, welcome to the brave new world of disasters, terrors, wars, gluts, downturns, failures, frauds and f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD January 2009 #1 - Gaza, Gas and War Updated: 2009-01-19 05:10:00 Description: Have you ever heard of British Gas? Or perhaps the BG Group? Or what about the Consolidated Contractors Company? OK, then what about Tony Blair, Mahmoud Abbas, Ehud Olmert? I guess these last three are recognisable. But what do all these names share...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2008 #4 - Gaza Again Updated: 2008-12-30 04:00:00 Description: As I sat down to finish off the last of the Christmas fare I switched on the evening news. It was not a pretty sight. The lead item was the latest genocidal attack by Israel against the civilians of the occupied Gaza strip. The first pictures were ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2008 #2 - Human Rights or Our Shame? Updated: 2008-12-10 04:05:00 Description: Sixty three years ago the global community drew its collective breath and sighed in relief at the end of World War II. Millions had died and many more millions were displaced, suffering under conditions that the so called “civilised” world found...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2008 #3 - Gouge Your Eyes Out Updated: 2008-12-17 06:15:00 Description: So now George Bush knows what its like to be a friend of Dick Cheney! Well, at least the guy didn't have a shotty. Might have made for better tele though! Nonetheless, Muntadhar al-Zeidi will continue to languish in an American controlled Iraqi jail...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dec 2008 #1 - Dentists, Dole and Private Schools Updated: 2008-12-03 06:45:00 Description: There are two places I really don't like. The first is dentist's waiting rooms and the second are dole offices. Being in both give me a sense of dread. In the dentist's waiting room I begin to sweat a little and my knees begin to ache. I imagine th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nov 2008 #4 - Not Winning. Losing Updated: 2008-11-25 02:20:00 Description: Its amazing how time flies when youre having fun. And havent we been having some fun lately. Work, mortgage, work, car repayments, work, groceries, work and on and on it goes. Meanwhile, out in the real world, elections have been had, grand fi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2008 #2 - The Real Danger Within Updated: 2008-07-23 04:20:00 Description: We live in troubled times. Perhaps the words of George Orwell in 1984 were prophetic in some small way. Who knows, maybe he did have an alien implant that gave him foresight? But perhaps that is my paranoia speaking. Whatever the situation, it seems ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2008 #3 - Obama-Danger to the Middle East Updated: 2008-07-30 06:00:00 Description: Any of us who have attempted to speakoff the cuff in a public setting know just how dangerous it can be. We can muddle our words, prattle on incoherently and mis-speak important facts. So when it comes to politicians delivering speeches we can re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2008 #1 - The Royal Gosper Updated: 2008-08-06 09:40:00 Description: Everyone loves freebies. You know, a free hat or t-shirt to remember an event by. Even Royalty like to be in on them. The Olympic Family are royalty. Well at least thats what they like to think of themselves as, not mere mortals who must adhere to t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2008 #2 - Georgia On My Mind Updated: 2008-08-15 03:30:00 Description: You may have heard about the little stoush being fought out in the Republic of Georgia at present. Georgia is a little country that grew out of the former Soviet Union. Bordered by the Black Sea to the west, Turkey and Armenia to the South, Azerbaija...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2008 #3 - Its all Relative I Suppose Updated: 2008-08-21 01:00:00 Description: The six thousand dollar a week man lives in a house like ours. Well, it has walls, floors and ceilings. He earns his six thousand dollars a week by occupying a chair in an office in a central city high-rise building. The six thousand dollar a week ma...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sept 2008 #1 - In a Split Second Updated: 2008-09-08 05:00:00 Description: Making split second decisions is something we do all day. Do we choose the ham and cheese sandwich or the salad and lamb? Do wear the blue shirt or the green one? Do we have our coffee in a mug or a cup? Obviously not all decisions carry the same wei...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD September 2008 #2 - Finance for Dummies Updated: 2008-09-24 02:00:00 Description: Heres how economic life works. You want to buy something and I own or make what you want to buy. You dont have enough cash at hand to pay for it. In order to obtain enough ready cash to purchase my product or good, you go to a bank and get a loan....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD September 2008 #3 - Goldman's Chickens Updated: 2008-09-30 09:30:00 Description: Its funny, isnt it, that as the capitalist system tries to reinvent itself, the so called market leaders, who caused the problem in the first place, have now been put in charge of designing the fix. Although not unlike putting the foxes in charg...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2008 #2 - Lurking Lippy Danger - Reprise Updated: 2008-06-13 13:17:34 Description: As we read, hear and see more about how the Imperial adventure in the Middle East is going bottom up, a little known terrorist threat is looming on our back door. A bioterrorist threat more dangerous, destructive and devastating than anything seen b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2008 #1 - Left Right or Wrong Updated: 2008-06-09 01:46:53 Description: All hail, the Left is dead! Well at least according to the reality in which Ken Phillips of the Institute of Public Affairs exists. Ken is one of the Directors of this organisation and I guess he is far more qualified than me to make such a bold c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2008 #4 - Art, Power and Parenting Updated: 2008-05-28 14:39:06 Description: Most parents begin exercising power over their children by using the fear factor. Dont touch. Youll get burnt or Dont play with that. It / you will break. While these types of directives often have very practical and necessary applications,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2008 #3 - Al-Nakba and Optimism Updated: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Description: Margaret Thatcher once proclaimedthere is no alternative! She made this pronouncement during the miners strike that almost shut down England during the 1980s. A closer examination of the subtext of her speech and this declaration reveals that, fro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2008 #2 - Carers, Get a Life Updated: 2008-05-21 02:51:11 Description: Did you see 4 Corners on the ABC last Monday night? It was about the plight of the grief stricken carers and the burden they carry looking after their disabled loved ones. What a bunch of whingers? I mean, lets do a reality check here. But first som...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2008 # 1 - Bare Chested and Beautiful: Cabbies and Viral Unionism Updated: 2008-05-07 02:14:33 Description: Blokes with bare chests beat the big end of town! Perhaps that should have been the headline that celebrated the cabbies victory last week. It seems that not only are Melbournes cabbies the proudest and loudest in the country, they are also on the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2008 #3 - William Robert and the ANZAC Legacy Updated: 2008-05-01 20:12:03 Description: William Robert Elson, Serial Number 6733, natural born British Subject, was 21 years and eight months old when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on the 4th August 1916. He was sent off to the other side of the world as a private in the 22...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2008 #4 - Tom, GE and Bush Updated: 2008-05-01 20:12:03 Description: About this time five years ago NBC current affairs anchor, Tom Brokaw, always one to ask the "tough" questions, got an exclusive - one on one - interview with George Bush. It was revealing in a number of ways. Firstly, NBC is owned by General Elect...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2008 #2 - Porn, Footy and 9-11 Updated: 2008-04-16 04:10:06 Description: What do pornography, 9-11 and Sydney Swans footballer, Barry Hall, have in common? On the surface not much but I reckon its worth a look. Last weekend Barry Hall punched and concussed an opposition player in an off ball incident that was, fortun...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2008 #1 - The Family Updated: 2008-04-11 20:18:54 Description: Aint the Olympics great? All the glitz! All the glamour! The prestige and the glory! Wow! Im over the moon about the Olympics and really, really wish I could be part of the family. Dont you? Then again the mafia is often referred to as The Famil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2008 #4 - Human Rights Day 2007. Dateline Kuala Lumpur Updated: 2008-04-03 13:12:30 Description: It seems to me that wherever you go there are forces at work that seek to prevent the expression of basic human rights. On December 10th, 1948, the United Nations adopted the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". The member states, then and now,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2008 #3 - Chris Berg - On yer Bike Updated: 2008-03-18 23:42:09 Description: I reckon that it must be pretty easy to get a job at the Institute for Public Affairs. But first, the grandiose title of the organisation needs some clarification. Firstly, the so-called Institute is not at all concerned with affairs of the public...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2008 #2 - Political Animals Updated: 2008-03-16 01:13:15 Description: Animals. Inhuman. Terrorists. Unmerciful killers of innocent men, women and children. These are just of few of the epithets that are used to describe Palestinians. Not some Palestinians but all of them. The people who use these words are not...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2008 #1 - Kids Business Updated: 2008-03-07 23:40:07 Description: As Edmond Groves swans around the US trying to flog off bits of his failing empire, mums and dads are getting worried. Now, as it happens, these mums and dads are also tax payers and, so it transpires, they have contributed mightily to the fortunes ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2008 # 4 - The Great Council of the 1000 Updated: 2008-02-28 11:22:19 Description: The Third World is alive and well in Australia and a gathering of the great council of 1000 of the chattering, polite classes, gathered in the big house over a weekend, will not change a thing. Almost unimaginable amounts of money are spent each ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Februrary 2008 #3 - Dud Laugh Updated: 2008-02-20 02:22:38 Description: You could say Im a little obsessed by the goings on in the Big House in Canberra over the last week or so. Its been so much fun and the irony, belly laughs and general sense of humour coming out of the place seems to indicate that we did, indeed, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2008 #2 - Saying Sorry is Hard to Do Updated: 2008-02-14 13:58:22 Description: They say saying sorry is the hardest thing to do. So, are you sorry? Really, truly sorry? That seems to be a key question in the big house in Canberra this week. The other key question seems to be, why should I feel sorry? Perhaps Ill start with th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2008 #1 - Anything is Possible Updated: 2008-02-06 15:53:35 Description: Here we are, the new year and all is well. Well, well for some and not so well for others. 2008 has got off to a flying start. I certainly cant complain. I guess I can but my woes pale into insignificance when compared to others. Nonetheless, I can...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2007 #1 - A Return to Day Zero Updated: 2007-12-06 14:12:31 Description: One wonders what will become of those who come after us. After so much hullabaloo, cheering, flag waving and chest beating, will we become a more just and equitable society? Will we be able to turn around the prevailing orthodoxies and reclaim the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD November 2007 #2 - K07-The Aftermath Updated: 2007-11-29 12:12:02 Description: Here we are at the other side of the federal election. No doubt many supporters from both sides woke up on Sunday morning with hangovers and emotions they were not accustomed to. The man of steel did his usual early morning walk but was shown up to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD November 2007 #1 - Cup Day and Dictators Updated: 2007-11-10 02:11:24 Description: The news has been telling me that a horse won the Melbourne Cup this week. I guess that as sure a horse will win that race a politician or two will win the Big Race to the House on the Hill later this month. The major difference is, that we only hav...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2007 #3 - A Day at the Races Updated: 2007-10-20 01:11:01 Description: Glad you could join me from Randwick for todays Election Guineas. Its a strong field and all bets are now in. The gates are closed and they settle. And theyre off and racing in the 2007 Election Guineas. And what a strong field it is. Howards L...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2007 #2 - Gunns and the Roosters Updated: 2007-10-15 12:56:18 Description: When I was a kid and it was legal to keep chooks in a backyard pen, we had, for a time, a rather rowdy rooster. When he wasnt fluffing himself up to prove his dominance, or crowing at random, he was chasing the chooks. Of course, once he was deemed...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2007 #1 - We Are All Witnesses Updated: 2007-10-09 00:02:32 Description: She lay just beside us, a young pretty woman lying on her back. She lay there as if sunbathing in the heat, and the blood running from her back was still wet. The murderers had just left. She just lay there, feet together, arms outspread, as if she...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2007 #5 - Cousins of Gunns Updated: 2007-08-30 14:45:00 Description: When the wealthy begin to slog it out, you can rest assured that there is more to it than meets the eye. The latest stoush between the rich of Sydneys harbour suburbs is being framed as something we should be interested in. And, on one level, we sh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD September 2007 #1 - Agent of the State Updated: 2007-09-13 02:50:00 Description: How much security can you buy for $250 million these days? Thugs acting as agents of the state and not much else it would seem. The incredibly audacious stunt by the ABCs Chaser comedy team showed just how ridiculous the whole war on terror scare...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD September 2007 #2 - Blackwater USA - Private War Updated: 2007-09-20 00:00:00 Description: We all fight a daily battle within ourselves as we negotiate a complex moral and ethical world in which conflicting values, practices and beliefs might otherwise send us stir crazy. Do we attempt to buy Australian only to find that our budget doesn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2007 #3 - Which god? Updated: 2007-08-16 03:05:00 Description: In the latest bit of me tooism to come from Kevin call me 07 Rudd we find that not only is he prepared to support one god, he seems to be taking out a divine insurance policy with the whole lot of them. Last week Kev and John went toe to toe ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2007 #2 - Run to Paradise Updated: 2007-08-09 02:30:00 Description: You might have heard or seen the news reports about the way in which Olympic athletes will be gagged when it comes to talking about Chinas human rights and other abuses while theyre in Beijing next year. However the head of the Australian Olympic ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2007 #1 - SIM Cards and Generosity Updated: 2007-08-02 14:40:00 Description: I wonder how long it will be before you or I or someone we know is given the Haneef treatment? Judging by the hyperbole emanating from Canberra and the willingness for politicians and police to ignore fundamental rights, it should not be too long. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2007 #4 - Repackaging Cigarettes and Politicians Updated: 2007-07-26 23:05:00 Description: Back in the 1980s I used to do a lot of work for the corporate PR industry. Product launches, big public spectacle events, conferences; that type of thing. Included in that line up of companies that I worked for, was a multinational tobacco company...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2007 #3 - Body of Evidence Updated: 2007-07-19 01:55:00 Description: The human body, the carrier of the soul, heart and mind is, to my way of thinking, the most important site of conflict on earth. It is the site upon which a judge, jury and executioner all perform their roles. Roles that if carried out according to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2007 #2 - Oceans of Money Updated: 2007-07-12 01:00:00 Description: In a world awash with money, fame and fortune, it isnt surprising that politicians have been recruited to ensure that the oceans of cash are kept flowing ever upwards. A few weeks ago the Victorian Premier, Steve Bracks, became a star. The vehicle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2007 #1 - Cold Racism Updated: 2007-07-06 03:37:39 Description: The Howard government recently sent in the troops to stamp out sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities. Mal Brough, an ex military man, was almost slavering at the opportunity to send in some of his old mates to sort out the moral panic his governmen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2007 #3 - All Along the Watchtower Updated: 2007-06-28 22:44:48 Description: Having a rather sad life I have to admit one of my favourite TV programs is the US prison series OZ. The setting of this series is a fictional prison called OZ short for The Oswald State Penitentiary. Within this facility is a special section ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2007 #4 - Unspoken Words Among Friends Updated: 2007-06-28 22:44:38 Description: This is an edited extract from the first draft of John Howards address to the Sydney Institute regarding the inequities within the Australian community. Gerard, thank you for the warm welcome. Friends, and I can say that with confidence knowing th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2007 #1 - Madam Economy Updated: 2007-06-07 22:47:44 Description: I met The Economy the other day. She was sitting at a bar in a little pub I sometimes frequent when interstate. She looked rather weary and her eyes had that almost one too many look about them. I pulled up a chair and asked her how things were. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2007 #2 - When Generals Talk Updated: 2007-06-07 22:47:43 Description: Before Peter Garrett lost his way and joined the alternative capitalist party, he sang a song with the line when the generals talk, you better listen to them. At the time he was singing about both the military and economic generals and it is the e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2007 #3 - Johnny GM Seed Updated: 2007-06-07 22:47:36 Description: I dont think Ive ever written a Dear John letter before but here goes. John Roskam, Institute of Public Affairs Level 2, 410 Collins Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Dear John, I read with interest your most recent opinion piece in The Age news...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2007 #4 - The Reigning Rein Updated: 2007-06-07 22:47:33 Description: In the ever lasting battle for the minds of men and women, one of the key strategies employed by the ruling classes, should their interests be challenged, is to create a smokescreen to obscure the real issues that should be occupying the minds of th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2007 #1 - Aquaman Meets Pell Updated: 2007-06-07 22:47:21 Description: I guess it depends which side of the debate you stand on but I for one believe the comments by George Pell were repugnant and would be rejected by fair minded Australians. If John Howard said that I guess, again, that a furore would have broken ou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2007 #3 - ANZAC - For Whom? Updated: 2007-05-07 18:31:31 Description: For the last ten years Ive been trying to work out why I have lost interest in the ANZAC day memorials. I attended my first when I was 15 and played in the Municipal band. We played at a Dawn Service and my dad, a WWII vet, took me down to the war ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2007 #2 - Jones, Race and Class Interests Updated: 2007-04-18 16:00:15 Description: In December 2005 a bunch of un-named and as yet unidentified people, orchestrated the closest thing we in Australia have come to in a full on race riot. The cowards that organised the riots in Cronulla had the full backing of our ruling classes. The...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2007 #1 - Bombay Nights Updated: 2007-04-04 00:00:00 Description: Some years ago the company I was working for was awarded a contract to do some work in the Indian city of Bombay, now known as Mumbai. It was a great opportunity and became a life changing experience for me. As the projects technical manager I had ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2007 #5 - The Politics of Convenience and Liability Updated: 2007-04-01 00:00:00 Description: I was listening to the radio the other day when news came on about David Hicks appearance at the kangaroo court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I thought the best journalists in the country would be discussing the unjust court setting he was appearing in....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2007 #4 - Tears, Perks and People Updated: 2007-03-22 02:10:21 Description: A few weeks ago one of my favourite whipping posts, Amanda Vanstone, was sacked from the Howard government ministry. As Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs she continued the Ruddock legacy of dehumanising the victims of persecution wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2007 #3 - Techncially Speaking Updated: 2007-03-16 22:00:54 Description: A young man, lets call him Andrew, is sitting on the footpath, cigarette hanging from his mouth staring at nothing. Hes just been breached for a technical oversight. His journey to despair began four weeks ago when a mate of his dads asked if w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2007 #2 - Hicks, Burke and Howard Updated: 2007-03-08 01:30:00 Description: I wonder if David Hicks ever met Brian Burke? It seems, if you believe the hullabaloo, that Mr. Burke is about as toxic as the Taliban! Well, toxic for one liberal minister anyway.The hurrah over Mr. Burke began when we found out Kevin Rudd met with ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2007 #1 - The Free Market on a Lazy Sunday Updated: 2007-03-01 13:00:00 Description: The echoes of Adam Smith reverberate today. In 1776 he coined the classic phrase that has become the guiding mantra for neoconservative economists. In his book, The Wealth of Nations he wrote, It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the bre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2007 #3 - Rearranging the Deckchairs Updated: 2007-02-14 23:00:00 Description: Things must be getting rough on the bridge. Johnnys come out swinging and young Kevis mustering his mates. What was that old song? Ah, thats right, the times they are a changin. But how much they will actually change is yet to be determined and,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2007 #4 - You Lose Power Updated: 2007-02-21 20:45:00 Description: Just as Tony Blair owns up to the failure that is the war on terror in Iraq, one of our own has spilled the beans on the true intentions of the so called coalition of the willing. Speaking on the ABCs The World Today program last Thursday, Rob...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2007 #2 - Educated Ignorance Updated: 2007-02-10 04:40:48 Description: Last week the Age newspaper carried an opinion piece by John Roskam, the Executive Director of the right wing, Institute for Public Affairs. In the latest tome from the IPA, we are told that a free education is an accident of history and an idea wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2007 #1 - Young Liberals go to Town Updated: 2007-02-01 00:15:00 Description: It must be the end of Summer. The tennis is over, the cricket well did it ever really begin. The beaches are almost deserted at noon on Wednesdays and the streets are full of tired looking mums looking for parking spaces near schools. Ahh! That is ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2006 #4 - In a Funk - A 2006 Reflection Updated: 2006-12-28 00:45:00 Description: I'm sitting here wondering why I'm in such a funk (as I think the Americans would call it). I'm not sure if we Aussies have a similar term but perhaps the closest would be "having an off week". Here we are speeding headlong into the New Year and supp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2006 #3 - Our Legacy Updated: 2006-12-20 17:00:00 Description: We are at a crossroad this Christmas. As a society and as individuals we are entering a period of time in which technology, politics, law, morality and wealth all collide, collapse and engulf each other. The battle lines have been drawn and it is goi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2006 #2 - Away in a Manger Updated: 2006-12-13 22:30:00 Description: As the Christmas season shifts into top gear and our minds turn to who will bring what for lunch, where lunch will be and who will be there, lets turn our minds, just for a few minutes, to the birthplace of the reason for the season.The Bible stor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2006 #1 - The Devil and the Peso Updated: 2006-12-07 14:50:00 Description: On my recent visit to the Middle East I was struck once more by the clear delineation between the rich and poor. On the streets of Amman the wealthy drove their BMWs and Mercedes past the Iraqi widows who sold individual cigarettes to those who could...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD November 2006 #5 - Charades Updated: 2006-11-29 19:30:00 Description: Some days I wonder just how long the charade we call democracy' will last. I guess that if it is a charade it will last only as long as we are prepared to play the game. The game, as I understand it, revolves around the voters' going to the polls o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD November 2006 #4 - Sands Updated: 2006-11-24 11:30:00 Description: The pictures and more detail on this event are available at www.shane.araustralia.org/pictures.htmThe world is a weird and wonderful place. Separated by race, religion, politics, sexuality and moral codes, the human race is as mixed as the colour of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD November 2006 #2 - Rumsfelds Henny Penny Excuse Updated: 2006-11-09 17:00:00 Description: As our thoughts turn to the resultsof the US congressional mid-terms, we should spare a thought for one of the unfortunate causalities of this political skirmish. It seems the first person to be sidelined as "collateral damage" is Donald Rumsfeld who...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD November 2006 #3 - Hillbilly Dreams Updated: 2006-11-18 05:30:00 Description: Many years ago I was a great fan of a US TV program called "The Beverly Hillbillies". The program was based around the premise that a "hillbilly" named Jed Clampett was, "out one day shootin' at some food, when up from the ground came a bubblin' crud...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2006 #5 - The Mufti and the Dog Whistle Updated: 2006-11-01 00:00:00 Description: So much is going on one really struggles to work out where to start. First there's the climate. Today its warm, tomorrow it might be cold. Yesterday was sunny, tomorrow it might rain. Last week the PM, said climate change was a fallacy and lie made ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2006 #4 - Colonialism, Palm Oil and the Solomons Updated: 2006-10-26 00:00:00 Description: In the latest colonial adventure by our Government, it would seem they have forgotten that old adage about those who fail to learn from history being bound to make the same mistakes. When it comes to Australia's increasing interventions in the Pacif...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2006 #3 - On A Mission From God Updated: 2006-10-23 03:01:41 Description: Many years ago, when I was much younger (and some say better looking) I had what is termed a "conversion" experience. Being from a Christian family, my primary religious understandings were shaped by that environment. So 'becoming a Christian' was n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2006 #2 - Howard's Quadrant Memory Hole Updated: 2006-10-11 23:00:00 Description: On the 3rd October, John Howard delivered a speech at the 50th anniversary of Quadrant magazine. In the company of such balanced and objective luminaries as Paddy McGuinness who masquerades as a commentator, Howard launched into a tirade that bui...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2006 #1 - Greenwashing, Astroturfing and Gippsland's A-Team Updated: 2006-10-04 11:49:52 Description: Sally Neighbours Four Corners story on papermaker Amcors A-Team as they are called, was nothing new for those of us who live in Gippslands Latrobe Valley. It was good to see my seven cents a day being put to good use. However what I did find i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD September 2006 #3 - Aussie Values The Howard Nelson Way Updated: 2006-09-20 00:00:00 Description: So, John Howard and Brendan Nelson think they can mandate Values for Australian Schooling? Theyre in the process of spending about $30 million in an attempt to get our schools to teach what they refer to as Australian Values to our kids. Some s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD September 2006 #2 - Nothing Changes Updated: 2006-09-13 21:08:33 Description: The world has changed since that fateful day in September five years ago. Here is how it has changed since then for some who live in the world. A middle aged woman looks out of her office window as a shadow passes by. She looks up just in time to s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD September 2006 #1 - Howard's Brutal Language Updated: 2006-09-05 00:00:00 Description: Some time ago I was at a school function when an autistic boy came up to me asked who I was. Thinking he was asking my name I replied, "I'm Shane". "Who are you" he persisted. Thinking he had not heard me properly I repeated my name. His aid bent ne...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2006 #5 - Patriots and Enemies - The Gunns War on Everything Updated: 2006-09-02 17:53:28 Description: Are you a patriot? I'd like to think I'm an Australian patriot, someone who believes that all Australians are entitled to a fair go, and the ability to respect and be respected by others. I also happen to believe that I was born in the most beautif...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2006 #4 - Blonde Bombshells Updated: 2006-08-24 17:49:34 Description: This is serious. Really serious. People are going to die. It doesn't get more serious than this. I've been closely following the latest terrorist threats against the United States and I'm with George W. Bush all the way. Sorry to have jumped the goo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2006 #3 - Flugge and Joud - High Comedy or Just Farce? Updated: 2006-08-17 20:39:41 Description: 'Lighten up a bit, will ya!" is a comment often flung my way. Some people have told me I'm way too dark and that I only ever focus on the negative. To a point, I agree but when I want some light entertainment I watch the news or read the mainstream ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2006 #2 - Jesus Values or the Lessons of History Updated: 2006-08-08 14:03:34 Description: While the media focuses on the price of petrol and interest rates, it hasn't spent too much time investigating the comings and goings of the National Forum on Australia's Christian Heritage sponsored by a number of our secularly elected politicians....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD August 2006 #1 - The Slough of Despond Updated: 2006-08-03 11:33:02 Description: Do you still listen to or watch the news or have you given up in despair? Do you often have a real sense of foreboding and unease? Do you find yourself staring off into space wondering what our world is becoming? If you do, you're not alone. Whethe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2006 #4 - Resolution 425 Updated: 2006-07-26 14:04:13 Description: Two of the curious things missing from commentary on the ongoing Israeli destruction of Lebanon and their reoccupation of the Palestinian territories, are any reference to UN resolution 425 and its mandates and the lies told about the so-called "kid...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2006 #3 - Am I an anti-Semite? Updated: 2006-07-20 00:54:56 Description: In my time Ive been called lots of things. Some not repeatable here. But the two epithets that really get up my nose are anti-Semitic and anti-Howard. These two descriptors are thrown around with little regard for what the terms actually imply....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2006 #2 - The Gospel of Contentment or Real Value Politics Updated: 2006-07-13 16:23:30 Description: What a heady week in halls of power it is. As the various factions among the ruling class try and out do each other with claim and counter claim, the poor and dispossessed seem little acknowledged or cared for. Last week, in Sydney, if you read the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2006 #1 - Democracy 101 Updated: 2006-07-06 14:34:35 Description: People often say to me, "Shane, you're always banging on about how bad our democracy is. Why do you believe that and what is your solution or alternative?" Fair cop. Good questions and ones that take up lots of thinking time. I'll try my best to exp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2006 #5 - Social Welfare for the Unemployed Updated: 2006-06-29 11:20:28 Description: This time of year, like the summer break, is one in which I can become disheartened. It's quite easy to forget how, relatively, fortunate I am. But now that I'm officially unemployed until the middle of July I thought it timely to look at the way we...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2006 #4 - God, Lies and War Updated: 2006-06-23 15:09:12 Description: You've probably guessed by now that I'm neither an historian or linguist. I'm certainly interested in a range of ideas, people and activities. And, of course I have an opinion on most things. However, there is a real crisis occurring at the moment i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2006 #3 - Tell Me No Lies Updated: 2006-06-15 18:34:26 Description: I've been reading recently John Pilger's latest book "Tell me no Lies" in which he presents edited versions of some of the finest reporting on major events of significance since the second world war. Unfortunately it is a catalogue of some the most ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2006 #2 - Euro vs US$. Rogue States and Failed Nations Updated: 2006-06-08 15:19:48 Description: Times are tough for "dictators", "rogue states" and "failing nations". Indeed in the last few years weve seen one or two lose their jobs and be relegated to the status of "jail bird". It seems like it is not a good thing to be the head of a country...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2006 #1 - Oil and Gas. Yachts and Row Boats Updated: 2006-06-02 00:41:22 Description: The big boys have yachts. The small boys have row boats. Those of us who try and keep abreast of world affairs are quite often shocked not by the subtleties of what the rulers of the world do and the back room political machinations they engage in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2006 #3 - Let's Pretend Updated: 2006-05-23 16:44:42 Description: Do you like playing pretend? I do. Lets pretend that since the Second World War the capitalist enterprise has been accelerating as various governments, of all shades, work to provide the social and legal conditions to allow the growth of persona...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD May 2006 #1 - What Cost? Beaconsfield Gold. Updated: 2006-05-11 03:55:49 Description: What does it mean when three go in and only two come out? I've been out of Australia for a week or so and therefore missed the middle bit of the saga of the two guys trapped underground in my home state. The rescuers had recovered the body of the d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2006 #4 - The Truth of War and our Tin Man Updated: 2006-04-26 22:00:00 Description: Australias holiest of days, Anzac Day, has come and gone once more. Our Prime Minister once more expressed his glee that our youth are swallowing hook, line and sinker the myth of war. The valorisation of the military and the glory of war were spl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2006 #3 - Stealing ANZAC for the Solomons Updated: 2006-04-20 16:57:38 Description: It's that time of year again when Australia comes as close to getting religion as collectively possible. With Jesus dead, buried and resurrected, the collective Ozzie mind turns from chocolate eggs to ANZACs. Our current leadership sees itself as a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2006 #2 - Commissioner Cole Meets Sgt. Schultz Updated: 2006-04-12 22:23:38 Description: The following conversation between three men allegedly took place around a table somewhere in Canberra last weekend. Sources, reliable sources, recorded and transcribed it for us. However, it should be remembered that the men did not meet and they...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD April 2006 #1 - Sheep, Work and the New IR Laws Updated: 2006-04-05 22:56:13 Description: When I was a young bloke I could literally walk to the end of my street and be in a paddock. Quite often those paddocks would have livestock in them and my favourite livestock was sheep. On a 'bad' day it was fun climb through the wire fence and ch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2006 #5 Dateline 2020: The Australian Uranium Board Inquiry Updated: 2006-03-29 04:00:04 Description: Dateline: March 30th 2020Slug: AUB Inquiry Hots UpIn another development at the Australian Uranium Board Inquiry today, a second damning memo from the Office of the Prime Minister was tabled before the Chief Commissioner. The memo came to light after...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2006 #4 - Malthus and Empire Updated: 2006-03-23 04:00:04 Description: Empire building is not something politicians are keen to discuss these days. In particular as we commemorate the third anniversary of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and lets not forget Afghanistan, it is worth highlighting an underlyi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2006 #3 - The Stolenwealth Games Updated: 2006-03-15 22:47:15 Description: The Stolenwealth Games are in full swing and what a blast they are, if you believe the headlines and what an extravaganza Melbourne is hosting. Aren't you glad you're a tax payer? We've had the Queen's Torch relay dramas. We've had the hype and myst...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2006 #2 - International Women's Day 2006 Updated: 2006-03-08 22:47:50 Description: Wednesday 8th March was International Women's Day, a day when the world is supposed to stop and consider the plight and role of women around the globe. As could be expected what we saw and heard, if anything, was mostly wealthy white women talking a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD March 2006 #1 - Pollution: Time to Grow Up Updated: 2006-03-02 15:22:17 Description: When I was a little kid there was no such thing as pollution. Well, there probably was but it wasn't until I started school that it was drummed into me that we all had a role to play in stopping the mess. We had to do silly things like pick up pape...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2006 #4 - The ABCs of the Bridge Keeper's Son Updated: 2006-02-23 04:15:59 Description: The first time I heard the following story I was told it was true but since then I've heard a number of variations on it so you make up your own mind. In a remote part of Scotland in the 1880s there was a bridge keeper. His sole duty was to make ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Febrary 2006 #3 - One Last Kiss Updated: 2006-02-16 05:17:42 Description: He can still recall the first time he held him. Eyes so brown he could see the generations reaching back beyond his family's memory. A heritage so rich, so timeless its eternity is as vast as the universe. He holds him close and feels his tiny heart...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2006 #2 - Tony Abbott's Values Updated: 2006-02-09 04:01:30 Description: I'm confused. Now, some may say that's fairly normal for me but I want to be serious for a moment. As you're probably aware, our parliament recently voted for the power to remove ministerial control over the drug, RU486 and hand it back to doctors. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 2006 - AWB: Just Doing Business Updated: 2006-02-02 14:40:38 Description: Business is business and company directors are under an obligation to ensure the owners of the business, that is the shareholders, don't lose their money. It's their job to make sure that the cash keeps flowing in and that the returns are perpetuall...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The News of the Year 2005 - 48 Minutes Updated: 2005-12-28 18:20:37 Description: This is a 48 minute satirical look at some of the news headlines from 2005. Please note it comes in nine 'segments' with throws to local breaks. Theme music gives you a cue. The full script can be accessed at http://www.shane.araustralia.org/Editori...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dec 2005 #3 - poor, Backwards but Showing the Way Updated: 2005-12-21 04:54:42 Description: I've always marvelled at the resilience of "backward" peoples. You know the types. They live in lands far across the sea. They speak in strange tongues and often dress in very colourful and weird costumes. They have strange customs and many of them ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dec 2005 # 2 - Howard's Bigoted Beliefs Updated: 2005-12-15 16:00:00 Description: John Howard believes that Australia is not a racist country. He also happens to believe that there are no poor, only those who choose to be poor. He happily believes that workers all want to work harder for less pay. He lives in bliss with the belief...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD December 2005 #1 - Signed, Sealed and Delivered Updated: 2005-12-08 16:00:00 Description: In one of the more up market restaurants in a big city a small group of men are sitting in a private room enjoying some fine wines prior to settling into their business. Two politicians from one of the major parties, their chief advisors, a well know...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nov 2005 #3 - Hate, Fear and International Relations Updated: 2005-12-01 16:00:00 Description: Im sitting in a bar in Jakarta with my new friend when, without warning, in the middle of our chat he asks, Why do Australians hate us so much? Im stunned into a few seconds of embarrassed silence as my mind races to provide an answer.We had been...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nov 05 #2 - 'Tis the Season to be Jolly? Updated: 2005-11-10 11:00:00 Description: As I write Tony Blair is telling the British parliament that his proposed changes to detention legislation are not an attack on human rightsor turning Britain into a police state. Seems that he and Howard and Bush are all, as they say, singing from t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Oct 2005 #4 - Terror Gays Scare John Updated: 2005-10-27 16:00:00 Description: The latest edition of one of the only two real newspapers in Australia, the Green Left Weekly, arrived in the mail the other day and Isettled down with a cup of tea for a read, as one does. I got to page three and an article by Pip Hinman, a regular ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2005 Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture: Recovering the Human: The Disappearance of People in the 21st Century. Updated: 2005-10-22 00:30:00 Description: Queue jumpers, illegals, aspirational voters, insurgents, lefties, conservatives, wets, dries, radicals and anarchists. At some stage the language of the public sphere forgot the human. Real people have been removed from public discussion and have be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Oct 2005 #3 - Little Prince What's His Name Updated: 2005-10-19 09:00:15 Description: So Mary and Fred have had a nipper. Whoopee! Great timing too. Just as the government gets stuck into promoting its return to the salt mines industrial relations proposal and as the sport's calendar is clear of footy and ruggers, along comes little W...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Oct 2005 # 2 - Conversion, Power and Fear Updated: 2005-10-12 16:00:00 Description: Some things fade with time. Others just keep coming back to haunt you, don't they?Many years ago when I was much younger (and some say better looking) I had what is termed a "conversion" experience. Being from a Christian family, my primary religious...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD October 2005 #1 - I'd Love to Drink With Richard Updated: 2005-08-11 16:00:00 Description: Richard Butler is one bloke I'd like to invite to a party. From what Mr. Ladder of Opportunity, Mark Latham, says about him, he's a loudmouth drunk who's been sacked from more jobs than Peter Costello's had budgets. Dick, if I can be so bold, was the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sept 2005 #5 - Gerard's Little Knitting Circle Updated: 2005-09-28 09:00:05 Description: Back in July John Howard was kissing the arse of Gerard Henderson and the corporate highfliers who frequent Gerard's quaint littleknitting circle, the Sydney Institute. Firmly nailing his colours to the mast, Howard declared that no commentator "poss...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sept 2005 #4 - Dummy Spitting Democracy Updated: 2005-09-22 16:00:00 Description: Mark Latham is stupid or he's brave. I'm not sure which at this time but I think perhaps he's a bit of both. Oh, and he has a very healthy ego. What I find interesting in the whole 'Latham spits the dummy' hurrah is that rather than critically examin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sept 2005 #3 - Bling and the Thumb Updated: 2005-09-15 16:00:00 Description: Things are bad when a litre of petrol costs more than a litre of Coke! Things must be bad when the poor have to compete with the rich for scarce resources. You know things are really bad when the International Association of Hitch Hikers puts out a p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Aug 2005 #4 - Dragons, Dangers and Assassins Updated: 2005-08-25 16:00:00 Description: On the same day that Scotsmen and women symbolically buried William Wallace, a true hero and freedom fighter for their cause, American rightwing Christian extremist televangelist Pat Robinson calls for the assassination of another true freedom fighte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sept 2005 #2 - Mexican Magic Updated: 2005-09-08 16:00:00 Description: Ever since I first saw a magician chop a lady in half I've wondered how it was done. How did the man with the funny hat cut the lady inhalf with a huge handsaw and then put her back together without any blood or noticeable injury? Wow. I wished I cou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sept 05 #1 - Robeson's vs Forbes' vision of the world Updated: 2005-09-01 12:00:00 Description: In his 1958 autobiography Paul Robeson wrote that his dream was that all people could be, "free - to walk the good earth as equalcitizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil to give our children every opportunity in life - that d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Aug 2005 #3 - Frocking up with Johnny Updated: 2005-08-18 12:00:00 Description: Last weekend saw some in the Australian media once more go into overdrive, or should I say over-hype, as another government sponsored day of remembrance was turned into another day of great forgetting. Writing in the Melbourne Age this week Tony Kev...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Aug 2005 #2 - Young Blokes and Train Wrecks Updated: 2005-08-11 12:00:00 Description: I flicked on the radio the other night and tuned into a fascinating radio program. The program was being hosted by a bloke who was talking with two other blokes about blokes. It seems the host and the two blokes with him were very concerned about you...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Aug 2005 #1 - History and our Enemies Updated: 2005-08-04 12:00:00 Description: As more information leaks out about the farce that is the US handling of suspected 'terrorists' and while David Hicks continues to languish while our servile and lickspittle government does nothing to assist an Australian Son, it is timely that we re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2005 #4 - Harry, Charles and Death by Cop Updated: 2005-07-28 12:00:00 Description: Harry Stanley is a name we're not overly familiar with. Harry's story though, does have a number of links to recent events in the London underground. Harry liked a drink and liked it even more if he was sharing it with his family and friends. But one...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2005 #3 - Chapman, Marx and the need for Blankets Updated: 2005-07-21 12:00:00 Description: Having the opportunity to lie in bed and relax recently I turned on the bedside radio. Within moments the Tracy Chapman classic, Talkin Bout a Revolution came on. Part of the lyric is, While they're standing in the welfare lines, Crying at the d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2005 #3 - BHP, The Battle and the Main Game Updated: 2005-06-16 12:00:00 Description: Distraction is a common element used by PR flacks, governments and the powerful. So what goes on when our attention is diverted?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2005 #4 - Moral Panic, Outrage and Bob Updated: 2005-06-23 12:00:00 Description: Why do the floppy bits on Big Brother cause a moral outrage when people like Bob are treated with contempt?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2005 #2 - Our Blood in Their Veins Updated: 2005-07-14 12:00:00 Description: What difference is there between the blood and pain and tears and terror in London and the blood and pain and tears and terror in Baghdad?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD June 2005 #5 - Lurking Lippy Dangers Updated: 2005-06-30 12:00:00 Description: In the fight against weapons of mass destruction, what dangers lurk on our shopping mall shelves?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD July 2005 #1 - Peter Costello Raising the Dead Updated: 2005-07-07 12:00:00 Description: What does it mean when a national leader declares sides in the war for our souls?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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