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Episodes
- China's place in the financial crisis
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:40:18 +1000
It's feared Australia's mining boom may soon end, with predictions China's demand for minerals will stagnate. But Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao insists commodity demand will hold up, despite a slowdown in his country's growth. It's a view backed by ANU academic Dr Chunlai Chen from the university's Crawford School of Economics and Government. He's told Rebecca Lewis that there are no serious threats to China's economy and it could even play a role in retrieving the world's financial institutions from the brink of recession. - Human beings moving, rather than dancers dancing (4mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:10:45 +1000
It's been dubbed Israel's &uot;leading cultural ambassador&uot;. The BATSHEVA Dance Company has been around for more than 40 years .. and comprises both Israeli and international dancers. It's bold and innovative and is in Australia for the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Luke Jacobs is one of the dancers whose role today is that of Rehearsal Director. He tells Caroline Davey that BATSHEVA cannot be categorised into any particular style. NOTE: They're performing a piece called &uot;Three&uot; tonight, Friday, in Melbourne (with warning of full frontal nudity.) And their performance on Monday night is &uot;Max&uot;. - G20 to meet in Washington over financial crisis (3mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:07:15 +1000
The Australian share market has headed south yet again, with one of its biggest falls on record of almost 8 per cent. Today's drop follows a massive plunge on Wall Street with U.S stocks falling to their lowest level for five years. As a global recession looms, all eyes are now on Washington, where Treasurer Wayne Swan is attending an emergency meeting of finance ministers from the most developed G20 countries. Barry Eichengreen is a Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. He tells Greg Dyett global co-operation will be essential. - Paid parental leave would eclipse Baby Bonus: minister (4mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:29:21 +1000
Most countries in the developed world pay women between 80 to 100 percent of their salary, when they take time off work to have a baby; Australia and the United States are exceptions. In Australia, it's estimated just over a third of working women have access to paid maternity leave - mostly in the public sector. The labour market's current skills shortage and the costs involved in training have added urgency to renewed calls for a universal scheme. The Productivity Commission has proposed a model in which the taxpayer will fund 20 weeks paid parental leave at the adult minimum wage, that would remove the Baby Bonus for women in the workforce. It's accepting public submissions until mid-November. The federal minister for Family Services Jenny Macklin explains to Caroline Davey why she's long been a champion of the idea. NOTE: World View's Hot Seat interactive forum later this week, will investigate the issue of Paid Parental Leave and what other countries around the world do .. and how they do it! - Arts: Food For Thought (4mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:16:48 +1000
Food - or the lack of it - is certainly a theme being widely discussed in political and agricultural circles. But it has also become a theme popular amongst artists. Indeed, it is the entire focus of an an exhibition called &uot;Food for Thought&uot; at the N-G Art Gallery in Chippendale in inner Sydney. Rebecca Lewis caught up with the gallery's curator, Nicky Grinsberg, and artists Angus Wood and Eric Lobbeke, to talk about this exhibition. (photo: French cuisine which is not part of the exhibition) - Hotseat Forum: Teaching Indigenous languages (7mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:07:52 +1000
In New South Wales, there are some 70 Indigenous languages. Eleven of these are now taught in the more than forty schools across the state, with the help and support of the NSW Board of Studies. In this week's hotseat forum, Rebecca Lewis talks to some of those involved in the initiative: Geoff Anderson from the Wiradjuri Elders Council, who's teaching his language at Parkes High School. Steve Maier, a geography teacher at Parkes High School and a facilitator of the Wiradjuri language program. Aboriginal woman Wendy Brown, a community representative of Wreck Bay and Vincentia High School. And Gary Worthy, a teacher at Vincentia High School. (Photo Community Language teachers Karen Lane and Gary Worthy) - Arts: Prayer Bells (3mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:07:44 +1000
'Prayer Bells' is an opportunity to hear dozens of handbells originally made for Australia's Centenary of Federation. Among nearly 2000 bells created for the Federation Bells Project, was a set made especially for 'Prayer Bells'. P'rayer Bells' celebrates the diversity of the Greek, Hebrew and Latin chant traditions, says its composer IHOS Artistic Director Constantine Koukias. Featuring three solo cantors and a small male choir, the concert piece premiered at the Federation Festival of Melbourne in 2001. Since then it has been performed in Launceston, Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne and Hobart. Constantine Koukias is speaking with Peggy Giakoumelos. And Sydney listeners can catch 'Prayer Bells' at Sydney's St Stephen's Uniting Church at 8pm on Tuesday the 14th of October. - World VIew AM Program (23mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:15:45 +1000
In this podcast a forum on Aboriginal language education, intelligence services under the spotlight and the future of multiculturalism in Australia. - Australia in Focus: Bringing Indigenous values into the classroom (4mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:49:45 +1000
In this week's edition of 'Australia in Focus', we meet a team of teachers and students from Casimir Catholic College in Sydney's inner-west. Janet Cairncross was asked to develop a program for her Year 8 class, which incorporated some of the core values of Indigenous Australians. She joins Rebecca Lewis to talk about the program, along with some of the students and the school's Aboriginal Education Worker. - Australia's Street Socceroos Announced (5mb)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:11:41 +1000
Australia's new football World Cup team has been announced .. and no... that's not the Socceroos as we know them ... it's the Street Socceroos ... and they'll be playing in Melbourne's Federation Square in early December. Former Socceroo and Melbourne Victory Football Club captain, Kevin Muscat, handed the Street Socceroos their green and gold jerseys after a training session on Thursday. The event they're preparing for is the 2008 Homeless World Cup with 56 countries represented, including eight nations in the first Women's World Cup tournament in street soccer. The Homeless World Cup competition which started in Graz, Austria in 2003, and is made up of people who are homeless and marginalised. They're the ones who have accepted an opportunity to change their lives by playing a form of street soccer. The competition expanded to Sweden in 2004, Edinburgh in 2005, then Cape Town and last year it was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Australia's hosting of the Homeless World Cup is a first. There will be 200 matches played, each of two 7-minute halves. Andrew Kruger is speaking with Greg Dyett. Davidde Corran was at the announcement of the team and supplied the audio. - Movie review: My Best Friend's Girl (5mb)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:11:02 +1000
Our film critic Tim Hunter and Greg Dyett review My Best Friend's Girl. - 'Secret' intelligence agencies operating in Australia (3mb)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:21:01 +1000
Australia's main intelligence agencies like ASIO are long established and well known but apparently there are other intelligence agencies in Australia that operate secretly. A legal hearing in Brisbane has heard they exist under the cover of being innocuous Commonwealth agencies but they're actually involved in counter-terrorism. Our Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster has been at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal this week where the Federal Police have made all sorts of claims to justify not releasing information gathered during the Mohammed Haneef investigation. He is speaking with Greg Dyett. (Picture: Former East German Stasi Emblem, long regarded in the intelligence community as being among the masters of espionage.) - Bottom is Near with US Recession on its Way (2mb)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:27:25 +1000
International investment counsellor, Don Gimbel from Carret and Co, says the freeze in liquidity is still the main factor affecting the rush to sell US shares. He tells Andrew Kruger the uncertainty may continue until after the presidential election on the first Tuesday in November. - United States finance crisis (3mb)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:20:16 +1000
Turmoil is continuing in US financial markets despite attempts by regulators and the Bush Administration to stem losses on Wall Street. Peggy Giakoumelos asked our North American correspondent John Stempin, if the US markets are close to reaching the bottom of their sell-off yet. - Arts: In Spitting Distance (4mb)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:12:25 +1000
Paris: A city for love, laughter and dreams. Ramallah: A place marked by suffering and bloodshed. Two cities worlds apart but which form the backdrop of the play, &uot;In Spitting Distance&uot;. Written by Taher Najib and performed by Palestinian actor Khalifa Natour, it asks the question of what it means to be an Arab in a post-September 11 era. It's directed by aclaimed Israeli director Ofira Henig, who is speaking with Rebecca Lewis. The play &uot;In Spitting Distance&uot; can be seen until October 18 at Sydney's Opera House.
