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Current affairs investigative journalism: exploring new ideas and analysing society in lively on-the-road documentary style Radio National's agenda-setting current affairs radio documentary program.

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  2008-07-13 Free trade vs fair trade
  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  It's an ideological battle between those who want a fairer, better deal for the poor farmers in the developing world - and those who say the best way to get that is having a world wide free market. There are fault lines in both arguments. Reporter Jane Shields.
  
  
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  2008-07-06 The climate engineers
  Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  For years it's been one of the science community's great taboos but the idea of global climate control is starting to be openly discussed. Ideas like placing giant mirrors in space or firing sulphur particles into the stratosphere to cool the planet are no longer just in the domain of science fiction. Many scientists now believe the time for these ideas will come. Reporter, Wendy Carlisle (This program was originally broadcast on 6th April 2008.) Read the following articles: Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur InjectionsClimate Change: The Uncertainties, the Certainties, and what they Imply About ActionPolicy Implications of Greenhouse Warming
  
  
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  2008-06-29 Shareholder activism
  Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  As corporations collapse while executives are paid huge salary packages, shareholders are taking a greater interest in just how companies are run. But they face a wall of complexity, and legalistic and business jargon which is almost impenetrable. Reporter: Erica Vowles.
  
  
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  2008-06-22 The My Lai massacre
  Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  It's forty years since the massacre of an entire village in Vietnam and only now has the full story come out. The Peers Inquiry of l970 exposed it as one of the most shocking events in American military history, and it has reverberations today in how the US army conducts itself, and explains tensions over Guantanamo Bay. A BBC World Service production. You can download the original BBC documentaries at the web link below.