Australia Talks
Australia Talks is a daily national talkback program presented by Paul Barclay. It provides a forum for discussion of a specific topic with the involvement of expert guests. You can hear the views of people in capital cities, provincial towns, on farms and in remote communities. Topics range from politics, economics, social and international affairs to sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Monday to Thursday tackles one topic a day; Friday reviews the week's discussion. Australia Talks is published every weekday.
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6 Episodes of this Podcast:
2009-11-05 Obama anniversary
Published: 2009-11-04 09:00:00SUMMARY: On 4 November 2008 Barack Obama was swept to power in a historic election victory. America´s first black president embodied hope for a nation in search of change and expectations were high. But as a divided nation contends with its worst recession in decades, has optimism given way to disappointment? What has Obama achieved and what lies ahead for him?
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2009-11-03 Country races
Published: 2009-11-02 09:00:00SUMMARY: It´s Melbourne Cup time -- and on the biggest day of the horse-racing calendar we´re heading to regional Australia. Every country town used to have its own racecourse but rationalisation and centralisation have taken their toll. What´s the role of country races in the economic and social life of rural Australia? What makes country races so attractive?
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2009-11-02 John Ellicott, A year on the punt published by ABC Books
Published: 2009-11-01 09:00:00SUMMARY:
2009-10-29 Music and identity
Published: 2009-10-28 10:00:00SUMMARY: Music in Australia is more colourful than it has ever been in our history: folk ballads, global pop songs, ethnic and Indigenous music. Join us on Australia Talks to explore music and identity. What is Australian music? How significant is music of ethnic and Indigenous communities? And what role does music play as a bridge between cultures?
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2009-10-27 Unsolicited advertising
Published: 2009-10-26 10:00:00SUMMARY: If you use email, mobile phones or instant messaging then you´ve almost certainly been spammed. Unsolicited, commercial, electronic messages plague the technology we use and it seems we´re fed up with it. Australians have lodged a record number of complaints about spam, and last week the Federal Court imposed $15.75 million in penalties for unsolicited SMS messages in five cases. So is spam getting out of hand? What can be done about it? And how effective is direct marketing?
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2009-10-26 Mature age manual workers
Published: 2009-10-25 10:00:00SUMMARY: The retirement age will be extended to 67 by 2023 in response to Australia´s so-called demographic time bomb. But what does this mean for people with manual jobs? The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is calling for mature age quotas. Is this the answer?
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