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Thursday 07 August 2008
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A conversation about the Rwandan Government's new report, following two years of investigations, which accuses France of being directly involved in the killing of nearly a million Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 1994.
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A discussion about the people of China's huge, remote and restive province of Xinjiang. The Uighurs of Xinjiang are predominantly Muslim and a local separatist movement - the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - is being described by the Chinese Communist Party as a significant terrorist threat to the Beijing Olympic Games.
Earlier this week sixteen police officers were killed in an attack in the Xinjiang province.
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South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world, and half of the offenders incarcerated are aged between 12 and 25. Once out of the prisons, the risk of recidivism is eighty per cent in the first six months. A not for profit South African organisation has had great success reducing that rate, as well as keeping young offenders out of the prison system.
Wednesday 06 August 2008
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Southeast Asia correspondent Eddin Khoo talks about the latest border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand near the Preah Vihear Temple, which has recently been named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations. He also updates the situation with former Opposition Leader, Anwar Ibrahim, who will be charged in court tomorrow over sodomy accusations. And the recent Cambodian elections.
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A former senior Fijian public servant talks about an entrenched 'coup culture' in Fiji, where more than half the population was born since the first 1987 coup and has grown up with an acceptance of coup politics - a lack of respect for the rule of law and democratic principles, and an acceptance of violence as the best way to resolve conflict. Emele Duituturaga argues that women have a critical role to play in changing the 'coup culture'.
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A conversation about the remarkable effect Ford's Model T had on American and Australian society at the beginning of the 20th century, as it kicked off an urban car culture. And the lessons of the Model T are still applicable in the current global automotive market with China and India ripe for a reliable, low cost, low fuel, contemporary car.
Tuesday 05 August 2008
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Bruce discusses the HIV/AIDS in the USA. In one of the most devastating scientific papers in years, the Centers for Disease Control reported this week that AIDS has been underreported in the US by 40 percent, which means as many as 15,000 cases a year.
And, the death of Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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The peace process in Northern Ireland has been held up as a model for ending conflict around the world - from the Middle East, to Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and East Timor.
But what exactly constitutes the Northern Irish 'model', and how exportable is it?
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Economist Gregory Clark argues that the reason for the west's historical prosperity lies not in its institutions or ideology, but in a Darwinian process of natural selection.
It is a controversial thesis that has profound implications for the ways in which we give aid and assistance to underdeveloped nations—and how we deal with economic inequality in our own.
Monday 04 August 2008
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This week, Christian Kerr discusses missed opportunities for the Liberal party. For Brendan Nelson, any chance to score points against the Government end up in speculation over his leadership qualities, and no wonder, with voices within the Liberal camp calling for Peter Costello to contest the position. Will he finally rise to the challenge?
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The former Democrats senator talks about the dynamic of the new Senate and the challenges facing the two independents; and he discusses his ongoing advocacy for a national reparations scheme for children who were abused in institutional care.
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For the first time a study of the cultural history of the Cultural Revolution has been published. In his book, Paul Clark argues that we shouldn't characterise the years of the revolution, from 1966 to 1976, as simply destructive and chaotic. He's found that innovation and creativity as well as the cultivation in the participation of cultural production, and the promotion of the modern were typical of the Cultural Revolution.
Friday 01 August 2008
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Originally broadcast on 15/8/2001.
A passion for particular places is powerful enough for nations to battle over.
Place is central to the Australian identity, but is it a constructed sense of place? This program explores the different ways of relating to, engaging with and depicting space, place and landscape, roaming from Ancient Greece to Aboriginal Australia, Macedonia to the Blue Mountains.
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