Life Matters

November 2008

Wednesday 19 November 2008

• Navy families
• Religion, love and sexual desire
• Music Track - She was too good to me
• Caring for pets in times of crisis
• Your feedback

Tuesday 18 November 2008

• Keynes revival
• Protecting kids in hospital
• Online genome tests
• Meet the listener: Steve Mars and the ute dogs

Monday 17 November 2008

• Whooping cough resurgence
• Flexible schools
• Computers in schools problems
• Meat
• Slice of Life 3: June and Tom

Friday 14 November 2008

• Talkback: Grandparents

Thursday 13 November 2008

• Forum: 21st century learning

Wednesday 12 November 2008

• New Human Rights president
• Roberta Taylor: The Reinvention of Ivy Brown
• Pool drownings
• Your feedback

Tuesday 11 November 2008

• ABC Learning collapse
• Women in mining
• Smart country schools
• Meet the listener: digging for gold

Monday 10 November 2008

• Irritating!
• Christos Tsiolkas: The Slap
• Courage: Anna Funder
• Slice of Life 2: dental care plus

Friday 07 November 2008

• Talkback: Regret

Thursday 06 November 2008

• President-elect Obama
• Hugh Mackay: arts participation as therapy
• 'Mediatrician' Michael Rich
• Heart of Gold films

Wednesday 05 November 2008

• What drives voter turnout?
• Children, pain and the power of music
• Graeme Base: I do it for me
• Your feedback

Tuesday 04 November 2008

• Pub violence
• Sheila Hancock: Just Me
• Community housing grows
• Meet the listener: pegs, bells and whistles

Monday 03 November 2008

• Family reunion after a decade apart
• Hearing voices
• Phony: How I faked my way through life
• Slice of life 1: Kay loves to dance

October 2008

Friday 31 October 2008

• Talkback: Windfalls

Thursday 30 October 2008

• Living low paid
• Erectile dysfunction and relationships
• Comedienne Denise Scott
• Vacuum man

Wednesday 29 October 2008

• School reporting: too much testing
• Steve Biddulph: boys need mentors
• Alana Ruben Free: beginner at life
• Your feedback

Tuesday 28 October 2008

• The other tax review
• Teens and risk: too safe for their own good
• Six degrees of separation: new documentary
• Meet the listener: Alesia Taranto

Monday 27 October 2008

• Private school funding
• Barry Dickins is back
• Maggie Beer: a generous life
• Friendship Matters 4: making friends after life change

Friday 24 October 2008

• Talkback: The worst day of the week

Thursday 23 October 2008

• When muck-up days go wrong
• Ian Gawler: The Dragon's Blessing
• Blogdaddy episode 10 (final)
• Music Track - Walkin' my baby back home
• Kids teaching kids

Wednesday 22 October 2008

• Indigenous enterprise
• Work in the second half
• A day in the life of your body
• Your feedback

Tuesday 21 October 2008

• Donor Sibling Registry
• Carers do it tough
• Life Scientist of the Year
• Music track - Cumtango
• Meet the listener: Alex Joseph

Monday 20 October 2008

• Alcohol awareness campaign
• Abortion: decriminalised in Victoria
• Melina Marchetta's fantasy
• Friendship Matters 3: social networking

Friday 17 October 2008

• Forum: Yes, I can't read and write but it's not my fault

Thursday 16 October 2008

• Relationships and financial stress
• Desmond Morris: Baby
• Roy Best
• Music Track - Down by the Salley Gardens
• Blogdaddy Episode 9

Wednesday 15 October 2008

• Collective anxiety
• Trisha Goddard: As I Am
• Elly Varrenti: Today I threw out the telly
• Your feedback

Tuesday 14 October 2008

• Economic meltdown and retirees
• Don and Patricia Edgar
• KOTO: know one, teach one
• Meet the listener: Abbie Heathcote on working softly and living well

Monday 13 October 2008

• Pornography in your pocket
• A new kind of mind
• Where the streets had a name
• Friendship Matters 2

Friday 10 October 2008

• Talkback: Mean Girls

Thursday 09 October 2008

• In defence of payday lenders
• 1788: David Hill
• Lit blogger: Mark Sarvas
• Blogdaddy Episode 8

Wednesday 08 October 2008

• Chris O'Brien: Never say die
• Growing old gay
• My Judy Garland life
• Music Track: Judy Garland "Over The Rainbow"
• Your feedback

Tuesday 07 October 2008

• The fringe economy: how it works in hard times
• Risking our kids
• The Motivation story: mobility for all
• Meet the Listener - Jakarta through a child's eyes

Monday 06 October 2008

• Consumer credit toughens up
• Education lessons from the UK
• Embryo dilemmas
• Friendship Matters 1: friendships between men and women

Friday 03 October 2008

• Talkback: Putting yourself first?

Thursday 02 October 2008

• Sleep and memory
• Susan Duncan: The House at Salvation Creek
• When bosses are accused of bullying: how they feel
• Blogdaddy Episode 7
• Retaining the aged care workforce

Wednesday 01 October 2008

• The Bitter Shore
• Broken hearts and workplaces: a potent mix
• Aged care innovator: Penny Flett
• Kerrie Jean: no summer wardrobe panic please!
• Your feedback

September 2008

Tuesday 30 September 2008

• Paid maternity leave
• Sharing the housework
• Indigenous doctors celebrate 10 years
• Music Track: The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
• Meet the listener: Lola McHarg, growing old outrageously

Monday 29 September 2008

• Forum: feminism, raunch culture and porn
• Baby Matters 7 with Robin Barker: toilet training

Friday 26 September 2008

• Talkback: The New Joy of Sex

Thursday 25 September 2008

• Redress for the 'forgotten Australians'
• Immigration detention reforms
• A musical life: George and Jonathan Dreyfus
• Blogdaddy episode 6

Wednesday 24 September 2008

• How are the kids?
• Social mobility
• Son of the goldfields
• Your feedback

Tuesday 23 September 2008

• Disability and equality
• Qui Tam: paying whistleblowers?
• Survival: Melissa Lucashenko
• Meet the listener:Jamahl Pollard, visual artist

Monday 22 September 2008

• Getting the ear of government
• A life of psoriasis
• Animals and disasters
• Baby Matters 6 with Robin Barker: childcare

Friday 19 September 2008

• Talkback: campus life then and now

Thursday 18 September 2008

• Shattering myths about Indigenous people and alcohol
• Maternity teamwork
• Creative scepticism
• Music Track - Blind
• Blogdaddy Episode 5

Wednesday 17 September 2008

• Freedom of religion and belief
• Objects of the Dead
• Indigenous midwifery
• Your feedback

Tuesday 16 September 2008

• Indigenous employment
• Redress scheme
• Buckley's! Berenice Buckley
• Meet The Listener - the Greentree Drama School

Monday 15 September 2008

• Sexual harassment and casual workers
• Living in the boom
• The Geography of Love
• Baby Matters 5 with Robin Barker: sleep

Friday 12 September 2008

• The Kodja Place: Reconciliation in action

Thursday 11 September 2008

• How to tackle child abuse and neglect: Dorothy Scott
• Workplace incivility
• Distraction
• Response to call for food colourings ban
• Blogdaddy episode 4

Wednesday 10 September 2008

• Sustainable growth in WA
• Peel child health study
• Meet a mining man
• Track: Way Out West
• Your feedback

Tuesday 09 September 2008

• Pregnancy counselling: is it being used?
• The divided heart: art and motherhood
• My failure as a leather jacket person: Mel Campbell

Monday 08 September 2008

• Kids First food additive campaign
• Helping your loved one overcome depression: Lucy Brogden and Graeme Cowan
• A worker's memoir of the New China
• Robin Barker with Baby Matters 4: Food

Friday 05 September 2008

• Talkback: the decline of eating at the table?

Thursday 04 September 2008

• Social entrepreneur Andrew Mawson
• Stuff white people like
• Teaching empathy
• Blogdaddy episode 3

Wednesday 03 September 2008

• Children in Iraq
• 14 hour city
• A century of Australians at home
• Emmylou Harris: Sailing Around The Room
• Your feedback

Tuesday 02 September 2008

• From foster care to permanent care
• Killing Lady Bountiful: Maddy Oliver
• Daughters and their Dads
• Meet the listener - Greg Pobjoy, the optimist

Monday 01 September 2008

• The Racket: Gideon Haigh
• Animal welfare and consumers
• Karaoke The Musical: Guy Noble
• Robin Barker: Baby Matters 3: breastfeeding grief and infant formula

August 2008

Friday 29 August 2008

• Talkback: The pinstriped prison

Thursday 28 August 2008

• Adoptions from India and child trafficking
• Overdose awareness day
• Candice's story
• Blogdaddy part 2

Wednesday 27 August 2008

• Equal pay day
• Cultures of cosiness
• Elly Varrenti: my son goes to the ball
• Wild tea cosies
• Your feedback

Tuesday 26 August 2008

• Truancy and welfare payments
• Retirement plans: too sensitive to discuss?
• A Young Life in Crime
• Meet the listener - Sue's environmental emporium

Monday 25 August 2008

• GM labelling
• The disappearing aspirationals: Dr Gabrielle Gwyther
• Life in 7 Mistakes: Susan Johnson
• Robin Barker with Baby Matters 2: breastfeeding

Friday 22 August 2008

• Talkback: Colour my world

Thursday 21 August 2008

• PNG High Commissioner responds to Helen Hughes
• Indigenous work schemes
• Let's get to work
• Blogdaddy Part 1
• Music track - The Hard Way
• Deadly maths

Wednesday 20 August 2008

• Improving early childhood: Maxine McKew
• Garrett Cullity: Eureka prize ethics winner
• Coma: Kate Cole-Adams
• Your feedback

Tuesday 19 August 2008

• Imported labour and Indigenous workers
• Anorexia: Lucy Howard-Taylor
• Sunlight and eyesight: Dr Kathryn Rose
• Meet the listeners - Melbourne Olympics volunteers

Monday 18 August 2008

• Nick Xenophon: Senate Independent
• Shattered Lives: the human face of the asbestos tragedy
• Fathers and daughters
• Robin Barker: Baby Matters part 1

Friday 15 August 2008

• Talkback: frugalism is the new black

Thursday 14 August 2008

• Capital punishment in Asia
• De facto law reform
• Barrie Kosky: On Ecstasy
• High sobriety: Alice King

Wednesday 13 August 2008

• Children and privacy
• Mentoring: Wendy McCarthy
• Physician assistants
• Your feedback

Tuesday 12 August 2008

• NT Election: voting and non-voting patterns
• Comparing schools and national skills testing
• Prolonged grief disorder
• Meet the Listener: Peter Travis, budgie smuggler designer

Monday 11 August 2008

• Secondary Education: big changes needed
• Parentonomics: Joshua Gans
• Midwives: new codes
• Multiple Choice - boy talk

Friday 08 August 2008

• Talkback: Competition in sport

Thursday 07 August 2008

• Trafficking in unborn children
• Ingrid Poulson: Rise
• Shale D. Stiller: So, who should get the money?
• Tiny Walhallow's big anniversary

Wednesday 06 August 2008

• 10 questions you must ask your doctor
• Blanche d'Alpuget: On Longing
• Music Track - Fly Me To The Moon
• Nursing In South Sudan: Fiona Gillett
• Your feedback

Tuesday 05 August 2008

• Homelessness first hand
• Women in the defence forces
• Dissection: Jacinta Halloran
• Meet the Listener: the man with the big name

Monday 04 August 2008

• China and the Olympics: Linda Jaivin
• When lifesavers become killers
• Fly: Michael Veitch
• Books Alive competition winners

Friday 01 August 2008

• Talkback: Names

July 2008

Thursday 31 July 2008

• Food security
• New Zealand - a transit lounge?
• Learning Indigenous languages
• That'd be Right: William McInnes

Wednesday 30 July 2008

• Overseas adoption changes
• Bold ideas on reforming welfare
• Let's get quizzical
• Your feedback

Tuesday 29 July 2008

• Work life balance still elusive
• Shashi Tharoor: India in the 21st century
• Greed: Christopher Kremmer
• Meet the Listener - Wendy Love, late blooming fiddler

Monday 28 July 2008

• Making millions for others
• Healthier nursing homes
• Debriefing the dark side: Leah Giarratano
• Multiple Choice: girl talk

Friday 25 July 2008

• Talkback: Ambition

Thursday 24 July 2008

• Indigenous baby packages
• Reducing hospital infections
• Music Track - The best is yet to come
• Codgers

Wednesday 23 July 2008

• Childcare and women in the workforce
• Navigating the empty nest
• Holding Men
• Your feedback

Tuesday 22 July 2008

• Carbon Trading 101
• Attachment and childcare
• Don Tate: the war within
• Creativity in the classroom

Monday 21 July 2008

• Bradley Higher Education Review
• Harnessing diversity
• Kathy Golski - My Two Husbands
• Multiple Choice - female firefighters

Friday 18 July 2008

• Forum: preparing for the Asian century

Thursday 17 July 2008

• Green collar jobs
• Kalgoorlie Community Court
• Elly Varrenti on repartnering after separation
• Building a great relationship

Wednesday 16 July 2008

• Disability support pensions: is the bar too high?
• Bill Shorten: disability support pensions debate
• Medicare changes
• The Scots in Australia
• Your feedback

Tuesday 15 July 2008

• Call for more parental leave
• Finding sanctuary in our busy lives
• The Quitting Journal: part 6
• Olive Riley dies at 108
• Meet the Listener - bipolar and relationships

Monday 14 July 2008

• Googling with your GP
• Being bipolar
• Multiple partners
• Multiple Choice: learning the violin

Friday 11 July 2008

• Talkback: Social impact of drought

Thursday 10 July 2008

• Youth violence
• Sex lives of Australian women
• Music Track - Shores of White Sand
• The brain trickster: Children with OCD - Part 2

Wednesday 09 July 2008

• Relocation after separation
• Toy safety
• The brain trickster: Children with OCD - Part 1
• Your feedback

Tuesday 08 July 2008

• Should the neighbours know?
• What makes you happy?
• The Quitting Journal: Part 5
• Music Track - Coming Home
• Meet the Listener: Betty's secret to flexible living

Monday 07 July 2008

• Return to work: maternity leave surprise finding
• Alternative medicine on trial
• Multiple Choice: shoe repair
• World Youth Day preview

Friday 04 July 2008

• Talkback: working from home

Thursday 03 July 2008

• What's happening to our girls?
• Who is Cindy McCain?
• Irina Baronova tribute
• The Fabulous Flag Sisters

Wednesday 02 July 2008

• Mobile monitoring: am I depressed?
• Housing crisis for older Australians
• Sway: why we make irrational decisions
• Your feedback

Tuesday 01 July 2008

• Nurses and primary care
• Parent Advocates
• The Quitting Journal: Part 4
• 'Happy Guy' comes to the party
• Elly Varrenti on friendship

June 2008

Monday 30 June 2008

• Do children have more problems than 20 years ago?
• New sexual health strategy needed
• Mahtab's Story: Libby Gleeson
• Multiple Choice: Dr Diction

Friday 27 June 2008

• Talkback: Who's Celebrating What?

Thursday 26 June 2008

• Return of the nanny state
• Women in leadership
• Wanted: Toyboy
• Community choirs

Wednesday 25 June 2008

• Child support changes
• Online Dating: keep it real
• Tom Gilling: Dreamland
• Your Feedback

Tuesday 24 June 2008

• New Commonwealth Chief Nurse
• Responding to child neglect
• The Quitting Journal: Part 3
• Calling Middle Managers
• Meet the Listener - Gilda and the class of '68

Monday 23 June 2008

• Natasha Stott Despoja farewells politics
• Jessica Queller: Pretty Is What Changes
• Vita Activa: the future of volunteering

Friday 20 June 2008

• Talkback: When friends fall out

Thursday 19 June 2008

• Forum: can you teach happiness?
• Bonk: sex and science

Wednesday 18 June 2008

• Childcare: new politics, new practicalities
• Chinese trauma
• Arnold Zable: Sea of Many Returns
• Your Feedback
• Community Idol winner

Tuesday 17 June 2008

• 10 new employment standards
• Doggie Day Care
• The Quitting Journal: Part 2
• Food rescue in Canberra
• Meet the Listener: the plight of the long distance grandparent

Monday 16 June 2008

• Indigenous education and boarding schools
• Who is Michelle Obama?
• Community Idol 2008: Consumer Activity Network
• Vita Activa: volunteering for big events

Friday 13 June 2008

• Talkback: Cycle City

Thursday 12 June 2008

• Politicians and reputation
• Building hope in Cambodia
• Community Idol 2008: Blyth Regional Cinema
• Meredith Hall: Without A Map

Wednesday 11 June 2008

• Oprah's political influence
• Community Idol 2008: RSPCA in the ACT
• Elly Varrenti: Sex and the City
• Your feedback

Tuesday 10 June 2008

• Separated men and presenteeism
• Living in squalor: an ethical dilemma
• The long commute
• The Quitting Journal part 1
• Meet the Listener - Tash and her life changing journey

Monday 09 June 2008

• Bicycles and health
• B-Society
• Remembered Gardens
• Vita Activa: volunteering innovations

Friday 06 June 2008

• Talkback: Appreciation, more please!

Thursday 05 June 2008

• Good news on guns
• Progress report on the education revolution
• Tommy Fleming

Wednesday 04 June 2008

• Bikie gangs crackdown
• Grey Nomads - Slowing Down
• Morris Gleitzman: Then
• Music Track - Far Far Far Away

Tuesday 03 June 2008

• Public Service work ethic
• The Pill
• I Lost My Love In Baghdad: a modern love story
• Meet the Listener - the bicycle family

Monday 02 June 2008

• Beyond working families
• The F Word
• Living with MS
• Track: Better make the most of it
• Vita Activa: the legal minefield

May 2008

Friday 30 May 2008

• Talkback: Your Privacy: Tell All

Thursday 29 May 2008

• Door closes on Dore
• Obesity and food at school
• Elly Varrenti on 'hyper-parenting'
• A second language

Wednesday 28 May 2008

• UK Preschool Findings
• Parents coping with their child 'coming out'
• The Household Guide to Dying
• Music Track - Goddess of the Night
• Your feedback

Tuesday 27 May 2008

• The Henson controversy
• Online Psychiatric Treatment
• A double life: Kathleen Stewart
• Meet the Listener - Ana Mairata the voluntourist

Monday 26 May 2008

• Universities: still underfunded?
• Who is happy guy?
• Cockeyed: Ryan Knighton
• Vita Activa: volunteering and animals

Friday 23 May 2008

• Talkback: Mothers Apart

Thursday 22 May 2008

• Old Food
• Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself
• Going deaf
• Music Track: Il Trovatore
• Losing the Plot in Opera

Wednesday 21 May 2008

• Under Pressure: Carl Honore
• Child soldiers
• Multiple Choice: Second Life
• Life Matters Feedback

Tuesday 20 May 2008

• Extending Campuses: Second Life
• Homelessness: a national shame
• Competing Cities
• Music Track: Home
• Meeting Mrs Listener

Monday 19 May 2008

• Pension protest
• World Hepatitis Day
• The Hunger Project: women running the bank
• Vita Activa: do migrants volunteer?

Friday 16 May 2008

• Talkback: Volunteering, not all 'feel good'

Thursday 15 May 2008

• Dental Budget
• Iodine deficiency: getting the message out
• Misconceptions: Sophie Townsend
• Elly Varrenti goes to the Bath House

Wednesday 14 May 2008

• Budget 2008
• Thinkers of the Jungle: orangutans

Tuesday 13 May 2008

• What is rich?
• Chaddo: making Japan laugh
• Getting aid to Burma
• Meet the Listener: bound by the gift of life

Monday 12 May 2008

• A roof over your head in 2008
• Men's health: eating disorders & breast cancer
• Anti-smacking laws
• Anecdultery: Hazel Edwards
• Vita Activa : attracting young volunteers

Friday 09 May 2008

• Talkback: The Headache

Thursday 08 May 2008

• Jailing parents
• Good things happen to good people
• Music Track - Mama Africa
• Maalika: Valerie Browning in Africa

Wednesday 07 May 2008

• What do parents want from day care?
• Extreme flexibility
• What's cooking, Dad?
• Music Track - Chocolate Cake

Tuesday 06 May 2008

• Reining in the baby bonus?
• Making sense of risk
• Good Giving
• Meet the Listener - finding your funny bone

Monday 05 May 2008

• A Good Death: Rodney Syme
• Young millionaire's mission in Uganda
• Heart Week
• Vita Activa: the role of government

Friday 02 May 2008

• Talkback: Looking at Death

Thursday 01 May 2008

• Stretched social services
• New Cannabis Centre
• A Family History Of Smoking: Andrew Riemer
• Music Track - The Unguarded Moment
• Caravan Park residents

April 2008

Wednesday 30 April 2008

• Broadband access for all
• Future medical workforce
• Pamela Bone tribute
• Ken Haley makes it home

Tuesday 29 April 2008

• Unfair bank fees
• Attract, engage, retain: Anna McPhee
• In Ecstasy: Kate McCaffrey
• Meet the Listener - drumming 'til the cows come home

Monday 28 April 2008

• Disability Investment Group
• CV fraud
• Other People's Country
• Vita Activa Series 2: voluntourism

Friday 25 April 2008

• Gallipoli submarine
• Going back to Vietnam
• World War One nurses

Thursday 24 April 2008

• Workplace Surveillance
• Aboriginal Preschools and Trauma
• The Young Widow's Book Of Home Improvement
• The perfectly splendid Dame Maud McCarthy

Wednesday 23 April 2008

• Advanced foster care
• Why save and invest? Jonathan Clements
• Ching Chong China Girl: Helene Chung

Tuesday 22 April 2008

• Cutting HECS through volunteering
• One stop shop for children and parents
• The French school
• Meet the Listener: Marian's recipe for the blended family

Monday 21 April 2008

• The school year and working parents
• Was that it? Civic engagement after the summit
• What does a doula do?
• Multiple Choice: arranged marriage

Friday 18 April 2008

• Talkback: The hospital experience

Thursday 17 April 2008

• Tim Costello's 2020 vision
• Improving the immigrant experience
• I Think There's Something Wrong with Me
• Summit shenanigans

Wednesday 16 April 2008

• The legacy of Clem Jones
• Our Summiteer-In-Exile
• Being a patient
• Call Me Nana

Tuesday 15 April 2008

• Children on Demand
• From the streets to the summit
• Re-imagining engineering
• Meet the Listener - Jennifer brings her dream to life

Monday 14 April 2008

• World food shortage: scarier than climate change?
• Quentin Bryce on family and work
• Children and medication
• Gearing up for the Summit
• Multiple Choice: a very modern family

Friday 11 April 2008

• Talkback: humour in the workplace

Thursday 10 April 2008

• Social Inclusion: Joining the Dots
• Gifted children
• The Lost Boys
• Music Track - Once in a Lifetime
• Elly Varrenti: This is Not My Beautiful Life

Wednesday 09 April 2008

• Smoking economics
• Youth homelessness prevention
• Inter-generational friendship: Elizabeth Fensham

Tuesday 08 April 2008

• Tibet and the Beijing Olympics
• Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo and the case of Aaron McMillan
• Stress Buster
• Meet the Listener - Annie's cure

Monday 07 April 2008

• Remote teachers say enough is enough
• History's Children
• Growing Old (Dis) gracefully
• Multiple Choice: No TV Family

Friday 04 April 2008

• There goes the neighbourhood

Thursday 03 April 2008

• Eat Healthy, Walk More:The Difference Between Knowing And Doing
• The Strangest Adventures: Alexandra Adornetto
• Parramatta, Hay and the World

Wednesday 02 April 2008

• Cold tablets to methampetamines
• Cyber-bullying project
• An Antarctic Affair

Tuesday 01 April 2008

• Ethics at work
• Super worries
• Melissa Hawach
• Meet the Listener - Lisa from wherever she lives

March 2008

Monday 31 March 2008

• HREOC's Ten Point Plan
• Teens and lying
• Living with a black dog: Matthew and Ainsley Johnstone
• Multiple Choice: dumpster diving

Friday 28 March 2008

• Talkback: I always wanted to be a firefigher, now I am!

Thursday 27 March 2008

• Helping the last unemployed
• Indigo Magazine for Girls
• Music Track - Left of Centre
• Mark Watson's Earth Summit
• New cultural precincts: hardware stores!

Wednesday 26 March 2008

• Who the unemployed are
• Education: worth the family home
• Chenxi and the Foreigner: Sally Rippin
• Elly Varrenti on Stuff

Tuesday 25 March 2008

• Richard Florida: Who's Your City
• Get to Work: Feminism and the New Economy
• A Year of Pokies Gambling
• Meet the Listener - Fifty-two books a year.

Monday 24 March 2008

• Do we live in a secular society?
• Iraqi Refugees
• Global E-Health
• How Starbucks saved my life

Friday 21 March 2008

• Talkback: The death of handwriting

Thursday 20 March 2008

• Cut It Out
• Priority One: Ambos
• Music Track - Please Please
• Comedian Des Bishop

Wednesday 19 March 2008

• Higher education review
• Climb every mountain: Nicki and Cheryl Bart
• Family Journeys in the National Archive

Tuesday 18 March 2008

• Testing, testing: Professor Gordon Stanley
• Welfare-to-work families
• The Reading Bug: Paul Jennings
• Meet the Listener - Madonna on the dance floor

Monday 17 March 2008

• Junk Food Code
• Male-specific counselling
• Addition: Toni Jordan
• Green Matters: Triple bottom line

Friday 14 March 2008

• Talkback: Doing a Shirley Valentine

Thursday 13 March 2008

• One Chance at Childhood
• Lying in Children
• True Tales: Georgia Blain
• Music Track - You and Steve McQueen
• Keeping crisis at bay

Wednesday 12 March 2008

• Education Programs and the 2008 Budget
• The science of weight loss
• Families that work: Deborah Brennan

Tuesday 11 March 2008

• Economic pressures vs social inclusion
• Elly Varrenti: nice day for it
• Love has no limits
• Meet the Listener - working out with Joy

Monday 10 March 2008

• Sex trafficking in Australia
• Maxine McKew: the early childhood challenge
• How Come? #2 You must be born in the USA
• Stevie's letter - A parent's long string of goodbyes
• Track: Stop Buying Things
• Green Matters: Stuff

Friday 07 March 2008

• Talkback: No thanks, I don't drink alcohol

Thursday 06 March 2008

• New child support system
• Tech Girls
• The accidental lawyer: Judith Fordham
• The Sexual Life Of Us: Lou Wilson

Wednesday 05 March 2008

• Climate Change: who pays?
• Sure Start's improved results
• Shy Keenan: 'Broken'

Tuesday 04 March 2008

• New Dementia Advisory Group
• Picking Up the Peaces: PTSD
• Women for Peace in the Middle East
• Meet the Listener - From Salsa to Mandarin

Monday 03 March 2008

• 2020 Summiteer Dr Kelvin Kong
• Religious schools and national standards
• Princesses and Pornstars
• Green Matters: Food

February 2008

Friday 29 February 2008

• Stepfamily Realities: Talkback

Thursday 28 February 2008

• Assessing risk
• Older job seekers take note
• Stepfamily story 3: Home Alone
• Bedwetting

Wednesday 27 February 2008

• The Porn Report
• On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Ouyang Yu
• Stepfamily Story 2: Step-pets
• Music Track - A Face in the Crowd

Tuesday 26 February 2008

• Your Council Chambers: an update
• The Indigenous housing challenge
• Stepfamily Story 1: Footie Stepmother
• Cholas in Bowlers: a Bolivian adventure
• Meet the Listener - When Harry met Glynda

Monday 25 February 2008

• Global offensive on chronic disease
• The Logic of Life: Tim Harford
• Step Families
• Green Matters: Transport

Friday 22 February 2008

• Talkback: Memory and Ageing

Thursday 21 February 2008

• Simulated refugee camp
• How Come?
• Cedric and Ben Wyatt
• Music Track - Goddess of the Night
• A Jihad for Love

Wednesday 20 February 2008

• Ageism in the workplace
• Corporate social responsibility: making it real
• One family's journey through drug addiction

Tuesday 19 February 2008

• Kosovar Australians speak
• Consuming Innocence: children and popular culture
• Derek And Anna Brotherson: life changers par excellence!
• Meet the Listener - Maria needs a job

Monday 18 February 2008

• Green Matters: Biodegradability
• Eeyore or Tigger? Elly Varrenti
• Toddlers Without Tears
• Fron Male Voice Choir
• Early Warnings for Dementia

Friday 15 February 2008

• Talkback - Siblings. My dearest enemy, My dangerous friend

Thursday 14 February 2008

• Reverse mortgages and retirement incomes
• Teach for Australia
• Co-operative Housing
• E- Health Overview
• It's Your Time You're Wasting: Frank Chalk
• Nigel Latta on parenting

Wednesday 13 February 2008

• Sorry Statement from Parliament House Canberra
• Reaction to the Apology
• Coming Home

Tuesday 12 February 2008

• Stolen Generation: what sorry means
• Music Track: Ngarrindjeri Woman
• One man's troubled search for love: Alan Close
• Dieter's life outside the square

Monday 11 February 2008

• The History of Sorry
• Mixing medications
• Big White Wall
• Green Matters: Going green on a budget

Friday 08 February 2008

• Friday Talkback: Elizabeth Broderick's Listening Tour

Thursday 07 February 2008

• Kenyan Aid worker
• Mediation
• Elly Varrenti: Starting school
• Music Track - Today I'm a Daisy
• The secret life of backpackers

Wednesday 06 February 2008

• Nurse family partnerships
• Diversity programs don't work
• The Hephzibah Menuhin Story

Tuesday 05 February 2008

• The whale warriors
• Doing Anger Differently: adolescent boys
• Meet the Listener - The Portrait of Camilla Connolly
• Health reforms 2008

Monday 04 February 2008

• Unmuzzling the NGOs
• Being a doctor in remote Indigenous communities
• Going Grey: Anne Kreamer
• Green Matters: Measure, manage and monitor

Friday 01 February 2008

• Talkback: A Middle Class State of Mind

January 2008

Thursday 31 January 2008

• Paid Maternity Leave
• Managing Your Health Records Online
• Maverick Mother

Wednesday 30 January 2008

• Homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse
• Aboriginal Child Development Index
• Career Comeback

Tuesday 29 January 2008

• Literacy Wars: Ilana Snyder
• Ideas for the Treasurer
• A Dollar a Day
• Meet the Listener: Lusty Cheeses and Tuscan Sunsets

Monday 28 January 2008

• Green Matters: Why should I care?
• Solastalgia: homesickness at home
• It's Your Time You're Wasting: Frank Chalk

Friday 25 January 2008

• Talkback - Finding lost family

Thursday 24 January 2008

• China's one-child policy
• Li Cunxin: The True Story of Mao's Last Dancer (The Peasant Prince)
• Personal Bests in Education
• Letters to Sam

Wednesday 23 January 2008

• Fighting malaria: Sir Richard Feachem
• Michael Morpurgo
• Rural doctors: a country practice

Tuesday 22 January 2008

• Chinese Lessons: John Pomfret
• Loving HILDA
• Margaret Ward

Monday 21 January 2008

• Bullies in the workplace: Professor Robert Sutton
• International Baccalaureate
• Schools for the 21st century
• Elly Varrenti - Bachelor Pad

Friday 18 January 2008

• Redefining homemaking

Thursday 17 January 2008

• A surgeon's stories
• Bad Hair Days: Pamela Bone
• A sex offender in the neighbourhood: a right to know?

Wednesday 16 January 2008

• Models, role models and eating disorders
• Foundation 49 - Men's Health Awareness
• Parenting Tricky Kids
• James Freud: Model behaviour

Tuesday 15 January 2008

• Atul Gawande
• Menopause: Is it hot in here or is it me?
• A male perspective on early menopause
• Elly Varrenti: My Mother Was a Communist

Monday 14 January 2008

• Back from the brink: recovering from depression
• Amy Lamé
• Elly Varrenti: Regrets
• Music Track - Dream A Little Dream

Friday 11 January 2008

• Friday Talkback: The Sex Supply
• Music Track - Let's Talk About Sex

Thursday 10 January 2008

• Demystifying Love
• Muslim sex education
• Elly Varrent on her first love
• Translating Lives

Wednesday 09 January 2008

• Mating in Captivity: Esther Perel
• How to be a bitch
• Listener's story: The Only Gay in the Village

Tuesday 08 January 2008

• In praise of elitism: Charles Murray
• Grandparent Parents
• The Only Gay in the Village - Part 2

Monday 07 January 2008

• Courage: Maria Tumarkin
• Overseas adoption
• The Only Gay in the Village - Part 1

Friday 04 January 2008

• Talkback: School Reunions
• Music Track - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me

Thursday 03 January 2008

• Delinquent Angel: Poet Shelton Lea
• The Baby Thief
• Fitted for Work

Wednesday 02 January 2008

• 30 years of The Women's Room
• And the Clock Struck Thirteen: Lewis O'Brien
• The Gunners' Doctor: Vietnam letters
• MSF doctor in Uganda

Tuesday 01 January 2008

• 15 years of the Fred Hollows Foundation
• Anita Roddick Obituary
• Fantasy writer Margo Lanagan