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Programs by Date - 2008
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November 2008
- Friday 28: Listener feedback
- Friday 28: Carnivals in peril as NT intervention kicks in
- Friday 28: What ministers want
- Friday 28: Getting technical: Victoria's attempts TAFE reforms
- Friday 28: The round-up
- Friday 21: Listener feedback
- Friday 21: Parched: the politics of water Read Transcript
- Friday 14: Listener feedback
- Friday 14: Hug a truckie, curse his boss
- Friday 14: Trees: the new carbon-storing, tax-minimising gimmick Read Transcript
- Friday 14: Feed my solar panels
- Friday 14: The round-up
- Friday 07: Listener feedback
- Friday 07: Size matters: digging the biggest mine in the world
- Friday 07: Exit Pacific Solution, enter Indian white elephant Read Transcript
- Friday 07: Australian unis face offshore campus dilemma
- Friday 07: The round-up
October 2008
- Friday 31: Listener feedback
- Friday 31: Mining magnate sets ambitious indigenous employment goal
- Friday 31: Infrastructure impasse: rail access a socialist Trojan horse? Read Transcript
- Friday 31: NZ's conservatives ready to tap mood for change
- Friday 31: The round-up
- Friday 24: Listener feedback
- Friday 24: The racist name blame game
- Friday 24: The case for saving indigenous employment programs Read Transcript
- Friday 24: Planning laws get personal for Victorian councils
- Friday 24: The round-up
- Sunday 19: Listener feedback
- Sunday 19: NSW Labor garrotted, but still breathing
- Sunday 19: Greens become king-makers in ACT Assembly
- Sunday 19: The round-up
- Friday 17: Indigenous welfare program shake-up Read Transcript
- Friday 17: Warm up my salmon: climate change hits fisheries
- Friday 17: Greens ready for ACT balance of power
- Friday 17: NSW voters: on verandas, have baseball bats
- Friday 17: The round-up
- Friday 10: Listener feedback
- Friday 10: Green-shoe brigade Read Transcript
- Friday 10: Power-points: the future of the building industry watchdog
- Friday 10: Territorians set to farewell majority rule
- Friday 10: The round-up
- Friday 03: Skilling Australia: our apprenticeships challenge Read Transcript
September 2008
- Friday 26: Listener feedback
- Friday 26: Sick oceans suggest seachange for the worse Read Transcript
- Friday 26: Materiel independence: military spending restructure
- Friday 26: Loss of gas project riles WA's new premier
- Friday 26: The round-up
- Friday 19: Listener feedback
- Friday 19: Single desk demise makes way for brave, new wheat world
- Friday 19: Question Time or waffle time? Read Transcript
- Friday 19: Why the inflated asset bubble had to burst
- Friday 19: The round-up
- Friday 12: Listener feedback
- Friday 12: Waste managers trash approach on greenhouse gasses
- Friday 12: Australian innovation: bound for venture Read Transcript
- Friday 12: Queensland rebranded: Bligh's vision for Q2
- Friday 12: The round-up
- Sunday 07: Listener feedback
- Sunday 07: More ALP blood-letting: Iemma's factional pals bite the dust
- Sunday 07: Uncertain outcome places WA Nats in the spotlight
- Friday 05: Labor bloodbath: ALP right dumps Iemma
- Friday 05: Australia's de-sal water future Read Transcript
- Friday 05: From walk in the park to political nightmare
- Friday 05: The round-up
August 2008
- Friday 29: Listener feedback
- Friday 29: Revolve my door
- Friday 29: Perverse disincentives to sell water rights Read Transcript
- Friday 29: Political crunch-time in the West
- Friday 29: The round-up
- Friday 22: Listener feedback
- Friday 22: Do bike helmets make you fat?
- Friday 22: No fear: challenges to public service impartiality Read Transcript
- Friday 22: Who's next in Lyne?
- Friday 22: The round-up
- Friday 15: Listener feedback
- Friday 15: The wealthy healthy: wellbeing's social determinants Read Transcript
- Sunday 10: Listener feedback
- Sunday 10: Aged care warrior takes on the system Read Transcript
- Sunday 10: Take the plunge: vote early
- Sunday 10: Close NT poll places independent at centre-stage
- Friday 08: Aged care warrior takes on the system Read Transcript
- Friday 08: NT's issue-free election campaign
- Friday 08: Take the plunge: vote early
- Friday 08: The round-up
- Friday 01: Listener feedback
- Friday 01: Tax Office seeks clarity on stock-market betting schemes
- Friday 01: Territory political slug-fest goes suburban Read Transcript
- Friday 01: The round-up
July 2008
- Friday 25: Listener feedback
- Friday 25: Tradeswomen are doing it for themselves
- Friday 25: Nothing so permanent as a temporary worker
- Friday 25: Carpenter the untouchable Read Transcript
- Friday 25: The round-up
- Friday 18: Listener feedback
- Friday 18: You look sweet, upon a seat... of an e-bike
- Friday 18: Ethics tsar only a phone call away Read Transcript
- Friday 18: Getting naked: the rude side of short-selling
- Friday 18: The round-up
- Friday 11: Listener feedback
- Friday 11: Tree-changers watch the sun set on the Anthony dynasty
- Friday 11: Alexander Downer's controversial life in politics Read Transcript
- Friday 11: The round-up
- Friday 04: Liberal Party blues: divisions in the West
- Friday 04: Taxing carbon: Canadian province punishes petrol
- Friday 04: COAG and water: a deal with appeal? Read Transcript
- Friday 04: The round-up
June 2008
- Friday 27: New broom or Lennon lite? Read Transcript
- Friday 27: Modernise or perish: reinventing Australian unions
- Friday 27: Unions on the warpath over watchdog's powers
- Friday 27: The round-up
- Friday 20: Climate alert: top priority or obscurantist twaddle?
- Friday 13: Morituri vos salutant: senators' parting shots Read Transcript
- Friday 13: The round-up
- Friday 06: On ya bike!
- Friday 06: Tax the Chardonnay socialists
- Friday 06: Build something! Quick! Read Transcript
- Friday 06: The round-up
May 2008
- Friday 30: NT Intervention - The Ugly ... Read Transcript
- Friday 30: NT Intervention - The Bad ...
- Friday 30: NT Intervention - The Good ...
- Friday 30: The Round-Up
- Friday 23: Dunes Roll
- Friday 23: Can't See the Forest ...
- Friday 23: Stable but Critical: Insurance & Hospital Funding Read Transcript
- Friday 23: The Round-Up
- Friday 16: Solar - So Near And Yet So Far
- Friday 16: Multilateral We Stand Read Transcript
- Friday 16: The Round-Up
- Friday 16: Populate or Perish - Immigration Up Again
- Friday 09: Drowning in think tanks Read Transcript
- Friday 09: Doing a job on the Job Network
- Friday 09: What's going on in WA politics?
- Friday 09: The Round-Up
- Friday 02: Murray River Flows Read Transcript
- Friday 02: Is Australian Democracy Ailing?
- Friday 02: Why Are Australian Troops in Afghanistan?
- Friday 02: The Round-Up
April 2008
- Friday 25: Pulling your food-chain Read Transcript
- Friday 25: Collins' class: dud-subs now back in favour
- Friday 25: Australians more relaxed on immigration
- Friday 25: The round-up
- Friday 18: The National Interest cuts to the 2020 chase Read Transcript
- Friday 11: Poppy myth-popping
- Friday 11: Howard's battlers go missing
- Friday 11: The best democracy money can't buy Read Transcript
- Friday 11: The round-up
- Friday 04: Plans to revive euthanasia legislation
- Friday 04: An alternative to Afghan poppy-plucking Read Transcript
- Friday 04: The round-up
March 2008
- Friday 28: Drought-proof or in water denial?
- Friday 28: All Chinese to us Read Transcript
- Friday 28: Spivs, sleaze and Labor mates
- Friday 28: The round-up
- Friday 21: One-armed bandits fight back Read Transcript
- Friday 21: From rut to groove: planning the Liberals' comeback
- Friday 21: The round-up
- Friday 14: CUGs (Cashed Up Gamblers)
- Friday 14: Tired, not grumpy: Rudd-era public servants Read Transcript
- Friday 14: Don't call it insider trading
- Friday 14: The round-up
- Friday 07: Board women
- Friday 07: Mandarin shuns millionaires' professional afterlife Read Transcript
- Friday 07: Mega mayors
- Friday 07: The round-up
February 2008
- Friday 29: Don't refund my drink: the case against container deposits
- Friday 29: Tricky short sellers Read Transcript
- Friday 29: The round-up
- Friday 22: Science, nurture and nature: the great forestry debate Read Transcript
- Friday 15: Refund my drink: SA boosts container deposits
- Friday 15: Scrymgour on the way forward
- Friday 15: Clusters' last stand: should Australia ban the bomb? Read Transcript
- Friday 15: The round-up
- Friday 08: Future manufacturing: Mitsubishi bids farewell Read Transcript
- Friday 08: Keep your ministers off my legislators
- Friday 08: Adjust the Speaker
- Friday 08: The round-up
- Friday 01: Whither Australia's ports? Read Transcript
- Friday 01: Local IR problems. National IR solutions?
- Friday 01: The round-up
- Friday 01: A marriage made in Queensland
January 2008
- Sunday 27: Whose ABC?
- Sunday 20: Retiring politicians
- Sunday 13: Plantations not the solution
- Sunday 13: The phoney forest war
- Sunday 06: Terrorism: are we protecting ourselves too much?
