Amongst massive job cuts and chaos on the financial markets, there is one finance sector that's having a field day.
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On the south coast there's a female surfer who regularly carves up the local breaks. But as Michael Atkin found out...she does just as much damage to local houses. Tyler Wright is a 14 year old surfer from Culburra Beach, about half an hour from Nowra.
In October she made history becoming the youngest woman to win a woman's tour event. Tyler won the Beachley Classic at Manly, beating some of the world's best surfers, including Steph Gilmore. Michael caught up with Tyler in her home town to see what she gets up to.
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It's the wild adrenalin rush that gets most people into the sport. But it's the injuries including a number of deaths which can make local councils freak out and ban it. Kite surfing combines the skills of wakeboarding, surfing and kite flying. With a major event on the NSW South Coast coming up, Michael Atkin decided to give it a go. This is Alex, a 16 year old kitesurfer - and weather nerd - at Dolls Point in Sydney.
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THE FINAL DAYS OF BOARDING SCHOOL
A special Hack Series
PART THREE: SAYING GOODBYE
You reckon leaving school is tough enough. Try leaving the place you've called home, a place you've lived in twenty-four-seven.
While Zac and Steve finished exams and packed their rooms, James West stalked them with a microphone.
And today in the last installment of The Final Days of Boarding School -- it's time to say goodbye.
Maybe you'll hear PART FOUR: THE FORMAL soon on Hack. Who knows. Enjoy schoolies, guys.
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THE FINAL DAYS OF BOARDING SCHOOL
A special Hack Series
PART TWO: SEX
Today it's time for the tricky questions -- about girls, about relationships, and some of the darker things in boarding house culture.
You're going to hear Zac and Steve again -- the two 17 year old Newington College boarders who over this week have been packing their things, and leaving boarding school for the last time.
You might have in your head a picture of boarding school as a pretty tough environment -- where if you don't cut it, you have it rough.
But in 2008, how real is the stereotype of an old school, tough guy boarding house?
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THE FINAL DAYS OF BOARDING SCHOOL
A special Hack Series
PART ONE: FAMILY
There are 24 thousand boarders in nearly 200 independent and Catholic boarding houses around Australia.
In this series, you're going to meet two year 12 boarders, Zac and Steve from Newington College, an independent boys school in Sydney.
The school has 30 boarders living in an old converted hospital off-campus.
And after years of being super-tight mates, it's time to leave the boarding house family forever.
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A vigilante justice team went wild in a Sydney park recently. Respectable citizens were armed and taught how to defend themselves. Our streets are so unsafe there was no other option. Prepare the armour and pick up the cardboard tube. It's time to defend yourself and whack a stranger.
Like any gang people had nicknames. There was the drunken sailor, chickenman and the pizza box boys.
Michael Atkin witnessed The Cardboard Tube Fighting League for Hack.
He's speaking here with Dan, the league's organiser who was dressed like He-Man.
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Meet a climate change consultant, a solar panel installer and loads of other young green collar workers.
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It's a tough life being professionally good looking, especially as a guy. Hit the catwalk with an unlikely, slightly rock and roll male model.
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Hack speaks to three people who's lives have been severly changed by the 2002 Bali Bombings.
On the eve of the executions, Hack discovers three completely different points of view on whether or not killing the terrorists is the right answer.
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This time next week - where will you be? Anxiously checking the last minute polls to see who's likely to win the US election? Or will you be thinking about different race?
You know, the one that stops a nation. You might have splurged on an office sweep or maybe you'll have a day off and by this time you'll've had a few drinks and tried to make some of the money back that you lost on the big race.
Australians gamble about $137 each a year on racing.
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All week HACK is coughing up the goods from Central Australia.
Today: Culture shock - moving town
Alice Springs has a very transient population. There's nowhere else like it so some people get a bit of a shock, but some people get more a shock when they move back home.
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