Think Again
By Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet
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Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.
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Personalised history of a worker's movement that emerged within the Catholic church
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May 01, 2026 |
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Superintelligent AI: Why we need to shut it down NOW before it's too late
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Developing good teaching practice from the ground up (without ill-informed command-and-control from our polis)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Democracy in Australia and what does Labor stand for?
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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How policy is getting in the way of schools and teachers doing good education
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Israel, US and Iran (still) and imagining a better system for everyone in 2050
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Chaos and devastation unleashed by Israel and the US in their latest illegal war
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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As an undercover at the reactionary Right’s Advance conference: What can we learn from it?
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Stop children being arrested, charged, hauled before courts and imprisoned as adults! Join the campaign
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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'Love letters to nature' and other ACF campaigns fighting for our natural world
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Imagining better and more democratic ways of organising ourselves: It's necessary for change
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Are we really in a democracy right now...? We have some doubts...
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Footscray Community Response: A community evaluation of the Footscray CBD Security Patrol Program
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Learning from Aboriginal and West Papuan communities: Robert Hoskin reflects
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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We're in the middle of three cataclysms: ecology, community violence and world politics
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Loss of bodily and situational awareness while immersed in our mobiles: What are the implications?
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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In the shadow of Trump's Gaza 'Peace' Plan: Palestinians are driven from the West Bank
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Runaway racial profiling by Victoria Police revealed in the data
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Revelations about Australia's foreign policy: What is really happening and why, as told by Prof. Clinton Fernandes
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Why we need to stop the Victorian Government from introducing adult jail sentences for children
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Ending violence against women and children: Interview with Phillip Ripper from No To Violence
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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AI cannot and should not usurp and replace human creativity and interaction
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Voices under fire: Stories from Gaza
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Making sense of the latest Israel-Palestine (occupier-occupied) 'peace' deal
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Building Jewish solidarity with Palestinians: A journey including 4 years in Gaza and fierce push-back from pro-Zionists back home
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Centurion University leading the way: Working with, training and empowering local tribal communities
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Can the Labor government keep the people’s trust on its current trajectory?
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Australia's tepid climate policy, and a call for urgent collective action: Interview with Annika Reynolds from ACF
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Converging fractures in our society, with lessons from Europe's Nazi past and current US
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The failed neoliberal takeover of our human services - When will our leaders see it's not working?!
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Australian universities in crisis? But they inject a lot of money into 'our' economy!
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Productivity Roundtable: skimming the surface, ignoring unpaid productivity like caring, and reinforcing systemic inequality
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Creating dementia-friendly communities
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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The Wild West of AI and the need to regulate it on behalf of 'us', the people
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Communities creating change and hope in Timor Leste - Building local ecology, economies, and health and wellbeing
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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What is the place of 'community development' in creating social change?
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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What's happening in Iran? - an insider's view
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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External politics, internal politics - on matters like Israel we've effectively been a one-party system
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Hopeful community-led initiatives to tackle climate change: Hepburn Energy
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Behind the current 'Iran situation': the US and Britain squashing Iranian democracy in 1953 and its consequences today
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Looking through the layers of the latest war - in Iran - Australia is involved in
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Think Again retrospective and moving into today... and possible tomorrows...
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Radiothon retrospective: Looking back over six years of broadcasting Think Again
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Moral ambition and creating change: Thoughts and inspiration for activists and would-be activists
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Implications of the federal election result for our planet (including the latest 'climate bomb' decision)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Time to ride the wave of change for a better world; Hopefully the new government notices...
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May 23, 2025 |
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Implications of the federal election result for refugees and asylum seekers
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May 16, 2025 |
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Could this be the time for honesty and bravery in Australia-Palestine politics...? Nah...
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May 09, 2025 |
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Leading up to the federal election, are we voting about what matters?
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May 02, 2025 |
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The new Universities Australia definition of antisemitism and its weaponisation against dissent, protest and scholarly debate
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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The dire situation of the Alevi people and other minorities in Turkiye and surrounding countries
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Tracking how well people are doing beyond narrow economic indicators like GDP
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Dissecting the recent federal budget - will it make a difference?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The further escalation of US Authoritarianism, the selective silence of our leaders, and the need to be alert and active
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Authoritarianism is 'in' again... and it's time to resist
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The US-led roller coaster and what it means for everyone stuck on it (including us)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Making sense of the latest German election results
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Supporting teachers' reflection and self-directed learning and improvement
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Unravelling societies... is that what we see happening in the US and in Australia?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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How corporations are killing free speech; a conversation with Josh Bornstein
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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What's happening in Oz, US and international politics in 2025-continued
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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What to look out for in Oz, US and international politics in 2025 (Warning: some scary things)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Israel wreaks havoc in the Middle East with US backing, while our media and politicians are lost in action
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Talking with Professor Kate Rigby about her academic journey in Ecological Humanities
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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How companies and governments outsource their administration to us, we doing all their work for 'free'
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Trump, the decline of capitalism, and the role more active schooling and education could play
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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The empire is sick and shaky... and is Trump(ism) the cause or just the symptom?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Strategies of tax evasion by the mega rich, and how we can return billions of lost revenue to the public purse
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Ben Rivers' play 'The invaders' fear of memories', based on family diaries from early-1900s Palestine
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Alevi culture and substantial presence in Australia: Who knew?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Community ways of doing politics in Oz: Will the Independents' 'tide' save our democracy?...
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Israel's denial of its slaughter of Palestinian people and the ways it tries to mask the truth
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Attack-dog Dutton, acquiescing Albanese, and how the anti-democratic two-party system is failing us
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Decline of democracy in Australia, a potted history of bold Labor reforms, and current Labor-lite
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The 'bizarre' state of western democracy - and are we even in one?
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Empire US: Its long history and where Australia fits in today
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Deep pitfalls of command-and-control professionalism in health, mental health and emergency management
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Timor Leste: Women weavers cooperatives and celebrating 25 years of independence
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Creating a society for equality and sustainability, while saving the planet in the process
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Australia drops the ball on international justice - and in the process we lose our moral standing
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The continuing onslaughts on Gaza by the State of Israel backed by US military aid
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Proposed draconian 'reforms' to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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'Multicultural' Australia - is it really a 'success story'? and where are we taking it?
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Thinking community with Daryl Taylor
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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International and domestic issues merge in the pre-election period: Gaza and Australian politics
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Doing peace and community development: chatting with Simon Reeves about 'glocal' activism
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Organising 'Occupy Wall Street' - a conversation with its long-term organiser Marisa Holmes
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Radiothon special with highlights and testimonies from past guests
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Let's have deeper conversations about where we are headed as a society
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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What's happening at our universities?: Top-down command and control, KPIs and worker alienation
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May 24, 2024 |
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Chagos Archipelago: A tale of colonial trickery, a long fight for justice, and Australia's continued siding with international oppressors
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May 17, 2024 |
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Peace activism, non-violent resistance, a culture of peace - a chat with Marty Branagan
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May 10, 2024 |
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Conversation with Jorge Jorquera and some interweaving currents of life, politics and social change
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May 03, 2024 |
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Repairing teaching content and processes, and the management of Australian tertiary education
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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We've all become servants of the 'cloud', a handful of technofeudalists raking in the profits: the internet dark side
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Valuing, saving and investing in Victoria's public housing
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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How Internet and social media are stealing our focus and our minds
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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WRONG WAY GO BACK: Stop going down the US war path and work for peace instead
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Co-creating a hopeful, interdependent and sustainable future: Tim Hollo's "Living Democracy"
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Afghan women settling in Australia and their desperate situation in Afghanistan
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Listening to other Jewish voices... Israel, Gaza and Palestine, their history and the wider context
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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From the mouths of Zionist leaders: the more-than-century-old plan to eliminate Palestinians from their lands
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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What's happening in Ukraine? (the hornet's nest stirred up by the US and allies and now seemingly forgotten)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Israel called to prevent/stop genocide in Gaza, while the UN is undermined as a body for international peace
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The devastating legacy of colonialism (aka 'State of Israel') for the Palestinian people
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The 'infernal triangle' of two main parties and the mainstream media, neither doing their job properly
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Emblematic stories for our time
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The Atlas Network: How corporate powers collude to shape public opinion and government policies
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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From its Palestine Laboratory, Israel sells its technology of occupation worldwide
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The need to De-Grow: How can we make it happen?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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A Relational Economy? What would that look and feel like?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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What is Artificial Intelligence and should we be worried? We think so...
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Purging neo-liberal mythologies from the bottom up (and reintroducing participatory evaluation!)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Reflections on the Voice referendum result
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Making sense of the escalating crisis in Gaza and what we can do
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Making education more meaningful to address the problems facing us
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Voice, and the big money forces behind the right-wing No campaign
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The proposed housing reforms in Victoria...? avoiding the real reasons for the crisis...
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria: What can we learn for a national Voice to Parliament?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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The Voice, the Constitution, and our Westminster system
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Australian universities in crisis and how they could be re-directed
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Punishment for profit: How corporations punish unemployed people while milking the public purse
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Centuries of stealth on Africa: From slaves to pilfering resources to dumping 'trashion'
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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How the new 21st Century virtues are failing our democracy
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Centuries of predation on African nations, untold in dominant western narratives
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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What's happening with climate change and what can we do?
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Weaning our economy - and people! - off poker machine addiction
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Let's not get sucked into the US war machine and fight for peace instead!
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Robodebt: a sociopathic assault by our past leadership on Centrelink recipients
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Bhutan to Blacktown: Om Dhungel talks about his refugee journey, eventually finding and making community in Australia
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Doing community (development) work: Report from the World Community Development Conference
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Unpacking the housing crisis in Australia
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Radiothon Special 2023, with testimonials from past guests
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Saving and growing our forests is more urgent than ever
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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From traditional slavery to modern slavery: How are we doing?
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Colonial legacies of racism and slavery in the US and Australia
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May 26, 2023 |
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Slavery in the Americas and the foundation of colonial narratives and practices
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May 19, 2023 |
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Making sense of Labor's federal budget with Matthew Lloyd-Cape from Per Capita
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May 12, 2023 |
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Cafes fill up water bottles free, and reduce plastic pollution: A Yarra Valley Water initiative
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May 05, 2023 |
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Addressing racism and exclusions in the community sector - in workplaces and working with diverse communities
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Exposing the lies of neoliberal capitalism and unmasking the true perpetrators of poverty
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Community issues and community services: Insights from the front line
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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More on US strategies for world domination, and some cracks where the light might get in
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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More about the drumming up of war with China and the shameful role of the media
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Who is benefitting from the drumming up of war with China?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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One man's 50 year+ journey through migration, activism, and community broadcasting
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Class war is alive and well!: Three types of systemic collusion that advantage the wealthy and powerful
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Property, ownership and the travesty of mining on Aboriginal lands
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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YOU TALK, WE DIE: Community members organise for a safe injection facility
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Myth of Normal: How capitalism profits from the problems and illnesses it creates
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Key values for a better future - relationality, diversity, and inclusion
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Countering the worldwide trend toward government austerity
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Wellbeing, equality, education, corruption, and more - What can we learn from Finland?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Is this the end for shape-changing capitalism?
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Ukraine and the promotion of US-style ‘democracy’ (i.e. US dominance)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Community Development and Primary Health Care - a neccesary connection
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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We need to talk about class!
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Health is a community and public matter – but we seem to deliberately ignore this
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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How people can reduce food waste - even within our complex world!
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Freedom: What does it mean, where does it come from, and do we have it?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Wellbeing budgeting: How does the new federal budget 'measure up'?
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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More about the United Nations, and building international peace and cooperation
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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The United Nations: Why we need it more than ever
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Conviction Politics project: Telling stories of resistance and activism by convicts in Australia
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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The queen's death and its meanings for different Aboriginal people
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Looking through the propaganda fog at western military expansion
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Outsourcing the work of government, while private companies get fat on our money
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Volunteers on the COVID-19 frontline, assisting people and communities in crisis
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Participation in democratic decision-making: Drawing inspiration from the more radical 60s
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Our double-system of constitution and convention - and does it ensure democracy anyway?
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Our double-system of constitution and convention - and does it ensure democracy anyway?
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Why Australia should become a republic
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Re-thinking peace, security, and a sovereignty based on friendship and unity
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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War-nation US, the lies it tells, and why we shouldn't go down its war path
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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How Yarra Valley Water entrusted the big decisions to a Citizen's Jury
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Former PM declares lack of faith in government, saying he should know!
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The NDIS: Foundational assumptions and how the ship was set on the wrong course
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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What's wrong with the new wages and conditions deal for teachers?
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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The NDIS: Context, benefits and unexpected consequences
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Constitutions: Where do they come from and what are they (good) for?
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Australia's constitutional monarchy and becoming a republic - what are we waiting for?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Radiothon 2022, with messages from our guests
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Australia's corporate robber barons - but is capitalism compatible with democracy anyway?
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Telling the truth and addressing the wrongs against Aboriginal people in Australia: What's the best approach?
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Australia votes: Mulling over a big win for the people
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May 27, 2022 |
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Local food, cooperative farming, and regenerative agriculture in Central Victoria
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May 20, 2022 |
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The shocking (mostly untold) story of the war in Ukraine
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May 13, 2022 |
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Australia’s faux two-party system, and why we need to crack it open
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May 06, 2022 |
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Nuclear weapons and strategy from WW2 to the present: Could we plan for peace instead?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Should the Environment Minister protect young people from climate harm?: Implications of a key legal judgement
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Ukraine, China, and better ways Australia can manage international relations
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Unpicking the federal budget: Is it helping create a fair and healthy society?
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Brazen corruption destroying democracy in Australia
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The homelessness explosion in Australia, and doing something about it
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Displacement: The common denominator in floods, droughts, fires and war
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Trying to live on below-poverty Centrelink payments: A personal account
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Blaming China for US economic woes - but who is really breaking international trade rules?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Could the Russian invasion into Ukraine relate to the aggressive expansion of NATO?
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Creating more affordable housing: A Grattan Institute proposal...
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The myths and lies behind Australia Day... and behind the ongoing subjugation of Aboriginal people
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Maintaining US global domination - and how we are made to believe it's in our interest
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Why our governments must implement the UN anti-torture protocol (OPCAT)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Paulo Freire again: What’s so special about 'critical education,' especially today?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Repeat from 29 October 2021: Paulo Freire and critical education
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Everything is interconnected: We need to understand this to save the planet and ourselves
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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The proposed Religious Discrimination Bill: Hurting the vulnerable for political advantage?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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The Religious Discrimination Bill: How religious schools receiving lots of public money are allowed to discriminate
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Do we want a military invasion in Australian classrooms and universities?
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Local community fights monstrous developments in the middle of treasured parklands
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Activists oppose AUKUS and their war mongering, calling for solidarity and resistance
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Paulo Freire's 100th anniversary: Critical education remembered… not just for 'old' 60s activists!
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Learning more about B-Corporations – humanising and 'ecologising' our (capitalist) economy...
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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We wrote the PM’s speech: Big COVID thanks to Victorians! But sorry about defense and climate…
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Lessons from COVID: Invest properly in community-based healthcare. Help disadvantaged groups get vaccinated.
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Australia’s defense debacle: Buying nuclear subs, war noises, and lock-stepping with the Anglo powers
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Afghan women making change - here and in Afghanistan
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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COVID and the injustices of global vaccine distribution
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Afghanistan, human rights and the strength of women
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Getting out of Afghanistan: Making sense of the mess through history’s lens
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Human rights and the abuse of people in our prison system
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Home ownership for all has gone AWOL in OZ… or has it?
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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The great COVID vaccine robbery: Billionaires profiteer while poor countries are left behind
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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OK... humans have Rights ... but what about non-humans? Are they just there for 'us'?
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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The Australian Government's expanding powers to spy on us through digital technology
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Human Rights: What are they and (why) are they still relevant?
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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The UN anti-torture protocol (OPCAT): Why are the Australian and Victorian governments dragging their feet?
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Scomo’s governance-by-marketing: Shifting responsibility, lying, and deflecting attention from the real problems
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Our ever-expanding 'underclass'... while the feds distract us with war-mongering
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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An economy on steroids or on Prozac? It depends which way you look…
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Radiothon special with testimonials and a wander down memory lane
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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'Rewilding the Urban Soul': A conversation with author Claire Dunn
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Federal Court decides Minister has ‘duty of care’ to prevent harm from climate change
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Federal budgets or bags of tricks...? Looking at the 2021 version from outside-the-'normal'-box
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May 28, 2021 |
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Exploring the role of police - historically and at present
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May 21, 2021 |
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Experiments with Possible Futures: A conversation with Jose Ramos
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May 14, 2021 |
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More thoughts on our predicaments: Pandemic, capitalism, racism, ecology and especially war
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May 07, 2021 |
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Community Voice: How locals in Hepburn Shire (VIC) elected people who really represent them
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Predicaments our world faces: Can we find our way out of them together?
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Waiting for flood or bushfire recovery funds...? Better live in the 'right' electorate!
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Elite schools: Preparing (male) ‘children of the gods' to abuse women and exploit the masses
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Exploring sexual assault, consent and the puzzling Craig McLachlan decision
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Handouts for the wealthy while the unemployed continue to be squeezed
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Royal Commissions galore... but are they really 'helping' and involving the aged and the mentally unwell?
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Good to have the COVID-19 vaccine(s) going into our arms … but it isn’t the whole story!
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Big pharma companies restrict access to COVID vaccines while the public pays for their development
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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We need to invest in care and the common good, not in private profiteering
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Cooperative housing, shared living, and alternative ways of working
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Grateful for new social housing funding in Victoria, but we need the proper mix and quality!
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Why did an angry mob invade the US Capitol?: Republicans, racism and inequality
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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The Kala Space: A social enterprise that employs homeless people and gives them dignity
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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The system is rigged: We need to re-think and re-organise it
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Reflections on 2020: A year to forget? A year to learn from?
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Embracing relationality: Transformation for a healthier world
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Violence against women: Exploring causes and avenues for change
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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'Our' SAS soldiers' criminal conduct: An exception or to be expected?
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Can the US election tell us anything about politics in Australia? The parallels are obvious!
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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PM’s hypocritical attacks on a CEO's gift of watches while he's 'pork-barrelling' with public - our! - money
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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International students stranded and forgotten in Australia - after we've taken their money
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Privatising public housing, the home-ownership dream, and exploring other possibilities
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Calling out the need for more state-built public housing
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Federal Budget: why bother? the usual handouts for the wealthy and peanuts for all else
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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How COVID showed us the folly of privatisation and management-school 'inspired' governance
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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The Coal-ition’s gas transition invading Westernport Bay? We helped prevent it!
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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No welfare for the wealthy! Stop their undeserved tax breaks!
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Social change through local government: What are the possibilities?
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Who carries the burden of ill health in our system and during COVID-19?
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Changing our economy one village at a time: bHive Cooperative in Bendigo
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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COVID, climate change and the (next) economy
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Media bias and the hysterical and transparent campaign against Premier Andrews
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Social change and activism: The need for holistic thinking
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Housing and homelessness: One man's story
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Social change: Going beyond 'goodies and baddies' thinking
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Relational insights about the pandemic: A way into a better 'new normal'?
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Raising Centrelink payments for good... what are 'we' waiting for?
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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How local governments answer to their masters and not their communities
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Turning universities into sausage factories - keep them poor, so students pay more and learn less....
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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The Coalition government has been porkbarrelling community development funds; and the media are silently complicit...
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Refugees in Australia: The past, the present and what next?
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Aboriginal lives matter: Political discourses and abuses
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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China and biased public discourse: Preparing for a new Cold War?
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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The future of work from a union perspective
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May 29, 2020 |
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The Australian Living Peace Museum
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May 22, 2020 |
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Community development in the 70s: Inspiration for the present?
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May 15, 2020 |
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Making our working lives - and our planet - healthier
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May 08, 2020 |
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The nature of work - historically, now and into the future
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May 01, 2020 |
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The coronavirus: Who wears the financial risk?
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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The coronavirus and the desperate situation of asylum seekers
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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The coronavirus and the western-centric bias in reporting
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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The coronavirus: Exploring possibilities for change
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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The coronavirus, the community welfare sector and volunteering
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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The coronavirus and the fault lines in our health and other systems
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Community development for today - Part 3
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Community development for today - Part 2
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Community development for today - Part 1
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Local government, participation and democracy
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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True participatory democracy... What would it take...?
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Public Private Partnerships: Who gains...? Who loses...? ... bet you guessed it!
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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The alarming Religious Discrimination Bill being proposed
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Does the PM's Pentecostalism 'inform' his beliefs about climate change and help explain his inaction?
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Bushfires, climate change denial and fake news
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Upfield Corridor campaign: A lost opportunity for proper consultation with the community
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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The commons: Resurrecting a good idea leading to better ways of living!
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Food security and food sovereignty: A call to reframe local action
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Climate change inaction: Scomo's fake excuse that we 'only' produce 1.3% of global emissions
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Social enterprises as part of the New Economy
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Disability and social change through self-advocacy and community action
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Is patriarchy a thing of the past? An interview with Bob Pease about men, gender and power
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Education inequity: It’s still about 'keeping them in their place'
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Poker machines and their creation of harm, while governments pretend interest in harm prevention
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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The social production of mental illness
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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The narcissism epidemic: 'Selfies’ are only the beginning! - or are they the end...?
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Sociopathic behaviour: Its effects on NGOs and the community sector
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Sociopathic behaviour: How it is promoted and rewarded in our capitalist cultures and systems
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Manfred Max-Neef, the 'barefoot economist'
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Governing in silos
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Talking about values... Are they still useful for living?
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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Exploring ‘De-growth’ - necessary for the survival of humans and other species
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS): A personal account
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Economic growth: When impotent daydreams meet noxious nightmares...
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Resilience: A personal or relational quality? - or society's new way of shifting responsibility to the victims of its policies?
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Royal commissions and democracy: A rather strange combination...
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Cooperatives: Good for living and good for organisations
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Populism, social media and creating social change
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Populism: Learning from history to understand the present
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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'Regulating' banks and 'regulating' unions: Spot the difference!
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Tax and welfare - two ways that maintain our inequalities and the system that justifies them
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Surveillance capitalism: Is there an escape?
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Managerialism - an infectious and toxic ideology
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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An economy for humans and for the planet
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Weasel words... saying nothing but doing a great deal of damage
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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Relationality - our modus vivendi...
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Jun 07, 2019 |