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A panel of six guests join Phillip Adams in the George Pub in St Kilda, Melbourne, to discuss the vitality of Melbourne and the state of Victoria – the political scene both state and local, the architecture, the spiritual side, sporting attributes, the arts and the community. Originally broadcast 29/1/96.
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In Jeff Sharlet's most recent Harper's essay he chronicles his investigation into the rise of fundamentalist Christianity in the U.S. military.
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, Everest climber Edmund Hillary and scores of others have all experienced a mysterious presence known as 'The Third Man'. After facing imminent death in extreme circumstances, they've recalled being visited by a strange presence which has guided them out harm's way. John Geiger explores the causes and history of 'The Third Man' phenomena.
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South East Asian correspondent Eddin Khoo discusses the upcoming Indonesian Presidential election and how far the country has come democratically since the days of Suharto and how much further leading candidate, the incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, wants to take the country over the next ten years. As Indonesians go to the polls, in neighbouring Malaysia, the country will once again be faced with the trial of Anwar Ibrahim on new allegations of sodomy.
A conversation with Irene Khan about her recent fact-finding visit to Zimbabwe, where she met with senior officials, human rights activists and victims of human rights abuses; and about Amnesty International's concerns for opposition figures, journalists and protesters detained in Iran.
When Andrew Westoll spent a year in Suriname as a biology graduate to study monkeys he couldn't wait to get home. But he couldn't get Suriname out of his mind and five years later, went back to find the soul of this Last Eden.
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Bruce Shapiro discusses the circus around the death of Michael Jackson, the sentencing of Bernie Madoff, an important Supreme Court ruling about racial discrimination in New Haven, and the coup in Honduras.
A conversation about the business argument for the use of ethical labels to mark products made without the use of child labour, slavery and other forms of human exploitation, or environmental destruction. Michael Hiscox is involved in research on this subject at both the production and consumption end of the business cycle.
The buffalo has a mythic status in American culture: to Native Americans it was a spiritual figure as well as a source food; for nineteenth centry whites, the killing of buffalo represented progress and civilization as the American empire expanded westward. In 2005, hunter, cook and author Steven Rinella won a permit to kill one of these iconic beasts. The story of his journey into the Alaskan wilderness is intertwined with the history of the buffalo, the changing role of the hunter and the politics of food in American culture.
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Laura Tingle talks about Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull's latest slump in the polls, and discusses exactly what Godwin Grech's job was in Treasury.
Once again it is being debated whether the level of protection afforded to the Australian book industry should be removed. On one side of the debate is that the protection is a necessity as it allows Australian content and authors to flourish. The other side says an open and free market would allow greater competition and cheaper books, that it's all about pricing and affordability.
A discussion about the Busselton Health Study, which began in 1966 and is one of the longest running public health studies in the world, centred on the West Australian country town of Busselton.
Mon-Thur 10pm
repeated 4pm the following day (6pm WA)
Presented by
Phillip Adams
In early October, Phillip Adams went to Timor-Leste to gather material for a special series of radio programs to be broadcast on Late Night Live starting on Monday 22 October 2007.
8pm AEST
The Book Show
with Ramona Koval
The world of writing and publishing, fiction and non-fiction
