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Program: The media in boom and doom
Are business media watchdogs acting in the public interest, or are they merely messengers? To whom does the media owe allegiance when global economic meltdown looms. Reporter, Stan Correy. United Kingdom, United States, Economic Trends and Indicators, Economic Globalisation, Federal Government, Information and Communication SONG: We're in the money Reporter: Apples up more than 6% right now, Google about 3%, but Dell, Intel, Research Motion and Microsoft are all to the upside....
Program: Rugby League: More than just a game
One hundred years ago this month, there was social ferment in Australia. Industrial unrest, crime and political changes were widespread giving the working class a new confidence. And in an astonishing series of events and people, football was changing forever. Rugby League was born. Reporter Stan Correy. View the documents referred to in the program, including newspaper articles from 1907-1908, archival material from the Royal Commission and other memorabilia from the early days of rugby league.
Mining Afghanistan - ABC listen
As foreign troops withdraw, will foreign miners move in? They’ve known of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth for a century but it hasn’t been safe or easy enough to extract it. Now Western companies, including Australian miners, are behind the geopolitical eight-ball as China and India lock up mining rights.
Program: AAA ratings on rates
Across Australia, many local councils have invested their money in high yield, but risky investment schemes. Now, with the whole low-doc, subprime world so shaky, they're losing money. Ratepayers want answers, and some councillors who didn't see the writing on the wall are having to explain. Reporter Stan Correy. Story update: The Federal Court has called CDOs a "sophisticated bet" and awarded millions to local councils for money lost in Lehman's toxic investments.
Program: The airline, the engine maker, the 500 passengers and their lucky escape
It's what keeps aeronautical engineers awake at night - an engine explosion at 30,000 feet. They are rare but the Qantas A380 incident has triggered a fierce debate about the design, maintenance and safety of engines that power the new super jumbos. Reporter, Stan Correy. Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents, Company News, Science and Technology QF32 passenger: I was sitting just behind the wing, so we felt this just loud thud.
Program: Sovereign wealth funds
As the effects of the subprime credit crunch continue to be felt around the world, the new global investors bailing out Wall Street banks are the sovereign wealth funds. These are the investment vehicles of cashed up Arab and Asian governments which are also buying into the mining boom in Australia. While their money is welcomed, are there political motivations behind the investments?
Program: Digital convergence, connection and confusion
It's coming fast, the digital hub where i-pads talk to mobile phones, computers talk to TVs, TVs have hundreds of apps, and you can choose and change with your magical remote wand. But, big but, who is in charge of customer service for all these devices when something goes phut? Reporter Stan Correy Economic Trends and Indicators, Federal Government, Lifestyle and Leisure, Computer Science Announcer: Stand by for the opening night of the National Television Service.
Program: Guns and the military
For decades questions have been asked about how Defence keeps track of its guns, bullets and rocket launchers. In coming weeks there will be two cases before the courts dealing with allegations of weapons being stolen from the military. The Defence Department is impenetrable on these issues, believing that any public information will be a security risk.
Program: Metals, money and madness
The global economic collapse is now seen to be caused by greed and theft. There's a parallel in the looting of metals, especially copper, around the world. Reporter, Stan Correy. Business, Economics and Finance, Community and Society, Government and Politics ROCK MUSIC Stan Correy: 'Rocking on Electric Avenue' the sparks fly with some pretty hairy, scary events around the world; as thieves try to literally steal the copper from the wiring that keeps our electronic world spinning.
Food futures - ABC listen
Prices at the shops may be rising because billions of Indians and Chinese are eating more, and using cars - and it could be that some well funded gamers are playing the commodities market like a casino in cyberspace. Take our quiz.
Cloud computing - ABC listen
Google's Chrome, and others, offer easier, smoother, faster servers into their gated internet gardens, where all things are known. It's the Petabyte Age, and there be beasties. Reporter Stan Correy.
Program: Iraq: new team, new strategy, new tensions
America has a new policy for Iraq: soft power. It's cultural counterinsurgency. Possibly too little too late, it may even be impossible. Americans don't speak the language, and don't understand the many cultures. Reporter: Stan Correy. Defence and National Security, Unrest, Conflict and War THEME EXPLOSION Stan Correy: A familiar sound in Baghdad in the past week: a suicide bomb. This one had a special target, the Iraqi Parliament, located within the heavily fortified Green Zone.
Program: The enemy in the net
We know there are criminals using the net, and also that hackers can infiltrate anyone's computer. At the government level it's not only a murky worry, but has become a battle for who will monitor it all and how we will fight cyberwars. And not everything you hear is true. Reporter Stan Correy Defence and National Security, Federal Government, Computer Science MUSIC Stan Correy: The enemy is out there, in cyberspace, loading up and aiming the Trojan-laden botnet bullets.
Program: The flash crash
A few months ago the US share market plunged l000 points in a few minutes, and trillions were traded both up and down. What caused it, and can it happen again. Tiny high frequency computer algorithms - or algos - roam the markets, buying and selling in a parallel universe more or less uncontrolled by anyone. Did they go feral, or was it the fat finger of a coked out trader? In September US regulators bring out their findings. Reporter Stan Correy. Photo: Timothy A Clary, AFP.
Program: Construction industry collapses
A spate of construction industry failures has put thousands of sub-contracting businesses at risk and stopped urgent public infrastructure projects. Two state governments are caught up in the collapses and are under pressure to bail them out and rescue the small sub-contractors. But that would set a costly precedent for major building projects across the country involving public-private-partnerships. Reporter: Stan Correy.
Mining Afghanistan - ABC listen
As foreign troops withdraw, will foreign miners move in? They’ve known of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth for a century but it hasn’t been safe or easy enough to extract it. Now Western companies, including Australian miners, are behind the geopolitical eight-ball as China and India lock up mining rights.
Program: Rare earths and China
China currently produces about 95% of the world's rare earths, which are metals which are essential to modern living and used all around us every day. In business it's a volatile mix, with complex political alchemy for every government, including Australia. Reporter Stan Correy.
Program: A narrative for a long war
Opinion shapers in Washington worry that they are losing the war of ideas with the Jihadists. But are they? Reporter: Stan Correy Australia, Defence and National Security, Information and Communication THEME George W. Bush: We're dealing with a new enemy that uses new means of attack and new methods to communicate. America's fighting a tough war against an enemy whose ruthlessness is clear for all to see. Stan Correy: Call it the War on Terror, or the Long War.
Program: Growth of the Aerotropolis
Worldwide, the airport is no longer somewhere to catch a plane. It is a commercial city growing fast under special conditions. The services and shops are for all those captive billions of passengers and for customers from outside. The new-look airport brings good returns for your super investment - until something happens. Reporter Stan Correy.
Taxing mines - ABC listen
Australia and Zambia are resource rich countries that both wanted to tax the super profits of mining companies during the world's biggest commodity boom. Find out why they failed. Reporter: Stan Correy Federal Government, Business, Economics and Finance, Community and Society, Mining Environmental Issues Stan Correy: Last week, Tony Abbott's people's revolt came to Canberra.
Program: Digital revolutionaries under surveillance
In Egypt democracy activists called themselves the Facebook revolutionaries, but in China there are fears the social networking sites will be used to spy on dissidents. For governments, social media represent easy access to their citizens, for good or ill. But for digital entrepreneurs, including the odd Russian billionaire, there must be money in it, if they could only find a way. No-one knows where it will go next.
Program: Attack of the algorithms
Robot traders are dominating stock markets using high speed computer algorithms. Human traders and government regulators can’t keep up, and markets could be one programming glitch away from the next big crash. Stan Correy investigates. Loading Passers-by watch the share market plunge on an Australian Stock Exchange graph in Sydney on August 5, 2011.
Program: A fair share of the boom
Mineral rich nations are demanding more from the mining companies digging up their resources, and Australia with its mineral resources tax is at the forefront of this trend, known as resource nationalism. The big mining companies don’t like it -- they’re calling it resource nationalisation and they’re fighting it. Reporter: Stan Correy.
Program: Auditing the auditors
Where does the buck stop when big banks and corporations, even nations collapse. Who signs off on the books? The auditors or the directors of the board? And who should tell investors when there's something shifty going on? Who are the auditors answerable to? Reporter, Stan Correy. Business, Economics and Finance, Company News, World Politics Stan Correy: As the financial world tumbles all around us yet again, let's pause to find out where the buck stops.
Program: The mobile payments push
Get ready for the next big app attack, urging you to chop up your credit cards and use your mobile phone. You won't have to go to a shop, just point the phone at a handily-placed barcode, and you've paid! It's not a phone, it's a 'smart wallet', and your mobile banker skims off a bit of every transaction. Security? It's a work in progress. Reporter, Stan Correy.
Program: Qantas and the ghost of Workchoices
Qantas has opened a new industrial relations battlefront. The Labor government's Fair Work laws are being put to the test but there are bigger political implications for the Opposition, which is split over whether to re-embrace Workchoices, the IR policy that many believe brought an end to the Howard government. Reporter, Stan Correy Photo: AAP, Miles Godfrey Business, Economics and Finance, Work, Federal Government Alan Joyce [archival]: Have we got everybody here, ready to roll?
Clive's world - ABC listen
He’s a billionaire mining magnate, a real estate developer, football club saviour, a medical philanthropist, a professor, a political combatant and, officially, a National Living Treasure. How does he do it? Background Briefing investigates the big world and the big claims of Clive Palmer. Reporter: Stan Correy Jonathan Green: I’m sure you’ve all heard of Clive Palmer. The colourful billionaire from Queensland is frequently cited in the media and in public debate.
Program: A conflict of interest?
Clive Palmer says the influence of lobbyists on Australian politics is pitting foreign interests against domestic() When the Liberal National Party swept to power in Queensland it proclaimed the most extensive rules in the country to deal with lobbying and conflicts of interest within its own ranks. The LNP wanted to avoid lobbying scandals of the kind that had plagued the Bligh Labor government. So why is the Newman government now caught in its own lobbying controversy? Stan Correy investigates.
Program: On the road with Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich is the speaker of the US Congress, which makes him third in line for the presidency. He is a controversial figure who has put forward policies like putting street kids into orphanages and taking away welfare from teenage mothers. Unsurprisingly he has been demonised by liberals.
Program: Who owns the news?
It's a question no one has really been able to answer, though many try. A new fight for the answer is breaking out all over the place because readers are getting what they want on the internet, and copying stuff is really easy. Reporter Stan Correy. Information and Communication, Advertising and Marketing Industry, Community and Society, Computer Science No matter where you go in your life, at some point you're going to need somebody to stand by you.
Program: The Suez Crisis 1956
Sir Robert Menzies was at the centre of the Suez crisis - one of the great failures of western political history. He was sent into negotiate with Nasser, but behind the scenes the UK, Israel, France and the USA all had other agendas. Were they treating Menzies as a mere tool in their wider game? Reporter Stan Correy.
Program: Music of the Blogospheres
There's yet another paradigm shift in new technology — Podcasting, which cuts out the advertisers, commercial DJs, and program directors. Young people order only what they want, and get it free. A new technology called podcasting has emerged as a disruptive force, challenging traditional broadcasting models. Supporters hail it as a revolution, while critics remain sceptical.
Program: Private equity - the purest capitalism
The business world is agog as the private equity consortiums storm the globe with their trillions, buying and selling and skimming fees. They've been called locusts, barbarians, and gluttons - but it's not illegal and the profits are huge. Reporter, Stan Correy. Company News, Economic Trends and Indicators, Economic Globalisation, Trade U2 MUSIC Stan Correy: They're hot, they're hip, and they're into the biggest financial game in the world - private equity.
Program: Selling China: The Wal-Mart Effect
The worlds biggest retail company, Wal-Mart, is China's fourth largest trading partner, and the result is one of the most dramatic economic shifts since the industrial revolution. Tariffs are again in the air. There is international unease about labour laws, fair trade or free trade and the power of economic supremacy.
Program: The radioactive rebellion
Niger has lots of uranium, and the world wants it. Australian companies are there, pegging out their stakes. There's murder, kidnapping, hijacking and rebellion in a volatile mix of Tuareg tribesmen (and musicians) at war with other ethnic groups and the government of Niger. The government is playing China and America off against each other and there are whispers that al-Qaeda is in there, too. Reporter: Stan Correy.
Program: Testing the teachers
It's a whiteboard jungle out there as educationalists and economists haggle over the surest way to get the best out of our kids. One proposal being considered is more money for teachers whose students get the best test results. The status quo is not an option, and teachers unions are in a difficult position. Reporter: Stan Correy.
Program: Trouble with bees
Australian bees are doing very nicely. But unless we're careful problems plaguing American hives could turn up here. There are several theories on why colonies are collapsing in the US. Is it because the bees are overworked and poorly managed - or is the bug called varroa destructor the cause of the problems. Quarantine is tight to make sure it doesn't enter Australia as a stowaway. Reporter Stan Correy.
Private spooks - ABC listen
The use of private military companies is now widespread, but now there are also private intelligence organisations working closely with government. Business is booming and the worlds biggest private equity company, Carlyle, has just bought part of the big intelligence company, Booz Allen Hamilton. They're active in Australia, too. Reporter Stan Correy. UPDATE: Whistleblower Edward Snowden sacked from Booz Allen and the NSA after exposing their role in the the surveillance program known as PRISM.
Zombie banks - ABC listen
They look like banks, they walk like banks and they quack like banks, but they're really the undead. Shells filled with toxic assets. Killing these living dead is probably political suicide because of the collateral damage, but it's the way to go say leading economists. Reporter Stan Correy. Business, Economics and Finance, Community and Society, Government and Politics Stan Correy: This is Background Briefing on ABC Radio National. I'm Stan Correy.
Program: Why is James Murdoch so angry?
The stars have not been in alignment for the Murdoch empire: a phone hacking scandal threatens its influence in British politics, people won't pay for online content, the pirates have the best digital maps, and the British Library wants to give information away for free. Reporter Stan Correy Information and Communication, Company News, Government and Politics, Computer Science Centurion: Caesar!!! Caesar: Who will fight with me? Who will fight with me? Will you fight for me?
Program: Range anxiety and the future of the car industry
How far and how fast can electric cars go? That’s what most buyers want to know as the big car-makers talk up battery power and zero emissions. The electric vehicle's advance is confronted by ‘range anxiety’ as well as leaner, meaner combustion engines, while in the US and Australia public debate about the future of the car industry is caught in the old politics of subsidies and jobs. China, of course, is now the world’s biggest market for electric cars. Reporter, Stan Correy.
Program: Problem pirates of Somalia
Many wonder why they are not just shot out of the water on sight, but in fact the merchant cargo ships, the insurers, and the many State navies are also caught in a mesh of overlapping laws of the sea. And countries like Denmark, the EU and the US are at loggerheads about how to handle it all. Reporter, Stan Correy Trade, Law, Crime and Justice, Unrest, Conflict and War THEME Stan Correy: Hello, I'm Stan Correy and this is Background Briefing on ABC Radio National.
Program: Residents vs McDonald's
A group of residents in Adelaide have opened a new front against the fast food giant. They’re trying to stop a McDonald’s restaurant opening opposite a school, arguing it will raise childhood obesity rates in the area. This may be the first time an urban planning court in Australia has looked beyond traffic, noise, litter and crime concerns, to consider the food environment. Reporter: Stan Correy.
Program: Where there's smoke
Australia's tallest residential tower, the Q1 Tower on the Gold Coast Construction and Real Estate Industry, House Fires, Safety, Engineering, Architecture Stan Correy: Rising up through the crowded skyline of Queensland’s Gold Coast is the tallest residential tower in the country, Q1. (Excerpt from Q1 promotion: ‘Q1, Q for Queensland, was completed in 2005 by the Sunland Group. It stands at 1058 feet, has 80 floors housing 527 holiday and residential apartments, and cost US$260-million.
Australian grain growers say a foreign takeover of the country’s biggest agri-business, GrainCorp, should be stopped, in the national interest. They say they’ll be the losers if US food giant ADM takes control of the storage, movement and sale of grain across several states. Reporter Stan Correy looks at ADM’s chequered history and what the takeover would mean for Australian farmers.
Dangerous diesel
Australia’s diesel-reliant industries are on notice following the World Health Organisation’s emphatic conclusion that diesel exhaust is a cause of lung cancer. But as Stan Correy discovers, the Department of Mines in the boom state of WA has just closed a program that monitored the long-term health of miners.
The Blue Road
In April 1960, Gallimard, the most influential literary publisher in France, released a new novel, La Route Bleue (The Blue Road). Gallimard promoted the novel as a migration romance set in a strange land — Australia. La Route Bleue’s author, Hélène Bessette, was an award-winning but controversial French avant-garde novelist, poet and literary theorist. Her Sydney novel is based on her own experiences living and working in the city between 1948 and 1949.
Working time: how the technologies of time keeping have shaped our working lives
Controversy about digital timekeeping technologies have their origins in 19th century battles over the measurement of time and efficiency in the workplace. The language is the same, and even the cumbersome, timekeeping technology of the 1800s had the same purpose. Speed up the worker, monitor the worker and boost productivity.
Rare earths and China
Tom Lehrer: Now if I may digress momentarily from the mainstream of this evening's symposium, I'd like to sing a song which is completely pointless but is something which I picked up during my career as a scientist. This may prove useful to some of you some day perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances. It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognisable tune.
The King Crane Commission: America's first political intervention in the Middle East
In June and July 1919, the King Crane commission travelled through Syria and Palestine to collect the views of local people on their political future. Unlike more recent US interventions, the first was founded on the possibility of self-determination and eventual independence from colonial powers.
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