Religious leaders from around the world sit down in Melbourne next week (3-9 Dec) to discuss - among other things - the global impact of climate change.
The Parliament of the World's Religions begins only days before politicians and environmentalists gather in Copenhagen - for the international Climate Change Conference.
Caroline Davey with the story.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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** The New South Wales Premier announces plans for ethics to be taught in schools.
** Concerns over a food additive popular in Asian and African cuisines.
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** How lawyers are working alongside counsellors to help the mentally ill.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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**Turmoil in the Liberal Party over the ETS.
** Journalists and politicians dead in the southern Philippines - who's responsible?
** The world's most lucrative club football competition, the European Champions gets underway, we preview all the action.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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**Plans for a new Indigenous body revealed.
** A new cancer test brings hope for early diagnosis.
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** How Australia helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Monday's Mindanao massacre The death toll from an attack on a group of journalists and politicians in the lawless southern Philippines is set to climb.
Police are continuing to find bodies in shallow graves in a remote farming area on the southern island of Mindanao.
The victims were believed to have been abducted by gunmen linked to a powerful politician yesterday, as they travelled to report on a Muslim politician who was filing his certificate of candidacy for governor for the elections next year.
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Aussie school racism microcosm of society: researcher A new report on racism in Australian schools shows that Australia has a long way to go to tackle the problem.
The study shows the experience of racism is widespread - in both migrant and non-migrant communities, with almost three-quarters of secondary students nationally reporting some form of racism.
One of the study's authors says the results reinforce the need for student and teacher education programs, and the continuation of annual events such as Harmony Day.
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Qld govt chided for over-reactive Indigenous policing Queensland's anti-corruption agency says relations between police and indigenous people will only improve when the government stops over-reactive law enforcement.
The state's Crime and Misconduct Commission has finally tabled in state parliament today, its Restoring Order report - more than two years after it was due.
Caroline asked Queensland correspondent, Stefan Armbruster about the C-M-C's findings....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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** African families go camping in Victoria to learn skills to help adapt to their new life in Australia.
** Claims that children were beaten to death and secretly buried in several institutions in Victoria.
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** We'll wrap up this weekend's A-League action.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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** Renewed calls for compensation for the stolen generations.
** Can racism make you sick?
** What Australia's original boatpeople think of the latest wave of asylum seekers.
** We'll preview all this weekend's A-League action.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What do established refugees think of asylum debate? With Australia a country built by refugees and migrants, how do former refugees now settled in the country think the current groups of people arriving by boat should be handled?
Peggy Giakoumelos reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Living Black: Machado-Joseph Disease A rare affliction affecting around fifty percent of the population of Groote Eylandt in Arnhem Land, is stretching health and housing in the remote location.
Machado-Joseph disease is a rare genetic condition, leaving sufferers in wheelchairs and dependant on others for daily needs, placing an enormous burden on family members and housing.
Video journalist Leah Craven travelled to Groote Eylandt to investigate the illness and how the lack of housing is exacerbating its impact.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
World View Program Highlights **With more hot weather on the way, how are the survivors of Black Saturday coping?
** Calls for the formation of an Aboriginal political party.
** We take a closer look at proposed changes to the skilled migration program.
** Attila Mosonyi joins us to talk through the qualifiers for the World Cup.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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**How well is Australia managing its skilled migration program?
** A program in Port Augusta, encouraging Aboriginal men to stop looking at parenting as &uot;women's business&uot; and be better fathers.
** We join an Australian as he prepares to make the Hajj pilgrimage.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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The government has said sorry, but the pain remains for those abused in state care.
We take an in-depth look at the apology and its ramifications.
** New priorities for Indigenous road safety.
** The Sri Lankan government plans to spruik for tourists...but is it sustainable?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
21stC business bottom line: interactive feedback online Participants in a series of forums examining ways to enhance business profits and the effectiveness of organisations have heard that social networking is a crucial part of it.
One of the speakers at the Future Forum - held in Sydeny and Melbourne and later this month in Brisbane - says engaging with potential or actual customers online requires it to be interactive.
Social media consultant, David Birley, says static websites and one-way communication are no longer good enough, and there n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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**Children abused while in institutionalised care prepare to hear the Prime Minister's apology.
**Refugee advocates raise serious doubts about the Opposition's immigration policy
** An alleged Nazi war criminal living in Perth faces extradition to Hungary.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The tragic story of child migration from Malta Prime Minister Kevin has formally apologised to about 500,000 people who were placed in institutions or foster care between 1930 and 1970.
They included about 7000 people who were sent to Australia from Britain and Malta as unaccompanied children.
Marlene Galea looks at how one Maltese family was affected.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The pitfalls of independent skilled migration: Part 2 On January 1, the federal government will introduce changes to requirements for people wanting to migrate to Australia under the General Skilled Migration Program.
The major change will be the introduction of a so-called JobReady Test, designed to ensure that new migrants will be able to gain employment in their area of skills and knowledge.
The federal government announced plans for the JobReady Test last September.
Kristina Kukolja, with Part 2 of a two-part report.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The pitfalls of independent skilled migration: Part 1 Earlier this year, the federal government announced it was cutting Australia's permanent skilled migration program because of the Global Financial Crisis.
The government said it wanted to help people already in Australia to win the dwindling number of new jobs.
At the same time, the government said it would still allow in migrants with skills listed as being in short supply.
But serious questions were already being asked about the effectiveness of that part of the program.
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Forgotten Mothers... As the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gets set to apologise to Australians who survived childhood abuse while in care, the day will also draw attention to another group of forgotten Australians, their mothers.
Peggy Giakoumelos has more.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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