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Hack is triple j's weekday current affairs show. The stories podcast are a selection of the best of Hack in 2004 & 2005 - covering a range of topics of interest to young people in Australia & around the world - current affairs, health issues, music, polit Primary Format : Blogs Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Sydney State/Province : Unknown Country : Australia Region : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Hack Podcasts Methings.com listings of Hack Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

triple j's hack: WONDER WOMEN - who are their heroes? Powerful, creative + inspiring women like JULIA GILLARD, NATASHA STOTT DESPOJA, LEIGH SALES + CLARE BOWDITCH talk to triple j. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: TWILIGHT - anti-feminist manifesto? Far from the 'perfect love', is Bella + Edward's relationship actually abusive? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Midwives - under the thumb of Doctors? The Federal Govt is considering changes to insure midwives, but the Australian College of Midwives says home births could be driven underground. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: WOMENS WEEK - tick...tock...the biological clock Are you in your 20's but acutely aware of your biological clock? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: WOMENS WEEK - What's the central part of your womanhood? What does it mean to be a woman? What's the central part of your 'femaleness' -- is femininity the wrong word? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: WOMENS WEEK - Body Dysmorphic Disorder Can you imagine fearing your own reflection in the mirror? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Blueprint Festival organisers in hiding Big dreams of putting on a music festival has put two young brothers $500,000 in debt and living in exile. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICS Schools out on Australia's political divide around Climate Change and the pressures on for the Govt to come to a conclusion on our approach in the lead up to Copenhagen next month. Patrick Abboud takes the Climate Skeptics Roll Call. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hungry for Change Meet hunger strikers from 'Climate Justice Fast' and the 29-year-old Melbournian who's going without food for a whole month! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/11/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Tweeting youth politics with K-Rudd Government launches new national conversation with young Australians. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/10/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack's Australian Film Industry Special Are you a fan of Aussie movies or do you cringe when another shrimp's tossed on the barbie? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/10/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack's Forgiveness Special Sorry. Forgive. Forget? (Getty Images: Mark Nolan) This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/10/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: BLACKFACE This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/10/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Aurukun House Opening Setting the spirit free This story was first broadcast on triple j on 07/10/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indie Music Institution Closes Its Doors! An icon of the Australian live music scene has shut its doors! There's been a massive outpouring of emotion online, with a facebook group attracting more than 5500 members - all trying to figure out how to save the 'Hopetoun Hotel'. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/10/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sexism, time-wasting and Fred Flintstone: A rowdy week in Federal Question Time. Have you ever tuned in to Question Time hoping to see the Opposition grill K-Rudd and the gang, only to think our nation's leaders are more like a pack of screaming school kids? (AAP: Alan Porritt, file photo) This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/09/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Detention Debt: Freedom with a Price Tag Would you pay $125 a day to be locked behind bars? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/09/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: From Lyneham with love. Welcome to Lyneham, a leafy old suburb in Canberra's inner-north. Visit the cafes and shops and say hello to the students and artists who call this suburb home. But rug up in Winter or you'll freeze in one of the old fibro houses or Guvvie flats and beware those dark alleys at night! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/09/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: First home buyers' land or Legoland? A tour of Canberra's north-western mortgage-belt. Welcome to Gungahlin, where it seems a new suburb goes up every day on the back of the Rudd Government's First Home Owners Boost and the lowest interest rates in almost 50 years. Don't you know there's never been a better time to buy? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/09/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Original music in Darwin Step inside the Happy Yess Club This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/08/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: John Hardy, Peter Mayes and Soundwork Studios A cautionary tale of young bands and their recording experience. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Getting dressed for fetish Hack reporter Michael Atkin wrapped up in rubber This story was first broadcast on triple j on 06/06/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Cardboard Tube Fighting Bashing people with cardboard tubes. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Man Behind Meat Safety In NSW Meet the man behind meat safety in NSW. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Canberra loses title as fireworks capital of Australia A closer look at the ACT cracker night ban. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/08/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Homeland Housing While the government fight over housing in the NT, the Gumatj people have teamed up with Forestry Tasmania to build their own houses. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/08/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Free shops in downtown Newcastle Artists move in for free and give downtown Newcastle a facelift. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/08/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Losing your language Of the 145 Indigenous languages in Australia, 110 are under threat. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/08/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indigenous Hip Hop Welcome to the Top End! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/08/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Father's son's depression Hack's Man Week: What can you talk about with your Dad? Footy, the stock market..? What about depression and drugs? Met Trent, John's son. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/07/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Giving Gender the Boot Meet Will; he lives in regional Victoria, he's Transgender, and he loves to play footy. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/06/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre Hundreds of students protesting for democracy in Tiananmen Square were killed by the Chinese Army on this day 20 years ago. Travel back to 1989 to hear first hand how events unfolded from several protestors and journalists who were there, and hear how the event is being commemorated in 2009. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/06/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: When the going gets tough... Have you ever come face-to-face with disaster, only to find yourself in a patch of sunshine you never imagined? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 27/05/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Deputy PM Julia Gillard on Youth Allowance Julia Gillard takes on uni students who say they've been 'blindsided' by the government's changes to youth allowance. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 27/05/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: How has the recession impacted on your relationship? Has being unemployed driven a wedge between you and your partner? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/05/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Benazir Bhutto's niece on Pakistan's Problems: The Extended Interview You heard the 26-year-old niece of the late Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, speaking on Hack. Now hear the extended interview with Fatima Bhutto, the journalist and author who is super-critical of how her government has dealt with the militant Taliban threat in the country's north. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 07/05/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Being a surrogate at 16 Would you have a baby for your sister in Year 12? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/04/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Swine Flu How can one tiny bug put the world on HIGH ALERT? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/04/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Wiki wars The online battle for ego, supremacy and wiki's. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Gyms vs The Record Industry Could your gym membership increase in price cause of the in-house music? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Army families: living through war from a distance This week two Australian soldiers died in Afghanistan so what's it like to be a family member of a soldier serving overseas? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Oil spill on Moreton Island The South East Queensland oil spill happened just off the coast of Queensland's most pristine islands. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: First Wives Club The do's and don'ts of being married to the PM. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Crummy Share House Moving out of the crummy share house This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Awesome sharehouse in Brisbane Not all sharehouses are cramped... check out this palacial house in Brissie! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Surf Rowing Pain, burning muscles and fatigue. Welcome to Surf Rowing - a sport where hurting is the norm. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/03/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: AIME: Mentoring indigenous students Uni students helping indigenous kids to stay in school. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: HACK WITHOUT BORDERS What's it like being an electoral observer in countries reknown for corruption and violence? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 24/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: St Mary's Church Brisbane's St Mary's Church is in turmoil after their priest was sacked for blessing gay people, allowing women to hold leadership roles within the Catholic Church and changing the Eucharistic prayer. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Apprentice S.O.S find me an employer Young people keen to be an apprentice struggling to find work. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indie Games Could the economic downturn mean more independant games being made in Australia? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Living with Alopecia Could you handle losing all of your hair when your twin sister still has hers? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Living bald. The test cricket experience. Doug Bollinger's experience of being bald and on the telly. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Getting out of the joint: Leaving juvenile justice. One guy's journey out of detention back into the free world. Can he stay out? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Filtering the Internet: The Trial Begins The government's trial to see if they can censor the internet begins. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: HACK WITHOUT BORDERS - nursing in Kenya Chickens in hospital wards? Clothes washing powder to clean wounds? All completely normal in a Kenyan Hospital. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Arts utopia: New York to Hobart Does Hobart rival New York for creativity? Brian Ritchie from the Violent Femmes thinks so. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bushfire disaster Victoria has suffered Australia's worst bushfire disaster. 131 people have been confirmed dead. Around 750 homes have been destroyed. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Psychology of arson Why would anyone light a bushfire deliberately? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sex On The Beach A risque public romp or an unpleasant way to collect bruises and sand? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Surfing High School Imagine learning surfing as a school subject. Really. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hitching across the Atlantic Ocean Our first HACK WITHOUT BORDERS focused on Buzz Tilley who hitchhiked across Africa via plane, but here's a guy who managed to hitch across the Atlantic Ocean! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Wagga Surf Beach Surf culture in a country town nowhere near the ocean. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/02/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Computer teachers v the tech savvy generation. Is your IT teacher struggling to keep pace with your tech savvy classmates. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 28/01/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Reconciliation Flash Mob Train station mayhem and reconciliation, a random thoughtful combo. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 27/01/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Who is Hamas? Some world leaders describe Hamas - the political party in control of Gaza - as a terrorist organisation. Others describe Hamas as a legitimate political and humanitarian force. So who is Hamas? Kaitlyn Sawrey spoke to Dr Halim Rane - the Deputy Director of the Islamic Research Unit at Griffith University. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/01/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Recovery: When getting better overtakes your life Follow the stories of Scott, a 22 year old recovering from a double lung transplant and Leigh, a 29 year old healing after a massive motorbike crash. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 28/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: James Woodford and his grid life crisis. If you escaped the city to move onto a 120 acre property what mistakes would you make? James has made a few. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Circle Sentencing An alternative court process for indigenous offenders, getting judged by local elders. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Learning Indigenous Language at School Would you want to learn your local indigenous language at high school? We visit a school on the NSW South Coast which learns Durga. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 24/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Tyler Wright 14 year old surfer The South Coast local on moving, mucking around and winning big comps. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Liquidators Amongst massive job cuts and chaos on the financial markets, there is one finance sector that's having a field day. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Kitesurfing The sport that combines surfing, wakeboarding and kite-flying. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: THE FINAL DAYS OF BOARDING SCHOOL Part Three: Saying Goodbye. It's time to say goodbye to Zac and Steve, and the Newington College boarding house. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bermagui Forest Disputed Turf In the town of Bermagui in the far south coast of New South Wales locals are worried that logging in the state forest is endangering the habitat of a threatened koala species. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: THE FINAL DAYS OF BOARDING SCHOOL Part Two: Sex. It's time for the tricky questions: about girls, about gay people, and whether you can have a relationships with anything other than your right hand while you're living at school. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: THE FINAL DAYS OF BOARDING SCHOOL Part One: Family. After years of forming super-tight relationships, it's time to leave the boarding house family forever. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: US Election Update - Making sense of the US System The electoral college isn't a frat party, swingers without sex and states coloured in red and blue. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/11/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: US Election Update - Buying into the White House Obama has way more cash and he's using it to get ahead. Can you buy into the White House? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: US Election Update - McCain out of cash and down on luck Has John McCain been given an impossible task of winning the '08 race This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Horse Racing the acceptable form of gambling Hack goes to the races, the socially acceptable form of gambling. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 28/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: US Election Update - Obama Republican voters turn blue Is Obama convincing die hard Republican voters, he's the next President? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 27/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack in Alice Springs part 2: Managing the landscape It's bloody hot and dry here in Central Australia. How should the landscape be managed? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack in Alice Springs part 1: The extremes Alice From ballooning around the top of town to the tough life in the town camps, Hack takes you on a trip through Alice Springs. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 21/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Eating kangaroo - an enviro solution? Is eating the animal on our coat of arms going to lighten our carbon footprint? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Treatment that makes you feel worse When inappropriate treatment has a negative impact and how to avoid it. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Footy fans and the man crush Does the sight of Barry Hall's rippling biceps get your heart pumping. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 06/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: House of Bogan All the threads you need to be a bogan. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Get Inside: Meet Australia's locked up teens Hear about the rising number of young Australian's in juvenile detention. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/09/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Denying punters with a door bitch Get behind the bouncers, inside the rope and watch the door bitch at work. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/09/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ross Garnaut on 2020 emissions targets Professor Ross Garnaut on 2020 emissions targets This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/09/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Post Traumatic Stress Hear about what it's like for a Sydney cop living with post traumatic stress disorder. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/09/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Step into the interrogation room Here how an expert gets someone blabbing their secrets. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/09/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Germaine Greer on Rage Germaine Greer thinks indigenous problems in Australia won't be solved unless we take rage into account. She says rage is consuming and destructive product of generations of trauma. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/08/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hide the car Repo man's here Go down to the car repo yard, listen to advice on how to get the best car loan and hope the repo man never knocks on your door. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 06/08/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Meet the IVF Kid in class A push for IVF to be taught about in high schools. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/08/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Top Five Metal Bands Heavy Metal Islam Pt. 3 The best finds from Mark LeVine's band search. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 31/07/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Iraq's only heavy metal band. Life in exile. The star's of the Vice docos Heavy Metal in Baghdad and Heavy Metal in Istanbul, Acrassicauda. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 31/07/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: A Good Muslim or a Good Metal Head? Heavy Metal Islam Pt. 2 Whether it's possible to be a good muslim and a good metal head. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/07/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Metal heads eat cats. Heavy Metal Islam Pt. 1 Metal heads eat cats. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/07/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Taqwacore - Muslim punk rock? Interview with Chicago crust punk band Al-Thawra This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/07/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Play piercing Can needles and blood be fun? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/06/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Golden Shower Let that Golden Shower rain on down This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/06/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fetish Week Day Three Hack arm wrestles with power. We introduce you to a dominatrix, size up a slave and reporter Tom Tilley unleashes a tidal wave of golden showers. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/06/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Beirut Parties If you live in Beirut you would have been too scared to leave your home a few weeks ago. There was fighting in the streets, people died and there was a fear of yet another civil war for Lebanon. Last night tens of thousands of young people poured intro central Beirut to celebrate the new government as the streets turned into a massive dance party. How can a city turn around in such a short time? Antoinette Chiha spoke to some locals as they reclaimed the streets of Beirut. This story was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young Asian Gamblers Hack reporter Antoinette Chiha went to a well known gambling hub with John whose parents are Vietnames and Peter who is Chinese/Laos to get their thoughts. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/05/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Michael's Dole Diary How difficult is it to make ends meet on the dole? Michael Atkin examines his dole diary. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/05/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sichuan Fundraiser Find out about the local fundraising response to the Sichuan earthquake crisis in China. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/05/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Armidale Dog Jumping What happens when a group of troubled kids learn to jump dogs? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/05/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Parramatta Girls Home Antoinette Chiha visits the infamous Parramatta Girls Home in Sydney, which was the first institution for women dating back to convict settlement. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Car Orchestra Antoinette Chiha went along to document an Australian music first. An orchestra with five utes, DJ, saxophone, double bass and dancers. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Believe in peace without becoming a hippy You don't need to be a hippy to give peace a chance. You can be serious about the problems facing the world without supporting the use of force. Jake Lynch says when countries go to war to achieve stability, the opposite usually happens. He reckons it's time Australia promoted peace as the ultimate foreign policy goal. Jake is the director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University. He's running a conference called Iraq Never Again: Ending War, Building Peace. One of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack Gets Hungry : Eating for a Cause How do you decide what to eat - or what not to eat? Today we talk to a vegan who is passionate about animal welfare, a vegetarian who's happy to eat fish because she's into the taste and a female body builder who has an extremely strict diet so she can compete onstage in a g-string. Being overweight or obese affects one in four young aussies so we'll talk to a dietician about what to do about that. And we'll find out about Feeders: people who get off on weight gain and food. This story was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack Gets Hungry : Disorders How do you help someone you love through an eating disorder? You'll meet Amanda who's 25 and has been suffering from a combination of anerexia, bulimia and over-excercising for 10 years. Its not just an issue for girls though: Mitchell who's 17 is recovering from a couple of bouts of anerexia and bulimia too. We'll speak to a counsellor who's wife has struggled with eating disorders about how to offer support. We also speak about different treatment options for disorders, includeing speak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack Gets Hungry : Food Safety (and Tom Tilley's fridge) If you live in New York, you can get online and check out your local restaurant's last health inspection infringement. In California there are A, B and C ratings displayed in the window. But in Australia - even though for example one in three Melbourne restaurants had some sort of infringement during inspections in 2006 - privacy laws prevent you from finding out about it. Shouldn't you have the right to know? Also today we find out exactly what sort of nastiness can lurk in a share house f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack Gets Hungry : Food, Family and Faith Find out how complicated is it to make a kitchen Kosher, hear what Halal is all about and attend a Hindu feast as we look at how food and faith intersect. Also Antoinette invites us back to her place for her once a week, traditional family dinner. Twenty people around the dinner table once a week is not necessarily a recipe for family harmony! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack Gets Hungry : Hospitality Hospitality is one of the biggest employers of young people: nearly a quarter of a million people under 25 in any one year. Today meet a 26 year old chef whose restaurant is booked out two months in advance, get a few tips on etiquette when Tom has his 'pretty woman' moment and drop in on lunch service at a Mission Australia cafe where most customers are homeless. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Selfish Mums In this HACK special edition, we ask you: is having a child the ultimate sacrifice? Or a sign of selfishness? And does over-population in the world and climate change affect your decision to have a child? Listen to debates from all sides. Hear from population experts, environmental ethicists and from other triple j listeners. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bisexual asylum In the wake of Labor's recent policy announcements on dention of asylum seekers, Hack looks at the story of Ali Humayun, a 27-year old Pakistani. He's spent the last three years in Villawood and his case which is based around his sexual orientation, has brought changes in the Refugee Review Tribunal. Tribunal members are now undergoing sexual sensitivity training sessions. Hear Ali's story from inside Villawood and interviews with asylum experts and Greens senator Kerry Nettle. This story ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Scarification Done by the right artist, they can look intricate art pieces carved into the body. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Condo Backpackers It's easy enough to pick the backpackers crammed into combies cruising the freeways. So imagine how much an Estonian with a ruck sack sticks out on the main street of a small town. Backpackers in Australia are moving to the country to earn fast cash and stay longer. They can get an extra year in the country if they spend three months working on a regional farm. Figures from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship show that since November 2005 almost 18 thousand people have signed up. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: R.I.P. Rugby Footy and the country are supossed to go hand in hand. The weekend game is an excuse for the community to get together and forget about everything else. But for the first time in year's there's no rugby team in Condobolin, in the central west of NSW. A shortage of players has forced the regulars into staying out of the comp. And the locals are worried they'll be missing more than just the on field action. Over a beer at the Condo Hotel Michael got a lecture on the Condo Rugby legacy. This i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Chef's world A feature from Hack's food week: Daniel Puskas is only 26 but he's the head chef who gets to dream up his own avante guard dishes. A degestation menu means a lot of freedom, but the pressure of working in a restaurant where people are booking two months ahead keeps the team in line. Tom Tilley spent the night in the kitchen. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fine dining dating advice Hack food week feature: Have you ever felt a bit out of your depth when you take a date to somewhere a bit special. Well listen to Tom Tilley's guide and take notes. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Inside Tom Tilley's sharehouse fridge As part of food week we wanted to explore the state of the average sharehouse fridge. Tom Tilley's pretty average so we sent the inspector to his house. What he didn't expect was to have his bread board and his hands swabbed for salmanella and ecoli respectively. After the fridge test the health inspector called back into Hack live with the potentially socially credibility destroying lab results. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Lake Cowal Mine Protest Michael Atkin reports on the battle between conservation and development at Lake Cowal in the Central West of NSW. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 27/03/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Eating disorders special A feature from Hack's food week: Half hour special on eating disorders. Hear the gripping story of 25 year old Amanda, 17 year old Mitchell and hear from Sarah McMahon from the NSW Eating Disorders Foundation. Plus someone who attends Over Eaters Anonymous and Michael who has been carrying for his Bullimic wife. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 01/04/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Dirt Bike Rally - Condo 750 There is an event, where you can fang a motorbike down a dirt track, drop into gullies and dodge passing trees. All while trying to read a map. The Condo 750 is a two day endurance rally held over the easter long weekend. Professional and amateur riders battle against the tough terrain and try to make it to the finish line. There's also a sepearate race for cars. It's held in Condobolin a small country town in the central west of NSW. The 750 is a big event in Condo bringing in the equivale ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: What is a country woman...? Picture this...one day you've got your hand up a cow's arse, the next day you're wearing stockings dining at the Governor General's house on Sydney Harbour. That's the life of some country girls who are competing for this year's New South Wales Showgirl competition. Tom Tilley went to find out if the meaning of being a country girl has changed from what it used to be. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/03/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Parkour... more than just jumping around Jumping across the tops of buildings, scuttling over 3 metre walls, clearing massive sets of stairs... No it's not a super hero it's parkour. Parkour's a new sport that's really growing in Australia. But it's not just about running and jumping over stuff - it's a philosophy, and it's being used to rehabilitate young offenders. Tom Tilley went to check out some Parkour purists doing their thing. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/03/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Single parents hit the town Many of us would like to believe our parents wear invisible chastity belts. It's hard to think of them going on dates and hooking up. But when your parents split there is a time when the twinkle in their eye comes back. In Australia there are over eight hundred thousand one parent families. RSVP.com.au the online dating website says they have Five hundred thousand single parents as members. This is Danielle, the 19 year old daughter of one of them. All the names of the people in this story ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Gaming rage After engaging in hours of brutal trench warfare, your virtual warrior bites the dust. You could press start and keep going or you could throw a tantrum and take it out on your tv. Gaming rage, it's a bit like road rage except with a controller instead of a car. Some say a new style of active gaming can make gaming rage worse. The Nintendo Wii involves motion sensors where instead of pushing buttons your controller becomes a baseball bat or even a sword. You need to swing for the game to re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Male bellydancers If asked to picture a belly dancer, many of you would think of an exotic women moving her body in snake like motions. Some of you may even think of Shakira who's known to combine this traditional dance with her pop beats.So what happens when a guy decides to put on a hip scarf and learn to shimmy? Antoinette Chiha went along to a dance class to check out this trend which is taking off among Middle Eastern men in Australia. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/03/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Rich Town, Poor Town You've probably heard that the gap between rich and poor is increasing ... but what does that mean in Australia? Griffith University has been looking at how spread out our wealth is in a study called suburban scars... which ranked suburbs in all capital cities. They looked at things like access to public transport, average income and health of residents. The highest ranked and lowest ranked suburbs in Australia are only 45 mins apart. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/03/200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Gay Marriage If you're gay and Australian, you know that getting married to your partner isn't an easy option. Last year we heard about a gay couple who went to new zealand to legally tie the knot. But you might not know that for a tiny few, there is one way to get hitched... and do it on Australian soil. It's happening in British Consulates around the country. The Australian Capital Territory is pushing hard to pass legislation on same sex unions but they're up against the Federal Government. This sto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Flying is better than sex A lack of pilots is grounding flights around Australia. Qantas link and Rex say it's so bad they've had to suspend or cancel some regional flights. Other companies are employing younger pilots with less experience as a solution. The industry says the cost of studying is putting off potential students. That's a common concern out at Bankstown airport where Aerospace Aviation run a flight school. They have over 100 full time students who each pay between thirty five to fifty grand in fees. Bu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Download free without getting sued There is a website where you can legally download the likes of Catpower and Interpol and it's totally free. Three American college buddies created the website Amie street back in mid 2006. They wanted an alternative after watching their fellow students download tunes without paying. Their website offers something for tight arse music fans while still giving money to musos to spend on food. It started slowly at first with loads of small indie bands. But now people are starting to take more n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bizarre Murder Capital Adelaide has the reputation for being the bizarre murder capital of the world. Tom Tilley went to find out what's it like living under that very dark cloud. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/03/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Trent Reznor Loves Downloads Last year Trent Reznor told Aussies to steal his music. This year he's asking you to pay. The Nine Inch Nails frontman was fuming when he saw his record Year Zero selling for 35 bucks. He blamed his label telling Aussie fans to punish them by downloading his music without paying. Now he's ditched Interscope records and is trying to find his feet as an independent artist. His first release is Ghosts I-IV a 36 track instrumental work. Instead of just getting it into stores Reznor is giving fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Backseat drivers Do you remember any stressful moments as you were learning to drive with your parents? Did that make you want to get lessons from a professional. Well today the government's announced that they'll give you a free driving lesson if you take your parents in the back-seat. He's not a father yet but Tom Tilley gave back seat driving a try. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/03/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Minister listens to Students Uni students and federal ministers haven't always been the best of friends. But today a meeting between the Minister for Youth Kate Ellis and NSW student representatives showed the two could get along. Maybe with the one exception of one unhappy liberal student. At the University of Technology in Sydney students gathered to tell Kate Ellis about the impact of voluntary student unionism on campus life. It's part of the government's consultation to decide what changes need to be made to VSU. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Christians apologise to Gay Community On Hack we told you about a doco called A Jihad For Love... which is about the coexistence of Islam and homosexuality. But Islam isn't the only religion that has a difficult relationship with the gay community. Tomorrow night in Sydney it's the 30th Annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Amongst the bare chests and tight shorts there will be a new group on parade, 100 Reverends. They're a bit short on numbers about forty christian ministers and church members will say sorry for the church's tre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Porn Report Buttbanged Naughty Nurses, Hairless Asian Honeys and Sex with Older Women. Just some of the titles in the top 50 Pornos for 2003. In the first comprehensive study into porn use in Australia Alan McKee from QUT and Katherine Albury and Catherine Lumby from the University of New south Wales, studied the top 50 pornos and surveyed a thousand porn users. And surprise surprise, a lot of Australians watch porn. In fact about a third of all adults. That's about 5 million people. Kaitlyn Sawrey sat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young Aged Care Workers Try to name this job. You're invited to board a cruise ship. You get to sing your heart out. And organising parties is part of your every day job.Any ideas what it is? You probably didn't guess - it's aged care. The industry isn't one you'd associate with young people and that's back up by the stats, the average aged care worker is a woman who's over 40. Just 5% are aged between 16 and 24. But the industry body the Aged Care Association of Australia wants to attract more young workers. So M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Safe Drag, An Oxymoron? It's the only place P platers can fang it without getting arrested. There is one place you can go without worrying about the speed limit. It's Western Sydney International Dragway. For 50 bucks, amateurs turn up and see just how fast they can go. There are prizes for the fastest time and quickest reaction off the line, but it's not really about that. It's more about getting a speed fix and getting it out of your system. Lucky for them considering if you get busted for street racing in NSW y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Lockouts Queensland has it. Melbourne's trialling it. Canberra's considering it. It's pretty common in counrty towns. I'm talking about lockouts. In Queensland for example, when it hits 3am, clubs aren't allowed to let anyone else in. Lockouts are supposed to reduce incidents of alcohol related violence, and in Brisbane the lockout has been in place for about two and a half years. So Kaitlyn Sawrey hit the Fortitude Valley on Friday night to suss out whether lockouts actually do what they're suppos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fake Emails Have you ever sent someone a fake email? Was it a joke or did you want something out of it? Chris O'Brien, a former Canterbury Bulldogs employee, has been accused of using a fake email address to send the media negative information about Dogs board member Roy Dib. The club is having elections this weekend. Chris denies he was involved and is seeking legal advice. Roy Dib has said he'll be doing the same. So why would someone send a fake email? Michael Atkin has more. This story was first b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Spitting Is spitting on a police officer worse than hitting one? In Queensland, potentially it can be. If you spit on a police officer in Queensland, expect to go to prison. Recently an Irish backpacker received a four month jail sentence suspended after 2, for spitting at a police officer. That was after the Court of appeal; the original sentence was for six months. Kaitlyn Sawrey spoke to him after he got out of Woodridge Maximum Security Prison last week. He asked HACK not to use his real name. S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Speed Dating It's Valentine's Day: if you're single will you spend the night wondering why? Or will today be your day of action to find a partner? Tom Tilley met a few people that are trying to break their drought in record time. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/02/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Male Teacher Shortage As we know its a new school year and there's a new government. As soon as the election results were announced - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave his ministers homework. Every Labor MP had to visit two schools before caucus. Sadly that's probably the highest number of adult men to ever walk into classrooms due to a chronic shortage of male teachers in state schools. 2008 sees the number of male teachers plummet further, particularly in primary schools. This story was first broadcast on triple ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ben Cousins, an anti-drug hero? Ben Cousins fronted up to the media today to talk about drugs. Unlikely, much? Yeppers. He joined Anthony Mundine and two other sports stars to launch the Knock Out Drugs fight that Mundine will be fighting in three weeks. What do you think about a reknowned drug user standing up against drugs? Tom Tilley takes us down the block in Redfern where he saw Ben Cousins and went toe to toe with The Man - Anthony Mundine. And a warning that this story contains language that may be offensive to som ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Juvi update: Rebuilding Your Real Life The second part of our story on juvenile justice This story was first broadcast on triple j on 08/04/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Proposed National Strategy on Body Image Four super-attractive women trying to make you feel better about yourself. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/10/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bush Vs. Western Medicine Traditional medicine in NT hospitals This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/08/2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website