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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: Current Affairs Politics Talk City : Sydney State/Province : Unknown Country : Australia Region : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: New music | Music Health | Car talk | Talk | Stories Health | 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: 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: 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 4: Living the Intervention Today Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin responded to the review of the intervention: it will continue for another 12 months. But how has the intervention changed life for people in Aboriginal communities and Alice Springs town camps? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 24/10/2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack in Alice Springs part 3: Arty Alice Central Australia 'pulls the creative out of you' according to comedian Fiona O'Loughlin. Today on Hack, Aboriginal Art: will the next generation of desert artists be able to follow in the footsteps of the art pioneers? Also desert reggae, and young creatives in Alice Springs. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/10/2008 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? Should we be eating more kangaroo meat? 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: 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: The Emotional World of the Stock Market When the stock market highs and the lows are made worse by emotions. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/10/2008 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: Muso's working for a living Listen to how three musicians pay the bills with music that has nothing to do with their bands. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/09/2008 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: No Pets in Pet Stores Pet stores without pets? If NSW politician Clover Moore gets her bill through, peering at puppies through the window will be a thing of the past. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 08/09/2008 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: Belief Week Tuesday Get on your knees - its Belief Week on HACK! 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: 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: Belief Week Monday Get on your knees - its Belief Week on HACK! 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: Sudanese Youth in Armidale Chiha caught a bus with some Sudanese kids on their way to play basketball at midnight on a Saturday night. 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: Solarium legislation There is a cost to fullfilling the bronzed Aussie stereotype ... skin cancer kills more young australians under 30 than any other cancer. And its not just the sun that's causing the damage. It seems the quest to be bronze is killing young Australians at a higher rate than any other cancer Victoria was the first to introduce tough legislation to govern the tanning industry and now South Australia has jumped on board. So If you're thinking about going to the solarium for your 16th birthday p ... 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: Returned Soldier Have you ever wondered what it might be like for Australian soldiers returning home from active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan? What they might go through when they come back to their regular lives after being in a war zone for months on end? Chances are it wouldn't be easy... Lee Nemeth is a guy who has experienced just that first hand. After ten years in the army he's decided to make a film about coming home. Megan Spencer spoke to him for HACK. This story was first broadcast on triple j on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Villawood Love One year after hearing a love song request from inside Villawood detention centre, Tom Tilley tracked down the young Bangladeshi lover to see how things panned out for him and his lover. Love and relationships can be complicated at the best of times and it's even harder when you and your partner could be deported at any moment. But as Tom Tilley discovered, that's the risk you take when you fall in love inside an asylum seeker detention centre. This story was first broadcast on triple j on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Maths is Boring So you think maths at school is boring? You're not the only one. It turns out some of Australia's top mathematicians agree with you. They're saying that's one of the reasons maths in Australia is falling behind the rest of the world. Juliette O'Brien has more. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/12/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Greenfleet Tour Donate your cash and your carbon emissions will be sorted out. That's what carbon offset companies do: invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency and tree planting. So if you have to drive or catch a flight you can do something to counter your environmental impact. It's a boom industry that's beginning to come under increased scrutiny. Back in June we told you about a not-for-profit tree planting company called Greenfleet. They were way behind in tree planting and rushing to catch up. Du ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Camden Controversy Police are still investigating who put two impaled pigs heads on the site of a proposed Islamic School south west of sydney last week. It's the latest incident over an issue that's dividing the ordinarily peaceful community of Camden. There've been public meetings, petitions, posters put up, as well as crosses planted with biblical references burnt into them. So why the dramatic reaction to a school? Is it racism or are we seeing community simply exercising their right to choose what happen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sperm Wars If a bloke donates sperm in a clinic ... should he get to choose who it goes to? Or should it be an obligation free gift? NSW has introduced laws to parliament which will give sperm donors the right to veto groups of potential recipients. You wouldn't get to pick exactly which person gets your sperm but you could say it can't go to a person of this nationality, this religous beleif or this sexual orientation. The Greens reckon this is institutionalised discrimination. But the state premier ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Human Rights Film Festival Australia's supposed to be the lucky country, the home of the "fair go for all" So whenever you hear media stories about torture, slave labour, human trafficking or the violation of basic human rights, do you ever think that they could involve anyone from your neighbourhood? Well, a pair of 25 year-old students from Melbourne think we should care more about human rights closer to home, and they're both involved in a brand new film festival with that message. Filmmaker Jessie Taylor and Evel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Schoolies Queensland police have been busier than usual this year with drunk schoolies. 246 schoolies have been arrested so far, Which is more than double the number of schoolies picked up by the boys in blue last year. The offences were mainly to do with alcohol, but what about the minority of schoolies that take a stand and refuse to drink? Kaitlyn Sawrey went to the Gold Coast to see if she could track any down. And it was surprisingly easy. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/11/200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Xsproject You've scoffed a pack of chips and finished a tube of toothpaste. time to throw out the trash. But should you just chuck the packaging in the bin? American artist Ann Wizer doesn't think you should. She's behind Xsproject, a program based in Indonesia that recylces plastics into colourful bags. Ann was horrified by the amount of garbage she saw piling up in Jakarta and decided to do something about it. She told Michael Atkin about the size of Jakarta's landfill. For more information checkou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Rudd chokes Just what question could make Kevin Rudd choke? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 21/11/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Glassing It's friday night and plenty of you will be going out and getting rowdy tonight. But the last thing you'd expect to happen is to get glassed. You can go to the gallery section below to see some photos of someone who got glassed. It happened recently to Krystal Kelley, a 20 year old from Wollongong. She was slashed across the face and eye. Now, she's blind in one eye. It's led the police to push for pubs and clubs to go glass free and some pubs are already doing it. The Glasshouse Tavern in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Julia Gillard talks to Hack Treasurer Peter Costello said she had links to communists in her past, Bill Heffernan said she was "Deliberately Barren" Joe Hockey once said Julia Gillard was more popular than him because she was prettier! If she becomes the deputy leader she could be arguably the most powerful woman in the country. You've had your chance to quiz Joe Hockey its Julia Gillard turn - what would you ask her? What do you want to hear? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/11/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indigenous Theatre in Sydney The skills shortage doesn't mean that much if you're an aboriginal actor graduating from three years study at drama school. While acting's a hard slog at the best of times, it's even harder if you're an Aboriginal actor. In Australia there isn't much work for indigenous actors in regular theatre. A new theatre company in Sydney is aiming to change all that - This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/11/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Architecture Students If you're a final year architecture student at the University of Queensland, you've probably got a pretty incredible hangover. After six long years they handed in their final assignment yesterday! Architecture students at UQ are downright hardcore. since 4th year alot of them have been spending more than 12 hours a day in the studio, six days a week. On any given Friday or Saturday night there 's a contingency of architecture students at uni - some of them shower, eat and sleep at there. i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mental Illness in the Workplace Lets face it - job hunting can suck. And it makes it even harder when you're living with a mental illness. A new report out today says that when it comes to finding the mentally ill a job, Australia is a shocker Only 29 per cent of people with mental illness are working right now. In a moment you'll hear from Sebastian Rosenberg - Deputy CEO of the mental health council of Australia. But first lets hear about a program that's helping address the problem. Orgyen youth mental health services ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mental Health and Young People This election it's been about tax, interest rates and climate change but here's one area that isn't getting talked about : MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES for young people. 1 in 4 young people are likely to suffer from a a mental health problem and 3/4 of people with a mental health problem show the signs before they're 24. Which means tackling mental health is all about EARLY INTERVENTION. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/11/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: John Howard talks Homes Now it's back to the Prime Minister's press conference in Sydney today. The PM was attending a Liberal party Melbourne Cup luncheon in his electorate of Bennelong and Ronan Sharkey was there he joins me now. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 07/11/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hans Blix When you hear the name HANS BLIX you might remember him giving the North Korean leader KIM JONG ILL a wrap over the knuckles in the film TEAM AMERICA. Well HANS BLIX was the UN's top weapons inspector...and the guy responsible for telling the US in 2003 that there was NO evidence of weapons of mass destruction in IRAQ. As you would know the US ended up ignoring his advice and invaded Iraq anyway. Well Blix is in Australia at the moment to accept the Sydney peace prize. And we decided to fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Drugs Conference Last time you went to the doctor's were there any pens or paperweights or notepads with pharmaceutical advertising on them? Consumers International says these little gimmicks are nothing compared to the big spending items in the developing world. In India, Pakistan and Indonesia the advertising goes beyond the free lunch to include cars, house down-payments and holidays. Consumer's International have just released a report that calls for tighter regulation around drug promotion. The watchdo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey It's not often we get a member of the coalition agreeing to an interview, LIVE in the studio. Joe Hockey answers your questions. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 01/11/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Labor's Environmental Policy One of the big issues in last night's debate was climate change. Kevin Rudd has been campaigning hard on the Labor party's environmental cred. Labor say yes to a target for reducing carbon emissions by 2050, more renewable energy but no to a nuclear power industry. Michael Atkin has the low down on the environmental policies Labor has released so far. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Peter Garrett Interview The Australian Conservation Foundation gave Labor 49 out of 100 for their environmental policies. Labor's environment spokesman Peter Garrett probably thinks they're doing a little bit better than that. We wanted to get him on the record for this election campaign, so Kate O'Toole had a chat with him this afternoon, and started by asking him about last night's debate. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 21/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: That Exam Question Was Politically Motivated Julie Bishop the Education Minister's been scraping her nails down the black board about a question in yesterday's Industrial Technology HSC exam in NSW. The question was: "Discuss using examples the impact of the government legislation on employees" She says it's a loaded question. Tom Tilley asked the students who actually sat the exam what they thought. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Women in Politics "I'm not sexist, I'm at a breast cancer launch now." That's Nationals' candidate Ian Crossland's defence after he commented that his northern queensland seat was probabaly innapropriate for a Female candidate. There's lot's of farmers and miners, he said. Well as pollies hit the road on their election camapign that comment has raised some issues: Like just how far HAVE we come with Female Representation in politics? Are we there yet? Alice Brennan punches through the glass ceiling to find o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: How do Preferences Work? If you're a bit bedazzled with all this campaigning don't worry there's another 5 weeks of that. But if you just wanna know Who needs to win what in order to become the next PM. Michael Atkin has the answers for you in the final part of our election series. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: First Time Voters If you're a first time voter you might be wondering what the term marginal seat is. It's not trying to share a seat with someone bottom heavy. It's the seats too close to call where victory could go either way. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Caretaker Mode Now the election has been called. The government moves into caretaker mode. No, that doesn't mean John Howard will be mopping the floors of Kiribilli House This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Generational Change Forget who wins at this election - it looks like parliament's in for a shake up no matter what. With so many MPs deciding to cash in their pensions, parliament house is set to undergo a generational change. So, what will this mean for how things are done? Hack's Juliette O'Brien has been looking into it. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indigenous Policy Shift Last night John Howard announced he would, if re-elected, hold a referendum as to whether we should add a statement of reconciliation to our constitution. It's a backflip of more than a decade of policy that hasn't recognised reconciliation through symbolism. The PM has admitted he's struggled with Aboriginal Policy over the years, but he's also reassured us he won't being saying sorry. The proposal to amend the constitution has been widely met with a mixed reaction ...some have welcommed t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Forrestry and Paper in Tasmania If you're a Tasmanian voter, forestry is arguably the decisive election issue for you. People fire up over things like old growth logging and job security. Tom Tilley met two guys from North West Tassie who haven't different views of that debate. They're both 27 and have spent most of their working lives in the forestry and timber industries. Stewart is committed to his future in the timber industry while Nathan is making the tough decision to walk away from forestry industry. This story w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Youth Suicide There's lots of things that you probably keep secret from your parents, if you were feeling so bad that you're contemplating harming yourself would you be able to tell them? The level of suicide is a continuing problem in Australia and the Western World, but particularly in regional areas. Later we'll have suicide prevention worker Tim Johnson in the studio to take your calls about how to help a friend that you think might be in danger of committing suicide. This story was first broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Tim Flannery on Climate Change If you're worried about climate change aready ... some bad news today: the Intergovernmental panel on climate change is gonna release a new report next month .. saying the situation is worse than they thought. There's enough carbon dioxide in the atosphere right now .. to cause 2 degrees INCREASE IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURES. before this report, scientists thought we wouldn't get to this point for another 10 years. Australian of the year Tim Flannery says this means we need to radicaly change our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Elderly in Burnie If you're worried about climate change aready ... some bad news today: the Intergovernmental panel on climate change is gonna release a new report next month .. saying the situation is worse than they thought. There's enough carbon dioxide in the atosphere right now .. to cause 2 degrees INCREASE IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURES. before this report, scientists thought we wouldn't get to this point for another 10 years. Australian of the year Tim Flannery says this means we need to radicaly change our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Tamsin Lewis Juan Antonia Samarach said it was the best Olympics ever but perhaps it wasn't the cleanest. It's been reported that American Sprinter Marion Jones plans to admit taking steroids as part of her preparation for the Sydney Olympic Games. She was the buff african American chick who won 3 gold and 2 bronze medals in 2000. Australian Olympic chief John Coates has said he hopes she'll be stripped of her medals and so does Aussie Athlete Tamsin Lewis... This story was first broadcast on triple j ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mental Illness Film Festival Mental illness has always been a popular subject for filmmakers to make movies about - think of Fight Club, A Beautiful Mind, Prozac Nation, Spider, Shine, Memento, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Its Mental Health Week, and the University of Technology in Sydney has organised the Mental Illness Film Festival, designed to get audiences up close and personal with the issues Megan Spencer has the story for HACK. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Darling! The Pieter Dirk-Eys Story Imagine your mum and dad take you along to a show at the Sydney Opera House...You're confronted by a six foot balding drag queen preaching a political message about apartheid, prejudice and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa Such a performance is bound to leave an impression, but it made such an impression on sixteen year-old Julian Shaw that he decided to leave school, travel to South Africa, and spend the next two years of his life following this man around with a camera. He returned w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Cons versus Hoaxes Have you ever wondered what the difference might be between a hoax and a con? Filmmaker Anna Broinowsk has - she's just finished a film about an international con artist called Norma Khouri. And The Chaser comedian Charles Firth makes a healthy living out of doing political pranks, media stunts and literary hoaxes. Megan Spencer has the story for HACK. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: What's NOT going to be an Election issue What about the issues that don't make the electioneering spotlight? In this episode we look at the issues that the major parties WON'T be talking about in their quest to win your vote. Do you reckon same sex rights will slip under the election radar again this year? What about junior wages? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/10/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Goat Death You might remember Ronan Sharkey taking us into Cowra Abbatoir. Well during that show we got a call from Associate Professor David Watson. David is a biologist and works as associate professor in ecology at Charles Sturt University. He runs a 12 acre farm near Albury in Southern NSW where with his partner they breed and kill their own animals. Dave reckons the whole life of the animal is important when it comes to the ethics of eating meat. He says the factory farm system puts too much stra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Waleed Aly According to Waleed Aly we've become a world of radical misunderstandings. And as muslim born and raised in the West he would know. Waleed is a lecturer in POlitics at Monash University and the author of People Like Us - How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West. The book explores the paradox of how much Islam and west talk ABOUT each other but not TO each other. And as Alice Brennan found out, the also attempts to dispell some of What Aly see's as myths about Islam... Like for example.. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Kevin Rudd on Hack The Leader of the Opposition, Kevin Rudd has finally fulfilled his promise to come on Hack and answer your questions. You'll hear his thoughts on Australia's illicit drugs policy, Howard's Northern Territory Intervention and we even played a bit of Ditch, Change or Keep (on various Government policies) This story was first broadcast on triple j on 28/09/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Political Advertising Here's a quiz...what does the federal government spend 5 million dollars a week on? Petrol bills? Car detailing? Travel? Haircuts? Nope - governmental advertising. And Age investigation recently found that there are 18 ad campaigns on air at the moment and that's raised speculation that the government is trying to pack in as many taxpayer funded adverts before an election is called as they can. Today the PM has defended the multi million dollar advertising budget syaing the people have a ri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Aboriginal TV If you live in a small remote community, when you turn on the TV you can pretty much forget seeing any stories from your town. If you're an Aboriginal person in that town, there's probably even less chance of seeing stories that represent you. With so much news coverage focussing on problems in Aboriginal communities, there's even more need for Aboriginal people to tell their own stories. In north-west WA, there's a small indigenous TV station trying to do just that but first they had to ge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Queer and Iranian We love all nations. We're friends with the jewish people. Gay people don't exist in Iran. Just some of the things Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinajad said during his address at Columbia University in New York overnight. And boy was he given a warm welcome by the University's President. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/09/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Cover your MUFF! Two women having actual sex for the camera has been ruled a little too hot for the Office of Film and Literature classification. The independent film, Ashley and Kisha: Finding the Right Fit , is the story of a lesbian relationship. And was to be screened at this weekend's Melbourne Underground Film Festival. But not anymore! THE OFLC has ruled that if classified, the film would be rated X and that means it CAN'T be played at a festival in Australia. In a moment, you'll hear from the fil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Abdel Bari Atwan The Australian government is racist and scared of muslims. That's what the London based writer Abdel Bari Atwan told us last week while he was waiting to come to Australia. Then the editor in chief of the arabic newspaper Al Quds al-Arabi, was still waiting for his visa six weeks after he put in his application. Now he's here, visa in hand after missing several of his speaking dates. But he's not backing down saying he still thinks the Australian government is racist. This story was first ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Great Barrier Reef Swindle Anyone who's been to the Great Barrier Reef knows just what a mammoth piece of nature it is. And the debate about the health of the Reef can get pretty firey. Recently there's been a pretty interesting addition to the debate with a paper called 'The Great Great Barrier Reef Swindle' written by Dr Peter Ridd, a physicist at James Cook University in Townsville. He argues that the coral on the reef is much more resilient than most people think and that the dire warnings about the health of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: East Timorese Soccer Team People who come from overseas to live in Australia should be Australian, and not just hang around with other people from their country. You might have heard that line in a pub or maybe on some talkback radio stations. But it's not always that easy, there are language issues for a start, aren't we all originally from overseas anyway unless you're Aboriginal, and what about the importance of keeping in touch with your original heritage? This is something a group of East Timorese people living ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Australian Drug Policy THE WAR ON DRUGS IS WINNABLE. That's the message from a government report released today. It's arguing for a turnaround in Australia's drug policy to drop harm minimsation and that people who argue for harm minimisation are effectively pro-drugs. It recommends a review of needle and syringe programs. and says the government shouldn't fund organisations that use the term "recreational" or "party" drugs. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/09/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: School Protesters A few hundred school kids have wagged school today to rip into the US President George W. Bush today. The NSW education minister John Della Bosca warned them last week, " They Shouldnt Protest" and the cops were out in force today on a truancy bust. But for some school students took the risk anyway. Michael Atkin tagged along with Rainee Lyleson, a year 9 student from Mosman High as she was leaving class. If you're offended by strong language be ware. This story was first broadcast on tri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Muslim Leaders : Inaz Janif Young muslims are always being told they have to get more involved in Australian culture. But for the people in the La Trobe University leadership program there is no separation. They see themselves as Australians participating in our way of life not living outside it. This is high school teacher Inaz Janif speaking to Michael Atkin This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/09/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: DIY Politicians You might have heard recently that Pauline Hanson is starting up ANOTHER political party... yep, 'Pauline's United Australia Party' is in the process of being registered with the Electoral Comission. Before the controversial redhead made her name in politics... Pauline owned the local fish and chip shop in Ipswich. So how easy is it to start a political party? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/09/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Muslim Leaders : Nes Mojaled We have a secret here at Hack. When we hear about a group of Young Leaders we run for the hills. Usually they are media trained into total blandness and seem a little out of touch with our listeners. But we found a group that is refreshingly different. 20 young muslim Australians were sponsored by La Trobe Uni to develop their leadership skills. You''ll be hearing from three of them this week. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/09/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Boycotts So lets talk about the ethics of boycotting a product - About the impact YOU make when you don't like the way a company operates and decide to STOP buying their stuff. Does it work? Is it a waste of time? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Firearms There are a staggering 650 million of them worldwide...nearly 1 million of them here in Australia. According to the annual International Small Arms Survey released today there are twice as many guns in the global civilian population than in the military and police combined. And this means that many countries with high gun ownership have higher rates of gun deaths than countries at war. So what about here in Australia? Is it too easy or too hard to get a gun? This story was first broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Smoke Free Festivals Last week on HACK we told you about a music festival in Perth, that's completely SMOKE FREE. That's right - no durries allowed anywhere on site. And no cigarette booths flogging cigarettes to punters. Well we hear from one politician who wants to take it a step further, WA Health Minister Jim McGinty says concert promoters are foolish and irresponsible if they accept money from tobacco companies. He's going to change the tobacco control act in Western Australia, so that cigarette booths at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Ethics of Eating Meat Ronan Sharkey ventures into an abbatoir This story was first broadcast on triple j on 24/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Why do men go to Strip Clubs? In the wake of the Kevin Rudd's strip-club outing, HACK investigates the 'draw' of strip clubs. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fuck Buddies Can you really have sex without emotional attachment? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Welcome to Karratha Karratha. It's 1500 kilometres north of the most isolated city in the world. But don't think that means nothing's going on. Tday Hack's going AWOL to Karratha, Western Australia. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Other Side of Blue Whatever your problem...shit happens and you can deal with it.Sometimes it's just not that easy to know how. That's the message from Michael Colling, a youth worker who helps young people improve their 'life skills'. He's the editor of a new book called 'The Other Side of Blue'. The book is a collection of stories from young people struggling with things like coming out at a young age or getting over a drug addiction. The central message is you're not the only one with your problem and you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Military Gap Year About to finish school? Don't know what to do? John Howard and the Defense Force have got plan for you... This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Ethics of Smoking in Films Disney recently announced that they would be removing all smoking from films. What does this level of censorship mean for the future of movies? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Thriller in Manilla The cutting edge in prisoner rehabilitation usually involves career training, counslelling...and mass dance classes? Well it does in Manilla, at least according to a youtube video. Micheal Atkin has the details This story was first broadcast on triple j on 01/08/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Illawarra Women's Soccer Team An elite women's soccer team in the Illawarra has been fighting the fight for the attention and support they feel they deserve. Earlier this season The Illawarra Stingrays fought a battle just to have a home ground. A few games into the season this year the fees at their home ground were put up beyond the clubs means and it was looking like the club might have to fold after only its second season in the NSW Premier League. Coach Rob McKie went on a massive community and media drive to rally ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Malcom Turnbull on Eco-Regulation A week from today. punters will be heading to Splendour in the Grass. 30 % of them have paid an extra $3.50 to buy the green ticket, which is meant to offset your emissions travelling to and from the festival. But when you buy any type of green ticket to a concert or festival how can you be sure that your emissions are being offset? The Offest company Splendour has chosen is one of the more reputable ones. But they operate in an industry that's not well regulated in Australia. The governmen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Homebake Goes Over18 Homebake this year will only be open to Over-18's. What are the reasons? What will the impact be? Michael Atkin investigates This story was first broadcast on triple j on 27/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: World junior surfing champ Sally Fitzgibbons In the last year Sally Fitzgibbons' life has stepped up a gear. She's constantly travelling the world pursuing surfing glory and she hasn't wasted any time in getting there. She reached the heights of junior surfing this year by taking out the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships in Portugal. In recent times more of her time is spent travelling the world's best surfing breaks, than at home in Gerringong on the New South Wales south coast. Sally's hectic tour schedule has forced her to pul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indigenous Tours Tourism is a massive industry in the Northern Territory everyday there's a procession of white campervans heading past Humpty Doo, to places like Kakadu National park and Nitmiluk aka Katherine gorge. Don is a 26-year-old Aboriginal guide. His offsider is 15-year-old Jai, who's part Maori. Don's been working in the industry for a few years, Jai just on the weekends and school holidays. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 24/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fashionable Eye for the Blind Guy You're young, hot, fashionable and... blind? How dyou stay up with the latest trends if you can't see them? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Flickr, Virgin Mobile and You? Try and remember the last really big night out you had? What if those very embarrassing pictures ended up on an advert for Virgin Mobile. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Humpty Doo School Do you ever sit in school and think "WHY AM I HERE?!" Well, meet some students who've done something about it... This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Solar Villages When did you become aware of climate change and the environmental costs of coal fired electricity? A year ago? 5 years ago? Well, some people in Humpty Doo have been seriously into living green for decades. So serious, that they set up their own solar powered village near the AWOL town. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Great Global Warming Swindle Some say that the ABC shouldnt be airing it. Others say its truth. Hack caught up with David Karoly, a scientist who appears in the debate airing after the documentary This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Rudd on Myspace Yesterday on Hack we told you about the myspace invasion being led by Aussie politicians.One of those pollies is Opposition leader Kevin Rudd. His pimped up page is bursting with new friends, as we went to air Rudd was hanging with over THREE THOUSAND new buds. Michael Atkin asked Mr Rudd what would happen if any of his "friends" told him they didn't like his policies. Mr Rudd replied that in the democratic process we listen, but not just to lone voices. Here's what Michael asked next. Thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Enviro-Death When the inevitable happens and you pass away the options would seem pretty clear cut: cremation or burial? But those two traditional options might not be the most environmentally friendly. In Sweden, a biologist has developed a more ecological way of departing earth. This afternoon we're asking how do you want to go? Do you want a big tomb stone? Do you want to donate your body to science? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Male Sexual Abuse While women are overwhelmingly the biggest victims of sexual assault and men are almost always the perpetrators, close to one in five reports of sexual assault are from men. What's more - research from the Australian Institute of Family Studies suggests that for every report of male rape - another ten go unreported. A study from the Australian Centre for Sexual Assault suggests that social progress is 40 years behind in the area of male rape. That's part of the reason why Sexual Assault Sup ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Gordon Carrera How long can someone be detained without charge? Gordon Carrera is the BBC's Security Expert, here to compare the UK and Australian systems. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Pig Shooting Tom Tilly goes Pig Hunting in Humpty Doo This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: What is Radical? No we're not talking about "rad" the 80's word for awesome. We're talking about radical as in a departure from the mainstream. It used to be radical to be a greenie, does that description still fit? What does it mean to be radical in 2007? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 06/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Politics of Punk You probably won't catch many Aussie musos spruiking for the major parties come election day. But while they may not be card carrying members that doesn't mean they're apathetic. In our first part of a series on MUSIC and POLITICS Michael Atkin has caught up with some punk bands who give a shit. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/07/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Karratha Shacks If you're a renter in a big city and you reckon you've got it tough paying big rents quit your whinging because in Karratha in WA, you'd be paying double. There's a boom going on in the north west with mining and off-shore gasfields - which means lots of workers arriving, and not enough houses for them to stay in. So as you'd expect, rents have skyrocketed. You can pay over 250 bucks a week just for a piece of grass in a caravan park, or around a thousand bucks for a house. Try affording th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Party Pills You might remember in April we told you about party pills, the legal way to get high in New Zealand. All you needed was $40 bucks, and proof you were over 18 in order to drop a pill. Until last week when they were banned by the NZ government. After selling 26 million pills without any reported deaths the industry is all over. It comes after the Health Minister Jim Anderton commissioned a series of reports into the pills. He says he couldn't allow young people to pop pills knowing they were ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Quit your Vices This weekend is quittin time for a whole bunch of smokers in NSW and Victoria. QUIT VICTORIA reckons half of young smokers will try to give up the durries this weekend because of new laws banning smoking from pubs and clubs. If you're thinking of giving up smoking or perhaps some other vice like alcohol or drugs stick around because we're going to hear from some experts about HOW to ditch addictions. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/06/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indigenous Panel Right now police, the military, and federal government reps continue arrive in remote aboriginal communtieis accross the NT as part of John Howard's plan to reduce Child Sex abuse. John Howard has inferred the issue transcends politics Mal Brough says it's about the children and today we've heard complaints from Abiriginal women in Katherine who are angry they haven't been consulted. Then there's the people who we HAVEN'T we heard from. The next generation of Indigenous Australians - th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Carbon Offsets If you're concerned about the pollution you create just from driving, flying and living every day life maybe you've forked over cash to offset your carbon emissions. That's when you pay money to invest in say renewable energy or a tree-planting project. But how do you know your money is going where it should be? The only checks put in place by the federal government is an accreditation scheme called Greenhouse Friendly. But that scheme is voluntary so its up to each company to decide what t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Christians versus Porn X-rated Porn should be completely illegal at all times. That would be the effect of a new proposal by the Australian Christian Lobby to stop the sexual abuse of children in indigenous communities. Part of the Howard Government's announcement last week included banning pornography in some places. The Christian Lobby says this doesn't go far enough and wants to ban hardcore porn for everyone. Adult industry groups are shocked by the proposal and have accused the Christian Lobby of taking adva ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Burnie Choir If you were listening to Robbie's show, you would have heard the Burnie Choir, dropping some tunes....Well the guy that tracked them down was AWOL reporter Tom Tilley.Tom hung out with the choir earlier this week.....Far from the old choral classics, these guys sing whatever they wanna sing - stuff they hear on the radio like ...the Black Eyed Peas, Missy Higgins and even the B 52's. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/06/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Chinese Labour And the winner is not labour rights in China, according to a report released this week. In the lead up to the 2008 Bejing Olympics, a Chinese Stationary company that makes official Merchandise has admitted to using Child Labour. It's an embarassing revelation for the Chinese government which is keen to lift it's international image. The country that initially LOST it's Olympic bid because of it's human rights record. There may be a long way to go before China convinces everyone that it's c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Party time at Kirribilli Forget about the cops investigating you for holding a wild party. How bout the Australian Electoral Commission? Well that's what could happen to the Prime Minister. The Federal Opposition has attacked the Liberal Party for using John Howard's Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, for a function, without paying to hire the venue. Labor claims it could mean a breach of the commonwealth electoral act because the function could have been seen as a gift in kind to the liberal party. Labor Front b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Emos and Music You might remember the suicides of two girls in Melbourne recently and all the media coverage about their deaths. The girls liked EMO music, and what followed was a media beat up about the link between EMOs and being depressed. Well this week a federal politican has added his voice to the debate about Emo culture. He isn't sure emo makes teenagers kill themselves or that it makes them miserable. Instead, Labor MP Lindsay Tanner reckons schools should stamp out bullying and parents be more i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Jail euthanasia Port Arthur Killer Martin Bryant is depressed and suicidal in his secure mental health unit in Hobart. He has tried to take his own life recently and Phillip Nitchke says we should let him. The euthanasia advocate reckons that life imprisonment is akin to torture and Bryant should have the right to die. And Nitshcke doesn't stop there. He reckons we should bring in right-to-die legislation for anyone who thinks life isn't worth living. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/06/20 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Dalai Llama The Tibetan spirtual leader the Dalai Lama might pull in big crowds while he's in Australia. But locking in the pollies has needed heaps more effort! So what's so risque about the leader of the Tibetan people? Michael Atkin has been looking into who exactly is the Dalai Lama. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/06/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Outspoken critic of ISLAM AYAAN HIRSI ALI - she says ISLAM is facsist, discriminatory and sexist. This sparked some pretty strong reactions from you. One listener wrote in saying that he agrees with Ayaan Hirsi Ali on several issues, he thinks there SHOULD be a more open debate about the KORAN, he says muslims are often criticised when they decide to critique their religious text and this should change. So we decided to delve into the issue a little deeper. This story was first broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Dodgy pubs Are pubs and clubs breaching privacy laws? Last night on Hack we talked about ID scanning machines in pubs and clubs. Machines are being used that take a copy of your id and take a photo before you can enter. Well we received plenty of emails talking about your experience with the system. One of those listeners is Nigel Garson, a 24 year old from the Gold Coast. He went to the Parkwood Tavern and had his ID scanned. Problem was the bouncers at the venue wouldn't give him any info. They told ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ayaan Hirsi Ali You're about to hear from a woman who is constantly surrounded by security guards who protect her from death threats. Her name is Ayan Hirsi Ali author, ex dutch parliamentarian and one of the worlds most outspoken critics of ISLAM. She was born in Somalia and raised a Muslim, but after September 11, denounced her faith altogether. She says it's the new fascism, it's sexist and discriminatory. Why? Alice Brennan spoke to her when she was in Sydney recently. This story was first broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Kicked out of the US military A soldier getting kicked out of the US military for wearing his uniform sounds a bit odd. BUT it's all about how he was wearing it. Adam Kokesh rocked up at an anti-war protest outside the White House in military fatigues. With other activists he re-enacted the abuse he says Iraqi people are put through everyday. Thing is he'd seen this treatment first hand having served in Iraq during 2004 as a member of the reserves. He thought he was exercising his right to free speech. But when his phot ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Climate Change punishers Lets face it, we all have to do our bit to reduce carbon emissions. But how do you react to someone who is always telling you to clean up your act? They hammer you for not recycling enough, or hassle you for printing too much paper at work. So are they justified in hassling you out? The YES Case, says that climate change is THE threat of the 21st century and everyone should thinking about their carbon footprint. The NO case says it's up to the individual to make their own calls on what the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Charity groups There are more allegations being made over the issue of charity groups making political comment. Last week you heard from a timber industry organisation which was having a go at the Wilderness society. Timber Communities Australia reckons the Wilderness Society has broken tax rules by getting involved in political lobbying. Then we got a call from a triple j listener who's a member of another environment group. The reckon Timber communities is being hypocritical, because it's got a front gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 40 years on It's been 40 years since the referendum which lead to Australia's indigenous people being counted in the census. Up to then Aborigines were counted as flora and fauna. So 40 years on, compared to non Aboriginal people, Aborigines aren't faring so good if you look at a few key indicators. A 2005 Productivity commission report on Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage shows Aboriginal men can expect to live 17 years less than non-Aboriginals. Half as many Aboriginal kids stay on to Year 12. Nine ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Iraq video game protest The US government is usually not keen to talk about the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq, that number is over 3400. But overnight President George W Bush has been telling Americans to expect more casualties. And one American guy is using the US government's own recruiting game to stage an online anti-war protest. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: APEC arrest powers The right to strip search any person over ten years old, the right to detain a person with out charge for 48 hours, the right to stop people entering or leaving a particular public area. Sound like a police state? Actually these are the speculated new police powers that could be introduced into NSW parliament in the lead up to September's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC summit in Sydney. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Broken Hill Community radio In a dusty town on the edge of the desert near Broken Hill, a small revolution is taking place. 22 year old Emma is attempting to set up a community radio station inthe public school. Menindee is a melting pot. It has high rates of unemployment and domestic violence. 70 percent of the kids at the school are indigenous, So try chucking all that in a suffocating dark-room SLASH studio and making radio! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Nigger Brown stand torn down Most of you probably agree there are some words you just don't say. The 'n' word is more than likely one of them. But in Toowoomba in Queensland, the E.S. 'Nigger' Brown stand has stood at the local sports Stadium since the 19-fifties and it's now set to be demolished. But the tricky question is, will the stand be replaced by a statue of Edward Stanley Brown that keeps the nickname 'nigger'. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Lanfranchi's closing When it comes to the big business of Real Estate, people don't tend to let things like art stand in the way of making a buck. After 5 years of running Sydney venue Lan Franchi's Memorial Discotheque, a group of performers and artists have been told to get out. Vijay Khurana dropped in at Lanfranchi's to see how the removals were going. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Naltrexone implants It's a bit of a no-brainer to say that heroin is notoriously difficult to give up. Doctors often prescribe drugs like methadone to substitute and wean addicts off junk. But what if you use an implant that could actually stop heroin from working? Naltrexone works as a dissincentive for addicts to shoot up. But this particular treatment hasn't been approved by the Theraputic Goods Administration, and some doctors reckon this shouldn't be allowed to happen. LANGUAGE WARNING This story was fir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Green Travel The Australia institute is proposing a 30 dollar levy on plane travel. The Federal Tourism minister and the tourism industry say it's not necessary and it'll damage their business. But the Australia institute say it's got to happen if we're serious about cutting emissions. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indigenous Comedy Here's a story about comedy that may or may not make you laugh. But your especially prone to laugh if your a black-fellah, but maybe not if your a white-fellah. That's according to some Aboriginal comedians at the first ever Indigenous Comedy Competition held in Melbourne recently. They reckon that there's just some thing about their humour that white people will never, ever get. LANGUAGE WARNING This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Prisoners in Remand South Australia has more prisoners on remand than any other state. When your on remand you either haven't been sentenced or convicted, but your still locked up...without the same rights or facilities as other prisoners. There are no laws in Australia which limit the amount of time someone can spend remanded in custody. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 21/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Cops If you put all your energy over a few years into an artistic work and someone said it was drab, lifeless and derivative... would you be annoyed? What if that person was a reviewer writing for a publication thousands of people got to read it. Recently the free Sydney music paper, The Brag published a review of The Cops' latest record, Drop It In Their Laps using those words. The review gave the album just one and a half out of five and said you needed to be on drugs to enjoy it. Hack has he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Spencer Platt In August last year, on day one of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, wires photographer Spencer Platt was in Southern Beirut. A group of young people in a flashy car drove past, looking at an apartment that had been bombed. Spencer took a photo and little did he know that picture was to cause controversy and debate across the world. A german magazine said it was just a picture of war tourists, voyeurs looking at the devestation. Others said it bought into the stereotypes about the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 'Remembering Minto' 'It's being wiped off the map as if it never existed... but they can't wipe away our memories'. That's what one resident of the MINTO housing commission in South Western Sydney said yesterday at the Launch of a book called 'Remembering Minto'. The Estate, with more than half it's population under the age of 35, is part way through the process of a demolition. Already 230 families have been re-located with another 650 yet to leave. The residents are determined however, that even if their ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Virginia Tech Online Tech The internet's full of offensive stuff, but lots of online gamers reckon one young Australian guy has gone too far, by making a game based on the Virginia tech massacre. It's been just over a month since Cho Seung Hui shot 32 people and then himself at the American campus. Now 21-year-old Ryan Lambourn from Sydney has posted a game online where you can be Cho, and shoot other students. You can imagine the kind of reaction it's got, and a lot of the anger is coming from other gamers. There a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Banning of alcohol shots in Newcastle There's a giant clock missing from the wall of a Newcastle Hotel. Michael Atkin knows who took it. A bunch of angry drinkers. This week we've been talking about the banning of alcohol shots in Newcastle. You may remember that the council has got together with the police, pubs and clubs to stop the serving of shots. Michael Atkin was there on Saturday night. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bullies You might have heard in the news about an 18-year-old guy who was awarded a million dollars compensation by a court over bullying he suffered at primary school. The Secondary Principals Association reckons the decision will lead to more bullying cases going to court. So we've been wondering what all this means for young teachers who have to deal with bullying in the classroom. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Work Filters Here's your new computer, but you can't use myspace, no youtube allowed, no hotmail, no itunes and try to stay clear of Google if you can. Why? Well... because your new PC is for WORK RELATED PURPOSES ONLY. If you've ever faced this scenario you know all about internet work filters. If you don't Internet work filters are software that prevents people from accessing so-called inappropriate internet material oon the job. So just how do these filters work? And are they a breach of privacy or j ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Andrew Bolt Follow Up Well the Hack email has been piling up again with people getting fired up about climate change. Seven people wrote in after our interview with the newspaper columnist Andrew Bolt. He's a climate change skeptic who was saying there's too much alarmism about the issue, and he reckons there's no need for urgent action on greenhouse gases. Ronan Sharkey has been looking at some of the response from triple j listeners. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Young Farmer's Forum We often hear stories about young people LEAVING rural areas. But what about those who come back or who have a strong connection with the land and want to stay? The Young Farmer's Forum is a unique event in Australia: it's where about 100 young people from Western NSW get together and discuss everything from watering systems to bussiness plans to finding love on the land. And speaking of finding love. Alice Brennan hit down town Broken Hill with a group from the forum, and as she discovere ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Zimbabwe Business Well Cricket Australia wouldn't do it. So the Federal government has stepped in and cancelled The Australian Cricket Team's tour to Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's Junior Information Minister, Bright Matonga, says the ban is a racist ploy designed to keep Zimbabwe out of international sport. But there are lots of people in Australia who WILL be going to Zimbabwe and they might even be making more money from it than our cricketers. We are talking about Australian Businesses doing business in Zimbabwe. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sport and politics What do you think of that old saying 'sport and politics should never mix'? Discussions with the Federal Government and Cricket Australia are at a stalemate over whether or not the Australian Cricket Team should tour Zimbabwe in September. The Federal Government says they don't think our Cricket team should tour the African nation because of the apparent corruption and brutality of its President Robert Mugabe. But Cricket Australia says the ICC has very strict rules, and if they refused to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Andrew Bolt Andrew Bolt is a columnist with the Herald Sun in Melbourne. He's also a big critic of what he calls alarmism about climate change. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation owns the Herald Sun, and the reason we called Andrew Bolt was to talk about the announcement that News Corporation is going green. The company will be carbon neutral by 2010. So does that mean climate change sceptics like Andrew Bolt will be looking for a new job? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Leaks How did the media know what was in the federal budget, before Tuesday nights speech? The simple answer is leaks. That's when someone with inside knowledge gives information to someone else, usually the media. In the budgets case it meant knowledge of tax cuts, family promises and environment funding was all out in the open before the Treasurer Peter Costello had uttered one single word. Leaks are used by all sides of politics and insiders do it to sway public opinion in their direction. Its ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Green Travel The Australia institute is proposing a 30 dollar levy on plane travel. The Federal Tourism minister and the tourism industry say it's not necessary and it'll damage their business. But the Australia institute say it's got to happen if we're serious about cutting emissions. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Is your Gay dar broken? You probably heard about the controversy yesterday surrounding a gay club in Melbourne that was granted the right to refuse entry to women and heterosexuals. Well, this now means that the security at the Peel nightclub will have the job of working out who is and who isn't gay at the door. How do you tell whether someone is gay or not? Luke Williams looks into the assumptions we make about what it is to be straight or gay. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/05/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Not flying to save the environment How'd you like a year In Mexico on student exchange? Or maybe a two week trip to Africa, sounds pretty sweet yeah. But you can't have it, cause the green police want you to cut down on plane travel to help save the planet. Yesterday on Hack you might have heard about a call for 30 dollar levy on plane flights to help off-set the emissions from flying. So we decided to speakto some people who've ALREADY given up flying. And for one guy it was a big sacrifice, it might have cost him his relat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Columbine Survivors on Virginia Tech Shooting 'You have blood on your hands that will never wash off' - That was the message from the gunman who shot and killed 32 students at Virginia Tech on Monday. In between the killing of 2 people in a dorm and the second attack that killed thirty people Choh Seung-Hui mailed a set of video clips and photos to the US network NBC. The package arrived at the station yesterday. NBC made copies of the tapes and photos, broadcast them and then handed the material to the FBI. The photos show the 23 year ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Graffiti mistake An MP in Canberra pissed off members of a local sporting club when, during a weekend campaign against graffiti, he cleaned off a legal commissioned mural advertising their sport of, Disc Golf. Anyway, Liberal MP Steve Pratt doesn't regret the 5 hours he spent scrubbing the artwork. In fact he told Kate O'Toole he'd do it again. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/04/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Winning Wars The number of US soldiers killed in Iraq is now over 3300, and opinion polls show more and more Americans are against the war. But there are a few US politicians who still talk optimistically about winning. Yes George W Bush is one and so is the US Vice President, Dick Cheney. It got us thinking about that idea of victory in war.. and how often it's actually happened in the past. Ronan Sharkey has been looking at how you know if you've won a war. This story was first broadcast on triple j ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Virginia Tech Shooting Sydney's Royal Easter Show is coming to an end, and as usual it's attracted massive crowds. But this year, in attempts to draw more young people, show organisers included a novel addition. For the first time in 50 years, there was an actual sideshow in Sideshow Alley. It comes as the industry makes a comeback around the country. Last year's Fringe Festivals in Adelaide and Melbourne, and the Tasmanian International Circus Fest, all featured sideshow acts, freaks and all. Juliette O'Brien we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Freak Shows First to the mass shooting at a university in America. At least 33 people have been killed, including the gunman who reportedly shot himself. It's America's worst ever mass shooting... it's happened nearly 8 years to the day after the Columbine high school shootings where 13 people were killed. Today's shooting happened in an engineering building at Virginia Tech University. It's a massive campus of over 25-thousand students in the town of Blacksburg. The gunman reportedly chained the doors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Inbuilt obsolence Have you ever tried to get a broken mobile phone or digital camera fixed only to have the salesperson say 'you may as well buy a new one'. But what if you don't want a new one? YOU WANT THE OLD ONE FIXED! James Massola reckons that inbuilt obsolence is fast becoming a modern day evil... and companies should manufacture products that LAST LONGER. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/04/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Google Earth Now you can use Google Earth for more than spying on your neighbour or checking out flying cars. Google's online satelite camera will now watch over the war-torn African nation of Sudan. In a collaboration with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum images of villages burning will now be visible from your PC. The museum will back up the images with the stories and photos of Sudanese people affected by the fighting. Its an attempt to motivate people to do something about the genocide which the Uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Iraqi Oil With Iraq struggling to control the carnage from car bombs and insurgent attacks, how high on the priority list is developing the economy? The biggest earner for Iraq is by far its oil reserves with the third largest in the world behind Saudi Arabia and Iran. Until now all that money went to the government but if a new law passes Iraqi parliament that could change. It proposes that two 3rds of Iraq's existing oil and ALL new fields could be open to foreign investment. Part of the deal is a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Being Young and Transgender Coming out gay is one thing but telling your parents you want to transition from one gender to another is a whole new kettle of fish! This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/04/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Cleanflicks Harry Potter needs to be gagged, the Matrix is way too violent and Shrek is one dirty bastard. There is one company in the United States that is here to clean it all up, for your viewing pleasure. Clean Flicks are a Mormon based company that cuts racey scenes out of Hollywood movies for family-friendly consumption. This week they won an important court case allowing them to continue selling edited movies. But the movie makers are furious, saying its an attack on artistic integrity, copyrigh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Blog Off Web forums always seem to attract their share of people with a gift for slagging off, but there's always a chance some of that pent up anger could get you sued. Now there's a court case going over a comment posted on the web forum, and this time it's the organisation publishing the forum that's getting sued. So what does this mean if you post on forums or publish a blog? Some online legal experts reckon the case could have a bad impact on your internet freedoms. Ronan Sharkey has more... an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Festival Impact You say Ben Harper, Missy Higgins and the Vasco Era. They say a dead wallaby, a dead echidna and some really angry koalas. A local environment group in Victoria is voicing their concern over the impact of this weekends Point Nepean Music Festival on the surrounding national park. The concerns come amidst claims by Byron Bay locals that a proposed new site for Splendour in the Grass would be detrimental to local wildlife. So can music festivals be bad for the bush? This story was first broa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Rapping Reverend Groups of young people breakdancing and body popping to rhymes whilst a priest raps to the LORD. It sounds like something out of FAME the musical, but it happened in Australia recently. Father Stan Fortuna is a rapping reverend from the BRONX in NEW YORK He's in the country promoting World Youth Day to be held in Sydney next year. Patrick Abboud went to his concert and discoved that a bit of hip hop is turning Christianity into the new cool. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Key performance indicators Key performance indicators are targets set by management and workers about what should be achieved in the workplace. Do you work to KPIs? Is it too much pressure or does it make you perform better? It was reported that Sally Sandic, a 21 year old had committed suicide due to on the job pressure. The former Telstra sales woman worked in a call centre and her parents have said work targets stressed her out. She ended up resigning and killed herself shortly afterwards. Telstra have challenged ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: EMI - follow up The EMI record company says it's dropping copy protection on all the company's online music because that's what you wanted. So could this be true a record company that actually listens to the consumers, especially after years of trying to restrict what you could do with the music you paid for. However, there were some criticisms of the plan, like it won't make ANY difference to illegal downloaders, and that you'll have to pay more for music that's DRM free. To find out what the record compa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: EMI jumps in the sack with Apple Overnight in London, one of the world's big four record companies - EMI -announcement that it was putting an end to Digital Rights management. The company will make all its music available online with no copy protection. So does this mean record companies have given up trying to control downloaders? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/04/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Political Donations Charities and hospitals that receive donations from bikie gangs give outlaw clubs a veneer of respectibility... that's what the Queensland Police Minister Judy Spence reckons. Yesterday she slagged off cash-strapped hospitals and charities for taking money from bikey fundraisers. Well, what about her own party? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/04/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The carbon sink Now to one of those potential solutions. Daniel Keilly is a farmer from the central west of New South Wales. He's excited about the potential of his farm to act as a carbon sink so he can make money from carbon storage. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/04/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Day Clubs Day Clubs are often promoted as recovery sessions where you can chill out after a big night. Many people even from within the industry say the extended hours of day clubs means people are pulling benders ALL WEEKEND with little or no sleep. There are now calls to make day clubs close earlier, but would this curb drug usage? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/04/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Youth Mental health conference This week Queensland had its first youth mental health summit in TEN years. Workers in the field got together to talk about the current state of the mental health system for young people in the State. The summit was organised and emceed by young people... This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Over Sharing Are the ins and outs of Pauline Hansons sex life something the nation needs to know? Whether we're into the sordid details or not. We've heard this week about how the fiery red-head shagged old One Nation mate David Oldfield. If ex-pollies getting naked scares you, you probably think Pauline was oversharing, divulging way too much information without being asked to. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Politics of Swearing A big program warning for you now. We're about to talk about the politics of swearing. You have been WARNED. The other day one of our Hack reporters used the word CUNT in conversation. He was told that he was offensive and inappropriate. What do you think of that? Are you someone that uses 'swear words' in your every day language? It's complex because some people find some swear words REALLY OFFENSIVE, but for other people swear words are a colourful way of talking. Now we're not talking a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Alcohol and parents Have you ever been at a party. underage and been given alcohol by your friends parents? Well if you have, you might be helping that person go to jail. The Australian Drug Foundation has today called for changes in Victorian law to make it illegal for people, unless they are your parents, to give alcohol to teenagers in parties and in their homes. The ADF says that the only people who should decide whether teenagers can drink are their parents. This story was first broadcast on triple j on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 14 year olds take on RIBENA Now you might suspect that some advertising claims are misleading - or even a total load of shit - but what can you do about it, right? Well, a school experiment by two 14 year old girls, will see the worlds second biggest food and pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline face court in New Zealand tomorrow for breaches of the Fair Trading Act. Jenny Suo and Anna Devathasan tested various juices for vitamin C including Ribena which they assumed from the ads would be chock full of vitamin C (yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sister Helen Prejean Right now there are 6 Australians on death row in Indonesia they'll be facing the firing squad for importing drugs into Bali. Makes you wonder what goes through someone's head when they're about to be executed. Well, we're about to hear from one woman who has a pretty good idea. Her name is Sister Helen Prejean. She's witnessed 6 executions on death row in the US. As a spiritual advisor for prisoners she's offered them support in their last moments of life. The basis for Susan Sarandon's ch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Snowboarding A Melbourne snowboarder died on the weekend when slipped off an icy section of snow in the Swiss Alps. We don't know much about him, except he was 31 and holidaying with friends. Australian officials are now developing plans for his body to be taken home. He was snowboarding off piste - which means away from the normal marked snow field and on rougher more natural terrain. It's a common type of snowboarding especially for Aussies wanting to take their boarding to the next level overseas. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ask Tim Tim Flannery, environmentalist and Australian of the Year is answering your questions. Should Australia go nuclear? Does carbon offsetting work? What's happening with the polar ice cap? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 01/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Letting go of your dreams Take a moment to think about your wildest, most extravagant dream or goal...What do you think are the chances of it actually coming true? For some people, letting go of their big dream in life is just part of growing up. How do you know when to abandon your dream? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 07/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Cops on School grounds If you're at school and you saw a police officer come into the playground, what's the first thing that would come into your head? Would you think, 'shit have I done something wrong?'. Or maybe you'd think someone's getting seriously busted. Maybe you just think cops are always hassling young people. But in New South Wales a new program has just started which will see speciallytrained police officers visiting high schools as often as possible, just to build good relationships with young peop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Credits for being green, why not credits for being bad Carbon trading - the solution to our climate woes or a system that legalises pollution? The system allows polluting companies to buy carbon credits from companies who are reducing their emissionsBut US columist for Maximum Rock n Roll, Mykel Board isnt convinced. He says carbon trading is a farce and gives companies the green light for destroying the planet. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mental Health Special In Australia 75 percent of mental disorders start BEFORE the age of 25. So obviously, it's vital to get the right kind of help EARLY... but what is the right help? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Green Weddings As you may have noticed lately, eco-friendly green products are a niche market that's taken off. A couple of weeks ago on Hack we told you about a guide book for how you can have carbon neutral sex. So what if all that eco-friendly sex makes you want to get married? Well fear not, there's now even a way to have a green wedding. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 21/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young women with HIV Picture an AIDS sufferer, and what's the first that comes to your mind? Be honest...someone in Africa, a older gay man? Perhaps a drug user? Well wipe that because an increasing number of people with HIV are young Australian women. So what's its like being young, female and living with HIV? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 21/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 40 hour drought If you're a city slicker, get out of the shower, don't wash your hands and for goodness sake don't flush the bloody toilet. Three teenagers from the country fed up with the water-wasting ways of city people, and they've come up with a way to pit us all back in our very dry waterless place. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Iraq: four years of spin Today marks the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq. So the question being asked by lots of politicians and voters in countries that have supported the war is... what's been achieved? How do you sell a war that hasn't gone to plan? Any political advisor will tell you it's about the art of spin. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Having a criminal record Have you ever been picked up by the police for something stupid? Maybe you got done for shoplifting, or smoking a bit of weed, surely that's not going to haunt you for the rest of your life? Well, maybe it will. For example if you want to get into the US, you have to declare all your offences, EVEN if a conviction wasn't recorded. And that may mean, you're not allowed into the country - or back home - you might have trouble finding work. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/03 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Petrol sniffing down You'd think a dramatic drop in the number of Aboriginal people sniffing petrol in central Australia would be a great excuse for some congratulations. And it is great news. Congratulations are due to Aboriginal communities, to petrol companies and government officials for rolling out non-sniffable Opal fuel, and also to social workers in the Northern Territory. But youth workers in Central Australia are warning that now's a critical time for action. They want to make sure that petrol sniffin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hardcore Partying We wanted to hear from you - if you have recently retired from hardcore partying what lessons did you learn? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Shitfights in Canberra What's the deal with all the mud in Canberra at the moment? Is there a rock festival going on that we missed? Over the last couple of weeks there's been so much mud slinging by politicians that no one's safe. One of the first people to cop the bucket treatment was the Labor leader Kevin Rudd. He was criticised for some meals he had with the very out of favour Brian Burke, the former Premier of WA who's spent time in jail for corruption. But that was only the start... since then the mudcakes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Staying OUT of prison Research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that 57 percent of people sitting in prison as we speak, have done time at least once before. Queensland University of Technology have started a big study into why so many prisoners reoffend when they are released back into the community. Luke Williams caught up with 3 such people. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/03/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Change of fashion in Qld State parliament Queensland's politicians are about to get cooler. Literally. Premier Peter Beattie says they're ditching the dress code that says men have to wear a full suit and tie. Why? Well he reckons it will save on the water and energy used when they crank up the airconditioning in the Queensland summer. Mr Beattie says raising the temperature one degree can reduce water use by 10 per cent. But you won't exactly catch Queensland's policy makers parading around the corridors of power in boardies and t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bob Brown If you're a federal politican right now it seems the most popular place to hang out is the coal mines. Malcolm Turnbull has done it, Industry Minister Ian McFarlane has been there and now Bob Brown is headling to Qld tomorrow to speak with some Qld coal miners. The Federal government has commmited 100 million dollas to a new clean coal power station in Vicotira's LAtrobe Valley. But Bob Brown says that's a waste of government money. Michael Atkin spoke to him today and began by asking what ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Working extra hard Doing extra study after high school is one of the big things that young people are told to aspire to isn't it? But if tertiary study means eating 2 minute noodles 3 nights a week, working heaps of hours in a shitty part-time job, and living in a dive... who'd choose that life? A new report's come out today which shows that more and more university students are scraping to get by. The Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee interviewed around 19 thousand students, and found that people are do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Speaking up against racism Have you ever been in a situation where someone makes a racist comment, and you've said nothing? Maybe you were worried you'd get your head kicked in. Maybe you just didn't know what to say or didn't think it would make any difference. Today on HACK we're talking about when to speak up, not just about racism but about anything that you think is wrong. And tell us about the time you wished you spoke up but didn't, or maybe the time you did speak up, and how it went. This story was first bro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Malalai Joya Malalai Joya is the youngest member of Afghanistan's parliament. Afghanistan is a place that the US President George W Bush likes to talk about as an example of how democracy is improving the country. But there's a young Afghan politician who reckons that especially for women, things are worse now than they were under the Taliban years ago. Her name is Malalai Joya - she's 28, and she's the youngest member of the Afghani Parliament. She says the reconstruction of her country has failed and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Iraq - A Deserter's Tale Joshua Key is a US soldier who served in Iraq and he reckons none of those troops should have ever been there in the first place. Joshua Key isn't proud of his service. While he was in Iraq he admits to ransacking houses and stealing money from Iraqi people. The only thing he's proud of is that he deserted and got out of Iraq. He's now in Canada waiting for a court to decide if he can stay. He says he stopped believing in the war when he was sent to investigate a shooting in Baghdad in 2003 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bra Boys Movie If you're a surfer your probably familiar with the Bra Boys, the surfing brotherhood from Sydney's Maroubra Beach. Marboubra is the only Sydney beach suburb that's dominated by housing commission homes and it's also bred surfing champions like Koby Abberton. But the Bra has also produced its fair share of inmates in Longbay jail which sits on the hill above the beach. Some people reckon the Bra Boys are a violent gang but they insist they're not. To try and set the record straight they've m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young doctors You've just finished Uni, its your first proper job and all of sudden you have to save the life of a premature baby. That's whats its like week in week out for young doctors who choose to work in rural areas. Attracting young doctors to the bush has been a long standing problem for rural Australia. 3 years ago the Federal Government started a scholarship scheme to get more medical graduates to work in the country. But today a survey from the Australian Medical Students Association showed th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mike Moore He's a man of the people... standing up for the little guy when corporations and governments want their way. And until now most of the criticism Michael Moore has copped has come from the political right and corporate America. But, a doco that's being released on Saturday at the South by Southwest Film festival is about to change that. Kaitlyn Sawrey managed to track down the makers of Manufacturing Dissent Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk for HACK. This story was first broadcast on triple j o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mardi Gras What do David Hicks, Miss Wagga Wagga and loving your hair all have in common? The Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. This weekend more than a hundred floats will make their way down Oxford Street in Sydney to celebrate gay pride. The Mardi Gras has been criticised in recent years for placing too much emphasis on corporate sponsorship and not enough on its activist origins. But with fresh concerns over police involvement this year, the Mardi Gras could throw us a few surprises. This story was fir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bathurst CSU - city verses country City versus country sounds more like a footy game than a battle between uni students. But that's the cultural fight being played out by Bathurst students. Located in the central west of NSW, Charles Sturt university is in the middle of a struggle over campus dominance. As the number of country kids declines, the Sydney city kids have been taking hold. Michael Atkin has been hanging out in Bathurst dorm rooms to find out who's on top. He began by speaking to Courtney, a 19 year old country k ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: New Rental Bidding Guidelines in Victoria If you've busted your gut to get thatrental property, and someone's gone and offered the real estate agent more rent for the house here's some news for you. The real estate institute of Victoria has released guidelines this week on RENTAL BIDDING. Some of the big NO NOs for real estate agents. They're not allowed to initiate bids from potential renters. They can't advertise a rent range for properties - it must be a FIXED price. So are guidelines ENOUGH? This story was first broadcast on t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Voluntary Student Unionism Do remember what it was like the first week you started Uni? Well, this year is the first year students can choose whether or not to pay their student union amenities fee. The Federal Government says this is about choice and that Voluntary Student Unionism is therefore a good thing, but student unions say VSU will lead to a one hundred million dollar black hole and student services will suffer as a result. But all that really depends on just how many students this year decide to fork out a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: National Young Labour Conference A couple of weeks ago on HACK we heard from the National Young Liberal conference about what it means to be a young liberal. But what does it mean if you're from the other side of the fence - the Rudd camp? Well over the weekend, the State conference for the Young Labor Party was held in Queensland. So we sent Kaitlyn Sawrey out to talk to young Labor members. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Changing you identity at uni What do you reckon has been the thing in your life that's changed you the most?Was the your first job? Going overseas? Or losing someone you loved? Well, for many people, its going to Uni. Luke Williams went out to Latrobe University in Melbourne today to find out why so many people find a whole new self on campus. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 26/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Legal Sex Work Do you think its possible that by legalising something that was once illegal, you could actually make things worse for everyone involved? Well, that's an argument being made about the decriminalisation of Victoria's sex work industry. While sex worker activists have been pushing for years to legalise more and more parts of the industry, claims have been made in a controversial new book that the legalisation of prostitution has had a negative affect on the lives of heaps of sex workers and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Beach Christians Have you ever had someone ask if you believe in God? It's a pretty personal question, but surveys of young people show that around half do believe in God. Still, most don't show it by going to church... a Monash university study last year found one in five young people go to church once a month or more. So what about young people who do show their faith, where do they hang out when they're not at church? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Emissions in your home The Federal Government has today announced a proposal to phase out conventional light bulbs. Under the plan incandescent light bulbs will be technically illegal to sell by 2010. The Government says the plan would save 800,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas being released into the atmosphere. But some have criticized the plan as tokenistic and trivial, saying that light bulbs only account for a small amount of greenhouse gas emitted from Australian homes each year. This story was first broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Pot verses piss Dope smoking is going down and the Federal government's Tough on Drugs strategy is working. That's what the government is saying after new research shows that of people under 30, half have friends who use cannabis - but a third of them say that's not acceptable. Christopher Pyne has a theory about cannabis, and he reckons it's more dangerous than alcohol even though the government's own stats show alcohol does more harm. What do you think of that? This story was first broadcast on triple j ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Catt brothers Over the weekend a 20-year-old woman who was at the Good Vibrations show in Sydney died after a suspected drug overdose. Her name was Annabel Catt and she was a dance teacher, and a former vice school captain. Annabel's two older brothers Antony and Gareth have decided to try and take something positive from her death, by sending a message to young people who are thinking about taking drugs. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Australian Farmer's Lazy? Farmers say if they don't mules blowflies lay eggs around the tail of the sheep then the maggots eat into the sheep's flesh and sheep die of blood poisoning. Research from Melbourne University says if mulesing was stopped tomorrow between 1 and 3 million sheep would die from flystrike in 12 months. But PETA says mulesing is cruel and has encouraged retailers to boycott Australian wool. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 19/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Literary Love Now for something that's not breaking news... it can be bloody hard meeting the guy or girl of your dreams. And if such a person does exist do you ever feel a bit silly about going out of your way to find them? Hundreds of people who have met this year at the State Library of Victoria don't think so - at an event called Text Appeal Speed Dating. Basically, its like speed dating except you bring along your favourite book. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 16/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Kim Jong Ill turns 65 You've seen the puppet version of him serenading in the movie Team America. Today it's his birthday... the North Korean president Kim Jong Ill turns 65. Now it's been alleged that he's got one of the biggest DVD porn collections in the world. So what the hell do you get a leader who's got everything? And more importantly how will the North Korean president celebrate his birthday? We couldn't get an interview with him but instead here's our reporter Elise Potaka on the personality cult of Ki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: What ever happened to safe sex? New research out this week shows that even though young people know about SAFE SEX, they're not doing it. Maybe you're drunk, stoned, or just plain lazy, but heaps of young people aren't using condoms or dental dams. So we wantto hear from you... what ever happened to safe sex? And what's actually SAFE when it comes to safe sex? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Love Your Cleaner The Liquor and Hospitality Union held a Love Your Cleaner Day event to draw attention to what they say is the continuing poor pay and conditions for the nation's cleaners. While the event had plenty of songs, poetry and bunches of flowers, the question was whether or not the Union gimmick left the cleaners themselves feeling pleased or...patronised? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sea Shepherd There's just been a confrontation between a Japanese whaling vessel and the Sea Shepherd anti whaling ship. Kate O'Toole speaks with Captain Paul Watson from the Sea Shepherd group. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Clean Coal Debate The term clean coal technology has been used a lot by politicians, by the coal industry, and by unions representing coal miners. But not everyone likes the idea. Monica Ricter is from the Australian Conservation Foundation and she reckons clean coal is getting too much undeserved attention. Dr Kelly Thambimuthu is from the Centre for Low Emission technology in Queensland, and he's worked on several clean coal projects overseas. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Taxing grog Beer has recently got more expensive across the country. But before you go getting all emotional about it there's something you should know paying more for your grog may make the world a better place. At today's Thinking Drinking Alcohol Conference in Melbourne groups as diverse as the Salvation Army and the Australian Drug Foundation came together to call for reform to the way alcohol is taxed. If the proposal is made law some drinks would become much cheaper and others would become much m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Students rating the performance of their teachers To students it probably sounds like less detentions and better excursions but would it lead to better teaching? Education Minister Julie Bishop thinks so. It's part of her proposal to link teachers pay to performance. She says teachers as professionals need to be accountable and get rewarded for quality work in the classroom. Research the Ministerhas seen but hasn't released says the move will lift education standards in schools. It would be part of package to assess teachers including thei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Iraq Do you remember watching the footage of US troops and Iraqis pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein? It's hard to believe that was back in 2003. And next month, coalition troops will have been in Iraq for FOUR years during this time we've heard about the casualties, the suicide bombs and the insurgents. But news headlines aside how much do we really know about life in the middle of a war zone? Like how do you get from a to b? How do you do your shopping? How do you stay sane? Well you're ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hazing If you're a first year uni student living on campus it'll be your first chance to meet the other college kids you'll be living with. In the US, their version of O-week often involves a practice known as hazing. Basically it's a form of bullying but it's an initiation into the college where the seniors humiliate the first years. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Newest hottest 100 entry? Senator Amanda Vanstone has written a song/alternative anthem about Australia. She joins HACK to talk about her potential hit and whether the lyrics reflect her time as immigration minister. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Men's Festival Once a year Sydney Men's Festival happens in the bush to find out what it means to be a man. It's not about downing beers or going fishing, it's about sharing. We sent our Reporter Michael Atkin along to host his own workshop the meaning of manhood. Once he received his affinity ribbon he met 19-yaer-old Asher Hammond. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/02/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Saturday Night with the Young Liberals Put on a black tie, get out the cocktail dress and get ready to embrace free alcohol. Hack is taking you to the Young Liberals gala event of the year. Last Saturday night our leaders of tomorrow got together in Melbourne for the Young Liberals annual gala dinner event. Our reporter Luke Williams was there to find out if Young Liberals really Do know how to party and what it means to be an aspiring politician on a Saturday Night. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 31/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ice Report The first major report looking at use of Ice in Australia has been released. It's found that about half a million people used Methamphetamines including Ice in the past year. Most of those are young middle class people who only use occasionally. The report also found that regular Methamphetamine users experience side-effects unlike other drugs, including like psychosis, paranoia and hallucinations. Ronan Sharkey has been speaking to Garth Popple, he's the head of a drug treatment program in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sabin Willet American lawyers says conditions in Guantanomo are grotesque. With all the debate about the condition of David Hicks, Hack has been in contact with someone else who visited Guantanamo Bay last week - American lawyer Sabin Willet has 8 clients there. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 31/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Skin suspension Think about getting a steel hook pierced into your back - it's four millimetres thick and normally used by PRO fisherman to catch sharks. Once that's gone in deep, think about attaching that hook to a system of ropes designed for rock climbing and thrown over a tree branch or building pillar. Now you're ready to lift off suspending in mid-air by only your flesh. It's part of a subculture called body suspension performed by people who are into getting an extreme adrenaline kick. Michael Atki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Junee Bushfires - One year on New years day 2006 was an absolute stinker. 44 fires blazed across New South Wales. In the south west of the state near Wagga, fires ripped through more than 24-thousand hectares of farmland, burning houses and killing 20-thousand sheep. 22 year old John Heffernan started New Years Day like many of us - with a fair sized hangover. But by the end of the day he was in intensive care with third degree burns to 85 per cent of his body. He was lucky to survive. This story was first broadcast on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: P Plate Restrictions New restrictions on P-plate drivers are happening in several states around the country this year. What's prompted State and Territory government's to act? Have more young people been involved in car accidents in the past few years?Ronan Sharkey's been looking at some stats from around the country. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young Liberal Convention Indigenous history is in, multiculturalism is out, climate change is over-hyped and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are quite simply eco-terrorists. They were just some of the ideas to come out of the annual Young Liberals convention held in Melbourne over the weekend. While you might be pretty surprised by some of the motions passed by the Young Libs, the big question mark it seems was over the things they didn't want to talk about. This story was first broadcast on triple j o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Islamic footy League kicks off in Brisbane Footy is typically associated with sweaty men, skimpy cheerleaders and loads of beer. But if you take away the booze and the babes and throw in a little religion... you end up with the Islamic Rugby League. The IRL is a new comp for young muslims and the season kicked off over the weekend. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bushfire aftermath Most of your friends have left, your job prospects are shaky and sometimes it seems like the only things left in town are charred and smokey remains. That's was the situation for many young people in Halls Gap in Western Victoria when last year the town of 300 was severely burnt in a major bushfire. The fire burnt over a 150,000 hectares, destroying several homes and killing two people. While many up left in the aftermath vowing never to live in the bush again, many young people stayed, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Aussie Flag Pole 55 000 people went to the BDO in Sydney. After the political reaction this week including calls for a ban on flag bans and for the Big Day Out to be banned, the question was, how would people with tickets to today's show react? Well to find out, Ronan Sharkey went along and a language warning on this story. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bushfires It's Bushfires in Australia are burning more often and perhaps more ferociously than ever before. Since 2001, millions of hectares have been charred in fires across the country... killing in total 29 people, injuring more than a thousand and leaving many more homeless. And depending on who you ask it could be anyone from greenies to public servants, to loggers who are to blame. So just what - if anything - are we humans doing to make the land more fire-prone? This story was first broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Howard on Hicks The Federal government has made one of its' most definitive statements about David Hicks. The Prime Minister John Howard says he's told the US the Australian inmate must be charged by the middle of next month. A couple of weeks ago the 31-year-old from Adelaide marked 5 years in detention in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and recently several Federal government MP's including the John Howard have been saying that's too long. But even though polls in Australia show most people want David Hicks brou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bush Tshirt - No Flying 55 year old Allen Jason was refused boarding on a Qantas flight to London because of his t-shirt. Qantas staff told him he wasn't allowed to fly because he was wearing a top that said US President George W Bush is the world's number one terrorist. Luke Williams caught up with him at the airport to find out how a t-shirt can becomes a security risk. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: BDO Promoter Ken West Talks Big Day Out promoter's reported comments about banning the Australian flag at the Sydney show this week had every other politician including the Prime Minister John Howard having a go at him. Ronan Sharkey asks Ken West if he was surprised at the reaction his comments about the flag got. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: No flag wavers at the Big Day Out The Big Day Out has always had a link with national identity. And until this year, the Sydney gig has always fallen on Australia day. One year Living End guitarist Chris Cheney even busted out some chords in Aussie flag boxer shorts. But that may be about to change if the organisers have their way. They don't want punters to bring the Aussie Flag to the festival. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/01/2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bushfires in Gippsland It's a 40 degree day, there's thick black smoke all around you and a raging bushfire is licking the fences on the edge of your property. That's been the situation facing many people across the country with fires burning out-of-control across Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, the ACT and Tasmania over the past two months. The worst of the fires has been in Gippsland in Eastern Victoria where over a million hectares have burnt, in what the Premier Steve Bracks is describing it as on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Un-Australia When you think of UN-Australia - what do you think of? Perhaps the Cronulla riots? Racism? Radio Shock Jocks? What about if there were a place called... UN-Australia? BUT what does Un AUSTRALIA mean? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 07/12/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Positive Teens Right now 45 million people around the world are living with HIV. Maybe they got the virus through unsafe sex, drug use or medical transfer. Or maybe they contracted it when they were born. This radio documentary is called 'Positive Teens' by Julie Kimberly, and is about what its like to grow up with HIV after contracting it from your mother. It's a pretty isolating experience as there are only about 100 adolescents living with HIV in Australia. This story was first broadcast on triple j o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Oenpelli follow up Autopsies have today confirmed that two teenagers who died in the Northern Territory Aboriginal community of Oenpelli on the weekend were suffocated by petrol fumes. Yesterday on the show you heard how petrol sniffing hasn't been a big problem in the community, but boredom and a lack of work for young people definitely are major issues. The biggest employer in remote communities like Oenpelli is the Federal government funded Community Development Employment project - or CDEP. It's been runn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Domestic violence Have you been in a violent relationship? What happened and how did you get through it? And, as always you don't have to use your real name and can remain anonymous. But first we're going to take a look at what one community is doing to prevent domestic violence. Michael Atkin visited Mount Druitt in Sydney's South West, an area that has the highest rate of domestic violence in New South Wales. He found there are plenty of services ready to help - the police have a dedicated unit, crisis ac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: New opposition leader Kevin Rudd Here at Hack you've heard the new opposition leader Kevin Rudd in a way no one else in Australia has. Kevin tried desperately to get added to the triple j playlist earlier this year by singing Happy Birthday to reporter Alice Brennan. BUT unfortunately music director Richard Kingsmill wasn't too fond of Mr Rudd's soothing tones. Luckily for Kevin he still has a career with the ALP - so who is Kevin Rudd. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/12/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Oenpelli Petrol Sniffing Petrol sniffing has claimed two young lives in the Northern Territory over the weekend. The 15 and 18 year old boys were from Oenpelli in the Northern Territory. Two other boys aged 15 and 16 years old are being treated in hospital in Darwin... one's in intensive care. The small community is shock, especially because locals say petrol sniffing isn't a major problem in Oenpelli. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/12/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Kelly Ng It has been 12 months since the execution of Van Nguyen. Van, who grew up in Melbourne, was caught with 400 grams of heroin in Changi Airport in singapore in 2002. Thousands of cardboard hands were displayed at Victoria's State Library in Melbourne. People from all around Australia sent in the hands last year in support of Van Nguyen before his execution. Van Nguyen's school friend Kelly Ng says she decided to display the hands again as a way of reminding people of the injustice of the deat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: IR Rally How do you reckon you'd go negotiating an individual contract with your boss? That's one of the main elements of the Federal government's changes to industrial laws. And those new laws were the target of big protest rallies around the country today. Thousands of people turned out to rallies in every capital city, and Ronan Sharkey went along to the rally at the Melbourne cricket ground this morning. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Dealing with depression What would you say if you found out your mate had just tried to commit suicide How would you try to support them? Recently on Hack we were speaking about depression and suicide and we got an email from Sarah who said that she had attempted suicide a number of times several years ago. Her experience was people often forget how difficult the recovery journey can be. And remember if you're feeling down there is always help out there - LIFELINE on 13 11 14 or hit reachout.com.au This story w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Military partners Imagine watching the latest bombing in Iraq or Afghanistan on the TV news. But then imagine that your boyfriend or girlfriend is right in the middle of it. Well that's the case for lots of Australians who have partners posted overseas for military operations. So besides long emails, and heartache, what's it like having a partner who's serving in the Australian Defence Forces? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Snake Condoms What do snake charmers, red, yellow, black and sex have in common? Condoms! Snake condoms are part of a project to encourage safe sex in aboriginal communities... The program's been so successful it's hoped it'll be rolled out nation-wide next year. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: New Scalping Laws If you're someone who has missed out on a ticket to the Big Day Out this summer, you might be happy to hear that one State government at least, has brought in a law against scalping. It's Queensland. The only problem is the law won't effect the sold out Gold Coast Big Day Out. So if the music fans aren't being helped out by the new law, who is? The new law in Queensland will punish scalpers and buyers... but if you think it'll mean you'll be able to get tickets without having to fight off s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mental Health Scholarship When someone you love decides to kill themselves, there's often a sense of powerlessness and shock that they thought their life was SO bad they had to end it. That's what happened to 21 year old Nathan Trepezanov in January this year. Suffering from depression he decided to take his own life. Nathan's cousin Chris Joannu plays bass in SILVERCHAIR. Chris helped launch a mental health scholarship in Nathan's name. Ali Benton went along to the launch and had a chat with Chris after his speech ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Australia's corruption history Since the Cole Report was tabled in parliament today the political brawl has restarted. Already Labor's spokesman on Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd has claimed it's the worst corruption scandal in Australia's history. He certainly hopes it leads to government ministers being investigated and resigning but at this stage that seems unlikely. So how does selling wheat to an Iraqi dictator against the wishes of the UN compare to other Australian corruption scandals? This story was first broadcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Violence at parties Chances are if you're partying with 13 thousand schoolies sooner or later someone is gonna get pissed off with those around them. You see it any big crowd where there is plenty of grog involved. It's happened at the Gold Coast overnight where there's been some violence and one schoolie has ended up in hospital. So how do you keep your cool and stay out of trouble when you're partying in a big crowd. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fatal P plate accidents if you're a P plate driver, you're probably feeling like a lot of people are calling for tougher restrictions on your licence. Things like night-time curfews and passenger limits. Road safety organisations and senior police and some politicians are pushing the idea a lot lately after a spate of fatal accidents involving P platers. On Friday in Western Sydney three teenagers died when their car hit a truck. Last month in northern New South Wales four young people were killed in an accident a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Eating Pests Recently on Hack we were talking about the ethics of what you eat. Well during that discussion, Anna and Jason from a place called Peanut Cottage called up. They wanted to talk about how they eat pests - rats and the like. We thought that's interesting because, whereas in places like south east asia and south America, it might be quite common the practice of eating rodents and pests - isn't quite the anglo aussie steak and two veg many of us are used to. SO even though Jason couldn't come o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ashes It's the first day of the Ashes series in Brisbane today. But while fans are watching the players, police and cricket officials are keeping an eye on the fans. That's right the barmy army and the Aussie fanatics. Kaitlyn Sawrey was there for HACK to suss out the new security measures. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Nuclear Report After a five month invesitgation, The Federal Government's draft report on Nuclear Technology has found nuclear energy is a 'practical option for our country'. The Environment Minister Ian Campbell says we need it, but environment groups like Greenpeace say the report fails because it doesn't compare the amount of pollution that could be saved now by renewable energy with what they call fantasy predictions. It means that in 15 years we could be getting our energy from nuclear power plants. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Darwin Long grass Homeless people need moremoney. It's a line you hear a lot from organisations that work with people living on the street, but this week a new study from the University of Newcastle has found there's no chance of getting people off the streets without more government funding. The Northern Territory has per capita the highest rate of homelessness in Australia. But one of the problems is in Darwin, they're not always seen as homeless. To find out why, Ronan Sharkey went for a drive in a St Vin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Alex Wodak and the Heroin Injecting Room Twenty years ago a note was taped to a door in Sydney's Darlinghurst and Australia's first needle and syringe exchange began. Through the nineties Australian governments spent 130 million dollars on needle and syringe programs. But if that sounds like a lot of money, think about this: the saving to the health system is estimated to be 20 times that amount - somewhere between 2.4 and 7.7 billion dollars. But the program wasn't always supported by government. In fact when a small group of sta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bono in stage The U2 stadium concert extravaganza is in Sydney tonight, but the big question with Bono is which political cause is he going to talk about when he gets up on stage? Since the band's been in Australia Bono's mentioned David Hicks, African poverty, and the need for Australia to increase its' foreign aid. His political activism has become a big part of the band's identity, so much so, that some people in Australia have grabbed the chance to try and get Bono to help their local cause. Michael ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fat Mike and Tim Blair Fat Mike from NOFX is stoked that the democrats have taken the US house of representatives and the Senate. Recently we saw the first consequence of the REPUBLICAN loss... the resignation of defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Now Fat Mike reckons that more young people were voting in this mid term election than ever before. And remember - in the US, it's not compulsory to vote. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 10/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Walk Against Warming The Walk Against Warming was a protest raising awareness about climate change. Al Gore, The Stern Report, the local energy debate and a worsening drought have kept the issue on the front page recently, and last week the federal environment admitted that the government hadn't done enough to combat climate change and intended to do more. Michael Atkin went to the rally for HACK and asked the protesters what motivated them to get active. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 06/11/200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Expensive Laziness If you knew you were throwing away 600 dollars a year you'd try to do something about it. Actually, you probably wouldn't according to Roy Morgan Research. They spoke to over 300 people and more than half admitted they were losing money but couldn't be bothered fixing it. Getting a better deal for phones, credit cards or plane tickets was either too hard or too time consuming. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Scott Parkin Do you remember the American peace activist who was deported from Australia in 2005? A Federal court judge has ruled that his lawyers CAN see the ASIO security assessment which led to his deportation. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Water In Melbourne, stage 2 water restrictions have come into force, which means no watering your lawn or washing your car with a hose. And Brisbane now has the toughest water restrictions of any capital city in Australia, ever. But for many, water restrictions are the wrong way to go. Instead, there are mounting arguments that to get people to conserve water, it should cost a whole lot more. So how much would you be willing to pay for your water? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 03 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Electric Car One Adelaide importer is facing an uphill battle in his bid to import an electric car. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 02/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Stern Report The release of the Stern report says that Global warming will cost the world 9 trillion dollars. The Australian government hasn't ratified the kyoto protocol, and per head, Australia is the biggest emmitter of greenhouse gases. So what has the government made of the stern report? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 01/11/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Religion in Schools 'Pastoral care', 'positive spirituality', 'spiritual and emotional well-being'. These are the terms the Federal Government is using to describe its new Schools Chaplaincy Programme. But is spiritual guidance really the answer to problems faced by students? And with education funding already stretched, is the Government putting its money to good use? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Carbon Credits Ronan Sharkey investigates a new initiative designed to limit global warming. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Getting on it with your Parents Ronan Sharkey's been talking to a few mums and dads, most of whom prefer their kids to drink while they were around. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Scouts and Downloading Scouts usually get merit patches for knot tieing or abseiling. But now LA scouts can get one if they learn all about what is copyright and why it should be protected. Hack did a bit of digging, and found that LA scouts weren't the first to be enlisted in the war against copyright breach. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sex Education There are some concerns that while our schools might be good at teaching us about the science of reproduction, Australian school's, under Government direction, don't actually have to teach us anything about sex if they don't want to. For many this means often avoiding discussing anything about sex beyond what goes where. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 30/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Drumming and Cops If they get suspended from school, most kids spend their time at home. But some students in Brisbane get sent to a Short Term Intervention program - in which they learn drumming. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Solar vs Nuclear This week the Federal government stepped up its push for nuclear power. The Resources minister Ian McFarlane gave a speech to a nuclear power conference in which he said Australia could start building its first nuclear power plant in 10 years time. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Brotherhood You're about to find out what potato chips, spirituality, swearing in hiphop and Fanta all have in common. And they've all got something to do with the Holy month of Ramadan. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 23/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mum's with Mental illness Growing up is hard enough but when you have a parent that has a serious mental illness, it can be a whole lot harder. Doctors diagnosed Catherine Camden Pratt's mother as schizoprenic, psychotic and manic depressive... but 'mad' is what adults used to whisper about her mum, and the word school kids used to tease her with. So she's written book about women who grew up in the shadow of their mothers' madness. There are 27 000 Australian children living with a parent with serious mental illnes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Big Day Out Follow Up It seems there are a few Hack listeners who agree with Big Day Out organisers who argue that they can't do much more to limit ticket scalping. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Drought The drought is the worst one in one hundred years, and the agricultural industry uses about three quarters of the water in Australia. So as the driest continent on earth and with the looming threat of climate change, should we reassess what crops are suitable in Australia? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Indy Charts Does having a major label put their cd into record stores mean that musician isn't independent? The indy record association AIR reckons if a muso or a label gets any assistance from a major label then they can kiss the indy tag goodbye. AIR publish charts of independent record sales that bands use to get gigs and prove to promoters that people know who they are. It's been announced that a revamp of the charts with the launch of the 100 percent indy charts. They start in 2007 and will exclud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bad social skills They're a group of people who don't look forward to after work drinks or a date with someone they've got a crush on. They're a group of people who are SOCIALLY awkward and find it difficult to be relaxed in social situations. And bad social skills doesn't just mean awkward silences and inappropriate body language...people who don't know how to socialise can go through life feeling depressed and very lonely. So what's the best way to go from socially wrong to - Mr or Mrs smooth? This story ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Big Day Out As you might have heard on triple j brekky recently, organisers of the Big Day Out are starting a ballot system next week for left over tickets to the Sydney show, to try and beat scalping. The show sold out in a record 12 hours last Friday after going on sale at midnight.... and surprise surprise, there are heaps of tickets available online, most for around double the 130 dollar asking price. The second ticket release will be a ballot system - starting next week. But it doesn't seem to hav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young Doctors When you get sick and have to go to the hospital, the last thing you're likely to think about is how your doctor is feeling. After all you're the sick one, and its their job to look after you, right? Being a doctor in a hospital is stressful and some say that your first year as an intern is the worst year of all. The Australian medical association says male doctors are twice as likely to commit suicide, as the general population. Female doctors are 5 times likely to commit suicide. Two youn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Wildflower Wildflower are a group of eight guys and girls aged between 16 and 22 from an outstation near the Oenpeli community in Arnhem land, which is next to Kakadu National park. One of the unusual things about Wildflower is that four of the members are girls... which is pretty uncommon in indigenous music. Recently Ronan Sharkey met up with some of the band and a couple of their relatives in Oenpeli. This story was firstbroadcast on triple j on 29/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Chris Ayres Chris Ayres is a journalist for the British newspaper The Times and was sent to Iraq during the 2003 invasion. He has written a book complaining bitterly about being stuck in a war zone. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: The Nobel Peace Prize What do you reckon the odds are of the Prime Minister John Howard winning the Nobel Peace prize? An online betting agency in Australia put the PM's chances at 1000 to one. So who nominated John Howard, and how does the PM stack up against past winners of the world's most prestigious peace prize? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Womens Surfing Womens surfing is getting huge. And in Australia that's mainly due to one person - Layne Beachley. She's been world champ six times and this week hosted her own event - the Beachley Classic at Manly Beach in Sydney. It is the richest event ever for female surfers and Layne admitted she had to sell her soul to sponsors to get the cash. But her rival and No 2 on the world standings Melanie Redman Carr isn't paddling through the cash. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 12/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Mark Foley There are two words getting mentioned everywhere in the American news media at the moment. No it's not North Korea...Have you heard of a guy called Mark Foley? Until a few weeks ago he was a Member of Congress in the Republican party of President George W Bush. But since then he's resigned in disgrace. All because of a massive scandal over sexually illicit emails he was sending to young boys doing work experience with the government in Washington. There are claims he'd been doing it for yea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Aussie Flag Sometimes an apology doesn't do anything except make your original mistake all that more obvious. Just ask the 17 year old who was convicted for stealing an Australian flag from a Sydney RSL during the Cronulla Riots in December last year. The RSL says the best way for him to apologise is to march in next year's Anzac Day parade while holding the Australian flag. But many are outraged by this idea, saying it's disrespectful to our soliders who faught and died for their country. So what woul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Friends of People who have Committed Suicide Its hard enough to cope when a friend or family member dies, but how do you cope with the grief when someone close to you suicides? After sitting through adult support groups and counsellors who didn't understand - Samantha, Cassie and William Harrison started their group called Head High. The Harrisons recently won the youth life award from suicide prevention Australia. Kaitlyn Sawrey met up with Samantha, Cassie and William to talk to them about how they coped when they lost their dad to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Tommie Smith and John Carlos Would you take a stand if you thought it had the potential to negatively effect the rest of your life? A silent protest by two African-Americans 40 years ago meant they spent the next decade ostracised, hated and living in poverty. Last week, Peter Norman a silver medallist at the 1968 olympics died of a heart attack aged 64. Norman is best known for supporting two black athletes for giving a black power solute during their medal ceremony. The two athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: North Korea One question people disagree on is will sanctions work? North Korea is already a very poor country and many of it's people struggle for basics like food. There's also been debate about how big the bomb was and whether the test was successful. But one thing not many people seem to disagree on is that North Korea is a dangerous state, and that it's leader Kim Jong-Il is mad. At least that's what some newspapers have reported. But how illogical is this nuclear test by North Korea? Ronan Sharke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Stalin Bar If your feeling like a drink right about now why not go to the Saddam Hussein pub and lounge. And if that doesn't grab you - why not try the Adolf Hitler karoake bar? Well it seems the latest fashion for bars in Melbourne is...dictators of the east. The Stalyn Bar has recently opened in Melbourne's CBD as a kind of kitch dedication to Communist dictator Joseph Stalin. It's a move that's been described as offensive by some and left others wondering why communist sheik seems to be making a co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ebay Whenever a music show sells out and tickets get scalped online, one of the most common emails we get from you asks is scalping illegal, and if not, why not? The short answer is no, it's not illegal. But there are laws in Victoria where the State government can declare an event like the AFL grand final, which makes scalping against the law just for that event. And now a Hack listener has recently emailed to tell us that in Canada, there are also laws making scalping illegal, and he reckons i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Battery Hens The last time we saw someone protest from inside a cage - Terry Hicks was trying to bring attention to his son David's imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay. Now animal activists have jumped behind bars to highlight what they say is the cruel treament of battery hens. The protesters want cage eggs banned, and they want people to buy only free range. Cage eggs make up about 80 per cent of the market and the industry insists there's nothing cruel about putting a hen in a cage. This story was first ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ethics of Sexual fantasy Having some pretty hard core fanatasies lately? Things you don't feel comfortable sharing with anyone? Things that aren't necessarily acceptable by mainstream society? Does that make you a freak? Does that make you weird and wrong? Alice Brennan explores the sordid world that IS sexual fantasy... This story was first broadcast on triple j on 06/10/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Downloading Special Downloading is changing how you can get triple j, but what about other things besides radio? More and more your computer is going to be your gateway to music, TV and movies, instead of just a place to check your emails. Of course you can download heaps of content for FREE at the moment - but is that going to change? The record companies say they've won the battle against music file-sharing or peer to peer, after Kazaa was knocked out last year. But as you've already heard there are still mi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Kate Crawford There's nothing worse when your parents say to you 'when are you going to settle down and become a real ADULT?'. But what if marriage, 2.5 kids and property isn't on your to do list? Kate Crawford is one woman who believes that definition of adulthood is outdated, and she's pretty sick of hearing the notion that young people in their 20s are only interested in instant pleasures and are apolitical. Kate Crawford is the author of a new book called Adult themes: rewriting the rules of adulth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Tasers Demo For the first time, a stun gun was used inside an Australian Parliament House. It was a demonstration - because the NSW Police Minister is considering making tasers widely availble to police in his state. He says Tasers would be a humane option, for example, for dealing with people with drug induced psychosis who are threatening the safety of others. The unlucky volunteer for the demo was Raff del Vecchio from the NSW Police Association. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 28/09/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sports versus Intellect What do we value more in Australia, sporting or intellectual achievement? Do you reckon it's better to be captain of the first football or dux of the school? But first, what about the message we're getting from the top? If you go to John Howard's Website, and check out his personal links page, 5 out of 6 links are about sport - there's a page about cricket, a page about rugby union and a page about AFL. And if you saw him in his Aussie tracksuit during the world cup you'd know our PM appear ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ice How do you reckon you'd react if there was talk about a nuclear waste dump being built near your place? Would it get you out on the streets to protest, would you move house, or would you accept that a dump has to be built somewhere? People in the Northern Territory are facing those questions now - the Federal government has ear-marked 3 remote locations in the Territory as possible sites for a national waste dump. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Waste dumps When you talk about dangerous drugs heroin is usually on top of most people's lists but there could be a new contender. The NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has said Ice or crystal meth could be as dangerous as heroin. He says Australia is at risk of losing a whole generation of young people to ICE. There is anecdotal evidence that ICE can make people violent but whether it's worse than other drug related violence remains to be seen. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/09/2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young people and their debts How much do you owe on your credit card? What about your mobile phone? The average person aged between 18 and 24 is in 6000 dollars debt - according to the NSW Office of Fair Trading. How much do you owe? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: You owe me one! How many times have you said the words 'You owe me one!' after doing a favour for someone? How many times has someone said it to you? It seems we're all clocking up little debts to other people which can't be paid off with money - only by doing a favour in return. But where does the feeling of being indebted to someone come from? And if someone does us a good deed, do we always need to pay them back? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 20/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Youthworx Here's a nasty dilemma for you - How do you get a job if you've got no experience? and how do you know how to act in a workplace if you've never worked before? There questions we've probably both had to deal with at some stage, but there is one place in Melbourne that is working on the answers. And they search for them in piles of secondhand clothing. Youthworx it's a retail store in Cheltenham, Victoria that teaches both work skills and workplace etiquette to unemployed young people. This ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Gig Rules Here are a few simple rules for you - no smoking, no standing, no moshing, no photos, no texting, no walking around and for goodness sake....no dancing! They were the rules on Friday night where Placebo played a gig at Festival Hall in Melbourne. Placebo fans were told not to stand or dance, and in some cases security guards threatened to detain people for taking pictures with their mobile phones. So just how much is strict rules and tight security taking the fun out of big rock gigs? This ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Citizenship Value Rules If you've gone for Australian citizenship you'll know that there are already some general criteria that you need to fill. You have to have been here for at least 2 years, have a basic knowledge of English, and you have to be 'of good character'. But in future you might have to cram for a test as well. Yesterday the Federal Government released a discussion paper which proposes a citizenship test. Elise Potaka headed out on the streets to find out what some in Australia's migrant community m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ever suffered from computer rage? Well for geeks this rage is exacerbated when they can't get into the system and work out what the bloody hell is wrong with the software... That's because a lot of the computers we use today are programmed with what's called proprietary or closed code... Self confessed geek girl Pia Waugh say's it's a bit like a car bonnet that's bolted shut so you can't get in to see what's wrong when the car breaks down. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sniffer dogs to stay If you were thinking that the damning report about police sniffer dogs released by the NSW Ombudsman yesterday made any impression at all on the NSW Government think again. Even though the report said that when the dogs indicate someone is carrying drugs (which is enough to instigate a search) they are only correct a quarter of the time. Even though the NSW Government said the dogs are there to get dealers and that has only happened 0.19 per cent of the time, and even though the Ombudsman s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Canada Shooting There's been another mass shooting involving young people in North America, not in the US this time... but in Canada. Last night our time a 25-year-old gunman with a mohawk and wearing a black trenchcoat, opened fire on students at a college in the city of Montreal. Police eventually shot the gunman dead, but not before he'd wounded 20 people. One 20-year-old woman later died of her injuries in hospital, several others are still critically injured. And the disturbing thing for people in Mon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sniffer Dogs If you've ever attracted the attention of a sniffer dog, you'd know that it can be a really confronting experience. Even if you're not carrying drugs. And chances are, you're not. Because statistically only about 1 in 4 people to be searched as a result of sniffer dogs actually have any drugs on them. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 14/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ministers I wonder what it's like to be in charge of something you know virtually nothing about. Recently scientists were in Canberra to explain the science behind therapeutic cloning to our federal pollies. Now politicians are obviously the one's who make the decisions on things like cloning - but just a bit of digging and Hack found out that virtually no federal MP's have any qualifications in the field of science. A bit more digging and we found out that many Federal Government Ministers have no p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: An inconventient truth For years you've heard that the world's getting hotter, the ice caps are melting, extreme weather patterns are increasing - but have you believed it?Well AL GORE the would-be president of the United States did, he's studied it, travelled around the world giving lectures on it and now he's made a film about it. 'An Inconveniant Truth' is what it's called and as well as scaring the beejeepers out of people, points the finger directly at Australia for not signing on to the Kyoto Protocol. Thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Research scrutiny You'd think the Federal Government taking interest in your academic research would be a good thing... unless of course it involves being hauled off by the Federal Police. Many academics researching the causes of terrorism have been warned that under anti-terror legislation they could have their notes seized and even be detained by the authorities. And the result of the anti-terror laws they say is academics abandoning important fields of study. This story was first broadcast on triple j on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 9/11 - Five years on This year marks the fifth anniversary of the attacks on the New York twin towers. Around the world memorials honouring the victims have taken place. In Australia John Howard has used the occasion to say all Australians must join the fight against terrorism. So just how safe are we? 5 years on from the World trade Centre attacks, US terrorism expert, Robert Pape says the terrorist threat has actually got worse... This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 9/11Conspiracy Since September 11 there has been a heap of conspiracy theories about the event and they all seem to believe one thing... that the US Government are secretly responsible for the attacks. Luke Williams has been looking into why September 11 has created so much paranoia and he filed this report. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 11/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young Carers When you're young sometimes its a stretch just to look after yourself. And most of the time parents are there to pick up the slack. But in some families there's a role reversal and for any one of a million reasons young people can wind up trying to juggle school with being the primary carer in the family. Carers Australia estimate there's about 2 young carers in every classroom in Australia. And last week about 80 young carers from all over Australia converged on the Gold Coast for the seco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: AFP Death Penalty One of the questions being asked again about the Bali Nine is why Australian Federal Police co-operated with Indonesian authorities, when the death penalty was a possibility. So has anything changed about the way the Australian Federal police handle cases where Australians could face the death penalty overseas? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 07/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Alternative schools You're about to enter a classroom where students have chosen the rules. It's run by Mission Australia for young people who are at risk of dropping out of school. Students can keep their mobile phone on, eat whenever they want and listen to music. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 07/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Know your rights as a tenant You've packed up your entire life, said goodbye to your housemates, cleaned the place to within an inch of it's life and now the real estate agent wants to keep your bond. Fights with real estate agents and landlords are usually the last thing you want to deal with when your moving house. So why does it always seem to happen? Guest: David Imber a policy officer with the Tenants Union. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 06/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Darwin Cover Bands If you're in a struggling band maybe your biggest challenge is finding a place that'll let you play a gig live. So how would you feel if the place where you live has heaps of venues, but it's only the dreaded cover bands that can get a gig? Well there is such a place in Australia ... it's Darwin ... a town with heaps of tourists looking for some music, but not much original stuff on offer. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Israeli Schools Recently on Hack we were talking about what the PM and the treasurer have had to say lately about some people in the Muslim community - that is, that some Australian Muslims need to learn English and treat women better, to better fit in with Australian values. We heard Eman Dandan's thoughts on that - and we were hoping to speak to Mustapha Kara-Ali today but he was unavailable. So we've got a different take on the story. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics data from 2001 only ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Young Muslim reaction to Pollie comments If you're a muslim are you feeling like you've got to defend yourself a bit at the moment? In the past few days the two most senior members of government, the Prime Minister John Howard and the Treasurer Peter Costello have made comments about the Muslim community. So how do some young muslims react to these kind of comments? 24-year-old Eman Dandan is from the Lebanese Muslim Association and she come in for a chat. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/09/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Headbangers Ball in Alice For a small town of 28 000 people, Alice Springs in the centre of Australia is actually, pretty damn sophisticated. Along with the tourists and cowboys, there's a supportive music scene that seems to offer something for everyone. There's folk singers, Aboriginal reggae bands, and surprise surprise, a healthy Metal scene. Reporter Anne-Marie Middlemast headed along to the Headbangers Ball - a metal gig in the town - to meet a few hardcore fans. This story was first broadcast on triple j on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Darwin Ambo's It's almost the weekend and you might be getting set for a big one, but for some people it could be a lot busier than they'd like. Earlier on Hack we told you about a car accident in Darwin where one 21-year-old man was killed and another young guy was injured. It was one of three fatal crashes in the Northern Territory this month. They're the sort of details that ambulance officers have to deal with in their job and sometimes all too regularly. 1600 people were killed in car accidents last ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Convincing people to take medication How do you get people to take medication for an illness if they're certain they're not sick? People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders sometimes firmly believe there's nothing wrong. Dr Xavier Amador is a professor of Psychology at Columbia University he says this isn't just denial, this is a condition called 'anosognosia'. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 31/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Online all the time Have you ever been called into work by your boss in the middle of the night? Do you feel like you've been pressured to be contactable by the office 24/7? Well, today on Hack we're looking at the idea of being switched on all the time. Laptops, mobiles, free internet, a blackberry. They're often seen as the perks of the job, the little bonuses they make it all worth while. But what's the trade off? Are we just becoming gadget-addicted workaholics? And if so, who's to blame? This story was f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Why people falsely confess The man who admitted to killing six year old American child beauty Queen Jon Benet Ramsay is no longer a suspect. After his extradition to the US last week, police have found that there's no forensic evidence supporting Karr's confessions and the case against him has been dropped. So what makes someone confess to a crime they didn't commit? Luke Williams has been looking to it for Hack. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 29/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Accidents in Darwin In the Northern Territory over the weekend, three people were killed in separate car accidents. Those deaths have kicked off a debate in the Territory about whether the road rules are tough enough to encourage people to drive safely. Ronan Sharkey was in Darwin last week, and on Friday night he actually saw one of the accidents where a person was killed. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 28/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 2600 Army Recruits Alice Brennan on the logistics of the army expansion. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Why are people leaving? The latest Defence Attitude Study shows that one third of army personnel are looking to quit the force. And this is a figure that hasn't changed for the past 7 years. So what's the problem, why aren't people happy with the job of defending the country? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Charles Williams Charles Williams lost his son, Jeremy to suicide in 2003. 20 year old Jeremy was based at the Army's School of Infantry at Singleton, in New South Wales. Charles spoke to Hack a couple of years ago about the culture of humiliation and abuse in the army, especially when people are injured in training. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 25/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Drought and young people Those people live on the Birdsville track in outback south australia - Do you reckon you'd be that optimistic if you'd been hammered by 7 years of drought? The worst drought in 100 years is lingering. How has it affected you? Is it just that you can't wash your car with a hose, or water your garden? Or has it turned your whole life upside down? For some young people, the drought has changed everything. Being sacked from your job, not being able to go to university, having to spend every spa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Ethics Have you ever done something unethical at work? Used your workplace privelleges to do something you shouldn't do? More than a hundred Centrelink workers have been sacked, or have resigned because they were caught surfing the files of welfare recipients, in the agency's database. In some cases, workers changed information in the files - and those matters have been referred to the Australian Federal Police. Now it's a very serious incident. But are you totally innocent of unethical behaviour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: AQ Khan When you think of the term 'black market' you might think drugs, ripped cds or porn. So then what about the blackmarket of nuclear secrets? Right now there's a guy under house arrest in Pakistan who the CIA want to get their hands on. His name is AQ Khan and until the late 90s he was the world's leading black market dealer in nuclear technology. It's alleged he sold nuclear secrets to Iran, but no one is sure just how much information he passed on. AQ Khan has been described as 'at least ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Graffiti What's the first thought that comes into your head when you see some grafitti? Are you thinking that's ugly and it's vandalism? Or maybe you reckon grafitti is good way to make a dull building look a bit more interesting. Either way, people who do a bit of graf don't get much respect except from other graffers, or at worst they get busted by the cops for it. So why do graffers keep doing it? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 22/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Wave Hill It's 40 years since indigenous stockman Vincent Langiari demanded equal pay for equal work at Wave Hill Cattle Station in a strike that kicked off Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia. The anniversary of the strike coincides with changes to the very Land Rights Act Vincent Langiari helped create... This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: 2:37 Recently we heard from a couple of mental health experts who were concerned about Murali Thalluri's new film 2:37. There's a scene in the film that graphically shows one of the characters committing suicide. And this week, there's been talk about whether or not the scene romanticizes suicide.. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 18/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Scalpers The dreaded ticket scalper is back on triple j listeners list of your most hated people in the world. Yep, we're talking about the Falls festival selling out in a couple of hours yesterday... and just as quick tickets were being sold online for hundreds more than the asking price. But earlier this year the Splendour in the Grass organisers managed to almost completely wipe out online scalping by putting new regulations on their tickets. So what's happened this year at Falls, and what have o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: History Teaching From convict dumping ground to responsible government in a few generations... that's how education minister Julie Bishop described Australia's history last night. Today in Canberra marked the opening of the history summit. Teachers, academics and social commentators started to work out how history should be taught in schools. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Robot Wars The US military is investing billions of dollars to build self-sufficient robot armies. For the countries with big defence budgets robot soldiers might seem like a good, clean way of fighting a war... But can a robot fight a war ethically? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 17/08/2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Pregnancy Counselling You find out you're pregnant, maybe it wasn't planned and you're shitting yourself about the options...what do you do? Who do you call? One of the obvious steps is to look up in the yellow pages - pregnancy counselling hotline - and anonymously ask someone at the other end of the line HELP?? ADVICE?? At the moment though, because these services are free, you could be unwittingly calling a religious organisation that doesn't endorse abortion as an option. This story was first broadcast on t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Gaming and sex Stomp someone's face, rob a granny and commit a driveby. If you're a gamer you'll have no problem doing that but what if all you really want to do is play games where you get laid. Well the Australian cen