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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 Also Listed as: Current Affairs Politics Talk City : Sydney State/Province : Unknown Country : Australia Country : 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. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Hack Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Hack Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Hack Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. 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 Peo