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Can needles and blood be fun? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 05/06/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Golden ShowerLet that Golden Shower rain on down This story was first broadcast on triple j on 04/06/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fetish Week Day ThreeHack 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 04/06/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Beirut PartiesIf 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 GamblersHack 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 30/05/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sudanese Youth in ArmidaleChiha 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 30/05/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Michael's Dole DiaryHow 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 23/05/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Sichuan FundraiserFind out about the local fundraising response to the Sichuan earthquake crisis in China. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 15/05/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Armidale Dog JumpingWhat happens when a group of troubled kids learn to jump dogs? This story was first broadcast on triple j on 13/05/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Parramatta Girls HomeAntoinette 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 16/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Car OrchestraAntoinette 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 15/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Believe in peace without becoming a hippyYou 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 CauseHow 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 : DisordersHow 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 FaithFind 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 14/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Hack Gets Hungry : HospitalityHospitality 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 14/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Selfish MumsIn 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 11/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Bisexual asylumIn 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: ScarificationDone by the right artist, they can look intricate art pieces carved into the body. This story was first broadcast on triple j on 09/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Condo BackpackersIt'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. RugbyFooty 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 worldA 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 04/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Fine dining dating adviceHack 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 04/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Inside Tom Tilley's sharehouse fridgeAs 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 02/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Lake Cowal Mine ProtestMichael 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 27/03/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Eating disorders specialA 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 01/04/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Dirt Bike Rally - Condo 750There 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 26/03/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Parkour... more than just jumping aroundJumping 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 25/03/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Single parents hit the townMany 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 rageAfter 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 bellydancersIf 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 16/03/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Rich Town, Poor TownYou'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 legislationThere 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 MarriageIf 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 sexA 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 suedThere 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 CapitalAdelaide 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 10/03/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Trent Reznor Loves DownloadsLast 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 driversDo 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 05/03/2008Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website triple j's hack: Minister listens to StudentsUni 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 CommunityOn 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 ReportButtbanged 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 WorkersTry 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: LockoutsQueensland 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 EmailsHave 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: SpittingIs 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 | |