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Living Black: Machado-Joseph Disease A rare affliction affecting around fifty percent of the population of Groote Eylandt in Arnhem Land, is stretching health and housing in the remote location. Machado-Joseph disease is a rare genetic condition, leaving sufferers in wheelchairs and dependant on others for daily needs, placing an enormous burden on family members and housing. Video journalist Leah Craven travelled to Groote Eylandt to investigate the illness and how the lack of housing is exacerbating its impact. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What do established refugees think of asylum debate? With Australia a country built by refugees and migrants, how do former refugees now settled in the country think the current groups of people arriving by boat should be handled? Peggy Giakoumelos reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this podcast: ** Renewed calls for compensation for the stolen generations. ** Can racism make you sick? ** What Australia's original boatpeople think of the latest wave of asylum seekers. ** We'll preview all this weekend's A-League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights **With more hot weather on the way, how are the survivors of Black Saturday coping? ** Calls for the formation of an Aboriginal political party. ** We take a closer look at proposed changes to the skilled migration program. ** Attila Mosonyi joins us to talk through the qualifiers for the World Cup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this Podcast: **How well is Australia managing its skilled migration program? ** A program in Port Augusta, encouraging Aboriginal men to stop looking at parenting as &uot;women's business&uot; and be better fathers. ** We join an Australian as he prepares to make the Hajj pilgrimage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program Highlights In this podcast: The government has said sorry, but the pain remains for those abused in state care. We take an in-depth look at the apology and its ramifications. ** New priorities for Indigenous road safety. ** The Sri Lankan government plans to spruik for tourists...but is it sustainable? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The tragic story of child migration from Malta Prime Minister Kevin has formally apologised to about 500,000 people who were placed in institutions or foster care between 1930 and 1970. They included about 7000 people who were sent to Australia from Britain and Malta as unaccompanied children. Marlene Galea looks at how one Maltese family was affected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program Highlights In this Podcast: **Children abused while in institutionalised care prepare to hear the Prime Minister's apology. **Refugee advocates raise serious doubts about the Opposition's immigration policy ** An alleged Nazi war criminal living in Perth faces extradition to Hungary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgotten Mothers... As the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gets set to apologise to Australians who survived childhood abuse while in care, the day will also draw attention to another group of forgotten Australians, their mothers. Peggy Giakoumelos has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The pitfalls of independent skilled migration: Part 1 Earlier this year, the federal government announced it was cutting Australia's permanent skilled migration program because of the Global Financial Crisis. The government said it wanted to help people already in Australia to win the dwindling number of new jobs. At the same time, the government said it would still allow in migrants with skills listed as being in short supply. But serious questions were already being asked about the effectiveness of that part of the program. And accor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The pitfalls of independent skilled migration: Part 2 On January 1, the federal government will introduce changes to requirements for people wanting to migrate to Australia under the General Skilled Migration Program. The major change will be the introduction of a so-called JobReady Test, designed to ensure that new migrants will be able to gain employment in their area of skills and knowledge. The federal government announced plans for the JobReady Test last September. Kristina Kukolja, with Part 2 of a two-part report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giving alleged war criminal chance to clear his name: Jewish group The federal government has paved the way for Hungarian authorities to extradite an alleged Nazi war criminal who's been living in Perth, to face trial in his homeland. 88 year-old Charles Zentai - a former member of the Hungarian army during the Second World War - has been fighting against his extradition for four years, including on the basis of ill-health. Mr Zentai has been charged with playing a role in the torture and murder of a Jewish teenager in Hungary 65 years ago. He is th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21stC business bottom line: interactive feedback online Participants in a series of forums examining ways to enhance business profits and the effectiveness of organisations have heard that social networking is a crucial part of it. One of the speakers at the Future Forum - held in Sydeny and Melbourne and later this month in Brisbane - says engaging with potential or actual customers online requires it to be interactive. Social media consultant, David Birley, says static websites and one-way communication are no longer good enough, and there n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China's mining interest in African countries expands 10-fold China has offered African nations 10-billion dollars in low-interest development loans over the next three years. The move will increase influence that's already given Beijing wide access to oil and minerals across the continent. Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao made the pledge at a China-Africa summit in Egypt. Our Beijing-based correspondent Douglas Bakshian reports on the extent of Chinese involvement in Africa and why it's set to grow. He spoke with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** some of the Tamils on customs ship in Indonesian waters accept Australia's deal to disembark ** US President Barack Obama heads to Asia - but will it achieve anything? And, ** We preview this weekend's Socceroos clash with Oman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama mission to reassure Asian allies American President Barack Obama has embarked on a week-long Asian trip. President Obama will visit four countries and attend the APEC forum in Singapore. Washington correspondent John Stempin says it looks like an ambitious agenda. He's speaking with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this edition of World View hosted by Caroline Davey, ** Kevin Rudd makes a secret flying visit to troops in Afghanistan on his way to India, ** Has change really come to Eastern Europe? Also, ** Calls for an independent body to set immigration policy. And... ** Concerns for the welfare of an Australian and Canadian journalist held hostage in Somalia for more than a year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Official media blackout on Somali kidnaps Official government silence surrounds the status of negotiations seeking the release of an Australian and Canadian journalist taken hostage almost 15 months ago in Somalia. Both governments are keeping tightlipped about their efforts, due to concerns that any reporting may jeopardise the outcome. The pair - Australian freelance photographer Nigel Brennan, and Canadian freelance journalist, Amanda Lindhout - were kidnapped in August 2008, as they were working as freelancers near the capita ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, Remembering the fallen...we take a look back at the beginnings of Remembrance day. Also, ** Are we winning the war in Afghanistan? And... ** Emergency services in El Salvador struggle to help survivors from severe flooding and mudslides. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rock fishing can be deadly: sport groups With the arrival of warmer weather in many parts of the country, water safety groups are warning of the dangers of ocean fishing. New figures show that fishing from coastal rocks is one of the most deadly past-times in Australia. National coastal swimming and fishing groups say that nine to 12 Australians die unnecessarily from rock fishing each year. They have banded together to launch a safety awareness campaign, part of which is targetted to communities originally from northern Asia. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urgent aid to survivors in El Salvador The Red Cross in El Salvador is working to avoid the spread of disease in survivors from serious flooding and mudslides. The Red Cross says Hurricane Ida and a low pressure system off the Pacific Ocean have brought as much rain in four hours, as they would normally receive in a whole winter. More than 140 people are believed to have died, and hundreds of houses close to the capital San Salvador have been destroyed. Caroline Davey spoke with Red Cross' spokeswoman in El Salvador, Mir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In today's World View podcast with Caroline Davey, ** a former journalist recounts living in East Berlin before the wall was ripped down ** new English language rules for taxi drivers And, ** staying silent not an option - a Fijian academic says he doesn't regret comments which led to his expulsion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expelled Fiji-born academic talks about his ordeal Fiji-born, Australian academic Brij Lal says he does not regret the comments which led to his expulsion from Fiji. Professor Lal has described being verbally abused and fearful as he was detained by the Fijian military in Suva last week. He says he was interrogated and verbally abused before being told to get out of his birth country within 24 hours - &uot;or face the consequences&uot;. It followed his comments to the media that the expulsion of Australia's high commissioner, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slavery in Australia The rise in migration across the globe has also seen an increase in human trafficking, people forced into modern day slavery in conditions that mirror those of the slave trade centuries ago. While most of us associate this phenomenon with the developing world, Australia remains a destination for people trafficked into all kinds of servitude in many different industries. Peggy Giakoumelos reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julian Moti court case continues Evidence about unprecedented witness payments, claims australia breached the rule of law, and accusations of political conspiracy, have all been made in the court case involving the former attorney general of the Solomon Islands. Julian Moti is attempting to have child sex charges against him thrown out, which date back to 1997 in noumea and vanuatu. The Supreme Court in Brisbane has been hearing the stay application on and off for several months, and the judge has reserved her decision. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website \World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, **We mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years ago today.. **Sudan begins preparing for elections, amid ongoing unrest in Darfur.. And, ** Indonesia has its own Watergate... as different forces struggle for power over the fight against corruption Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bushfire season begins Firefighters will have their work cut out for them this year, with Country Fire Services and weather experts predicting an extreme season. Victoria's firefighting volunteers have called for one agency to be put in charge of all bushfires in the state. This is just one recommendation following the devastation that occurred earlier this year in Victoria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sudan prepares for elections despite regional chaos Sudan has begun registering voters for presidential and parliamentary elections early next year, despite the ongoing civil war in its western region of Darfur. Incumbent president Omar al-Bashir, charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, says the elections will be held in April. Caroline Davey reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protests over Indonesia's Watergate Anti-corruption moves have suffered a setback in Indonesia, amid a power struggle between different law enforcement bodies. Two senior officials of the powerful independent anti-corruption agency, the KPK, have been arrested and charged by police for allegedly abusing their powers of investigaton. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has campaigned strongly against corruption. But Indonesian correspondent Rebecca Henschke told Caroline Davey that these arrests have raised questi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Established refugee communities call for more debate The President of the group calling itself the Vietnamese Community in Australia says he understands the desperation of asylum seekers. Phong Nguyen came to Australia from a refugee camp in Indonesia in 1979, after fleeing the aftermath of the Vietnam war. Many of his compatriots were amongst the first asylum seekers to come to Australia by boat, as were others from Laos and Cambodia. Mr Nguyen says many in the Vietnamese community support the current government's border protection a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights ** Australia's original &uot;boatpeople&uot; call for compassion. ** The government announces an inquiry into the massive oil spill off the W-A coast. And, ** Why it's tough being a kid in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danger of growing up in the US! A series of new reports suggests growing up in the United States is a difficult and risky business. The reports are part of a large-scale study on the American Food Aid program, conducted over 32 years and across 48-hundred households. They found nearly half of all US children will receive food aid before the age 18. Washington correspondent John Stempin says it also found millions of American children are living with stress. He's speaking with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** New evidence that some boatpeople may already be deemed to be refugees by the United Nations. ** Papua New Guinean villagers call for the lifting of Torres Strait travel restrictions. And, ** Human traffic - Australia becomes home to a new invisible underclass. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iranian government capitalises on US hostage anniversary A commentator on Iranian politics says the 30th anniversary of the United States embassy hostage drama is especially important for the Ahmadinejad government this year...coming just months after the country's elections were surrounded by violent protests. On November 4th, 1979 Iranian militants took a group of U-S citizens hostage, after storming the embassy in support of the Iranian revolution. Attempts to free them failed and 52 people were held hostage until 20 January 1981, when t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In today's edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** Amnesty international slams expansion plans for the Christmas Island detention centre. Also, ** What lies ahead for Afghanistan, after a one-horse race declares its winner? And... ** Australia prepares for another deadly bushfire season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toxic food - is all packaging safe? Next time you reheat some leftovers in the microwave, will you use a plastic container? Or, if you have a baby, will you feed the newborn with a plastic baby bottle? Some scientists are warning us to think again. Caroline Davey has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In today's podcast with Caroline Davey, ** How Australian asylum policy is traumatising child refugees. Also, ** Internet domain names prepare to go multilingual. And ** Asia and Pacific nations urged to strengthen their own domestic markets Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Non-smokers' biggest cancer risk! The federal government this week resumed its national screening program for bowel cancer. Around 12 Australians die each day from what bowel cancer, which experts say could be prevented. It is the most common form of cancer in non-smokers, but those living in Japan and some Mediterranean countries have a lower incidence of bowel cancer. However, the Gut Foundation's president, Professor Terry Bolin, says that in Australia, this advantage seems to disappear after couple of generatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** We cross live to Canberra to get the latest on the asylum seeker situation ** The Rural Doctors Association calls for urgent action on the doctor drought And... ** Sir Gustav Nossal makes a plea to rich countries to help reduce child mortality in poor countries Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toxic food - is all packaging safe? Next time you reheat some leftovers in the microwave, will you use a plastic container? Or, if you have a baby, will you feed the newborn with a plastic baby bottle? Some scientists are warning us to think again. Caroline Davey has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bureaucracy blamed for slow cut in Aboriginal disadvantage gap The peak body for Aboriginal medical services has accused the RUDD government of &uot;losing its way&uot; on the promise to close the gap on life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation - or NACCHO - says the government is still only applying band-aid remedies to disadvantage...from housing and health problems, to raising educational and employment participation. The assessment follows new Austr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dying by their own hand The number of young Australians choosing to end their lives has prompted a call for Australia to adopt a more comprehensive approach to suicide prevention. Figures from the Bureau of Statistics show that suicide is the leading cause of death for men under the age of 45 and women under 35 years. The statistics are even worse for Australians who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. They're 14 to 16 times more likely to take their own lives than their heterosexual counter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Divisions emerge among Indonesian politicians over an agreement with Australia on asylum seekers. ** American musicians, including R.E.M, are outraged over the use of their songs by the U-S military. ** Calls for Australian dance, theatre and music to better reflect cultural diversity. ** And a preview of all this weekend's A-League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** An Australian family claims they are trapped in the Gaza Strip. ** The Immigartion Department found to have breached the human rights of an intellectually disabled Lebanese immigrant. ** And have we learnt anything from the Great Depression? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capoeira helps refugee children heal The rehabilitation of people who have experienced the trauma of war is a complex area. Counselling may work with some groups, but for others the concept of sharing personal and often traumatic experiences with a stranger can initially be daunting and confronting. One organisation in New South Wales that helps survivors of torture and trauma, is taking a different approach. Peggy Giakoumelos has more. *STARTTS is holding a fundraiser for the project on November 4. Contact STARTTS for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** No threat to relations - China's ambassador says the Stern Hu affair will have little impact. ** An exclusive interview with Nikola Gruevski, the Prime Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. ** And terminally-ill people could soon have the legal right to end their lives in South Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rising seas encroaching on coastline The Environment Minister Peer Garrett has criticised the Opposition for not taking a new parliamentary report on rising sea levels seriously. The report from the bipartisan parliamentary committee warned that some Australians may be forced to evacuate from their homes in coastal areas, if sea levels continue to rise. With almost a quarter of a million houses built within three kilometres of the Australian coastline, the committee warned that thousands of people could be displaced if level ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The Philippines still struggling to recover from two devastating typhoons. ** Calls to prevent more newborns from being infected with HIV-AIDS. ** And climate wars, besties and helicopter parents-some of the new words that entered the Australian lexicon this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** The United States prepares to overhaul its immigration laws. ** Renewed debate over the use of medications to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and ** we meet young Palestinian people who communicate through hip hop Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASEAN leaders to focus on climate change &economy This weekend, Thailand is hosting a summit of South East Asian nations - hoping for no more violent protests which caused the cancellation of the last scheduled ASEAN meeting in April. The venue is the Thai resort town of Hua Hin, where security is tight. Leaders from 16 countries are attending the 15th annual summit, including Australia's prime minister Kevin Rudd. Freelance reporter Ben Doherty is in Hua Hin. He spoke with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website West Bank hip hop group jaded with local Palestinian politics A group of Palestinian hip hop artists says their own political movements in the Territories are failing young Palestinians. Calling themselves, Ramallah Underground, the band says young people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip don't have faith in the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. The group wants to motivate political change through their lyrics and music. Although, they say, they're under no illusion that this alone will be enough. Ramallah Underground makes its Australian debut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Caritas shock over people smugglers A Catholic aid agency says it was surprised to learn that a boat it supplied to Sri Lankan fishermen after the 2004 tsunami had been used to ferry potential asylum seekers to Australia. 32 Sri Lankan men arrived at Christmas Island yesterday after a direct voyage across the Indian Ocean from the east coast of Sri Lanka. A sign on the bow of the boat revealed it was built on contract to Caritas to donate to fishermen in a Tamil dominated region on Sri Lanka's east coast. Caritas says ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Podcast In this Podcast: ** We take a look back at the genesis of the United Nations. ** Traditional owners welcome the first native title determination over the Cape York Peninsula. ** New research shows a sharp decline in some of Australia's iconic bird species. ** We preview all this weekend's A-League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another unauthorised boat in Aussie waters for 2009 The 35th unauthorised boat to enter Australian waters this year has arrived at Christmas Island. But it was not the one that was intercepted by the Australian Navy yesterday afternoon. SBS political reporter Karen Middleton, who's on Christmas Island, explains to Caroline Davey what she observed this morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Police engage with our emerging communities Some of Australia's newest refugees come from places that see police as authoritarian, or people not to be trusted. In Victoria for instance, the police force has been trialling a way of better engaging with people from new and emerging communities, such as Sudan and Eritrea. Victoria Police have set up a couple of programs, in an effort to bridge the cultural divide and overcome ignorance. The new communities tend to live in Melbourne's northern and outer eastern suburbs, which ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website United Nations Day Sixty four years ago, the United Nations was born, with the aim of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Saturday, October 24 is U-N Day, with commemorations to be held to mark the anniversary of the formation of the organisation in 1945. Greg Dyett reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this Podcast: ** Calls for tough action on problem gambling. ** A former advisor to Hamid Karzai claims election controversies have made the Afghan people lose faith in democracy. ** We take a look back at what happened to Albanian Kosovar refugees brought to safe havens in Australia during the Balkans conflict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young African refugees communicating with Rap Poetry Three young Melbourne rap artists say they want their work to make a difference to race relations in Australia. William Manhom, Sabrina Ater and Dismas Christopher are refugees from Africa... whose work is being featured in this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival. All were young children when they were forced to flee Sudan and Tanzania as refugees. They say their lyrics convey the experiences of settling into a post-colonial country that is also home to an ancient indigenou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apprenticeships get a boost For some young people, breaking into the job market can be a tough and a sometimes demoralising experience. Apprenticeships have been a common way of getting into the workforce, but since the global financial crisis hit late last year, new job opportunities have failed to materialise. The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show unemployment in the 15 - 19 year age group hovering around 16.4 per cent, a 3.4 per cent jump from the same time last year. The figures sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website worldview 21-10-2009 In this podcast: ** Calls to reject the Coalition's changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme. ** The United Nation's decision to endorse a controversial report on war crimes raises further protest. **Dire predictions for the planet, if rapid urbanisation is not curtailed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Institute criticises Coalition's ETS amendments Independent research organisation - the Climate Institute - says the Coalition's proposed amendments to the government's emissions trading scheme should be scrapped. The opposition has said it will seek exclusion of agriculture, compensation for coal-fired power stations and lower electricity costs for small businesses in its preferred scheme. But the Institute's John Connor tells Caroline Davey that the proposal rewards big polluters with billions of dollars that would be bet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.N warning on rapid urbanisation The United Nations is warning the rapid rate of urbanisation throughout the world must be curtailed for the sake of the planet. The U-N Human Settlements Program, known as U-N Habitat, has released a report warning urban planning must re-invent itself, to meet the challenges of urbanisation. Greg Dyett reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast: **How taxpayers are bankrolling advertising in Sri Lanka in an attempt to stop people-smuggling at its source. ** Child abuse, or discipline? Helping newly-arrived migrants come to terms with Australia's child protection laws. ** Australian scientists helping to repair the damage to Iraq's embattled agricultural industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doing bad PR on the people smugglers in Sri Lanka As a boatload of Sri Lankan asylum-seekers was heading to Australia earlier this month, Kevin Rudd was reported to have phoned Indonesia's Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to ask for it to be intercepted. With the boat now moored off western Java, Mr Rudd and Mr Yudhoyono are to meet face-to-face in Jakarta tomorrow to discuss the issue. At the same time, Australian taxpayers are funding a new campaign in Sri Lanka, designed to stop more asylum-seekers from leaving for Australia. Caroline D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this Podcast: ** Indigenous Australians fight for their stolen wages ** The global economic downturn causes the highest level of hunger in 40 years. And a wrap up of all the weekend A-LEAGUE action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this Podcast: ** Plans for rebuilding Padang, after last month's devastating earthquake. ** Millions worldwide expected to &uot;stand up&uot; for poverty this weekend. ** We take a look back at the massive project that was the Snowy River Hydroelectric scheme. ** Divisions in the United States gay and lesbian community over Barack Obama's campaign promises. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US alliance central to whether more diggers to Afghanistan: strategist US President Barack Obama is expected to make a decision in the next fortnight about the level of U-S troops in Afghanistan. General Stanley McChrystal has warned Mr Obama of a coalition defeat in the eight year war against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, if thousands more troops aren't deployed. Australian defence strategist, Hugh White says the Obama administration's decision will impact on Australia's alliance with the U-S, as well domestic politics. Eleven members of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sri Lankan ad campaign warns against people smugglers As the debate continues over who is reponsible for the increase in boat arrivals, the international body that manages migration is preparing to launch an advertising campaign in Sri Lanka. The International Organisation for Migration is using the Colombo office of advertising agency, Saatchi ∓ Saatchi, to devise a campaign to dissuade people from using people smugglers to flee. The Australian government says the campaign will inform potential &uot;irregular migrants&uot; ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Am Program In this Podcast: **Poverty levels still rising in Pacific island countries. **A young African-born Tasmanian man addresses the federal cabinet on racism. **All the action from the Socceroos encounter with Oman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On your bikes... in Copenhagen A traffic expert from Copenhagen says the host city of the United Nations climate change conference in two months' time is determined to set an example in emissions reduction. Niels Tørsløv - director of Copenhagen's traffic department - says just over a third of the city's inhabitants commute to work or school by bike. He says Copenhagen aims to increase this to half of the population by the year 20-20 . And he told Caroline Davey that the ease of bike commuting in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Copenhagen dwellers streets ahead in cycling to work! A traffic expert from Copenhagen says the host city of the United Nations climate change conference in two months' time is determined to set an example in emissions reduction. Niels Tørsløv - director of Copenhagen's traffic department - says just over a third of the city's inhabitants commute to work or school by bike. He says Copenhagen aims to increase this to half of the population by the year 20-20 . And he told Caroline Davey that the ease of bike commuting in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this Podcast: ** Migration agents told to be patient, as new reforms are bedded in. ** Australia still a safe destination for students, despite media coverage of recent attacks. ** Calls for national recognition for Australians who died fighting the &uot;Forgotten War&uot; Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Call for more foster carers from different backgrounds Childhood is considered a time when language and culture are embedded for life. The tastes, sounds and smells of our early years shape who we are and what we become later on. For thousands of children from culturally diverse backgrounds who are in foster care, this process can be interrupted not only by violence or abuse, but also by being placed with carers who have no connection with the child's family culture. Peggy Giakoumelos has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Islamic studies growing in Australian universities Hearing each other and Healing the earth is the theme of the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions, set to take place in MELBOURNE in early December. Many of the world's experts and leaders in the field of religion are gathering for the summit. On the agenda are issues such as advancing interfaith dialogue, reconciling with Indigenous peoples and securing food and water for all people. Also likely to be considered is religion as a subject of study at tertiary level. The stud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When is a gang not a gang? The South Australian Attorney-General is standing by comments regarding the zero rehabilitation prospects of a so-called Aboriginal gang of young criminals. Attorney-General Michael Atkinson say the members of the group - known as the Gang of 49 - should be &uot;put behind bars and kept there&uot;, and that they are an &uot;evil phenomenon&uot;. Adelaide correspondent Karen Ashford told Caroline Davey that the comments have drawn anger from the Indigenous community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate change not top priority for Australians The focus of the climate change debate in Australia appears to have shifted from the government's emission trading scheme, according to a new poll. Director of the Lowy Poll Project, Fergus Hanson told Peggy Giakoumelos the results suggest public concern has shifted away from climate change, to issues such as Australia's relationship with the United States and China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this podcast: ** Indian Ocean nations prepare to test a new tsunami warning system. ** Uganda becomes the first African country to undertake reforestation to reduce global warming. ** What is the future for interfaith dialogue? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Widening window of opportunity for organ transplants An Australian scientist has discovered a new technique that extends the time available to carry out heart transplant surgery. Cardiologist Peter Macdonald from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney has developed a new solution to bathe the donated heart in, after it has been removed and before it is implanted in the recipient. The Institute's Professor Robert Graham told Caroline Davey that Professor Macdonald's discovery will increase the number of donor hearts th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indigenous job training with a difference An Indigenous employment program has been launched in the Western Australian city of Geraldton, which is the centre of the emerging resources industry in the mid-west of the state. The program involves a group of employers working closely with a private employment agency and the local Aboriginal community. W-A correspondent Ken Boase tells Caroline Davey, the program distinguishes itself from other Indigenous employment programs with one important factor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast: *We cross to Canberra to get the latest on the Liberal Party leadership. * Religious animal slaughter set for review in Australia. *A look at all the weekend's action in football. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interfaith dialogue With one of the largest, interfaith events in the world, set to take place in Melbourne in December, the concept of interfaith dialogue will again be in the public eye. The Parliament of the World's Religions will bring together, experts from academia as well as leaders from different faiths ranging from Christianity, Islam to indigenous beliefs and other spiritual practices. Peggy Giakoumelos takes a closer look at interfaith dialogue in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Was it the recession that Australia didn't have? ** Walkley award winning journalist Ginny Stein talks about her latest undercover story from Zimbabwe which airs this Sunday night on Dateline. ** And Attila Mosonyi previews this weekend's A League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gold Coast Islamic school accuses council of discrimination A trustee for a proposed Islamic college on the Gold Coast has accused the local council of religious discrimination. The college has lodged complaints with the Anti-Discrimination Commission and the Land and Environment court over concerns about certain conditions the council wants satisfied. Gold Coast Islamic College trustee, Keysar Trad, says the Gold Coast City Council has given preliminary approval for the operation of an Islamic school in the municipality. But he says since then, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PM Berlusconi not above the law: court Italy's constitutional court has overturned a special law that had protected Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from legal prosecution while in power. The judges ruled nine-to-six, that the country's leader was not above the law, but that all citizens are equal under Italian law. The removal of the immunity law now means the 73-year old leader could stand trial for alleged corruption, bribery and false accounting. Dr Natalie Doyle is the deputy director of Monash University's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The latest efforts to help Samoa's tsunami victims. ** Claims disabled Australians are being &uot;segregated.&uot; ** And how political activists are using new media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The Taliban claims responsibility for a deadly bombing in Islamabad. ** Aid workers fear there could be food shortages in Cambodia because of the destruction caused by Typhoon Ketsana. ** And witnesses give testimony at a climate change &uot;tribunal&uot; in Cape Town. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sumatra mission turns from rescue to aid Indonesian authorities have called off the official search for any more survivors from last week's two massive earthquakes on the island of Sumatra. The confirmed death toll stands at 704, with around one-thousand people believed to be still missing. Caroline Davey reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mining giant to turn prison labour into work skills program A private company is preparing to provide on-the-job accredited training for 12 prisoners in South Australia, in exchange for their labour on community projects in and around the outback town of Roxby Downs. The work skills program, eight-hundred kilometres north of Adelaide, will involve low-security prisoners. The state minister for correctional services, BHP Billiton executives and recruitment agencies have signed an agreement formalising a trial program involving inmates from Port Aug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torrential rains hamper relief operation in Sumatra In Indonesia, rescue and recovery efforts following last week's quakes in Sumatra are being hampered by heavy rain and landslides. Aid agencies and supplies are streaming into Padang, which was the hardest-hit city. But many residents in rural areas are still without adequate shelter and other supplies, as damaged roads and infrastructure make aid deliveries difficult. SBS reporter Auskar Surbakti has been travelling through the region. He spoke with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greek politics joins the social democratic shift Greece has elected a new prime minister, George Papandreou. His party, Pasok, won back government from the conservative New Democracy party of Costas Karamanlis, after they lost a record 62 seats. The United States-born Mr Papandreou's party will enjoy a majority government with 163 seats in parliament. Mr Papandreou says the result marks a new era in Greece. But while the win was widely expected, the huge margin was not, as &uot;Neos Kosmos&uot; newspaper editor Fotis Kapet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The latest on aid efforts following last week's quakes and tsunami. ** And hopes that a new book will help break down misconceptions around Arab-Australians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** A planned mass burial of tsunami victims in Samoa has been delayed to allow overseas relatives of the victims more time to travel to the island. ** To mark National Identity Fraud Awareness week we look at how you can protect your personal information. And a wrap of the weekend's A League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thousands feared dead in Indonesia Authorities in Indonesia believe thousands of people have died in the earthquakes that have struck the island of Sumatra. More than a thousand people are confirmed dead as rescuers search for survivors in the rubble. SBS reporter Auskar Surbakti is in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra. He is speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The long wait for Indonesian Australians Indonesian Australians from the region where a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday afternoon, are feeling uneasy as they wait to be able to make contact with their relatives on the island of Sumatra. Telephone and internet communication lines have been cut following the quake which has killed more than 1,000 people. Caroline Davey reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Progam In this Podcast:* Indonesian-Australians anxiously wait for news, as the death toll from earthquakes in Indonesia rises.* Looting a concern in Samoa as the clean-up continues from a deadly tsunami.* The IMF praises the Australian government's economic stimulus packages.* A preview all the action from round nine of theA-league. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thousands homeless in Samoa A major relief effort is underway in Samoa and American Samoa, with thousands of people left without a home.SBS reporter Keith Breene is in Samoa and is speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Am Program In this Podcast: * The People's Republic of China celebrates a birthday. * A new report finds excessive executive salaries have shaken Australians' faith in big companies. * Is it possible to be addicted to the Internet? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bundjalung ancestors' homecoming 200 years later Little is known about the history of the remains of two Aboriginal people, which are being returned to Australia this week. The remains, one male, one female were taken out of Australia by English natural historian Sir Joseph Banks and given to a Dutch professor. The ancestral remains from the Bundjalung community on the north coast of New South Wales were acquired by Leiden University in The Netherlands in 1819. With financial assistance from the federal government, two elders are pers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Online and addicted? Is it possible to be addicted to the Internet?In Washington, North America's first residential internet detox centre is now open offering cyber addicts a 45 day program to reconnect with the real world.But here in Australia, opinions vary about internet addiction and some question whether it even exists.Greg Dyett reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Even healthy adults should have jab: medical expert The federal government has begun rolling out the free H1N1 vaccine across the country this week. The Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, Dr Jim Bishop, says the rollout comes after a pretty rough winter. Five thousand people were admitted to hospital with swine flu, about 700 ended up in intensive care, and around 180 died. Dr Bishop told Caroline Davey, that while all adults and teenagers should eventually have the jab, the most vulnerable in our community should go first. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guatemala facing hunger crisis. It's one of the poorest countries in Central America. Poverty is common particularly in rural areas, and among indigenous communities who make up around half of Guatemala's population. Rates of infant mortality, illiteracy and malnutrition are among the highest in the region and Guatemala also has one of the lowest rates of life expectancy in Central America. And now Guatemala which has struggled to rebuild itself after civil war ended in 1996, is facing a new crisis. Peggy Gi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this Podcast: * We take a look back at the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. * Guatemala faces a food crisis. ** The Australian of the Year calls for a new urban indigenous identity. ** we visit Cabramatta for this year's moon festival celebrations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bias against urban Aboriginal Australians: Dodson The Australian of the Year Mick Dodson says the idea of judging someone by their appearance is outdated and racist. Mick Dodson has told people attending this week's National and Indigenous Studies Conference in Canberra, that non-Indigenous Australians also should not stereotype Australia's first nation peoples on the basis of where they come from, or where they live. He spoke with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Providing ownership to Indigenous Australians to aid their own Healing The federal government has taken the next step in Australia's &t;unfinished business&t; with its Indigenous people still suffering from past policies of removal and exclusion. Broad consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders - including members of the Stolen Generations - has supported the establishment of a Healing Foundation. As Caroline Davey reports the foundation will focus on self-empowerment and skills training of Indigenous Australians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Progam In this podcast: * Changes to the way refugees are settled in Australia. * The Reserve Bank Governor delivers an upbeat assessment of the economy. ** Australian companies warned to stop doing business with Burma. ** And how food is being used to bring back memories for dementia sufferers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Justice system treats Indigenous offenders differently: new study New national data shows that Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth are treated differently when they come into contact with the criminal justice system. The Australian Institute of Criminology has compared what happens to young offenders in all states and territories, except Tasmania. Their findings reveal that non-Indigenous juveniles are more likely to be dealt with by a warning or caution than their Indigenous counterparts who in turn are more likely to go through the court system. It a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moon Festival 2009 not all about moon cakes On the streets of Cabramatta on the weekend, more than 60,000 people gathered to celebrate the 2009 Moon Festival. The celebration officially happens on October the 3rd this year, to coincide with the Lunar calender. After the Chinese New Year, it's one of the biggest events for Australia's Asian communities. Peggy Giakoumelos went along to Moon Festival festivities in Cabramatta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this World View Podcast: * An Indigenous legal service calls the government racist over a funding row. *The UN security council adopts a resolution calling for nuclear disarmament. * A wrap of the weekend's A-League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this Podcast: **Barack Obama renews sanctions against Cuba. ** Calls for the G-20 to do more to help developing countries deal with climate change. ** A Brisbane Imam's new perspective on working dogs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zimbabwe refugees in limbo in South Africa: MSF It's a bleak picture - the plight of thousands of Zimbabweans as they make their way to South Africa after fleeing their homeland. The South African government is not granting them refugee status - only asylum seeker permits, which the medical aid agency, Medicins Sans Frontieres says provides them no shelter or protection. Sara Hjalmarsson is an MSF field coordinator who's working on two humanitarian projects - in Johannesburg and Musina on the border. She spoke with Caroline Da ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What religious traditions can teach us about Water Smart water management may well be one of the key challenges of the 21st century. But paradoxically, longstanding cultural and religious traditions might hold some of the solutions. Caroline Davey reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AFL teaching new skills to refugee children As AFL fans count down the hours to this weekend's grand final, Australian rules is being used to teach migrant children about their new home. The AFL has been running programs for a number of years, trying to get children from migrant and refugee backgrounds involved in the game. Peggy Giakoumelos visited a school in Western Sydney to meet the graduates of a six week program, combining English classes and AFL skills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast: * Concerns over moves which could take away traditional fishing rights in New South Wales. * Hard times in the airline industry. * How Aussie rules is helping migrant children adapt to a new life in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast: ** Israel accused of denying education to East Jerusalem children. *** Mandatory jail terms for police assaults come into effect in WA. *** Efforts to prevent migrant Australians from drowning in our rivers and beaches this summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Brown receives peace prize The Peace Organisation of Australia awards a prize each year... to an Australian who has had a substantial contribution towards promoting peace. This year, the prize was awarded to the Greens' national leader Bob Brown. Senator Brown was presented his award at a ceremony in Melbourne, where he was commended for his lifelong dedication to environmental causes and global justice. Senator Brown spoke with Erdem Koc shortly after receiving his prize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investing in girls, is one poverty buster: Plan International With six years to go to achieve the United Nations' Millenium Development Goals - which aim to improve the quality of life of all people born on the planet - an aid agency is calling on developing countries to do more for girls. Plan International says, without governments investing more in girls' education, it will be difficult to deliver on any of the Goals. Plan Australia has released a new analysis on the important role of girls and young women called, Because I am a Girl: The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not enough public classrooms for Palestinian children: claim Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas for the first time since taking office in March, in Washington today. U-S President Barack Obama is hosting the talks at the White House. It comes at a time when peace moves are stalled, despite intense U-S efforts. As Caroline Davey reports, just one sign of the gulf between the two sides is a claim that Israel is denying education to thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this podcast: ** The return of more indigenous remains prompts calls for an international agreement. ** We look at the contentious issue of racial descriptions by police. **We explore Raratonga for the start of the Pacific mini-games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast: **International support as the United States scraps its missile defence shield. ** Population growth causing concern over migration levels. **Kevin Rudd in the United States for a G-20 meeting. And a wrap of the weekend's A-League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naming of ethnic crime squads under scrutiny The issue of racial descriptions has again come to the public's attention after a NSW Liberal MP said he wants to see the state's Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad abolished. Peggy Giakoumelos has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Migrants shot on the Egyptian border As the federal opposition continues to criticise the australian government on border control, another country is coming under scrutiny by human rights organisations, this time for killing those attempting to cross its borders without a visa. In the past year, at least 28 people have been shot dead by egyptian border guards as they tried to cross illegally into israel. Amnesty International says the migrants, many from Eritrea and Sudan, risk serious human rights violations if they are d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New advisory group for domestic violence An estimated one in three Australian women are victims of physical violence and around one fifth are victims of sexual assault. Violence can take many forms, ranging from physical to sexual abuse, as well as psychological abuse. The Australian government recently announced the new members of the Violence Advisory Group, which it hopes will provide new ways of dealing with the issue. Peggy Giakoumelos has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top down and out Authorities in Indonesia are celebrating the death of South East Asia's most wanted man, Noordin Mohammed Top. Top was one of four men killed by anti-terrorist police after a nine hour siege at a property in Solo in Central Java. The 41 year old has been implicated in every major terrorist attack in Indonesia in recent years, including the Bali bombings. Indonesia correspondent Rebecca Henschke has been monitoring the reaction in the capital Jakarta. She's speaking with Greg D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Two former Prime Ministerial candidates set for plum diplomatic posts. ** Asylum seekers risking their lives to cross the border from Egypt into Israel. ** And Round 7 the A-League kicks off tonight with a Grand Final replay between Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory at Hindmarsh Stadium. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The U-S government reveals terrorism charges against David Hicks could be quashed. ** We take a look at the growing trend of medical tourism. ** And we drop in on some Aussie soccer players making new careers overseas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australian Indian community upset their safety not improved One body representing Indians living in Victoria has labelled an alleged assault on three Indian men north of Melbourne at the weekend as sad and unfortunate. Two brothers and their uncle claim to have been physically attacked and verbally assaulted with racist remarks, by a mob waiting in a hotel carpark on Saturday night. Several men were detained, but no one has yet been charged over the incident. The story aired by some Indian media outlets reported the men were set upon by a mob of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Headway in improving economic future in East Timor Following the euphoria that surrounded the 1999 vote for independence from Indonesia, East Timor quickly returned to earth. The world's newest nation is also one of the Asia Pacific region's poorest, and food shortages and disease are everyday realities for many. Unemployment is high, and with a predominantly young population, youth unemployment is a major problem. Caroline Davey reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** A look back at the collapse of the US banking giant, Lehman Brothers. ** Is Australia truly democratic? ** And an interview with a former refugee from Kosovo who's now a star player in the A League. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Afghanistan's political future in the balance, with allegations of election fraud. ** Calls for tougher child sex tourism laws as Australians are named among the worst offenders. ** And we go to Milan to wrap up this year's Homeless World Cup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Call for tougher Australian child sex tourism laws New research has found Australians preying on children make up the biggest proportion of foreign sex offenders in Thailand. The finding comes from researchers at the John Hopkins University in the United States who studied arrest patterns and prosecutions between 1995 and 2006. Child exploitation campaigners say it underlines the need to strengthen Australia's child sex tourism laws. Greg Dyett reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Migrant aged services hang on goodwill in Lightning Ridge The future of migrant support services in far north-west New South Wales hangs in the balance, as a local community organisation struggles to survive a drastic funding cut. Demands on the Migrant Information and Referral Service based in the outback town of Lightning Ridge are increasing, due to a rapidly ageing population. But changes in state and federal funding guidelines means the service seems to have fallen through the bureaucratic cracks. Caroline Davey reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The UN Human Rights Council looking at defamation of religion. **A stir over what are said to be photos of Han victims from the Xinjian riots. And Gold Coast United remains at the top of the A-League ladder...we review all of the round 6 action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smoking advertising on the internet With cigarette advertising on our television sets and in our magazines a thing of the past, big tobacco companies have had to become more creative about where to spruik there products. New media is an unregulated wonderland, where tobacco companies have found a new home. As Peggy Giakoumelos reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HIV/AIDS funding in the Asia-Pacific Despite some progress in treatment, H-I-V infection continues to spread rapidly in many parts of world, especially in the ASIA-PACIFIC region. While anti-retroviral drugs have had a big impact on helping those infected, prevention programs are not showing the same success. As Peggy Giakoumelos reports, this is because in many countries it's often taboo to discuss the practices that increase the risk of HIV-AIDS infection, such as sex between men or shared needle use. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ethnic tensions continue in Xinjian over alleged riot photos China has replaced a high-level Communist party official of Urumqi the capital of the troubled western Xinjian province and sacked the regional police chief. This follows protests by tens of thousands of Han Chinese who took to the streets last week to demand better protection. Tensions between minority ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese sparked rioting in early July, that claimed about 200 lives. The Chinese government has stepped up a public education campaign to try and calm things down, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greek film festival opens in Sydney The Greek film festival has opened in Sydney after wrapping up its screenings in Melbourne. The two week event takes place in Leichhardt before it moves onto Brisbane and then Adelaide. The Festival's Coordinator Penny Kyprianou says it's a great opportunity for people to learn more about Greek cinema and culture. She spoke to David Crisante. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Moves to give asylum seekers faster access to benefits. ** The federal government says it is powerless to keep an alleged war criminal from East Timor in Australia. ** And we'll have a preview of all the weekend's A-League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tackling war crime of Nazi looted art Determining the original ownership of works of art looted by the Nazis in the 1930s and '40s is a difficult job of detective work. Here in Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria has an unresolved case involving a man from Chile who claims that a Dutch painting held at the gallery was stolen by the Nazis from his grandfather's collection around 1938. The claim hasn't progressed due to a lack of sufficient evidence. Christine Dixon is a Senior Curator at the National Gall ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Could justice be close for the Balibo five? ** Falling through the cracks - the government moves to broaden the definition of a refugee. ** And remembering the beginning of the end of communism in Eastern Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Addressing holes in the refugee convention Laws to broaden the way refugee status is determined have been introduced into the federal parliament. The Rudd government is moving to allow protection or refugee visas to be granted to potential victims of torture or inhumane treatment who currently do not qualify. Women at risk of genital mutilation.. and so-called honour killings if returned to their home countries... are among those who may be considered under the new complementary protection provisions. As Canberra Correspondent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Praise for the abolition of immigration detention bills. ** A new telephone counselling line for members of the stolen generations. And how cultural taboos can make it harder to spread the safe sex message. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local views on Fiji's suspension from Commonwealth A special representative of the Commonwealth Secretary-General arrives in Fiji Tuesday night, one week after the country was suspended from the Commonwealth. Sir Paul Reeves is visiting at the invitation of the military-led regime of Commodore Frank Bainimarama, to try to establish dialogue to encourage FIJI's early return to democratic elections. Greg Barrett has lived in Fiji, teaching economics at the University of the South Pacific in Suva for three years. Caroline Davey asked hi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Tears for Suai as East Timor remembers its dead. ** Protests in Canberra as a Vietnamese delegation meets with the federal government. ** And how politicians are trying to get their messages across through social networking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The United Nations warns that new laws may be needed for so called climate change refugees. ** South American leaders are reacting with alarm to an American request for greater access to military bases in Columbia. ** And all the latest from the weekend A League matches. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** Survivors - we hear personal stories from two people who lived through some of the most traumatic events in history. ** why population pressures are stretching Kabul's services ** And, overcoming cultural taboos around organ donation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey,** The Commonwealth follows through with its warning and suspends Fiji,** The federal government moves to smooth over tensions on one of Australia's remote Indian Ocean territories.** And, a new government... but no improvement on human rights in Zimbabwe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No progress by Zimbabwe's power-sharing govt: HRW Human Rights Watch says the situation in Zimbabwe for the majority of people has not improved over the past six months, despite a power-sharing government being in place.The organisation's latest report card has concluded that there has been little progress by the joint government of Robert Mugabe and the Movement for Democratic Change's Morgan Tsvangirai .. in implementing reforms.The organisation's Africa Director Georgette Gagnon says there has been little improvement in huma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Athletes to get residency The Rudd government has announced that it will bring in new legislation next month that will allow highly talented athletes to be eligible for Australian citizenship after two years of living in Australia. Other permanent residents have to wait for four years before they can apply for citizenship. The federal opposition say the changes are unfair for those who have to wait for longer before becoming citizens. Peggy Giakoumelos spoke with Deakin University's Sports Management expe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** Calls for a new approach to keeping young Aboriginal Australians out of prison. ** Just who should be first in line for a swine flu vaccine? ** And, Japan votes for change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Local Game Episode 4 The Jets end the golden run for Miron Bleiberg's Gold Coast side. Perth steal Victory from Melbourne, bringing up back to back wins. The Roar chalk up their first victory of the new season. The Fury underwhelmed by their first point. And Sydney jumps to the top of the table. Hear all about the weekend's games as Attila Mosonyi joins the World Game's Scott McIntyre and Vitor Sobral. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How culturally diverse is cricket? With so many options, sports mad Australians are spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing what to watch and play. From a backyard game to the Ashes, cricket is one of those optioins. And it's no longer just a remnant of our colonial past, or is it? Peggy Giakoumelos has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newcastle Jets Pit One Cullina against Another One of the main talking points from the weekend's A-league round was the clash between Nwecastle Branko Cullina and his son, Jason, the captain of Gold Coast United. At the end it was Culina senior who came out on top, after his side defeated the new Queensland side one-nil. Sciott McIntyre caught up with Branko Cullina to talk about the win, which follows a loss to Perth Glory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project tackles liver cancer in Asian communities Research in Western countries indicates an alarming increase in the incidence of liver cancer. In Australia, there's particular concern about the rising rates in migrant communities. Peggy Giakoumelos looks into which communities in Australia are affected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US investigates prisoner torture cases after all The American civil liberties union and other rights groups are compiling evidence about the systemic torture of detainees in US custody, including at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. It follows the OBAMA administration's decision to release fresh details of methods used by CIA interrogators. The US Justice Department is re-opening investigations into claims of prisoner abuse, and the Obama administration is setting up a new interrogation unit to be overseen by the National Security ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** More grief for the families of those killed in a boating tragedy in the Torres Strait. ** An apology for one of the most notorious incidents of the Vietnam War. ** And we wrap up all the weekend's A League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A-League Round 4 pitch action Sydney FC leapfrogged Gold Coast United to take top spot on the A-League ladder with a 2-nil victory against Wellington at the Sydney Football Stadium, last night. Earlier, Gold Coast slumped to its first defeat of the season at Newcastle. ATttila Mosonyi wraps up all the action from Round Four of the competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate change and livestock farming As much of the Australian continent becomes dryer... impacting on the availability of food for stock, a behavioural economist says more use should be made of the traditional practice of livestock agistment. Doctor Ryan McAllister from the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre says this is one way for farmers to cope better with the impact of climate change. Doctor McAllister has concluded from his latest research that &uot;nomadic grazing&uot; or mobility of stock should no ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US Lt says he's "sorry" for My Lai massacre In the United States, there's been an apology for one of the most notorious incidents of the Vietnam War, the massacre of civilians at My Lai in 1968. Former American Lieutenant William Calley is the only person to be convicted for the massacre and now he says he's sorry. 41 years after the fact, he delivered his apology at a small community service club gathering well away from any media attention. Here's our North American correspondent, John Stempin, is speaking with Caro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** We cross to Dili to preview this weekend's 10 year anniversary celebrations of the world's youngest nation. ** Plans for a new indigenous umbrella body revealed. ** and we look ahead to all this weekend's A-League action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A-League Round 4 Preview Round Four of the A-league kicks off on Friday night with a double header. In South Australia, Adelaide United will host North Queensland Fury, while in Western Australia, Perth Glory will entertain Melbourne Victory. Attila Mosonyi previews all the weekend's action. And SBS radio on its digital network and the World Game online, will bring you, exclusive, live free to air coverage of the match between Sydney FC and Wellington. Coverage will begin from 4:30pm Eastern. (Photo: Ad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Champions League Wrap Cypriot football champions, Apoel Nicosia has caused the biggest upset of this morning's final qualification round for the European Champions League. Attila Mosonyi reports. The Group stages of Champions League will kick off with Matchday one on the 16th of September, followed by Matchday two the next day. You can catch live and delayed coverage of selected games as well as highlights every match on SBS ONE TV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebration and reflection in Dili this weekend There are mixed feelings in East Timor as the tenth anniversary of their referendum for independence from Indonesia approaches this Sunday. The proud young nation will hold both celebrations and commemmorations at the weekend. Our Jakarta-based correspondent Rebecca Henschke has been speaking with people in East Timor to guage how they're preparing to mark the event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socceroos Get Friendly with Korea Last night, Socceroos Head Coach Pim Verbeek announced a 24-player squad for the coming international friendly match against the Korea Republic in Seoul on the 5th of September. These two countries have faced each other on 22 previous occasions, with the Australians holding the advantage, with nine wins, eight draws and just five losses. Attila Mosonyi poke with the World Game's Scott McIntyre about the strengths and weaknesess of the Australian squad. (Photo Socceroos coach Pim Ver ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health reform setback with Ted Kennedy's passing Not only has Senator Ted Kennedy's death been met with great sadness across the country, especially on the political left. It may also have ongoing political implications. As Washington correspondent John Stempin tells Caroline Davey, the Senator's death may serve to stall Barack Obama's plans for a universal healthcare system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** Indigenous Australians ask the United Nations to declare them refugees. ** How safe are you from cyber crime? ** And... Dying Words - what we can learn from endangered languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lost languages: the world's intangible heritage It could be compared with bulldozing the wing of a library.That's how professor Nick Evans from the ANU graphically describes what happens when a language dies out.Currently there are more than 6-thousand modern languages in the world, but it's estimated that one is literally dying out every two weeks.Linguists conservatively predict that more than a half of all languages existing today will be gone by the end of this century.Professor Nick Evans has written, Dying Words: Endangered ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perth Glory's Vital A-League Win After two losses, Perth Glory scored a crucial win against the Newcastle Jets on the weekend to kick start its new A-League campaignPlaing at home for the first time this season Perth midfielder Wayne Shroy opened the scoring for the Glory, before a superb strike by Adriano Pellegrino.The Local Game's Attila Mosonyi, Vitor Sobral and Scott McIntyre caught up with Pellegrino to chat about his side's first win of the season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In today's podcast with Caroline Davey,** Torres Strait communities say they've been ignored in plans to combat the impact of climate change.** Concerns over the make-up of a new Indigenous body.** and, Palestinian-Australians share their stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ponting Captaincy Questioned Ricky Ponting's captaincy of the Australian cricket team has come under increasing scrutiny after losing the Ashes to England.Australia lost the final Test at The Oval on Sunday to suffer a 2-1 series defeat.Ponting was in also charge in 2005 when Australia was defeated in England by the same 2-1 scoreline, but his side won the Ashes back with a 5-0 victory on home soil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A new Indigenous representative body Two prominent Indigenous activists are concerned about the likely make up of a new national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Details of the proposed new body will be released tomorrow when the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, delivers an address to the National Press Club in Canberra. It's been reported that those standing for election to the new body will have to undergo ethics tests and it's expected tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Telling Palestinian Australian stories It's a universal human emotion - to grieve over something important that you have lost.Just as the year 1788 is indelibly marked in the mind of many Aboriginal Australians, 1948 is a year that Palestinians of all ages will never forget.Victoria's Immigration Museum has helped Australia's Palestinian community to share some of the highs and lows of their migration story.Caroline Davey reports.NOTE: The exhibition, Handing on the Key: Palestinians in Australia, is on at the Immigr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** How Australian politicians are getting on the social networking bandwagon. * We take a closer look at the world's increasingly voracious need for water. ** And, preserving Victoria's post-war migrant heritage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 6 at World Athletics - 21 August They're saying that 23-year old Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is the greatest athlete of all time - not because he set new world records ... but due to the margins by which he broke the old ones. And today he's done it again taking the 200metres gold medal in a staggering 19.19 seconds, breaking his Beijing Olympics world record record by 0.11 seconds Alex Mann reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** China arrests a prominent public-interest lawyer with potential consequences for lawyers in criminal cases as well. ** Japanese voters go to the polls this weekend and seem ready to dump the LDP government. and, ** in sport, England wins the 5th Test and regains the Ashes, we wrap up the weekend's A-league and world atheltics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Final day at World Athletics Championships Australians have picked up a bronze medal on the final day of competition at the Athletics World Championships in Berlin. The men's 4 x 400 metre relay team were up against a field dominated by the US, and had to fight their way into medal contention. Alex Mann speaks to SBS TV reporter on the scene Emma Simkin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A-League Round 3 wrap Gold Coast United sent out a warning to rest of the A-League competition with inform striker Shane Smeltz scoring his sixth goal in just three games to help his side to another win . The round's other highlights included a last minute penalty save by Sydney FC goalkeeper Clint Bolton, who celebrated his birthday with a brilliant performance against the Central Coast. Attila Mosonyi reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lockerbie Bomber Arrives in Libya Relatives of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing have expressed outrage at the release of the only man convicted of the crime.... as he returned to Libya, to a hero's welcome. Michael Kenny reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ramadan - What Does it Mean to Muslims and non-Muslims Muslims in Australia begin a month-long fast on August 22 with the start of the religious festival Ramadan. The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils says the fasting from sunrise to sunset will give followers the time to reflect on life and take a pause for deep prayer. Federation president Ikebal Patel explains to Amelia Freelander the importance of the Islamic tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China's rule-by-law system... and Stern Hu case Chinese authorities have formally arrested a pioneering public-interest lawyer on tax evasion charges.. as part of a crackdown on the nation's handful of activist lawyers and scholars. The high profile arrest comes ahead of the October celebration of the 60th anniversary of communist rule. China observers say this shows the extreme fragility of the Chinese legal system which is slowly evolving alongside the country's partial-market economy. Our Beijing correspondent Douglas Baks ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heritage Victoria searches for post-war migrant heritage The concept of heritage is relative - whether it's artefacts from Australia's 40-thousand year-old Aboriginal history, or grand European-style buildings of the 19th century. The Victorian government's agency charged with protecting the state's heritage is widening its scope to include places and objects of cultural value to post-World War Two migrant communities. Heritage Victoria is calling for information from communities about what they would like to see get state help ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ashes Day 1 Fifth Test Day One of the fifth and decider Test match in the Ashes series at The Oval in England has concluded.....and it's all good news for the Australians. England were 8 for 307 at stumps on the opening day of the fifth Test. Erdem Koc has our wrap of the day's events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gold Bolt at World Athletics Day 6 Berlin They're saying that 23-year old Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is the greatest athlete of all time - not because he set new world records ... but due to the margins by which he broke the old ones. And today he's done it again taking the 200metres gold medal in a staggering 19.19 seconds, breaking his Beijing Olympics world record record by 0.11 seconds Alex Mann reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dying Rights The language used to describe seriously ill people who choose to die is as complex as the issue itself. Euthanasia, assisted death, mercy killing, or dying with dignity are just some of the words and phrases used. . For one West Australian man the issue goes beyond language after he has recently been given the right to die. Now he'll decide whether he wants to use that right. It's not, of course, a simple matter. Peggy Giakoumelos looks into it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this Podcast: ** Australia faces renewable energy targets after a compromise. ** Even before the results are known, claims of vote rigging dog the Afghan elections. ** The transplant games start tomorrow. We speak with an athlete who's had two double lung replacements. ** In sport, the Ashes test, worldathletics from Berlin, and an A-league preview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Afghanistan Votes Voters across Afghanistan went to the polls yesterday and while results won't be known for some time, intense security around polling districts kept Taliban intimidation to a minimum. President Hamid Karzai is seeking a second term amid claims that electoral irregularities have occurred. Paul Mc Geough is the Sydney Morning Herald's correspondent in Afghanistan, where Caroline Davey reached him before the polls closed, to ask how seriously claims of vote rigging should be taken. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A-League Round Three Promises More Excitement Adelaide United hosts Gold Coast United at Hindmarsh Stadium tonight to launch Round three of the 2009-10 A-League season. Both teams have conceded just 1 goal in their first two matches, but the Gold Coast has displayed more quality in attack. Attila Mosonyi previews this clash and all the other A-league fixtures coming up over the weekend. (Photo: Gold Coast coach Miron Bleiberg (c) SBS) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asbestos victims vindicated Some of the people who developed asbestos-related diseases from exposure to James Hardie's products say they feel vindicated by a court ruling in Sydney. A Supreme Court judge has fined James Hardie and several of its former directors a total of $750, 000 for breaching the Corporations Act. Reporter Auskar Surbakti was in court and is speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Athletics Berlin Day 5 The world of athletics has faced its fair share of controversy over recent years, and testing of race winners in the moments after they win has become a norm of sorts. But what happened this morning at the athletics World Championships in Europe is different ... very different. Alex Mann has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast with Peggy Giakoumelos: ** Afghan voters go to the polls today to elect a president against a backdrop of attacks and threats by the Taliban. ** The Opposition agrees to pass the government's renewable energy targets bill . ** A warning that Australia will get hotter and drier this summer, but not because of climate change. ** In sport we'll have more highlights from the world athletics championships in Berlin and a preview of tonight's fifth Ashes Test. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australian Didgeridoo has a Japanese Counterpart Australia's most famous Indigenous instrument is the didjeridu, now heard across the world on street corners and cafes as people of all races and cultures learn the art of playing the ancient instrument. The didjeridu was traditionally a ceremonial instrument only and was used by Indigenous tribes in a region taking in what is now parts of North Queensland, the Northern Terriroty and Northeast Western Australia. But the ancient culture of the didjeridu is shared with another country i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Athletics Day 4 The action continued on Day 4 of the IAAF World Athletics Championships, with Usain Bolt showing no signs of slowing down; a number of Australians remain in the heats; and the American Sanya Richards has finally claimed gold in the women's 400m. Alex Mann reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deal on Renewable Energy Target bill The government's Renewable Energy Targets legislation is set to pass through the Senate this week. The legislation had been linked to the larger emissions trading scheme bills... but the Rudd government agreed to allow a separate vote on the bill, after its climate change laws were dismissed last week by the Senate. From Canberra, our correspondent Amanda Cavill explains to Caroline Davey, what the new renewable energy laws involve. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living proof that organ donation works! It's a very sensitive issue - putting to practical use a body part from someone who has died from other causes. But it's what voluntary organ and tissue transplants are all about - a lifesaving gift to someone in need. At just 42, Stephanie Ashby has had two, double lung transplants. Now, she loves to excercise, especially swimming - whether it's the 100 metres, 200 metres or 4000 metres freestyle. Stephanie is taking part in the 17th World Transplant Games, which start thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Afghan Election Dangers Afghanistan heads for the polls on Thursday -- if the people dare. The Taliban's threatening to disrupt the country's national election with a series of deadly attacks. But in the mind of at least one expert, that isn't even the greatest danger. Ron Sutton looks at the issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast with Peggy Giakoumelos: ** A parliamentary report describes some of Australia's immigration detention facilities as unacceptable. ** An election looms in Afghanistan as does a growing threat from the Taliban. ** Also, a China specialist says Australia's relationship with China is worsening, despite our Mandarin-speaking prime minister. ** And highlights from the world athletics championships in Berlin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stolen Wages Lawsuit The Queensland Government is facing a law suit over the so-called indigenous stolen wages. The claim has been filed today in the Brisbane District Court on behalf of an elder, disgusted with the government's handling of the issue. He hopes the test case will see millions of dollars paid out in compensation to people like him. Stefan Armbruster reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Substandard facilities for detainees: report Serious concerns have been raised about the standard of accommodation at immigration detention facilities, prompting calls for detainees to be placed in residential housing. A federal parliamentary inquiry's found many detention centres also have disproportionate and antiquated security measures. Canberra Correspondent Amanda Cavill tells Caroline Davey, the report's main findings show that conditions in the Perth and Villawood detention centres were substandard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia China Problems A leading China expert says Australia's relationship with China is worsening. China has reportedly cancelled high-level diplomatic visits and meetings during the past month following the recent government decision to grant a visa to exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. Former Defence Intelligence Organisation China analyst, Paul Monk told Canberra correspondent Amanda Cavill that the situation has not improved despite the election of Mandarin speaking Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 3 World Athletics Day Three of the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Berlin has produced yet another dominant performance by an athlete many believe is unbeatable. Alex Mann reports. (picture: 10,000 metre World Champion Kenenisa Bekele) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Indigenous Languages There was a day not that many years ago when the plan was to get rid of Indigenous languages in Australia. And, with many of the languages, we're well down that road ... or even at the end of the road. But it's a new day now, .......and the plan's just the opposite -- to save the languages ... through the school system. Kodie Bedford has our story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victorian Bushfires Interim Report The Victorian government is promising a greater focus on getting people to leave their homes early .......rather than staying to fight a bushfire. It's one of the main reactions to the interim report of the Royal Commission into the state's Black Saturday bushfires. Diane Nazaroff reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Local Game Round 2 Wrap In this episode of The Local Game the five-star Gold Coast team signal their intentions once more as the Roar and Victory share six at the Docklands. Honours are also shared at Gosford and home wins for the Phoenix and the Sky Blues. The Local Game on SBS National Radio with Attila Mosonyi and the World Game’s Scott McIntyre and Vitor Sobral reviews all the action from Round 2 of the A-League including the vexed issue of simulation and possible preferential treatment for the league& ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UN spotlight on NT Intervention policy A special investigator from the United Nations has begun a two-week examination of remote Aboriginal communities .. and the human rights conditions of their occupants. Professor James Anaya - the UN's special rapporteur on Indigenous human rights - will visit a number of town camps and Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory and other parts of Australia. Canberra Correspondent Amanda Cavill listened to him speak at the Australian National University earlier today. She t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website COURT CAMERAS 1808am ak A South Australian proposal to allow television cameras into courtrooms has stirred up debate about the quality of justice and its public spectacle. Premier Mike Rann wants judges to consider televising cases of high public interest, as occurs in New Zealand. He says it opens courts to public scrutiny and overcomes the perception that they're mired in secrecy and suppression orders. While some welcome the proposal, others are concerned it could lead to trial by media and foster celeb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mix It Up Cultural Programs Musicians from some cultural backgrounds struggle for attention and exposure in mainstream Australia. But in Victoria, a project is underway to try to make sure the local music scene is more reflective of the actual makeup of Australian society. It's called MIX-IT-UP, as Rob Gebert the Program Manager for Program Manager for the Mix it Up Festivals and Community, at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, explains to Andrew Kruger. Music played in the broadcast report was Erotico by The Habib ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast: ** The interim report on the Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria comes out today but it won't help one family who survived only to suffer a different tragedy. ** We'll find out how Chinese diplomats tried to pressure New Zealand's Maori television not to show a documentary on exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. ** A report reveals Australia's disabled face additional problems such as discrimination and exclusion. ** In sport we'll wrap up world ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ABC to broadcast into Burma in Burmese before election In the same week that Burmese authorities found democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of breaching the conditions of her house arrest and added 18 months to her detention, Kevin Rudd announced that Radio Australia would resume its broadcasts into Burma. The announcement meets a request from the democracy leader herself, as Caroline Davey reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast with Peggy Giakoumelos: ** Australian companies are part of a world-wide effort to find a successful vaccine for swine flu. ** Indonesian police go back to square one in their search for the country's most wanted man. ** Concern among relatives of Lockerbie bombing victims, that the bomber may be released from jail. ** And in sport we'll preview this weekend's A-League football matches and the world athletics championships in Berlin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Australia to soon be heard again inside Burma Australia's 20-thousand strong Burmese community has welcomed the Rudd government's announcement that Radio Australia will resume shortwave broadcasts into Burma. The prime minister announced the decision immediately following the fresh conviction and extended house arrest of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Murray Green is the director of ABC International. He tells Caroline Davey that the ABC has been trying to achieve this outcome for quite some time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fascinating origin of the country name, Pakistan August 14 is Pakistan's independence day... 62 years since the British partition of India. But did you know that the creation of the name of this new majority MUSLIM state in 1947 was a clever play on words, letters and meanings? Prolific writer on Pakistani issues in Australia, Professor Mohammed Ali, was born in Pakistan in 1952. He explains to Caroline Davey that the coining of the word PAKISTAN actually dates back to the 1930s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The Opposition set to block the government's emissions trading legislation in the Senate. ** International and local condemnation of Burma's decision to keep Aung San Suu Kyi in detention to keep her out of politics. And the Socceroos trounce the Republic of Ireland 3-0 in a soccer friendly in Limerick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socceroos triumph over Ireland Two goals before halftime from Tim Cahill helped the Socceroos notch up a resounding 3-0 victory over the Republic of Ireland in a friendly in Limerick. Reporter Davidde Corran told Greg Dyett it was a great result for Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preview of The Socceroos friendly against Ireland To sport now and the Socceroos take on Ireland in an international friendly tomorrow morning. It's the first game the team has played since they finished their successful World Cup qualification campaign in June. Davidde Corran reports from Ireland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View AM Program In this podcast: ** A law expert has come up with a way to protect free speech and other rights without changing the Australian constitution. ** Burma's military rulers accused of extending Aung San Suu Kyi's detention to keep her out of politics. ** A defence expert says that after 60 years the Red Cross needs a fifth Geneva Convention to deal with modern conflicts. ** And we'll bring you the latest from the Soccerooos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Am Program In this podcast: ** The Opposition accused of avoiding tough decisions on climate change. ** Thosuands of Sri Lankans displaced by conflict are allowed to return home. ** Trying to come to grips with violence in migrant communities. ** And More funding to help preserve Australia's Indigenous languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Local Game Episode 33 In this first edition of The Local Game for the 2009-10 season, the Gold Coast silences the Roar, the Fury runs out of steam in the tropics, the Mariners upset the defending champions, Newcastle clip the Phoenix wings and no glory for Perth in Adelaide. Attila Mosonyi and the World Game’s Vitor Sobral review all the action from Round 1 of the A-League and preview the Socceroos upcoming friendly in Ireland. In this round there were 17 goals in 5 matches; not a single draw; there wer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching youth the culture of non-violence Family violence exists across all socio-economic levels of society, and in all ethnic communities in Australia. Where it's visible in young men in new arrival communities, Carmel Guerra from the Centre for Multicultural Youth says this is often because of a lack of awareness and skills in dealing with problems in a non-violent way. Carmel Guerra explains to Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Small house price fall: NAB The National Australia Bank is forecasting that house prices might fall by between five and seven per cent. However the bank doesn't share the International Monetary Fund's concern that there'll be a major price correction pushing Australia into a recession. In its annual review, the IMF says Australian house prices are overvalued by as much as 20 per cent. But the NAB's chief economist Alan Oster says apart from the market in Western Australia, he disagrees that house pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Am Program In this podcast: ** Not the Pacific way - journalists, non-government organisations and pacific leaders unhappy about strict security measures at last week's Pacific Islands forum. ** Indian students meet in Sydney over the weekend. ** And getting it on safely - the effort to improve the sexual health of young people from diverse backgrounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CALD communities vulnerable to domestic violence It's something that's estimated to cost Australian taxpayers more than 13 billion dollars a year...domestic violence against women and children. The National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children says women from a non-English speaking backgrounds are one of the vulnerable groups. Amira Rahmanovic is a health educator with the Melbourne-based Multicultural Centre for Women's Health. She told Caroline Davey that some women are afraid to go the the polic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Released American journos "pawns" in Kim's game: analyst The dramatic release of two imprisoned American journalists in North Korea, following the unofficial intervention by former US president Bill Clinton, could be seen as the result of a political ploy by president Kim Jong-Il. This is one interpretation, according to Korea analyst Leonid Petrov, from the University of Sydney. Doctor Petrov says the hostages who were detained for entering the country illegally - could be viewed as pawns in an attention-seeking game by the marxist president. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** The Pacific Islands call for early action on climate change. ** Hundreds of Sri Lankans displaced by conflict are allowed to return to their homes. ** Also, India's External Affairs minister is in Australia on a four day visit to discuss security for overseas students. And ** a call for more Dog Blood Donors Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving plight of Indonesian domestic workers The issue of the rights and safety of migrant workers is generating heat between Indonesia and Malaysia. They're negotiating a way to protect domestic workers from abuse and exploitation. This follows a public outcry over the shocking treatment of a 33 year-old migrant worker which prompted Indonesia to ban domestic workers from going to Malaysia. Indonesia correspondent Rebecca Henschke has been following the debate after personal stories were told at a regional mock court in Bali. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery over lurking Russian subs US officials at the Pentagon say a pair of Russian attack submarines have been patrolling the international waters off America's east coast. The action is reminiscent of the many provocative acts both countries engaged in during the Cold War. Caroline Davey asked our North American correspondent John Stempin, why the Russians would send two submarines of this type on patrol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** Pacific Nations meeting in Cairns express concern about climate change. ** A call for a human rights bill to protect religious freedom in Australia. ** And, Uighur activist, Rebiya Kadeer answers her Chinese critics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** Shock from Somali Australians as police allege links between suicide attack suspects and Somalia. ** No evidence the Prime Minister or the Treasurer gave special treatment to a Labor Party supporter in the Ozcar scheme. ** And, we preview the A-League football season which starts tomorrow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ashes final day Wrap Australia was lucky to get away with a draw in the rain-hit third Ashes Test in Edgbaston, mostly due to some solid batting from Marcus North and Michael Clarke. Alex Mann reports for World View. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cultural factors in India's high rate of maternal deaths The low social status of women in India is one of the major factors contributing to a high rate of maternal deaths, according to the author of a new report. It shows that India has about three times as many deaths associated with pregnancy or childbirth as Latin America, and a quarter of all such deaths in the world. One of the authors of the report, Dr Susheela Singh, says a cultural attitude that undervalues wives and mothers contributes to their poor access to health services, educati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** Pacific Island Leaders gather in Cairns to discuss trade, the environment and the situation in Fiji. ** Iran's spiritual leader disregards protests to endorse the country's re-elected president. ** Also, a piggery is quarantined by swine flu... but are authorities over-reacting to the swine flu pandemic? And ** The final day of the third Ashes Test saw... a draw... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A-League Season Preview The 2009-2010 A-League season is officially under way, after the season launch in Sydney this afternoon. Plenty of excitement precedes the fifth season, with two brand new teams, the Queensland Fury and Gold Coast United, set to make their long awaited A-League debut this weekend. The first match of round one will kick off on Thursday night, featuring last year's Champions, Melbourne Victory, hosting the Central Coast Mariners. The Local Game's Attila Mosonyi and Vitor Sobral pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Swim Championships US Swimmer Michael Phelps has left the World Swimming Championships in Rome with five gold medals, including setting world records in the 100 metres and 200 metres butterfly, and picking up another three gold medals in the men's relays. In all 43 world records were set as buoyant new swimsuits approved by the governing body FINA helped competitors set new standards for many events. Alex Mann reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ALP Conference Wrap The first national conference of the Australian Labor Party since the Rudd Government came to power has wrapped up in Sydney. The three day event was marked by internal debates over same sex marriage, climate change and workplace relations. Michael Kenny reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** The ALP National Conference wraps up hoping that Labor can consolidate a long term grip on government in Canberra. ** A sign of the times as Americans await Senate confirmation of the first Hispanic Judge on the U-S Supreme Court. ** Also, how young Indonesians use technology to defy threats of terrorism. and ** in cricket, the latest from Edgbaston Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ashes Day 4 Wrap Day 4 of the heavily rain interrupted third Ashes Test against England at Edgbaston, has just drawn to a conclusion. And after some strong English batting, the Australians are looking less than convincing Alex Mann reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Islands lobby on Climate Change Two highly critical reports on climate change in the Pacific have been released on the eve of the Pacific Island Forum in Cairns tomorrow. Pacific island nations are looking to AUSTRALIA to champion their cause at the U-N climate change conference in Copenhagen later this year. They also hope Australia will take a leading role to tackle climate change in the region. Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster compiled this report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Concern over Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka camps Human Rights Watch is calling on the Sri Lankan government to release more than 280,000 Tamil civilians still being held in 30 detention camps in northern SRI LANKA. The human-rights advocates say humanitarian workers are prohibited from entering the so-called government welfare centres. And they say residents are only permitted to leave for emergency medical care. Human Rights Watch says the camps are overcrowded, there's a shortage of toilets, and access to water is limited. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** The ALP conference gets heated over the Middle East - and we'll have an update on US-Israeli talks. ** China to strenghten its economy and to help the United States get its financial house in order. ** And, why the Lebanese community is upset over the new Australian movie Cedar Boys being released today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Challenges ahead for re-elected Indonesian president Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is facing strong political opposition to his drive to fight domestic corruption. And despite authorities confirming his re-election this week, the president is still waiting for the Constitutional Court to rule on two challenges, expected next month. Opposition candidates Megawati Sukarnoputri and Jusuf Kalla have both lodged action to have his victory overturned. Our Jakarta correspondent Rebecca Henschke says the challengers want either a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Latino supreme judge a sign of the times to come American judge Sonia Sotomayor is poised to become the first Hispanic justice on the US Supreme Court. The full Senate is likely to confirm Ms Sotomayor before it takes much of August off for its annual holiday. Our Washington correspondent John Stempin tells Caroline Davey, that the nominating process for Sonia Sotomayor has been a little bumpy, although there have been far worse processes in the appointment of Supreme Court justices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China promises economic reform in Washington talks China says it will strengthen its domestic economy so that it's not so reliant on its exports to fuel its economic growth. The adjustment in the Chinese position comes after talks with its United States' counterparts.. who object to the overwhelming imbalance of trade between the two countries. Although there has been a slight tip in the Americans' favor since the start of the Global Financial Crisis, the imbalance remains overwhelmingly in favor of China. North American c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** ALP conference delegates brace for tensions with unionists over the Rudd Government's construction industry watchdog. ** The Fair Work Ombudsman warns employers not to exploit workers over penalty shifts. ** Also, Palestinian supoporters wait for signs of progress in Middle East talks between Israel and the United States. And, ** Saving the Warru from extinction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASHES PREVIEW 2907 Bad weather is threatening to put a major dampener on Australia's prospects in the third Ashes Test at Edgebaston on Thursday. The visitors are trailing England 1-nil in the five-Test series with three more matches to play. Attila Mosonyi has the preview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SWIM WRAP 2907 pm In swimming, Germany's Paul Biedermann has become the first swimmer to defeat American superstar Michael Phelps in four years, after winning the 200 metre freestyle at the FINA World Championships in ROME. Biedermann's winning time of 1 minute 42 seconds also bettered Phelps' previous world record by almost a second. Attila Mosonyi reports: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website South African Protests There have been mass strikes across South Africa, with about 150-thousand municipal workers involved in protests that at times have turned violent. The demonstrations are being driven by the South African Municipal Workers Union, which says workers can't afford to make a living because of rising food prices. Workers have a long list of demands, including a 15-per-cent pay increase, despite the economy plunging into recession and an unemployment rate of more than 23-per-cent. They& ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** The family of one of five men who died after a government boat sank in the Torres Strait, seeks compensation ** US and Chinese differences over energy security ** Also, India joins the nuclear submarine club And, ** Seeking old letters which help tell the diverse stories of Australia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Denticare Plan A report released by the federal government has outlined 123 recommendations to reform Australia's health system. The report says that billions of dollars are being wasted by the current system, and that hospital mistakes are to blame for thousands of deaths. David Crisante reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lost in Translation Interpreting might seem like a routine job to some, but Imagine if life and death outcomes depended on words translated in a courtroom. That's the responsibility interpeters carried when working on the trial of those accused of carrying out the Madrid train bombings in 2004. Fluent in Spanish, French and English, Anne Martin is a practicing freelance interpreter, based at the University of Granada, in Spain. Her job was to interview the Madrid bombing trial interpeters to explore the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spain's High Cost of Football Transfers European football is set to resume next month, and judging by the transfer activity on the continent, the Spanish La Liga is shaping up as the one to watch. Real Madrid has spent over 400 million dollars during the European summer to lure some of the biggest names in world football, including Kaka and Ronaldo to the Spanish capital. Now it's Madrid's arch nemesis, BBarcelona's turn to grab the transfer headlines. The Spanish and European Champions League winners have announc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indigenous Prison South Australia's first prison unit designed specifically for Aboriginal men has opened, attracting equal measures of praise and criticism. It's located three hundred kilometres north of Adelaide at Port Augusta, a meeting point for Aboriginal people, partly because of its seaside location and facilities, and partly because it's a significant point in a traditional dreamtime story. SBS Adelaide correspondent Karen Ashford has our report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torres Strait Compensation Claim It's come to be known as the Malu Sara tragedy. In 2005, an Immigration Department boat sank and five people died in the Torres Strait after their distress calls were ignored by departmental staff and Queensland Police. Now, the the family of one of five Torres Strait Islanders who died in the tragedy, has lodged a compensation claim against the federal and Queensland governments and the boat builder. The damning findings of a coronial inquest earlier this year ruled it was a totally ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US-China energy security potential flashpoint A new report has warned that Australia's economy and national security are potentially in jeopardy because of increasing dependence of Asian countries on Middle Eastern energy supplies. The report by the Australian Security Policy Institute says Australia could be adversely affected if these supplies of oil and gas are disrupted by political instability, or terrorist attacks. And it says there are also potential policy headaches for Australia because of the different views of the Uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India Joins Nuclear Sub Club India has joined the small group of nations which have nuclear-powered submarines. A submarine launched this week is the first of five being built by INDIA. The Indian government says the vessel is only for defence, and should not alarm other nations. But Associate Professor Wayne Reynolds from the University of Newcastle tells David Crisante that neighbouring China and Pakistan could feel threatened by the development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** Major changes, including universal dental care, are among recommendations made by the Health Reform Commission. ** Legal action to block a federal takeover of Aboriginal town camps in the Northern territory. ** And how Australia's indigenous community looks to young people.. to drive future native title claims. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Satellite TV &ethnic identity We often refer to our planet as the Global Village .. and certainly electronic media is one way you can stay in touch with just about anyone, anywhere. For migrants, one way of keeping in touch with their country of origin is through satellite television. Indira Somani is an American academic from an Indian background who's studied the use of satellite TV among the Indian community in the US. She's been in Australia to research the same topic in the Indian diaspora in Melbourne. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crossing the lines of ethnic identity The loss of a parent, ethnic identity and family ties are the main issues explored in the documentary, Crossing Lines. American academics Indira Somani and Leena Jayaswal co-produced the multi-award winning documentary which screened recently in Melbourne. Indira Somani has been in Australia and spoke to Dina Gerolymou about her personal journey which lead her to Crossing Lines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Highlights Thu, 23 July 2009 In this podcast with Attila Mosonyi: Trials for the Swine flu vaccine start in Adelaide raising hopes that the product may be fast-tracked Australia's anti-terrorism laws will be expanded to include extremists. And the latest from the Tour de France .. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Attila Mosonyi: The Prime Minister stresses the importance of Australia's military commitment in Afghanistan. South-east Asia to get the region's first human rights watchdog. And all the latest from the Tour De France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Afghan deployment flexible and well trained: ADF Australia's Defence Force Chief Angus Houston has today set a timeline for Australia's engagement in Afghanistan. He says Australian troops will be there at least for the next four to five years. However the Air Chief Marshal has dismissed claims by counter insurgency expert Daniel Marston, that Australia might NOT be acknowledging the need for a higher level of counter-insurgency training. World News Australia journalist, Kathy Novak, explains to Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Unions seek to protect worker entitlements as more people lose jobs due to the financial downturn. ** A federal court begins hearing final submissions in an historic native title claim. ** And Australia's 75 year unbeaten Test run at Lord's is over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First step to Asian human rights body The 10-member grouping of South-East Asian nations this week has endorsed the terms of reference, for the region's first human rights watchdog. The ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights will be officially launched at a summit in October.. and member countries say they'll begin with a &uot;softly softly&uot; approach, with just the promotion of human rights. Human rights activists have criticised the mandate of the new body, for creating a &uot;toothless t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sportsview 20 July This edition of Sportsview looks at the Second Ashes Test at Lords... and the Tour de France...as well as MotoGP, Golf and Hockey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extraordinary Torres Strait sea claim The federal court in Brisbane today has begun hearing the final submissions in a unique native title claim. It's a huge sea claim over 44-thousand square kilometres, that the National Native Title Tribunal considers as a top priority case. Our Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster was in court today and has been following the case since it was lodged almost eight years ago. He's speaking with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tragedy further strengthens ties with democratic Indonesia Indonesian police are linking the terrorist attacks in Jakarta on Friday to an offshoot of the extreme Islamist group, Jemaah Islamiah. And some analysts are suggesting that the suicide bombers' primary aim was to destablise the democratically elected government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The Australian government has promised to assist Indonesian authorities in any way it can with its investigations. Our Canberra correspondent Amanda Cavill reports that the twin bombings appear to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iraqi refugee's expression of the cycle of life Alyana Eau and her Christian family were caught up in the conflict between the Arab government of Saddam Hussein, and the Kurds in northern Iraq. In 1998 they managed to escape to Turkey and then Greece, before making it to Australia on a humanitarian visa. Now in her mid-20s, Alyana is counselling international students from Persian Gulf countries. However, she initially completed a degree in fashion design, following an earlier passion. As Alyana Eau explains to Caroline Davey. NOTE: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bridging the isolation of the new migrant Until she migrated to Australia, she never knew she was &uot;different&uot;. Or, rather, that people outside her homeland would see her as different. Judy Leong was born in Malaysia .. and trained as a nurse in London. She says she understands well, the attraction that gambling can have for some isolated migrants. Judy is now studying art .. and has created a couple of quilts which portray these experiences. She's speaking with Caroline Davey. NOTE: Judy's quilts are p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Indonesian authorities are focusing their efforts on capturing one of Asia's most wanted fugitives who they believe is responsible for Friday's suicide bombings in Jakarta. ** English filmmaker Ken Loach is calling for the Melbourne International Film Festival to re-consider the funding it receives from the Israeli Government. ** And all the latest from the Tour De France and the Ashes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music lovers descend on Thursday Island One of the remotest and northern-most points of the country has been chosen as the launching pad for this year's Queensland Music Festival. The festival goes around the state over 17 days... but our correspondent Stefan Armbruster in on Thursday Island for Friday evening's launch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portraying the image of the Muslim woman's veil Try to picture hundreds of safety pins linked together.. to create the impression of a flowing headdress. It's one of the ideas of Nada Sharaf Jaza .. for a cultural project in a university art course. Nada is a Muslim migrant from Lebanon... who says she used to paint flowers and landscapes back in her homeland. But as she explains to Caroline Davey, after September 11, she wanted to tell her own story about wearing the veil. NOTE: Nada's veils made out of pins are on show at t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The ousted president of Honduras urges &uot;people power&uot; to back his return this weekend. ** Australia to be the home of the longest golf course in the world where 18 holes could take you three days to play. ** And all the latest from the Tour De France and the second Ashes Test. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Mystery over an ancient shipwreck off Australia's west coast. ** The Rudd government moves to streamline the return of Indigenous remains from overseas. ** And a preview of the second Ashes Test. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expressing Colombian politics in her Art Life in Colombia for the ordinary person is far from safe. The country's been ravaged by a longrunning war between illegal right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerillas.. which is bankrolled by kidnappings and the narcotics trade. Carmenza Jimenez was a journalist... who found her life in danger after she began making a documentary on the problems in Colombia. She was forced to flee her country and found a new home in Australia with her daughter, before turning to art as a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** A Muslim prayer group told to take its Friday prayers elsewhere because of too many worshippers. ** An Indigenous safe sex superhero has a second coming in Queensland. And all the latest from the Tour De France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Paper Trail World View's Peggy Giakoumelos has just been revered at the prestigious New York Festivals for her documentary, The Paper Trail. The Paper Trail was recorded in Greece and looks at the plight of immigrants in Athens through the personal stories of first, second and third generation immigrants. The documentary collected a Silver World Medal in the National/International Affairs category in New York and was also recognised with a Silver Medal at the 11th International Radio Festival of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Green Terra Nullius: Native Title clashes with environmental politics in Queensland. ** Concern mounts over the continued detention - without charge - of an Australian mining executive in China. ** And a preview of the upcoming A League season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Separatists accused of Papua killing The weekend shooting death of an Australian man in the Indonesian province of Papua has brought the separatist movement there back into the headlines. But there are plenty of questions around who really is responsible. Ron Sutton takes a look. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WWII and collective memory More than 60 years after World War II and the last of that generation are passing away... One nation that had to come to grips with that painful period in its recent history is Germany. But as the last ones from an era dominated by horror and death are leaving, the ghosts of a shameful legacy of their generation linger on. In 2009, how does that period weigh in German collective memory, especially at a time where the nation will not have a direct link to the past? Dina Gerolymou asked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Al Gore helps to launch new Australian climate coalition Former American Vice-President and climate change activist, Al Gore, has helped launch a new coalition of Australian scientists aimed at cutting greenhouse emissions. Mr Gore was the keynote speaker at a gathering in Melbourne of more than 1000 government, industry, business, and community leaders. The Safe Climate Australia organisation hopes to draft an economic model that will reduce carbon emissions as much as possible. As Diane Nazaroff reports, it also hopes to offset the remainin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pressure mounts on Rudd government over detained executive There are reports that Australian officials in Canberra and Beijing today are seeking more information from Chinese authorities about the detention of Rio Tinto iron ore executive Stern Hu. Mr Hu has been in detention now for a week, without charge... under suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets. How soon should the matter be raised at a ministerial level? It's a question I put to our Canberra correspondent Amanda Cavill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Malaysia's Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim insists he's the victim of a dirty tricks campaign designed to destroy his political career. ** Australia's new Human Rights Commissioner, Catherine Branson, calls for a Charter of Human Rights. ** And all the latest from the Tour De France and the Ashes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Malaysian opposition leader The Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been in Australia to give a keynote address to an interfaith conference in Perth on the weekend. Mr Anwar is expected to face trial in his home country this year on a fresh charge of sodomy which he claims has been fabricated to damage his aspirations to become Prime Minister. Ken Boase spoke to Mr Anwar in Perth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WWII and collective memory More than 60 years after World War II and the last of that generation are passing away... One nation that had to come to grips with that painful period in its recent history is Germany. But as the last ones from an era dominated by horror and death are leaving, the ghosts of a shameful legacy of their generation linger on. In 2009, how does that period weigh in German collective memory, especially at a time where the nation will not have a direct link to the past? Dina Gerolymou asked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doubts over bid to reduce smoking in Greece The Greek government has used the middle of the European summer to implement a ban on smoking in indoor public areas. Offices, airports, restaurants and cafes are among the places the Greeks are not now supposed to light up. The Greeks are Europe's heaviest users of tobacco. Over 40% of them smoke and 20,000 die each year from smoking-related illnesses costing the country more than $3 billion. But as Dina Gerolymou reports, similar attempts in the past have failed as Greece has a lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gearing up for the Camel Cup in Alice Springs It will be bumpy ride this weekend in Alice Springs with the running of the Camel Cup. Dale McIver is from the organising committee. She's been telling Kerri Worthington there's not much prize money on offer, but most of the riders are not in it for the money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why you don't want to get diabetes How's your waistline? And your weight? Are you at risk of developing diabetes - the sixth leading cause of death in Australia? It's the country's fastest growing chronic disease. And the one we can have control over, is what today is called type 2 diabetes. Greg Johnson, CEO of Diabetes Australia, is speaking with Caroline Davey about the epidemic of the 21st century. NOTE: National Diabetes Week is 12-18 July Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preview of Insight, Tuesday 14 July Tens of thousands of people around the globe have been infected with swine flu... but, with most people getting no more than a few sniffles, many people have aske what all the fuss is about. In Australia, more than 6,000 people have contracted this strain of influenza -- the number of Australians who've died with the the H1N1 virus stands at 18. Nevertheless, should Australians still be worried? What if the strain had not been so mild .. or what if it mutates? Are we prepared to co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** A progress report on the latest efforts to end the long running divisions in Cyprus ** Kevin Rudd struts the world climate change stage in Italy and ** Keep off the rock - the debate over whether tourists should be banned from climbing Uluru. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EU leaders concerned over illegal migration Illegal migration in the European Union has been the subject of top level meetings in Europe. European leaders have decided to focus on repatriation of illegal arrivals by striking agreements with transit countries - and also with countries of origin. And they're also implementing tighter border controls. Illegal migration is of particular concern for the southern member states of the EU, countries like Italy, Greece, Malta, Spain and Cyprus which are points of entry for thousands o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New debate over climbing Uluru There's been renewed debate this week over whether climbing Uluru in Central Australia should be outlawed because of the release of a draft management plan that proposes a ban. National Parks and the traditional owners have released the outline of the plan, which they say considers the wishes of the Indigenous community - as well as the safety of tourists. Director of National Parks Peter Cochrane talked to Amelia Freelander. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Washington waited to react to Honduran coup In Washington, critics are accusing the Obama administration of not doing enough to support democracy in Honduras. This week, mediated talks are getting underway in Costa Rica, between ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the coup leadership. The US response to the crisis in Central America has differed dramatically from how the rest of the world community reacted, as our North American correspondent John Stempin explains to Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indonesia's indicative election results In Indonesia, major media outlets are reporting that Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been re-elected president. Exit polls of yesterday's election are showing he's won about 60 per cent of the vote. However his two contenders, Jusuf Kalla and Megawati Sukarno Putri, are not yet conceding defeat ... waiting for the official result to be declared, and still holding the right to challenge the accuracy of the voter rolls. Caroline Davey asked our Jakarta-based correspondent Rebecca Hens ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast, ** Kevin Rudd puts Australia's case to host a World Cup directly to FIFA's boss in Zurich ** A new report puts the number of homeless Australians at 100-thousand. ** Also, why Greece is divided over a new smoking ban. ** And the latest from the Tour de France, as well as a wrap of the Ashes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health impact of social isolation on migrants and refugees If you're socially isolated, you're less likely to know how to navigate Australia's health system. As a result, you're likely to have worse health outcomes than others. This whole area is called health literacy. And a recent national survey showed that people from a non-English speaking background had significantly lower levels of health literacy than Australians whose first language is English. To help explain the findings, Michal Morris from the Centre for Culture, Eth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing political rift in Iran's theocracy A group of reformist clerics in Iran has exposed a deepening rift within the country's religious establishment, by publicly declaring that it believes last month's election results invalid. An Iranian Islamic studies scholar in Australia, sees this latest development as significant. Shahram Akbarzadeh says he expects the infighting in the political elite to continue.. and that Iranian activists in the country will be waiting for another opportunity to express their opposition. As ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this edition of World View with Caroline Davey, ** Australians turn to the positive aspects of indigenous life in Australia at the start of NAIDOC week. ** We preview Indonesia's general elections this Wednesday. **And an update of the overnight stage of the Tour de France... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian students have mixed feelings about new government initiatives International Indian students have mixed feelings about the initiatives announced yesterday by the federal government at the Council Of Australian Governments meeting. They've welcomed parts of an International Student Strategy, but are uncertain how other aspects will be implemented. Gautum Gupta, spokesman for the Federation of Indian Students of Australia - or FISA for short - says all levels of government now appear to be taking the matter seriously. From Melbourne, he's spea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** State and federal leaders meet in Darwin as the government approves recession-busting training places for workers over 25. ** North Korea's food crisis worsens as punishment for nuclear and missile tests begins to bite. ** In the Arts, who are the women of rebetika - the Greek blues? ** And...we preview the Tour de France Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indonesia's murky vice-presidential candidates It's now less than a week until Indonesia's general election. Human rights activists are concerned that two of the vice-presidential candidates are alleged war crimes suspects. One is former miltary chief General Wiranto -- the running mate of Jusuf Kalla. The other is a former special forces commander General Prabowo Subianto, who's running with Megawati Sukarno Putri. Our Jakarta-based correspondent Rebecca Henschke says they both have poor human rights records. She's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** Another race-related attack on an Indian student draws criticism that authorities are still not doing enough to prevent such incidents. ** Some mixed views on the economy for the start of the financial year. ** Also, the federal government accused of walking away from an election commitment to take over the detention of asylum seekers. ** And... just how plastic is your brain? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detention Centres Outsourced Refugee advocates in Western Australia say the Federal Government has moved away from an ALP platform commitment to place control of detention centres in the hands of public servants. A five-year contract has been let to British-based company, SERCO, to run seven detention centres in Australia at a cost of $370 million. The arrival of 194 asylum seekers on Christmas Island recently, and the anticipation that hundreds more are on the way, may strain the capacity of facilities on the island t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas Island Crush Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making sense of developments in Honduras The United Nations has passed a resolution calling for the reinstatement of the exiled president of Honduras. And backed by the strength of people power back home, a Latin America expert has predicted, Manuel Zelaya might soon be returned to power. Dr Ralph Newmark says the show of popular support for the elected leader could see a repeat of what happened after a failed military coup in Venezuela seven years ago. Mr Zelaya has said he plans to return to Honduras tomorrow, despite authori ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How US troops will be redeployed in Iraq President Barack Obama warns of difficult days ahead in Iraq, following the pullout of American soldiers from all villages, towns and cities in the country. As Iraqis celebrated the return of sovereignty over their security, another car bomb exploded in a northern city... killing more than 27 people. By the agreed deadline with the Iraqi government, US troops have now been redeployed to military bases around the country. So, what will the 130-thousand troops be doing at these bases locat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** Australian troops become more vulnerable from today as American troops withdraw to their bases in Iraq. ** South Australia's Liberals face a leadership ballot just nine months before a state election. ** We'll tell you about family tax changes which start today. ** And...the era of digital radio is here - what it is and where you can hear it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009 key tax changes for businesses For businesses doing it tough during the current economic downturn, you might be wondering what tax changes are in store for 2009-10. Megan Yong is an assistant commissioner with the Tax Office. Caroline Davey asked whether there are any new tax breaks for small businesses in the coming year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009 key tax changes for families and individuals If you have a family.. or you're in a same sex relationship... as of today ...the Tax Office will be changing some of the ways it deals with you. Today is the first day of the 2009 financial year. Megan Yong is an assistant commissioner with the Tax Office. Caroline Davey asked her, which parents will be able to claim some of the costs of educating their children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Key tax changes for 2009-10 The new financial year has begun, with some changes in the way the ATO deals with individuals and businesses. Assistant Commissioner Megan Yong from the Australian Taxation Office outlines the key changes to Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diggers in Iraq should be safe after US pullout: Aust Defence Force After today, Australia's 140 soldiers in Iraq will no longer be able to rely on the added protection of American combat troops. US soldiers will no longer be patrolling Iraqi streets ... with most of the 133-thousand of them withdrawing to military bases in the country. Where will this leave the position of Australian soldiers who remain under two separate defence operations in Iraq? Caroline Davey put this question to defence spokesman, Colonel Mark Elliott. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View program highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** Opinion polls show Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has been hurt by the OzCar affair, but is it politically fatal? ** We'll examine why the Honduran President was deposed. ** And, a different view of the Burka in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's going on in Honduras? Western countries around the world have condemned the Honduran military's forced removal of its left-wing president Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica. The military in Latin American countries have traditionally been allied to the United States - but the US has denied any involvement in the overnight coup. President Zelaya was about to hold a referendum in an an effort to extend his four year term, when soldiers kidnapped him at dawn and flew him out of the country. The Supreme Court of Hon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this podcast with Caroline Davey, ** The Economy and the fall-out from the Global Financial crisis dominate Indonesian political debate ahead of next week's presidential elections. ** Exploring the health benefits of one or two drinks. ** Australian scientists involved in an international investigation into why one of the great tourist destinations in the world collapsed. And ** we wrap up the final of the Confederations Cup between Brazil and the USA in South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vale Michael Jackson Pop icon Michael Jackson has sung his last song. The 50 year old singer died from a cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. Greg Dyett traces the extraordinary career of one of the most successful and bizarre entertainers of all time. &t;strong&t;&t;a class=&uot;redlink&uot; href=&uot;http://media.sbs.com.au/audio/worldview-090626-1b4.mp3&uot;&t;Listen here&t;/a&t;&t;/strong&t; &t;strong&t;Also see: - &t;a class=&uot;redlink&uo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hague tribunal new Australian registrar defends dealing with Karadzic The international court that's trying indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, has rejected criticism that it turned down the former Bosnian-Serb leader's request for all reports about him to be translated from English into his own language. John Hocking is the new Registrar of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The Australian citizen is the first non-Dutch national to be appointed by the UN secretary-general to this post, and he says some Dutch media repor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Qld Wild Rivers law dampens Cape York Aboriginal victory The Kuuku Ya'u community on the Cape York Peninsula has welcomed the federal court's determination. But they say the good news has been overshadowed by Queensland's proposed Wild Rivers legislation - and they won't discount taking legal action against it. Lloyd Hollingsworth is the community's spokesman. He's spoke with Stefan Armbruster near Lockhardt River. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Historic native title sea claim agreement The Kuuku Ya'a seafarer people of Cape York have made history, by reaching agreement over their native title claim for traditional sea country.. which covers part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, and reaches into the Coral Sea. It's the first native title sea claim achieved through negotiation, rather than by litigation through the courts. The claim -- which covers non-exclusive rights over almost 2-thousand square kilometres of sea in Far North Queensland, as well as exclus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Australia criticised for not doing enouigh about torture in its own region. ** Coalition MPs break ranks to vote for a government initiative to end charging asylum seekers for their detention. And Brazil beats South Africa 1-0 with a late goal at the Confederations Cup in South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swine Flu deaths - causing or contributing? Medical scientists have found that the H1N1 virus was not the cause of death of the West Australian man who died in South Australia a week ago. Authorities are still establishing the cause of death of two Victorians this week, who'd been diagnosed WITH human swine flu. Some media reporting has suggested all three Australians died FROM the swine flu virus. Even Victoria's Health Minister is reported to have said that the third victim died &uot;as a direct result of the complic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Aboriginal health services in Western Australia want faster responses to outbreaks of swine flu in remote communities. ** A report on racism in Australia - are we as accepting of diversity as some believe? Also State of Origin rugby, and football from South Korea and the Confederations Cup in South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama's Iran challenge The latest reports out of Iran say there's been another bloody crackdown on opposition supporters. Iran's ban on the overseas media makes it difficult to obtain the facts but online bloggers and websites are using the word bloodbath to describe what's taken place. Pro-government militia are said to have unleashed gunfire, teargas, and clubs on the protesters. The latest violence follows condemnation from US President Barack Obama who used a news conference to speak out agains ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EU implementing financial controls The meltdown in the banking and insurance industries as a fallout of the global financial crisis has forced governments around the world to grapple with new controls in the finance sector. US president Obama has already announced extensive banking reforms that are now before Congress. In Europe, the European Union has been considering a wider range of controls. Kate Russell asked the Head of the EU Delegation in Canberra David Daly to outline what's being proposed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heavy drinking and cancer Heavy drinking is linked to a number of cancers. Professor Robyn Ward, head of the Cancer Centre at Prince of Wales Hospital speaks with Dina Gerolymou about the dangers of heavy drinking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iranians call for fresh election Social networking sites have played a key role in the campaign by those who are taking issue with the disputed Iranian election result. Iranian Australian Rojand Noroozi was so appalled by what he regards as a stolen election that he set up a Melbourne offshoot of the Where Is My Vote group which is an online collective of Iranians around the world who are calling for a fresh election. The 28 year old biomedical engineer organised a protest in Melbourne which is where he met another membe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Canberra correspondent Amanda Cavill analyses the latest allegations to emerge in the OzCar affair. ** A disturbing report on higher death rates among young offenders. ** And we preview tonight's Asian Champions' League and the Confederations Cup semi finals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OzCar scandal backfires The Opposition is continuing to pursue the Treasurer Wayne Swan over the OzCar deal-for-mates scandal. But it's had to concede that its case against the Prime Minister no longer exists, once it was revealed that a pivotal email implicating Kevin Rudd in asking for special favours for a constituent, was a fake. The Treasurer has released 22 emails overnight showing that his office had dealt with requests for assistance from other car dealers So, how does the Opposition's case now ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dry July Dry July is asking you to raise money for cancer by staying off the grog for one month. Phil Grove, one of the founders of Dry July speaks with Dina Gerolymou. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The US and North Korea move closer to a potential confrontation over a ship believed to be carrying weapons. **Burma's pro-democracy leader awaits the outcome of a trial over breaching house arrest. ** And the OzCar controversy now centres on a police investigation into a bogus email. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing better with young offenders Dr Anne Wilson is from the University of Adelaide who led the research into the health of young offenders. How does she interpret the findings .. and where does she hope to take things from here? She's speaking with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young offenders have worse health: study Young offenders die at a higher rate than non-offenders, with about 70 percent of deaths the result of drugs or suicide. Young offenders also show more mental and physical health problems, risk-related behaviour, and social and family problems. However, a new study published in this month's Australian Journal of Primary Health shows that if offenders' access to health care is improved, their outcomes will be improved. We'll talk shortly with the person who conducted the rese ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tension with North Korea escalates towards war A specialist on North Korea is warning that the United States is edging closer to a military confrontation with the communist country. Dr Leonid Petrov says there's a clear escalation of tensions between the countries ... over two developments. The American navy is tracking a North Korean vessel - the KANG NAM - which it suspects of carrying weapons banned by a new UN resolution, and says it intends to search the vessel before it reaches its destination. And the U-S is deploying m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sprotsview 22nd of June On the program this week hosts Andrew Kruger and Davidde Corran review the latest motorsport, tennis, cricket, rugby and football action. There's a wrap of the Confederations Cup Group Stage in South Africa and a preview of Wimbledon 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OzCar Debate in Parliament Federal parliament erupted into rowdy scenes today, as parliamentarians hotly debated the the Ozcar scandal. The Coalition wants Treasurer Wayne Swan to resign .. and the government is demanding the head of Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull. The opposition wants Mr Swan to resign because it says he misled parliament over claims the government gave special treatment to Queensland car dealer John Grant who sought assistance from the taxpayer-funded two billion dollar car bailout scheme. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tasers "don't malfunction": Distributor George Hately is with the company Breon, which is the sole distributor of Tasers in Australia. Stefan Armbruster asked him if it's likely that a Taser could malfunction and fire 28 charges, as Queensland police suggest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Qld controversially keeps use of Tasers The Queensland police department will continue to use Tasers, or stun guns, despite the multiple discharge of one gun, being associated with the death of a 39 year-old man last week. The death occured as police were trying to arrest an amphetamines addict near Townsville, who was allegedly armed with an iron bar and broken glass, had harmed himself, and was resisting violently. It was revealed overnight that the gun had been discharged 28 times during the incident - although it's not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adelaide's Iran rally A sense of hope prevailed over a peaceful protest in ADELAIDE today, challenging the outcome of the IRANIAN election. About 150 Iranian Australians gathered outside South Australia's parliament house, to add their voices to thousands of people around the world calling for a fresh election. Caroline Davey spoke with our correspondent Karen Ashford at the rally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socceroos dispense with Japan The Socceroos have finished their World Cup qualification campaign with a 2-1 win over Japan in Melbourne. Almost 70,000 fans turned out to cheer on the Socceroos and were treated to a second half brace from Everton hero Tim Cahill. Davidde Corran filed this report from the MCG. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socceroo Nicky Carle Socceroo Nicky Carle is pleased with his performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In today's podcast with Greg Dyett ** Pregnant women warned off alcohol by a visiting American Indian health professional....she says it's the only truly effective way of avoiding foetal alcohol syndrome. ** And the Socceroos overpower Japan 2-1 in a come from behind win in the World Cup qualifier at the MCG. (Photo: Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming stigma in Somali community The Somali community in Victoria feels it's making slow but steady progress towards destigmatising mental health problems. Many refugees who fled war and lawlessness in Somalia are suffering from trauma, psychosis, anxiety and depression. Melbourne has experienced a large influx of refugees from Somalia since the early 1990s, following fierce internal tribal wars between rival warlords. A SOMALI community development worker with the group Advocacy on Disability, Ethnicity and Commun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preventing foetal alcohol disorders A seminar for health professionals in Perth has heard that foetal alcohol spectrum disorders are NOT an issue isolated to indigenous communities. A visiting Native American health consultant and educator, Carolyn Hartness, says non-indigenous women who drink ANY alcohol ...are also harming the brain of their unborn baby. We'll hear from her shortly. But first, our WA correspondent Ken Boase gives Caroline Davey some background. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zero alcohol for pregnant women Native American private health consultant and educator Carolyn Hartness, says in the United States, there is NO debate over zero alcohol during pregnancy - like she's seen in Australia. And she told Caroline Davey that it's important to make a distinction between foetal alcohol syndrome and foetal alcohol spectrum disorders. . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iran election result could be legitimate A specialist in Middle East politics says it's possible that there was not widespread voter fraud in Iran's election. Amin Saikal is the Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the ANU in Canberra. On Sunday he was quoted as saying that: &uot; the Ahmadinejad regime couldn't possibly have rigged the election by such a large margin because it was being watched very closely by the international community.&uot; Greg Dyett asked Professor Saikal if he still ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Can religion help to temper inter-racial violence? ** Seeing the human side of being an asylum seeker ** And a preview of tonight's World Cup Qualifier between Australia and Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Selling religion? At a time when religion is associated with so much unrest, violence and war around the world, does religion need to be marketed? It's one of the issues discussed at a national multifaith forum in Adelaide. Our South Australia correspondent Karen Ashford attended the forum.. and has been speaking with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Engaging young people to have religious tolerance Sydney has recently seen violent attacks between groups of young people who represent different faiths -- after the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka was declared...and between Lebanese groups and Indian students. Adelaide has been hosting a national multifaith forum this week. So, how useful are such interfaith forums at a grassroots level? It's a question Caroline Davey put to Ikebal Patel, who's the president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** The Rudd government faces a showdown in caucus today over its union watchdog. ** Peter Costello announces his retirement from Parliament. ** And more stories marking this week's World Refugee Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sportsview 15 June In today's Sportsview with Andrew Kruger and Davidde Corran, we cover the MotoGP at Catalunya in Spain, football, tennis and sports institute funding; a Slovak &uot;kookaburra&uot; has had the last laugh in London; who should pay to train our elite athletes; and South Africa is living Australia's dream with the Confederations Cup. (picture: Casey Stoner autographs for fans) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama's credibility at stake over Gitmo : Amnesty As President Obama attempts to stick by his promise to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba, he's facing broad domestic opposition over his plans of what to do with the most dangerous detainees. He's raised the prospect of relocating such detainees to maximum security jails on the US mainland. Senators on both sides of politics have voted overwhelmingly against funding the facility's closure. But Amnesty International Australia says it's imperative for the new Americ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nam Bang! Thirty-four years after the official end of the conflict in Vietnam, Nam Bang is an exhibition that examines the consequences of the Vietnam War from a generational and international perspective. The project at the Casula Powerhouse in Sydney's West, looks at the role art plays in re-intepreting the Vietnam war. Featuring Australian artists from the both Vietnam and Australia, Nam Bang offers an international perspective, particularly from the second generation - the partners, chil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health View: Hepatitis &Indigenous Health In this podcast we take a look at hepatitis. We'll also meet another graduate from a landmark education program for indigenous health professionals. And Dr. Abouyanni looks at how best to treat head lice in children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War Child: A Boy Soldier's Story By the time Emmanuel Jal was a teenager, he had survived unspeakable terror, the murder of his mother and life as a veteran child soldier on the battlefields of Sudan. But fate intervened when a British aid worker smuggled him into Kenya, helping him start a new life. Since then Emmanuel Jal's life has taken a miraculous turn. He's become an acclaimed musician and writer. Emmanuel Jal's autobiography War Child - A Boy Soldier's Story has just been published and he&# ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Party swapping marks start of Indonesian presidentialelection campaign Indonesia is preparing for presidential elections in just over six weeks' time on 8 July. Three candidates and their running mates have just passed their final health checks to be confirmed by the electoral authorities. A colourful field includes a bank governor.. a former high profile military general... Indonesia's first woman president, and the incumbent president. And the current vice-president is jumping ship.. to run for the office of president for another party! Our Jaka ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dateline: Sexual abuse in the US Militiary The US Military is again under the spotlight, this time for sexual abuse within its own ranks. A retired US Army Colonel is claiming that one in three women are sexually assaulted during their time in the US military and that many assaults are going unreported. Dateline explores the case of a female soldier, who died in suspicious circumstances in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tulpan: A Kazakh adventure Kazakhstan is a country with vast open spaces, where a traditional nomadic life is still the reality for many people. Kazakh film-maker Sergei Dvortsevoy is the director of the Cannes Festival prize winning film Tulpan, set on the Kazakh steppes. The tale is a simple one, a young man in search of love and a job... finds himself unemployed and alone. The woman he wants rejects him because she says, his ears are too big! Peggy Giakoumelos met with Sergei Dvortsevoy during his recent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women and Super It's going to take some time for many of the budget changes to kick inbut one change which makes many voters unhappy, is the cutback to the super co-contribution scheme. According to Trish Power, the author of The Dummies Guide to Superannuation... women and older workers are most likely to be affected by the changes. She starts by explaining some of the reasons why women are disadvantaged in super. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this edition of World View Breakfast with Caroline Davey, * why Australians can't afford to be complacent about Swine Flu... * New Zealand seems to be weathering the economic storm slightly better than Australia... * In Sport, we preview major weekend action including the last round of the Bundeslige and * the remarkable story of a former child soldier from Sudan.. who's now a writer and musician Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conversation with Rugby Union legend Mark Ella Mark Ella is a household name in Rugby Union circles. He's one of the best players ever to pull on a Wallaby jumper for the 25 tests he played for Australia between 1979 and 84. He captained the side for the last two of those years, and that was done while leading his club side, Randwick, to five premierships. Along with twin brother Glen, and younger brother Gary, Mark Ella virtually re-invented the game of rugby.... he galvanised spectators world-wide with his exciting brand of runni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interesting 09 election race for Indonesia Indonesia is preparing for presidential elections in just over six weeks' time.. on 8 July. Three candidates and their running mates have just passed their final health checks to be confirmed by electoral authorities. A colourful field includes the incumbent president... Indonesia's first woman president .. a bank governor.. and a former high profile military general. And the incumbent vice-president is jumping ship.. to run for president for another party! Our Jakarta correspo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is cyber-crime? Science-fiction movies often deal with cyber-criminals. But reality is quickly catching up to fiction and police all over the world face a new breed of criminal. So what is cyber-crime? Who are the culprits? Who are the victims? Where does it occur? Kate Russell spoke with a specialist in the field, Dr. Gregor Urbas, from the Australian National University in Canberra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New challenges for US-Israeli relations Cracks have appeared in the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem this week, following the visit of Israel's new prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu met with President Obama and members of Congress. And while the meetings were cordial, starkly different priorities emerged on the major topics of discussion - the Palestinians and Iran. Our North American correspondent John Stempin is speaking with Caroline Davey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this edition of World View Breakfast with Caroline Davey: ** A Western Australian company faces prosecution for destroying aboriginal rock art ** A new homelands plan for indigenous communities in the Northern territory. ** In Sport, Newcastle Jets' thriller against Korean side Ulsan Munsu.... ** And youth motivator and former Young Australian of the Year, Hugh Evans, talks about his views on Australia's foreign policy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Japan Outlook The latest economic data indicate the Japanese economy has shrunk another 4 per cent in the first quarter of 2009. When annualised, these numbers show the Japanese economy has shrunk 15.2 per cent over the past year and while this number is staggering, experts were predicting a contraction of 16.1 per cent. Japan is Australia's largest trading partner, just ahead of China, with total merchandise trade between the two countries in excess of 70 billion dollars. Australia mainly exports i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this podcast: ** Western Australia's miners say the Rudd budget is bad for mining investment. ** Budget for indigenous issues is being welcomed in some quarters **Mixed reaction to the changes in pensions ** Our weekly interactive forum looks at how reality television shapes the expectations of young people Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Job Selection or Rejection, and Cultural Fit Applying for a job these days is challenging enough for most candidates.. especially during an economic downturn. If you come from overseas, you'd know there are even greater hurdles. And it's not just to do with your knowledge of English.. or your actual work skills. &uot;Cultural fit&uot; is something that workplace communication expert Judith Booth knows alot about. For her PhD she did research on skilled migrants from India in the IT industry. A book was one re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View: Budget highlights In this podcast:** A Nation Building budget to counter a recession continuing into next year. **We'll bring you a budget overview, reaction from a range of interest groups, and insights into how the budget affects small business, the family and pensioners.**And In Health View we meet graduates from a landmark program in indigenous health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nation Building budget's gender discrimination: TCFUA A union that covers mostly women workers - a majority of whom are from a non-English speaking background - is angry that they've been left out of the multi-billion dollar Nation Building budget.Michele O'Neil from the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia says they've received little industry assistance, unlike the construction and car manufacturing industries.She says the Rudd government will continue with the former Howard government's plans to implement further ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skilled migration cut again Australia's skilled migration intake will be cut for the second time in two months. The latest reduction of almost seven thousand places will reduce the intake to 108-thousand. Peter Van Vliet is the Director of the body which lobbies on behalf of Australians from diverse backgrounds. He told Greg Dyett the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia isn't troubled by the reduction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heather Frahn at the National Folk Festival Heather Frahn is a multi-award winning artist from South Australia who has a driving urge to explore ...not just her music.... but also the instruments she uses.She plays an 8-string hybrid guitar which has three extra deep bass strings, enabling her to sound like two performers in one - a guitarist accompanied by a bass player.Her innovative performance technique made her a stand-out at the recent National Folk Festival, which is where Andrew Kruger caught up with her.The music you hear ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taliban's strategic advances in Pakistan (short version) There are new fears that the Taliban in north-west Pakistan might gain control of a major dam supplying water to thousands of people, and further extend their area of control.The government has been waging a bloody offensive against the Taliban militants in the Swat valley, forcing a huge exodus. And Pakistan expert Dr Samina Yasmeen also fears that the Pakistani leadership is not taking the risk of extremists gaining access to the country's nuclear weapons seriously enough.Dr Yasmeen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taliban's strategic advances in Pakistan (extended version) There are new fears that the Taliban in north-west Pakistan might gain control of a major dam supplying water to thousands of people, and further extend their area of control.The government has been waging a bloody offensive against the Taliban militants in the Swat valley, forcing a huge exodus. And Pakistan expert Dr Samina Yasmeen also fears that the Pakistani leadership is not taking the risk of extremists gaining access to the country's nuclear weapons seriously enough.Dr Yasmeen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forged documents scandal in South Australia In South Australia there are questions about the leadership of the Opposition leader Martin Hamilton-Smith, over his use of forged documents. Our correspondent Karen Ashford says the Liberals have essentially squandered an opportunity to put pressure on the governing Labor party. She is speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this podcast:** The Treasurer will use tonight's budget to explain why the government needs to push Australia deeper into debt.** Indonesia's top anti-corruption official is detained as a murder suspect.** Environmentalists want the Prime Minister to use his federal powers to protect old growth forests. **And we hear about an award winning film from Kazakhstan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sportsview 11th of May This week on Sportsview hosts Andrew Kruger and Davidde Corran talk football, cycling, cricket, tennis and heaps more.Jenson Button is on top again in Spain, Leyton Hewitt notches up his 500th win, AFC president Mohammod Bin Hammam dodges a bullet and the West Indies struggle in England. Click on the podcast to hear more from the World of Sport. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Kruger report live from the National Folk Festival Since 1967 the National Folk Festival has been a hub of folk arts in Australia.These days it attracts 50-thousand visitors over the Easter weekend.It's a 5-day celebration of what makes our cultural life so strong and uniquely Australian - the music, songs, dances and spoken word that reflect the great waves of migration that flowed into a country .... already rich in Indigenous heritage.In 1969, the Moreton Bay Folk festival was produced in Brisbane by a team of people including Festiv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Outsourced telemarketers give phone marketing a bad name The bad telephone manners of foreign telemarketers is spoiling it for locally run companies.It's the view of the owner/operator of a small curtain and upholstery business in Melbourne.. and other small firms he speaks to.Pierre Cure told Caroline Davey why he doesn't do telemarketing any more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing the mishievous Rapskallion Rapskallion - an energetic 7-piece bohemian band out of Melbourne's musical quarter of Brunswick.They're mischievous, fun loving, quirky, and at times vaudevillian - a blend of rustic, rowdy and romantic accordion-driven dance tunes ...blended with an occasions tinge of hip hop!Rapskallion have travelled with Circus Oz, packed out the Spiegel Tent, and most recently, thrilled crowds at the National Folk Festival in Canberra. They've just released their new album,&uot;One Up ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tribute to Harry Robertson Harry Robertson was a Scottish-born, Australian folk-singer-songwriter, poet and activist, who became a key figure in the development of the Australian folk music tradition.He was someone who..once you'd met ... you didn't forget ....a hard man who'd lived a hard life - from the Glasgow docks to whaling ships, to ship repair yards in Australia.Harry wrote a number of songs and poems about the lives of the whalers without glorifying the industry.Among them were&uot;Ballina Wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Forum Rent Crisis Podcast As Australia slips further into recession, many Australians worry about how they are going to cope with rising living expenses. One such example is the price of rent, which is going up at least 10 per cent throughout the country.This is particularly concerning for university students, who often have little money, no assets and are struggling to balance work and study. For this week's Youth Forum, James Oaten explores the rental crisis, and how it's affecting university students.The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China upsets Mexico over swine fu China's relationship with Mexico has been put to the test this week because of swine flu.Our Beijing correspondent Douglas Bakshian says Mexico has taken issue with the way its citizens have beeen treated. He's speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WorldView Program Friday 8 May Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Out: Republic of Seychelles It was a rocky start to independence for the Seychelles... off the coast of Africa. The elected prime minister overthrew the president in the first year. Mercenaries tried to reinstall the president in 1980. And the ensuing decade saw an army mutiny and attempted coups. But the idyllic Indian Ocean archipelago is now enjoying political stability and economic prosperity as a multi-party democracy. Caroline Davey has this week's edition of INSIDE OUT. NOTE: Seychellois musician Grac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tall and tan, not as young but still lovely Helo Pinheiro is the real-life Girl from Ipanema. In 1962, when she was 15 years old, she caught the attention of two songwriters while strolling through the Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro on her way to the beach. Helo Pinheiro tells Greg Dyett that life was never the same after the release of the famous bossa nova song, The Girl from Ipanema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perth's Creole rising star Next to Friday Audition. Grace Barbe has just released her debut album, Kreol Daughter, with tracks recorded in Creole, French and English. And as Caroline Davey found out, Grace first came to Australia from the Seychelles when she was 6... with her mother who'd won a scholarship to study in Perth. NOTE: The Seychelles-born Grace Barbe is doing concerts in Melbourne in May... and in Brisbane and Sydney in July. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health View: Indigenous education &gestational diabetes In this edition of Health View Dr. George Abouyanni takes a look at the condition gestational diabetes, and a landmark postgraduate education program by the University of Sydney, targeting indigenous health professionals. Plus we explore the needs of older Australians from different backgrounds. Health View is produced by Peggy Giakoumelos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights World View highlights with Peggy Giakoumelos. ** Claims that the Christmas Island detention facility is becoming overcrowded. ** leading to calls for asylum seekers to be released into the community. ** In our interactive forum this week, we meet a an Iraqi couple who had an unforgettable encounter with Saddam Hussein. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcrowding on Christmas Island Refugee advocates in Western Australia say Christmas Island is becoming an overcrowded jail. They say it's taking too long to process the asylum seekers who've been arriving over the past few weeks. Our WA correspondent Ken Boase tells Greg Dyett that Christmas Island is getting crowded because of the recent increase in boat arrivals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New hope for Thailand's political peace A new force has emerged in Thailand... seeking to end the civil unrest and economic uncertainty ....that's plagued the traditionally peaceful nation. Thailand's government estimates tourism losses from last month's deadly street protests, are more than 4-billion dollars. But a so-called &uot;white shirt movement&uot; has emerged to counteract the political strife between supporters and opponents of the former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. Our Vietnamese broadcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Safecom The WA refugee advocacy group, Project Safecom, is calling on the Federal Government to release asylum seekers into the Australian community once health and security checks have been completed. Jack Smit is with Project Safecom. He says the ALP promised that asylum seeker processing would not be a drawn out affair. He's speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leading environmentalist visits Australia The number 350 might not mean much to most of us but for Bill McKibben, a leading writer on the environment in the US it's the most significant number of the planet. McKibben has been involved in organising the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history, and his 350 movement is now going global. McKibben's first book, The End of Nature, is regarded as the first US book for a general audience about climate change. It has been printed in more than 20 langua ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Taylor charged with war crimes Former Liberian president and alleged war criminal Charles Taylor, looks set to have his day in court in The Hague, next month. The former president is charged with 11 war crimes, including murder, sexual and physical violence, using child soldiers, and enslavement. To find out more about the legal process, Peggy Giakoumelos spoke with a specialist in Peace and Conflict Studies, Dr. Wendy Lambourne. *Photo Radio Netherlands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View Program Highlights In this edition of World View: ** South Australia accused of populist politics with its plastic bag ban. ** In Health View we look at an indigenous education health program and why gestational diabetes is becoming more common. ** And details of a survey measuring the performance of our major banks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SA plastic bag ban The Labor party promised Australians there'd be a national ban on plastic bags but so far it's failed to deliver. The Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett made the commitment prior to the last election saying the ban would be in place by the end of last year. But so far only South Australia has pressed ahead with a total ban on lightweight plastic bags at the checkout. Our South Australia correspondent Karen Ashford is speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why push for greater Asia Literacy makes cents: AIG The future centre of global economic growth is right at our doorstep. More than 60 Australian companies and business associations think so.. and have banded together with the trade union movement to create a new Business Alliance for Asia Literacy. The Australian Industry Group is a key member.. and its head Heather Ridout tells Caroline Davey why her organisation decided to join the alliance.. to push for our schools and universities to offer more Asian history, geography and languages ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Retailers opposing bag ban Richard Evans is the Executive Director of the Australian Retailers Association. He tells Greg Dyett why the plastic bag ban in South Australia is ill considered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Movie review: Synecdoche, New York Film critic, Tim Hunter, tells Greg Dyett about the new film, Synecdoche, New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forum: The Kiss of Saddam In this forum we meet Iraqi couple Selma Masson and her husband Mohammad Al Jabiri. The couple's harrowing story is the subject of a book titled The Kiss of Saddam written by Michelle McDonald. Growing up in a privileged and cosmopolitan Iraq, Selma's world was turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappeared. She eventually tracks him down, tortured and imprisoned by the Hussein government. For Selma securing her husband's freedom meant an unforgettable encounter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Football Diaries Football isn't normally associated with the art world, but for ex-footballer Ahil Ratnamohan, a short career as a footballer taught him moves that he now uses in his performance work. Between 2004 and 2007, Ahil played in Sweden, The Netherlands and Germany before his dream was cut short due to injury. Now 23, and back in Australia, Ahil has taken his training and his travels and incorporated them into an entertaining performance of football and dance. Sydney audiences can cath T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health View: Swine Flu &Malaria In this edition of Health View, we look at past flu pandemics and good news from UNICEF on the fight against malaria. Health View is produced by Peggy Giakoumelos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Queensland re-opens the stolen wages register to allow more claims. ** We go to three different countries with Dateline reporters to find out how the global financial crisis has affected people there ** And an interview with one of the stand out acts from this year's National Folk Festival in Canberra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Forum: Sri Lanka The scale of destruction in Sri Lanka has caused major concern throughout the world. Although Australia may feel removed from the conflict, many of Sri Lankan background feel its impact on a daily basis. For this week's World View Youth Forum, James Oaten invited a few young Sri Lankans to see how the civil-war affects their live downunder. Forum participants: Esala Liyanage is a Sinhalese Sri Lankan, who moved to Australia when he was 10; Mariam Tokhi is a Muslim Sri Lankan; and The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Movie review: Paris 36 Film critic, Tim Hunter, tells Greg Dyett about the French film, Paris 36. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barack's report card The US President Barack Obama has chalked up 100 days in office. For a review of his performance so far, Greg Dyett went to our Washington correspondent, John Stempin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comedian Sugar Sammy Comedian Sugar Sammy performs in four languages - English, French, Punjabi and Hindi- with his own brand of Canadian cross-cultural humour. He has a regular spot on Showtime's Arabia, which airs in 14 countries. He jokes about his own Indian heritage and highlights cross cultural miscommunication Peggy Giakoumelos caught up with him when he popped into SBS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Memoir: Leave to Remain Abbas El-Zein is the author of Leave to Remain, a memoir that explores the impact of war on individuals, families and countries. Abbas popped into our Sydney studios where he met with Peggy Giakoumelos. This is part two of that interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** A Western Australian liquid gas deal raises temperatures between environmentalists and locals And in our interactive forum you'll hear from young Sri Lanka Australians on how the civil war affects them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barack's first 100 days The first African American President of the United States is 100 days into the job and performing pretty well. That's according to US politics and foreign policy commentator, Doctor Michael Fullilove. So what exactly has Barack Obama achieved? Greg Dyett put that question to Doctor Fullilove, who's the Director of the Lowy Institute's Global Issues program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Descent into madness It was a quest for spiritual enlightenment that went right off the rails. In the late 1970s, Jane Stork got caught up with a cult known as the Orange People which was led by Baghwan Shree Rajneesh. The brainwashing that transpired resulted in her spending time in a US jail for attempted murder. Jane Stork has written about her incredible story in her book, Breaking the Spell. My Life As a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom. She tells Greg Dyett that her entry into the cult ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Job fears rise in Australia as General Motors plans another sacking spree to save the company from bankruptcy. ** And in health view we look at malaria and the swine flu outbreak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swine flu hysteria? The human to human transmission of swine flu has prompted the World Health Organisation to raise its pandemic alert level to phase four on a scale that goes up to six. But the W-H-O says a pandemic is not a foregone conclusion. While 149 people have died in Mexico, there have been no deaths elsewhere. So, is the extensive media coverage of swine flu verging on the hysterical? That's a question Greg Dyett put to virologist, Professor Greg Tannock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing of Memories Painful experiences can be hard to overcome, both personally and at a community level. The Healing of Memories workshops were originally created to heal the apartheid wounds in South Africa, but they can be useful here in Australia, too. Magica Fossati spoke with John Steward, who facilitates Healing of Memories workshops in Melbourne. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sportsview 27th of April On Sportsview this week your hosts Andrew Kruger and Davidde Corran look back at the weekends sport news and results. Young riders lead the way in cycling's oldest race while the Brawn revolution continues in Formula One. Meanwhile Tennis Australia is in trouble and the swimming world is gripped in a debate over swimsuits. All that plus the latest football results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health View: Haemophilia &Serbian support group In this edition of Health View, Haemophilia, the latest treatments and how one group is helping to minimise the stigma associated with the condition. We also take a look at disability support groups for the Serbian speaking community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mortgage Protection and a Horror Budget The Rudd Government has announced that it will move aggressively to protect mortgage borrowers and consumers from unscrupulous lenders. Among the steps they're taking is a measure to protect borrowers from bank foreclosures when a mortgage holder is unemployed or in proven financial difficulty. It's an effort to protect the Australian market from a so-called sub-prime mortgage collapse, similar to the one which which undermined much of the American and global financial systems. Canb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** How Australia and Indonesia are working together to tackle people smuggling. And we'll have a wrap of the weekend sporting action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anzac Legacy lives on ANZAC Day celebrations in Sydney will be extra special this year. For the first time, children of deceased servicemen will wear their fathers medals together under the Legacy banner. Legacy is a charity which gives financial and emotional support to widows and dependents of deceased servicemen. Nhung Luong is speaking with Legacy's President in Sydney, John Bertram about this special chance for Junior Legatees to reunite. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing insurgence in Iraq Iraq has lived through yet another week of fatal attacks with more than 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured. Overnight, two seperate suicide attacks killed more than 90 people which was said to be the bloodiest day the country has seen in over a year. The blasts occurred as insurgence escalates in Iraq ahead of a pullout by US troops set to commence in June. The recent attacks have prompted the question of what is now required to address the serious issues the country faces ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week's gig guide Nhung Luong picks out the best Australia has to offer in this week's gig guide. Listen for more information on country, comedy and jazz music around the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** A man just granted a visa is suing for two million dollars to compensate him for the time he spent in immigration detention. ** Barack Obama meets the credit card companies to crackdown on predatory lending practices. And a preview of this weekend's sporting action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interactive Forum: Rwanda 15 years on (PART 1) On the 6th of April 1994, the death of the then Rwandan president, a Hutu, triggered 100 days of what is now known as the Rwanda genocide. Some 800,00 thousands Rwandans, mainly Tutsis, were killed... Thousands of women were raped and were, as a result, infected with Hiv-Aids. Is it possible for a nation to recover from such a tragic history? Today's Interactive Forum, moderated by Magica Fossati, looks at the reconciliation process that has since taken place in Rwanda. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Clermont at the National Folk festival Andrew Clermont is one of those musicians who can inspire as well as entertain. His virtuosity on several instruments and breadth of musical interests is so diverse that he currently plays in 6 different bands and is a triple national champion guitarist in flat-picking. Andrew Kruger spoke with him at the National Folk Festival over Easter and that last track is called Who Trod on the Cat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Credit card companies put on notice The American President Barack Obama is meeting with the heads of the major credit card companies this week to discuss consumer credit. Mr Obama is concerned about what he sees as predatory practices. North American correspondent John Stempin is speaking with Greg Dyett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Possible torture prosecutions in the US There have been a number of developments in the past week regarding the American torture of detainees held in places like Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. President Obama released four department of justice memos written under the Bush administration, specifically allowing several interrogation methods critics call torture. Our U-S correspondent John Stempin tells Greg Dyett that one of the memos shows the C-I-A used waterboarding 266 times on two Al Qaeda suspects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World View highlights In this podcast with Greg Dyett: ** Aboriginal women decide that wayward young people should return to basics at a work camp. ** We'll wrap up the Asian's Champions League action from overnight. ** And set the scene for this Saturday's Anzac Day commemorations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gerard Mapstone at the National Folk festival 09 Brisbane-based Gerard Mapstone is one of Australia's finest classical and flamenco guitarists. He was so passionate about the guitar he moved to Spain, to Jerez de la Frontera, where he studied with Jose Ignatio Franco, a renowned flamenco Guitarist in Andalucía. Gerard then moved to England and joined flamenco fusion band Candela and to study at the Royal College of Music in London. He's recorded his own album &uot;Vuelta al Mundo&uot; released in 2008, and in 2007 r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Banking for good or evil...? Despite the public outrage over bonuses paid to top executives, the real victims of the economic crisis often remain unnoticed, people on average incomes, struggling with debt and financial uncertainty. But how much of a role do banks play in this uncertainty? What if any ethical responsibility do they have to help those in need? The ethics of banking was the theme of a recent forum in Sydney organised by the Edmund Rice Centre where some of these issues where discussed. Maree O'Ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samson &Delilah by Warwick Thornton 2204 Samson and Delilah is the new indigenous film by Director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton. It premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in March. He's made acclaimed short films, including Green Bush and Nana, and most recently shot the magnificent First Australians series seen