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Podcaster:Bush Telegraph 
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Bush Telegraph - 2009-09-28 :
1106 Green claims in advertising
You only have to walk down your supermarket aisle these days to see how important environmental marketing has become.
1122 Rural news
In the wake of the dust storms across eastern Australia, the Federal Opposition has written a letter to the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, calling on his government to immediately help drought-affected farmers.
1127 Sheila's shed
Men across Australia have their own space, a men's shed, to go and learn new skills and meet new people. Now women on the NSW mid-north coast have been given a similar opportunity.
1132 Mapping Ballarat
1145 Music from The Backsliders (not in podcast)
'Down by the Riverbed' from their CD Wide Open
1150 Leonard Lodge
Each year around 1200 families from regional Qld spend time at Leonard lodge, a place parents can stay with their kids, as their children are treated in Brisbane's Royal Children's Hospital.
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Podcaster:Hack Daily 
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triple j: Hack Radio - Wednesday 23rd September 2009:
Dust storm moves further north blanketing northern NSW right up to Townsville. After cops get busted doing a nudie run on a buck's day we ask: what drives boys to get nude in the name of a good time? A decade after brothels were made legal in Qld, up to 90 per cent of the industry is operating illegally. China and India speak out about climate change.
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Podcaster:PowerScripting Podcast 
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Episode 83 - PowerScripting Podcast - with Pragma Systems:
Tonight we interview Quamrul Mina and David Kulwin from Pragma SystemsNewsBefore you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge â and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicksâ e-book, âManaging Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,â learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. Youâll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.Donât wait â visit quest.com/powershellbook to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.PowerShell V2 RC is out for XP and Windows Server 2003The official release of PSUnit is now available on CodeplexLuc Dekens, Hal's co-presenter at VMworld, now has a blogPowerGUI 1.9 now supports v2 modulesNew PowerShell User Group in Australia
InterviewThis segment brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript.
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guests: Quamrul Mina, CEO & co-founder of Pragma SystemsDavid Kulwin, CTO, co-founder, & lead architect
in biz since 1990, first product in '97http://www.pragmasys.com/http://www.pragmasys.com/Pragma_PowerShell_Support.asp
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We kinda forgot to take note of the questions asked by the audience. :)
Superheroes: David is Batman, and Quamrul picked Ronald ReaganResourcesWant to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!Lee Holmes has a great script Invoke-SqlCommand from his Windows PowerShell CookbookMicrosoft has a video up on #9with tips on working with PS remoting (runtime: 8:40)Joel's got a script to help you change your Windows 7 login screen!Bruce Payette did a video series on PowerShell modulesRichard Siddaway blogged about a Codeplex PowerShell Configurator for Server 2008 R2 Core and HyperV Server R2Another from Joel; this script helps you to disable Aero Peekfor a process
Tips.NET classes, overloads, constructors (e.g. system.diagnostics.PerformanceCounter)check to see if PowerShell is available on a machineInteresting article comparing Python and PowerShell for the SQL DBA
One-LinerConnect-WSman ...dir *\service\MaxConnections |si -Value 30ContestYour quest: Create a PowerShell script to generate fractal images. Bonus points for displaying the generated image using a Winform or WPF. Get started by reading this thread on PowerShellCommunity.org.
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Podcaster:Bush Telegraph
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Bush Telegraph - 2009-09-02 :
1106 Car rally take on locals in NSW
Murwillumbah is getting read for some raw motorsport.
1123 Rural news
A central Queensland vet has died from hendra virus in a Brisbane hospital.
1127 Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea go on the road
It took seven days to record and a couple of months to tour - singer songwriter Jen Cloher headlines gigs through regional Australia behind her latest album called 'Hidden Hands.' Off to Bunbury and Fremantle this weekend with SA, NSW, TAS and Qld to follow.
1155 Bush Telegraph beehive
A couple of weeks ago Bush Telegraph took possession of its very own beehive as part of our special broadcast about the importance of the Australian beekeeping industry.
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Podcaster:National Interest 
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National Interest 2009-08-14 :
The round-up
The National Interest round up begins in Punjab Place - a quiet cul-de-sac in the Oak Tree Retirement Village at Boronia Heights south of Brisbane. Despite the tranquil surrounds the residents are not happy because they don't like the name of their street. Thirty two residents have petitioned to have it changed to something "prettier" because Punjab Place doesn't sound very nice.
Obviously they're not fans of alliteration.
The street was named by developer Manjit Bopirai in honour of his birthplace in India and he says he is "gobsmacked" by the petition. Even Premier Anna Bligh has got involved telling the Courier Mail that Punjab Place should stay Punjab Place, since Queensland's multicultralism should be reflected in public life, including in street signs.
Perhaps the name Punjab will grow on the locals given time. They may even come to treasure it. After all, the residents of Simla Avenue in Geebung north of Brisbane say that they wouldn't dream of changing the name of their street, which also honours the Indian birthplace of a property developer.
Surfers Paradise, as we all know, can be far from paradise in November, when it's subject to the annual migration of schoolies - young people celebrating the end of Year 12 exams. Schoolies get up to all sorts of mischief - drinking in public, wrecking hotel rooms, and slapping police horses on the rump.
This week the Southport Magistrates Court found a Newcaste teenager guilty of animal cruelty after she admitted slapping a police horse. The defence argued that a slight teenager could hardly have caused much pain to a police quadrepded ten times her weight, but the magistrate accepted the evidence of a mounted Police Sergeant that the slap had startled his steed and the horse was 'not a happy chappy'. The teenager was put on a 12-month good behaviour bond.
Sometimes you wonder if there aren't more important things for police and the courts to be spending their time on - like prosecuting Perth barmaids wearing insufficient clothing.
The West Australian reports that the barmaid in question was working as a "skimpy" - that's WA parlance for being scantilly clad, so that drinkers can get a thrill with their after work swill. The skimpy nature of the hotel was clearly advertised on a board outside
29 year old Megan Brookes was wearing a fishnet bodysuit and French knickers, when two undercover cops pulled her aside and told her she would be fined for committing the crime of indecent exposure in a licensed premise.
When Ms Brooks pointed out that she was was wearing stickers over her nipples the officers told her that her breasts weren't the problem, the problem was, she was showing too much bum'. "And I wasn't even wearing a G-string" says Miss Brooks.
Her lawyer reckons you'd see more at the beach and at fashion parades and her employer thinks police should be chasing violent criminals and drug dealers, rather than targeting shivering barmaids.
If there really is a crime here, then how come its not the pub that's being prosecuted?
We have to follow on that story with a report from the Adelaide Advertiser that one of the United Kingdom's biggest water parks has banned the budgee smuggler.
Aussie blokes heading to Britain be warned - you cannot wear your speedos at the Alton Towers water park- because the male swimming briefs are deemed inappropriate for such a family venue.
According to a resort spokesman, such togs are more suited to Spain than Staffordshire.
$750 million pipeline: ready to go but blocked by Victorian parliament
Melbourne's water storages are alarmingly low - with reservoirs at just 27.5% of capacity. And this in the midst of winter.
As warmer weather sets in and water usage increases, levels are likely to drop quickly.
The Victorian Government says it has the situation in hand - it's spending $750 million dollars to build a 70km long pipeline over the great dividing range so it can pump water to the city from the Goulburn River.
Construction is ahead of schedule, so even there is no rain in the catchments, the pipeline should be ready long before the dams run dry.
But will it be allowed to carry any water?
Opposition parties have combined in the upper house of parliament to disallow regulations that would permit the tap to be turned on.
Covering the war in Afghanistan
When Senator John Faulker took over as defence Minister two months ago, he promised to provide regular updates on Australia's role in Afghanistan - and this week he delivered his first report on the conflict to parliament.
The Senator stressed the three key aims of the deployment - to help stabilise the country, to train Afghan forces to take over responsibility for security and to prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a training ground and operating base for international terrorists because "an Afghanistan that allows terrorists to flourish means less security for Australians".
He warned of the dangers ahead for Australian forces as Afghanistan prepares for national elections, elections the Taliban will be determined to disrupt. And he promised that the ADF was "committed to investigating all claims of Australian involvement in civilian casualities in an open and transparent manner".
But will the Minister's promise of greater openness filter down through the defence bureaucracy? Some journalists feel that the biggest problem in covering the war is not the danger on the ground but the information road blocks thrown up by departmental media officers.
Centrelink responds to criticism of debt prosecution
Last week in The National Interest we discussed Centrelink's approach to debt recovery - and concerns that people were being dragged through the courts for being overpaid relatively small amounts of money. In some cases, debts have also accumulated partially due to to Centrelink errors.
This week we got Centrelink's response to those criticisms and also heard some of the Centrelink stories contributed by listeners, beginning with a couple from Armidale in NSW who were overpaid $500 in parenting payments, despite having provided accurate income estimates to Centrelink.
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Last week's criticism of Centrelink, for its heavy handed deby recovery tactics, prompted many listeners to contact us with their own Centrelink experiences.
One listener from Queensland wrote about his $56,000 debt to Centrelink, which he's paying off at $350 per month. The debt accumulated over five years when he looking after a friend with MS and receiving a carer's benefit.
"This debt is due to my earning too much money during that time. Data Matching was NOT conducted by CentreLink although I have always submitted my Tax Returns on time. I reported myself to Centrelink when I discovered that the allowed income for Carers was $30,000 per annum, much lower than I was earning running my own small business. No one from Centrelink ever checked on my friend's welfare needs or to see if I was actually providing care to her. The system is really slack and her invalid pension totally inadequate. A lot of the Carers Payment was used to help provide for her needs. I still help her and continue to spend my money on some of her essential needs with no more help from the government."
Last week in The National Interest I also interviewed the Australian Electoral Commissioner, Ed Killesteyn, about the AEC's efforts to find the 1.2 million Australians missing from the electoral roll.
Geoff in Victoria thinks the AEC itself is part of the problem: "I received a letter from the AEC, saying that that I had been removed from the electoral roll. No reason was given, no reply paid envelope and a statement that if I disputed their claims I must write to them. I rang them and advised them that my details had not changed and asked them why they had disenfranchised me with no warning and without giving any reason. Their stated reson was that an officer had walked past my house and thought it appeared unoccupied."
Overseas listeners were disappointed that we did not discuss their voting rights: Philip from Japan says hundreds of thousand of Australians are disenfranchised by electoral laws that prevent them from voting because they have been overseas for more than three years. Simon who lives in Germany says one million Australian expats are "out of sight and out of mind".
"When preparing to move overseas, I was told by the AEC that I needed to remove myself completely from the roll. This later turned out to be untrue, but by then it was too late. It turns out that almost all Australians I have since met overseas were told the same story. Getting back onto the roll as an overseas elector is only possible within a certain time after leaving Australia. So for those people who continue to be unaware of this after mistakenly removing themselves from the roll, re-enrolment is impossible, leaving most of them with no voting rights of any kind."
Col in Queensland is a missing elector - he chose not to enroll on principal - as a protest against the system of compulsory preferential voting that means you have to number every square:
"We MUST number the squares IN SEQUENCE which means it is compulsory to vote ALP or Liberal - even if they are numbered 9 & 10 in a 10 horse race and you don't want either of them. Your No. 9 vote has the same value as your No. 1 vote. How daft is that? No doubt some half-wit will say you can vote informal but that is not the point. Why go to all the trouble of travelling, parking and queuing just to have your name crossed off?"
Julie, also from Queensland, came across others who refused to enroll on principal when she worked briefly for the AEC.
"I was shocked at how many people said they didn't have to vote because of their religion. I couldn't understand the rationale to allow this when they are citizens who are under the jurisdiction of laws of society. Next time you have the AEC representative on, ask him how many citizens are opting out of voting because of their religious beliefs."
The National Interest did check with the commission - the AEC has no data on such "conscientious objectors" to enrollment - not even a back of the envelope guestimate.
Finally a correction - in discussing redistrubutions I said Queensland is gaining a seat because its population has grown, and NSW losing one because its population has fallen.
In fact, writes David from Queensland: "The population of both states has increased by about 100,000 per year. This represents a proportionately bigger population jump in Qld because of its smaller initial size - hence the redistribution."
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