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| | | Hear how the biggest stories across the ABC sounded in 2019 — all on the ABC listen app. | |
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| | | | | Hack | Brooke Blurton, former Bachelor contestant and Aboriginal Youth Worker, and actor Remy Hii join Avani Dias to break down the closure of the Uluru climb. |
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| | | | | Conversations | The late Bob Hawke was Australia's 23rd Prime Minister, and led the Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1991. This conversation with Richard Fidler was recorded in front of an audience at the Woodford Folk Festival, which Bob attended every year. |
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| | | | | Background Briefing | Sexual abuse in aged care is on the rise and the perpetrators are often the very people paid to care for residents. The disturbing trend has been allowed to flourish in the absence of mandatory reporting and a national register of employees. Anne Connolly investigates. |
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| | | | | The Signal | A police officer in Hong Kong shoots an unarmed 21-year-old protester at point-blank range. Later that day a middle-aged man is doused in petrol and set alight after arguing with protesters. Months later, an explosion of violence continues in the battle for Hong Kong. |
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| | | | | Russia, If You're Listening | Russian intelligence agencies and Vladimir Putin have spent years spreading a conspiracy theory that Ukraine was the one who meddled in the 2016 US election. The theory quickly reached Donald Trump, and he became obsessed with proving it. He's now being impeached for his scheme to get Ukraine to investigate it, playing out perfectly for Putin. |
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| | | | | The Minefield | "Ethically thorny and also quintessentially modern," says Waleed Aly of the heated national debate surrounding Rugby Union mega-star and former Wallaby, Israel Folau. But what, exactly, is at play here? Aly and Scott Stephens scrutinize the debate. |
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| | | | | The Boyer Lectures | In 1968, the ABC's Boyer lecturer, the eminent anthropologist William Stanner alerted us to the 'Great Australian Silence' and the position of Indigenous people in Australian society. 51 years later, award winning filmmaker and director, Rachel Perkins urges us to listen the Indigenous voice and end that silence. |
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| | “The Uluru Statement and the Cook anniversary provide a moment in time - a catalyst to see each other better, to strive for a more holistic national identity,” Rachel Perkins delivers a powerful first Boyer Lecture. I can’t wait to hear the rest!" |
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| | | | | Background Briefing | Leaked messages reveal how Fraser Anning employed staff with connections to fascist groups, detailing a secret plan to disrupt the 2019 Federal Election campaign with racist stunts in order to help re-elect the now former Queensland senator. |
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| | | | | The Minefield | Why has it taken the sound of bullets fired and the sight of blood spilled to get some to see Muslims as fully human, as capable of placing demands on our attention or claims for our respect? |
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| | | | | Earshot | Giant, slate-blue glaciers of asbestos tailings still contaminate Western Australia's Wittenoom Gorge more than 50 years after the blue asbestos mine closed, putting new generations at risk of mesothelioma. Winner of the 2019 Walkley Award for Radio/Audio Feature. |
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| | | | | RN Drive | A controversial $80 million dollar water buyback links to former Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, who was the Minister for Agriculture signing off on the purchases. Patricia Karvelas questions Barnaby Joyce. |
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| | | | | Law Report | After a lengthy trial in Melbourne's County Court, a senior Vatican official and Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, is found guilty of child sexual abuse when he was Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996. Pell has denied the charges and has a final chance to overturn his conviction in 2020. Details of the trial and verdict are revealed following the lifting of a suppression order banning Australian media reporting the case. |
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