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  1. Public Intimacies: The Royal Commission on Human Relationships - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Women’s liberation, gay liberation, and the so-called permissive society, €”this story charts the groundbreaking and controversial government inquiry into the social changes of the 1970s.

    The 1970s was a time of social and cultural transformation in Australia. The rise of women’s liberation, gay liberation, and the so-called permissive society meant that the line between private behaviour and public life was beginning to break down.

    There was a new willingness to speak up about experiences of discrimination, and new urgency to push for change, especially to laws around homosexuality and abortion.

    The Whitlam government was full of reforming zeal when it was elected in late 1972. But while it couldn’t change the laws around abortion, it did create something much more complex: a Royal Commission on Human Relationships.

    This inquiry into family and intimate life would go on to provoke fierce outrage and resistance. But it opened up conversations about private life that we’re still having today.

    Special thanks to the National Archives of Australia, who supported this project through the 2012 Frederick Watson Fellowship.

    Guests:
    Bobbie Burke, Former staff member of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships
    Anne Deveson, Writer and broadcaster
    Robert Eillicott, Former Minister for Home Affairs in the Fraser government
    Elizabeth Evatt, Former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
    Gabrielle Hyslop, Daughter of the Royal Commission’s official secretary, Robert Hyslop
    Elizabeth Reid, Former advisor on women’s affairs to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam
    Faye Roberts, Former staff member of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships
    Peter de Waal, Former activist and member of CAMP NSW (the Campaign against Moral Persecution)
    Sue Wills, Former activist, researcher for the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, and historian

    Publications:
    Title: Royal Commission on Human Relationships Final Report, Volumes 1-5
    Author: Elizabeth Evatt et al
    Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1977

    Title: Royal Commission on Human Relationships Interim Report
    Author: Elizabeth Evatt et al
    Publisher: Government Printer, Canberra 1976

    Title: Australians at Risk
    Author: Anne Deveson
    Publisher: Cassell Australia 1978

    Title: Public Intimacies: Revisiting the Royal Commission on Human Relationships 1974-77
    Author: Michelle Arrow
    Publisher: in ‘Acts of Love and Lust: Sexuality in Australia from 1945-2010’ edited by Reynolds, Featherstone & Jennings, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming, 2013

    Further Information:
    Women’s Weekly article about the Royal Commission - 28 December 1977 (http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/45656799)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/public-intimacies3a-the-royal-commission-on-human-relationships/4646926

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  2. Education, Police Reform, and Personal Responsibility Necessary to Stop Sectarian Violence in Pakistan | Atlantic Council

    http://www.acus.org/content/education-police-reform-and-personal-responsibility-necessary-stop-sectarian-violence-pakist

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  3. Noam Chomsky : Media Matters with Bob McChesney | Page 1 of 45 pages | Illinois Public Media | University of Illinois

    Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class warfare waged from above against the needs and interests of the great majority.

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  4. AUDIO: Marked for life: Songbun, North Korea’s social classification system - Foreign and Defense Policy - AEI

    June 6, 2012 http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/audio-marked-for-life-songbun-north-koreas-social-classification-system/

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  5. Reporters’ Roundtable: Apple’s China problem

    Apple is the most valuable U.S. company there is, and the most powerful and influential consumer electronics company by far. It is obscenely profitable. This amazing success is built on the backs of hundreds of thousands of factory workers, almost all of them in China, who assemble iPhones, and other products from other vendors, in giant, science-fiction-scale plants that never stop. These plants take their toll. On workers in China. And on jobs here in the United states. Two recent pieces of outstanding journalism highlight the issues. First, there’s a series developing in The New York Times, co-authored by Charles Duhigg, that kicked off in the Sunday edition: "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work." A follow-on piece, "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad," ran Wednesday. Second, a "This American Life" episode, "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," has reignited interest in monologuist Mike Daisey’s report of his trip to visit the birthplace of his iPhone, the Foxconn plant in China. Today we have both Charles Duhigg and Mike Daisey on the Roundtable, and we’re going to talk about Apple’s muscle, how it works with Chinese manufacturing companies, if there’s any chance that manufacturing could return to the U.S. And if it would be a good thing if it did. Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to the emerging reports on working conditions at Apple’s device manufacturers. I discussed this response with Duhigg in a separate interview, which is at the end of this Roundtable (at the 24-minute mark, if you want to go straight there).

    Read more: http://news.cnet.com/reporters-roundtable-podcast/#ixzz1lNosldHP

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  6. All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 7: The Marco Polo of Neuroscience - V.S Ramachandran - All In The Mind - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Natasha Mitchell has interviewed many of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on the mind over the past decade, and one the most creative is acclaimed neuroscientist and polymath of the brain Professor V.S Ramachandran. Next week, All in the Mind swaps shows and slots for a season of an exciting new show The Body Sphere hosted by Amanda Smith. In April, All in the Mind returns for a season, presented by Lynne Malcolm. Body and mind hook up on ABC Radio National in 2012! 5pm Sundays, 1pm Mondays.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/do-you-read-me-hal-robot-wars-moral-machines-and/3688996

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  7. All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 6: The Power of Forgiveness - All In The Mind - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela was on South Africa’s historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chairing many of its tortuous public hearings about atrocities committed in the apartheid era. In an unprecedented dialogue she met with one of apartheid’s most abhorrent killers, in jail, to explore forgiveness, psychological redemption and the symbolic language of trauma.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/all-in-the-mind-10th-anniversary-special-6-do-you/3688994

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  8. The Vancouver Human Rights Lecture — Cute Cats and The Arab Spring

    In the 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture, Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, looks at the "cute cat" theory of internet activism, and how it helps explain the Arab Spring. He discusses how activists around the world are turning to social media tools which are extremely powerful, easy to use and difficult for governments to censor. The Vancouver Human Rights Lecture is co-sponsored by the UBC Continuing Studies, the Laurier Institution, and Yahoo.

    http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2011/12/09/the-vancouver-human-rights-lecture---cute-cats-and-the-arab-spring/

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  9. WYNC On the Media: Search and Destroy (the ‘Human Flesh’ Search Engine in China)

    "In China, it’s hard to be anonymous online in part due to a phenomenon known as the human-flesh search engine. It’s not really a search engine at all. Rather, it’s a community of message board users that seek out and punish in the real world people they find committing offensive acts online. Tom Downey explains in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that the human flesh search engine offers a disturbing mix of justice and revenge."

    From http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/03/05/04

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  10. Third Paradigm: 3P-024 We Interrupt This Commercial

    Looks at a book called The Soap Opera Paradigm: Television Programming and Corporate Priorities. In particular, examines the idealism of radio and TV in their youth, before the seeds of commercialism took over. Shows how the soap style has been adopted by sports, prime-time, reality shows, disaster coverage, and especially news broadcasting.

    Reads In Praise of the Earth by John O’Donohue to the music of Evolution by Cinematic Orchestra. Comments on healthcare as a human right, and proposes an alternative model. Ties in newborn chicks to Naomi Klein’s article, "Brain Bubbles and Hope Hangovers." Plays "Had a Dream" by Bird York, Mat Weddle’s acoustic cover of the Outkast song, "Hey Ya," popularized by Scrubs, and "Words Can Save Us" by Chumbawumba.

    Read the show transcript while listening, and view our images, videos, and links on the Third Paradigm website:

    http://3rdparadigm.org/3p_024.php

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