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  1. Superannuation in Australia - Rear Vision - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Rear Vision dives into the murky waters of superannuation to see just how Australia came up with its unusual system of retirement funding.

    A means-tested age pension became available in Australia to all women aged sixty and men aged sixty five in 1910. It was - and is - paid out of general revenue. Superannuation – a retirement savings scheme in which our employer contributes a certain percentage of our wages into a fund – didn’t become widely available in Australia until it was introduced by the Keating government in the early 1990s. Rear Vision looks at how Australia came up with its unusual system of funding retirement through a mix of superannuation and the age pension.

    Guests:
    Professor Susan Thorp, Chair of Finance and Superannuation, University of Technology, Sydney

    Peter Martin, Economics correspondent for Fairfax Media

    Professor Francis Castles, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University

    Further Information:
    ASIC Money Smart (https://www.moneysmart.gov.au/superannuation-and-retirement)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/superannuation-in-australia/4626038

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  2. Feed-in tariffs for renewable electricity - Hans-Josef Fell, MP

    Hans-Josef Fell is a Member of the German Federal Parliament and Energy Policy Speaker for the German Greens. He wrote the draft Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) which was adopted in 2000 in the face of a strong political opposition.

    The adoption of the EEG led directly to the phenomenally successful German feed-in tariff policy. The EEG is the foundation for the technological developments in photovoltaics, biogas, wind power and geothermal energy in Germany, which are admired throughout the world.

    The underlying principle of the EEG has now been copied in dozens of countries, as well as most Australian states and territories.

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  3. The law and technology behind Australia’s internet filtering | ZDNet

    Australia’s newly-announced internet "filtering" plan relies on an unprecedented interpretation of the law and will do little to prevent the spread of child abuse material.

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  4. Where is Future Growth Going to Come From? - Prof. John Van Reenen - LSE

    LSE Works: Centre for Economic Performance

    Special Event 2/17/12

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  5. ‘Million-Dollar Blocks’ Map Incarceration’s Costs : NPR

    Many cities spend millions on prisons annually, and often those moving in and out of jail come from the same neighborhoods. The Justice Mapping Center maps those costs, block by block, to help policymakers visualize where those public dollars are going — and determine if they could be better spent.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/10/02/162149431/million-dollar-blocks-map-incarcerations-costs

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  6. David Cay Johnston on How the Rich Get Richer : NPR

    Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston explores in his new book how in recent years, government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the rich and politically connected.

    http://www.npr.org/2008/01/03/17808622/david-cay-johnston-on-how-the-rich-get-richer

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  7. SCT #12: The Ethics of ARGs

    In episode 12 of Social Change Technology Dr Burcu Bakioglu (Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media at Lawrence University) returns to talk to Andrea Phillips the award-winning transmedia writer, Alternate Reality Game designer and author.

    This podcast focuses on some of the fascinating ethical and legal issues brought about by ARGs (Alternate Reality Games). What makes ARGs unique is that they are played out in the physical world but they inhabit a conceptual spaces that not only sits somewhere between fiction and reality but actively blurs the boundaries between the two. In the podcast Andrea draws on case studies of actual ARGs to ask - can you sign a friend up for a game that might make them feel threatened? Should players every be asked to break real-world rules, if so, which ones? And, if you listen to your lawyers and add a legal disclaimer to every part of your game – is the fiction shattered, ruining the game for everyone? http://www.virtualpolicy.net/sct012.html

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  8. Paul Brodsky: Central Banks Are Nearing The ‘Inflate Or Die’ Stage | ZeroHedge

    Submitted by Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity Paul Brodsky: Central Banks Are Nearing The ‘Inflate Or Die’ Stage"It’s impossible to have a political solution to a balance sheet problem" says Paul Brodsky, bond market expert and co-founder of QB Asset Management. The world has simply gotten itself into too much debt. There are creditors that expect to be paid, and debtors that are having an increasingly difficult time making their coupon payments. No amount of political or policy intervention is going to change that reality. (Unless a global "debt jubilee" transpires, which Paul thinks is unlikely). Looking at the global monetary base, Paul sees it dwarfed by the staggering amount of debts that need to be repaid or serviced. The reckless use of leverage has resulted in a chasm between total credit and the money that can service it. So how will this debt overhang be resolved? Central bank money printing — and lots of it — thinks Paul. At this point, the danger posed by the instability of our monetary and fiscal house of cards is so great that trying to time an investment program to when this avalanche of printing will occur is too risky, in Paul’s opinion. It’s time to shift your remaining capital into hard assets and sit on the sidelines to watch the carnage play out. On The Imbalance Between Debts and Money Supply We are seeing — not only in the US but in Europe and in Asia, as well — separating bank assets and base money. Base money is comprised of currency in circulation plus bank reserves that are held at central banks — at the Fed or that is at the ECB, the Bank of Japan, so on and so forth. This is how the global economy rolls, as they say. Bank assets are loans mostly. And the amounts globally are staggering: something approaching $100 trillion in global bank assets. And in the US we think that is somewhere around $20 trillion held in the US and abroad. And the numbers for the monetary base are much, much lower.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/paul-brodsky-central-banks-are-nearing-inflate-or-die-stage

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  9. David Nutt reveals the truth about drugs

    Professor David Nutt discusses his book Drugs – Without the Hot Air, and argues that society’s prohibition of psychedelic substances is preventing groundbreaking science

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2012/jul/02/science-weekly-podcast-david-nutt-drugs

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  10. RSA - The Geek Manifesto: Why science matters

    There has never been a better time to be a geek. What was once an insult used to marginalize the curious has become a badge of honour. People who care about science have stopped apologizing for their interests, and are gaining the political confidence to stand up for them instead.

    Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance healthcare or generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we’re governed to the news we’re fed by the media, we’re let down by a lack of understanding and respect for its insights and evidence.

    Leading science communicator Mark Henderson, visits the RSA to explain why and how we need to entrench scientific thinking more deeply into public life. With over a decade of experience as the science correspondent for the Times, Henderson has seen it all, and plans to gather a new agenda-setting movement and turn it into a force our leaders cannot ignore.

    Chair: Alice Bell, senior teaching fellow in science and public policy, Imperial College London.

    See what people said on Twitter: #RSAgeek

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/the-geek-manifesto-why-science-matters

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