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1. The Cinema of Distraction: the Australian drive-in - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

   In February 1954 the first drive-in opened in Australia, in the outer Melbourne suburb of Burwood. Within two years, drive-in cinemas had sprung up in cities and country towns all over the country, as Australians embraced this new form of leisure that combined their twin passions for the cinema and the car. This feature explores the social changes that took place in Australia in the post war decades, which provided the backdrop for the popularity of drive-in cinema, where ‘the comfort lay in all the things you could do’. We also hear from some of the pioneer operators, and from those with memories of visits to the drive-in.

   Further Information:
   A tribute to Australian Drive-ins (http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/)

   http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/drive-ins/4295984

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2. Background Briefing - 14 August 2011 - Auditing the auditors

   Where does the buck stop when big banks and corporations, even nations collapse. Who signs off on the books? The auditors or the directors of the board? And who should tell investors when there’s something shifty going on? Who are the auditors answerable to? Reporter, Stan Correy.

   http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3291026.htm

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3. 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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