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  1. Rausim! Digital Politics in Papua New Guinea - CAP - ANU

    In this podcast PhD researcher Sarah Logan examines how information technology and social media are changing the face of politics in Papua New Guinea.

    Mobile phone use and internet access have increased exponentially in PNG over the past five years, a trend which is set to continue. This increase in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) is unprecedented in a country with historically low rates of landline use and a relatively sparsely populated media environment.

    However, despite this striking change in the media landscape and increasing evidence of its impact on politics in PNG, there is very little research on the political impact of ICT use in PNG. This seminar places what little we know about this issue in the context of research elsewhere on the impact of ICT on politics. Drawing on literature on the use of the Internet and mobile phones to organise political protests, to enhance transparency initiatives and to increase political engagement, this seminar outlines relevant findings in research conducted elsewhere. The seminar goes on to argue that key features of PNG’s political, social and cultural environment mean that although useful the application of such research to PNG is relatively limited.

    Sarah Logan is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and was previously a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was a researcher at the Office of National Assessments (ONA) from 2006 - 2012. Sarah’s research interests revolve around the impact of the internet on international politics, especially the evolution of political community in international relations and the impact of ICT on political institutions in fragile states. In 2012 She published a discussion paper with SSGM on digital politics in PNG. She blogs at www.ircircuit.com and tweets as @circt.

    http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/news-events/podcasts/rausim-digital-politics-papua-new-guinea#.UYSnBeBH2ME

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  2. UK removing carbon from the energy equation - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    British policy is to change the electricity industry so it emits very little carbon. Then transport needs to be changed to use electricity. Richard Lester reviews the options and the challenges.

    Guests: Richard Green, Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Business School, Imperial College London UK

    Further Information Richard Green at Imperial College London (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.green)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/uk-removing-carbon-from-the-energy-equation/4639986

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  3. The Politics of Public Things - Big Ideas - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Professor Bonnie Honig opens the 2013 Thinking Out Loud lecture series and asks whether democracy can survive the neoliberal demand to privatise public things?

    In the first of three talks she discusses Donald Winnicott’s notion of transitional objects, the role it plays in childhood development and what it might mean for society. She also draws on the work of the highly influential political philosopher Hannah Arendt and by way of a few real world examples she describes how Hurricane Sandy forced people to remember and embrace “old world” public goods like pay phones ….and there’s reference to Big Bird from Sesame street which she contends has come to symbolise a world where the few remaining public objects are constantly under threat.

    Highlights of The Politics of Public Things: Neoliberalism and the Routine of Privatisation, presented by RN’s The Philosopher’s Zone and The Philosophy Research Initiative of the University of Western Sydney. April 2013

    Guests:
    Professor Bonnie Honig, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and senior research professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.

    Dr Charles Barbour, School-based Member of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy and a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/the-politics-of-public-things/4630284

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  4. Australia and Asia - Counterpoint - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Does Australia really care about Asia? Are we too narrow in our perspective of a relationship that may just be too one sided? Sure they are major trading partners but beyond that how much do we understand, or want to understand our near neighbours.

    Guests:
    Michael Wesley, Former Executive Director The Lowy Institute for International Policy. Former Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

    Publications:
    Title: There Goes The Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia
    Author: Michael Wesley
    Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
    ISBN: 978 1 742 232 720

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/counterpoint/australia-and-asia/4285814

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  5. Innovation in Australia part 3 of 3 - getting to where we want to be - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    In the final part of his three-part series on innovation in Australia, Mark Dodgson argues for the importance of innovation in creating a prosperous society. He contrasts the success of countries which have embraced innovation with the stagnation of those which have not. After describing the influence of Australia’s colonial past, and efforts in recent decades to bring forth change, this week Mark Dodgson presents his simple recipe for government, business and education, to create a nation with a prosperous future.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/innovation-in-australia-part-3-of-3-e28093-getting-to-where-/4507052

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  6. Innovation in Australia part 2 of 3 - recent times - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Mark Dodgson continues his look at innovation in Australia. We hear about Australian inventor Arthur Bishop (1917–2006), described as a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci. He took on the world car industry with his new steering mechanism. Politician John Button sought to modernise Australia’s backward approach to industry in the 1980s, and the CSIRO, bruised and battered at the turn of the century survives as it transforms itself making its research more market-focussed. This week it launched its latest flagship, concentrating on digital communications.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/innovation-in-australia-part-2-of-3---recent-times/4496206

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  7. Good Sex - The Confessions and Campaigns of W.J. Chidley - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Warning: This radio documentary contains sexual references.

    A century ago, Australian sex reformer William Chidley (c.1860-1916) was locked up for speaking openly about a taboo subject, and ultimately died in Callan Park Mental Hospital. But the moral outrage he provoked was largely to do with the kind of sex he advocated. It’s also what prompted later historians to call Chidley a ‘true feminist’.

    Chidley’s ideas about how sex should proceed still raise an eyebrow and provoke responses ranging from ridicule to alarm. In essence, he wanted to demote the erection, and elevate instead the woman’s readiness as the crucial determiner of when sexual intercourse should start. The Answer was dedicated ‘to womankind’.

    As well as being a sex reformer, Chidley was a dress and food reformer. To combat the human misery he saw all around him, he prescribed vegetarianism, fresh air, sunlight and unrestrictive clothing. But it was his critique of conventional sex that led him into trouble.

    In the years leading up to the First World War, he was a familiar sight in the streets of Melbourne and Sydney, dressed in a simple Grecian-style tunic, selling his book The Answer and addressing crowds for as long as he could get away with graphically describing his recipe for ‘natural coition’. He was repeatedly arrested and prosecuted; one police record lists twenty-five court appearances between 1912 and 1916.

    Even though he was regarded by many as a crank, Chidley gained a following and found people willing to defend him from persecution by the state. His supporters included free speech advocates, socialists and feminists. In this way, his story intersects with the most significant social movements of his day and forms part of the Australian history of radicalism.

    In the end, the arbiters of public morality defeated Chidley. The Answer was suppressed by a Supreme Court decision in 1914, and on three occasions between 1912 and 1916 Chidley was declared insane, with compulsory detention at asylums in Darlinghurst, Callan Park and Goulburn. He died of heart disease at Callan Park, just a couple of months after a failed suicide attempt in gaol.

    Good Sex – The Confessions and Campaigns of W.J. Chidley reveals how Chidley came to develop his unorthodox sexual theory through promiscuous life experience and wide reading in public libraries. It places his ideas in the broader context of social reform efforts around the turn of the century.

    Along the way, we glimpse a vivid and contested social order in early twentieth century Australia. We are introduced to the disparate forces that lined up in Chidley’s defence, as well as the machinations deployed by the state to suppress him. Ultimately we learn why Chidley’s critique of the politics of sexual intercourse was anathema in a patriarchal state on the brink of war.

    Guests:
    Sally McInerney, Editor - The Confessions of William James Chidley – Keep an eye out for a new edition of Chidley’s Confessions which Sally McInerney is currently working on.
    Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno, Associate Professor in History, Australian National University
    Professor Mark Finnane, Professor of History, Griffith University
    Dr Lisa Featherstone, Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle

    Publications:
    Title: The Confessions of William James Chidley
    Author: W.J. Chidley edited by Sally McInerney
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 1977

    Title: The Answer
    Author: W.J. Chidley
    Publisher: Australasian Authors’ Agency, 1911

    Title: The Sex Lives of Australians - A History
    Author: Frank Bongiorno
    Publisher: Black Inc. 2012

    Title: ‘Censoring Sex: The Case of W.J. Chidley’
    Author: Lisa Featherstone
    Publisher: article currently in press

    Title: ‘The Popular Defence of Chidley’
    Author: Mark Finnane
    Publisher: Labour History (journal), November 1981

    Title: What Rough Beast? The State and Social Order in Australian History
    Author: Sydney Labour History Group
    Publisher: Allen & Unwin 1982

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/good-sex---the-confessions-and-campaigns-of-wj-chidley/4597570

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  8. Can we learn from History? - Video and audio - News and media - Home

    Speaker(s): Andrew Marr Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun

    Recorded on 10 December 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.

    Andrew Marr is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He hosts the Sunday morning BBC1 programme The Andrew Marr Show as well as BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week every Monday. He wrote and presented his own History of Modern Britain and The Making of Modern Britain for BBC2, which were hugely popular with viewers and won prestigious awards from the Royal Television Society, the Broadcasting Press Guild and BAFTA. More recent offerings include the Diamond Queen documentary and his most recent show, History of the World is being broadcast on BBC1. A book accompanies the series, A History of the World.

    Born in Glasgow, Andrew went to school in Scotland and gained a first-class degree in English from Cambridge University. He began his career in journalism on The Scotsman newspaper in 1981, later moving to London to become its political correspondent. He was part of the team which launched The Independent in 1986 and returned as its editor, after a stint at The Economist magazine. He was then a columnist for The Express and The Observer before making the move into television, as the BBC’s Political Editor, in May 2000.

    http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1684

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  9. Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics - Video and audio - News and media - Home

    Speaker(s): Dr Daniel Stedman Jones, Professor Mark Pennington, Professor Lord Skidelsky Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge

    Recorded on 16 January 2013 in Old Theatre, Old Building.

    How did American and British policymakers become so enamoured with free markets, deregulation, and limited government? Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Daniel Stedman Jones has traced the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. He contends that there was nothing inevitable about the victory of free-market politics. Far from being the story of the simple triumph of right-wing ideas, the neoliberal breakthrough was contingent on the economic crises of the 1970s and the acceptance of the need for new policies by the political left. In his lecture he will describe neoliberalism’s road to power, beginning in interwar Europe, then shifting its centre of gravity after 1945 to the United States, especially to Chicago and Virginia, where it was developed into an uncompromising political message, communicated through a transatlantic network of think tanks, businessmen, politicians, and journalists held together by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. A discussion for anyone who wants to understand the history behind the Anglo-American love affair with the free market, as well as the origins of the current economic crisis.

    Daniel Stedman Jones is a barrister in London. He was educated at the University of Oxford and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a PhD in history. He has worked as a policy adviser for the New Opportunities Fund and as a researcher for Demos. His latest book is Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics.

    Mark Pennington is Professor of Public Policy and Political Economy, King’s College, University of London, prior to which he spent eleven years at Queen Mary, University of London. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Mark’s work lies at the intersection of politics, philosophy and economics with a particular emphasis on the classical liberal tradition. His latest book, Robust Political Economy (2011: Cheltenham, Edward Elgar) examines challenges to classical liberalism derived from neo-classical economics, communitarian political theory and egalitarian ethics. From January 2013 Mark will be the European Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics.

    Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, and he recently published Keynes: The Return of the Master.

    http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1707

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  10. Australia’s welfare state - Rear Vision - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Welfare benefits have been in the news a lot lately –€“ in Europe as governments struggle with debt, in the US with Mitt Romney’€™s comments about the ‘47 percent dependent on government entitlements’€™ and here in Australia as the federal government cuts back the baby bonus. This week on Rear Vision the story of welfare in Australia.

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

    Professor Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy , Australian National University

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/australia27s-welfare-state/4379252

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