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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. LSE | At the Origins of Modern Atheism

    Speaker(s): Rev Dr Giles Fraser, Professor John Gray
    Chair: Dr Matthew Engelke
    Recorded on 6 June 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.

    In the first event of the Programme for the Study of Religion and Non-Religion, Giles Fraser examines the links between Enlightenment thought and theology, reflecting on how theology frames the very ways in which we can understand the denial of God.

    Giles Fraser is the former canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral.

    John Gray is emeritus professor of European Thought at LSE.

    http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1508

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  4. 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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  5. RN Rear Vision - 28 December 2008 - Alcohol in Australia: a history of drinking

    Australians have enjoyed a drink since the first days of white settlement. On Rear Vision this week, a history of drinking in Australia and of government attempts to control it. This program was first broadcast on 15 June 2008.

    Guests:
    Richard Midford, Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, WA

    Dr Milton Lewis, Historian of medicine and public health, Australian Health Policy Institute, University of Sydney

    Professor Robin Room, Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, University of Melbourne

    Publications:
    Title: A rum state: alcohol and state policy in Australia
    Author: Milton Lewis
    Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/stories/2008/2436574.htm

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  6. Podcasts | The National Archives | UFO file release March 2011

    Dr David Clarke, author of ‘The UFO Files’ and senior lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, reveals the importance of the latest batch of UFO files to be released by The National Archives. The 35 files cover the years 2000-2005 and contain over 8,500 pages of UFO sightings and reports, colour photographs and drawings, RAF investigations, unusual radar detections, parliamentary briefings, Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and - for the first time - documents on the government’s policy on UFOs. Dr Clarke highlights some of the files’ most interesting revelations, including how the UFO phenomenon was discussed at the highest level of government and Security Services worldwide including at the United Nations, and how the introduction of the FOI Act led to the MoD opening the UFO files up to the public for the first time in history.

    The National Archives is the UK governments official archive. Our main duties are to preserve government records and to set standards in information management and re-use.

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/default.htm

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  7. LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto » Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians

    The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Translated by Samuel Moore. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system. Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians – 00:39:48 Read by: Jon Ingram http://librivox.org/the-communist-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels/

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  8. LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto » Section 2: Proletarians and Communist

    The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Translated by Samuel Moore. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system. Section 2: Proletarians and Communists – 00:27:24 Read by: Jon Ingram http://librivox.org/the-communist-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels/

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  9. LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto » Section 3: Socialist and Communist Literature

    The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Translated by Samuel Moore. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system. Section 3: Socialist and Communist Literature – 00:29:41 http://librivox.org/the-communist-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels/

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  10. RSA - Chairman’s Inaugural Lecture - The Perils of Property

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2010/chairmans-inaugural-lecture-the-perils-of-property

    RSA Keynote

    Please note that this event has been rescheduled from the original 5th October date.

    RSA Chairman, Luke Johnson gives this year’s inaugural lecture.

    Luke Johnson, will discuss how a fixation with property ownership has unbalanced the economy and distorted behaviour and public policy.

    Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA

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