Sinopsis
Class Act looks at class in Australia and we ask some questions: What are the divisions? How did we arrive at this point? What can we do about inequality? And why are we so weird about class?
Episodios
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01 | Patient Zero: Something In The Water
13/08/2020 Duración: 41minDisease is spreading in the wake of a natural disaster on the Caribbean nation of Haiti — and everyone thinks they know where it's coming from… (Spoiler: They don't).
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01 | Section 71 — Tasmanian crime of gay sex
10/07/2020 Duración: 28minIt might surprise you to learn that until 1997, a man could go to jail for up to 21 years for having sex with another man in Australia.
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02 | Section 71 — The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding
10/07/2020 Duración: 28minThe High Court showdown over religious freedom that could help you understand how schools are funded to this day.
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03 | Section 71 — Communists, Terrorists and the High Court
10/07/2020 Duración: 28minHow much power does the Federal Government have to protect Australians from international threats?
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04 | Section 71 —The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1)
10/07/2020 Duración: 28minEver wondered how the term "secret women's business" entered the Australian lexicon? It's part of a bitter legal battle over land, culture and history in South Australia.
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05 | Section 71 — The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2)
10/07/2020 Duración: 27minIn the second part of the long running and divisive case known as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, the battle heads inside the High Court.
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06 | Section 71 — The Race Power
10/07/2020 Duración: 11minAn extra episode in the series about High Court cases which have changed Australia. Series producer Jane Lee unpicks the origins and uses of Section 51(26) of the Australian Constitution, which gives the Federal Parliament the power to make special laws for a particular race of people.
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04 | Hot Mess — Hope
23/05/2020 Duración: 39minDespite all the gridlock on Australia's climate policy, there are moves towards a decarbonised economy. The exit from coal is gathering pace in the finance and insurance sectors. On the technology front, cheaper renewables are driving new green hydrogen projects that could make Australia an energy super power. And there's the kids - the Climate Strike generation will soon be voting and they want action. Perhaps there's a chance we can really change.
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03 | Hot Mess — Party lines
16/05/2020 Duración: 38minThere's more to our climate politics than the circus of losing a succession of Prime Ministers. Export earnings, donations, access, revolving doors between politics and industry mean that both sides of politics are close to the fossil fuel sector. In our tight Parliament, mining regions have become crucially important. And actions like the recent Stop Adani Convoy have only deepened climate change divisions.
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02 | Hot Mess — Spin Cycle
09/05/2020 Duración: 40minThe fossil fuel industries ignored their own research as far back as the 1960s and then denied climate change was going on. We hear how a small group of think tanks and a compliant media pushed our buttons, undermined the science, and turned it into a controversy.
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01 | Hot Mess — Human frailties
02/05/2020 Duración: 36minWhat it is about us, all of us, that makes climate change hard to get our heads around and even harder to do something about? We talk to people who understand that climate change is a real danger and people who don’t. And we hear from researchers looking at why we are the way we are.
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INTRODUCING Hot Mess — Why haven’t we fixed climate change?
25/04/2020 Duración: 04minIt's been just over three decades since most of us first heard about global warming. Meanwhile, the 20 hottest years on record have all occurred in the last quarter century. The implications of extreme weather and climate change are now being felt. Why have we done relatively little in response?
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04 | Shifting Cultures: Vanuatu's stolen generation
22/02/2020 Duración: 28min150 years ago thousands of young men were taken from the Pacific Islands. Today the scars are still being felt.
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03 | Shifting Cultures: Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia
15/02/2020 Duración: 28minMuslim Malaysians often have complex and tangled views about polygamy. Their feelings and beliefs aren’t always mirrored by their actions. What role does pragmatism play? What role does faith play?
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02 | Shifting Cultures: Survival and revival in the Torres Strait
08/02/2020 Duración: 28minThe island of Poruma is a shrinking tropical paradise — battered by king tides and eaten by coastal erosion. Meet the locals fighting for survival, in more ways than one.
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01 | Shifting Cultures: South Korea's hope in hell
01/02/2020 Duración: 28minExpectation and competition are pushing young South Koreans to give up on marriage and kids.
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08 | Myths of War — Vietnam: the war's forgotten supporters
20/01/2020 Duración: 25minWhy do we remember the demonstrators but forget the supporters?
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07 | Myths of War: Gay servicemen in Vietnam
13/01/2020 Duración: 25minNo poofters? They shouldn’t have been there — but they were.
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06| Myths of War — The Thai-Burma railway and the myth of the river Kwai
06/01/2020 Duración: 25minIt’s not just Aussies who have mates.