From Pillar to Post
Vital community issues within Australia, that travel from community to parliament or in the other direction, but always including how they are playing out with community media. This weekly podcast is presented by the Community Radio sector's Political Reporter, Noah Secomb.
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As all eyes turn to users of music streaming platforms like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music, questions of ethics and supporting artists cannot be ignored. We speak to those in community broadcasting to find an alternative to the well-engrained culture of streaming and an artist who hopes others will follow his lead in ditching the platforms altogether.
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Recent years of domestic violence advocacy and protest have fallen from prominence as rates of fatalities decrease. But away from the east coast policy is changing and organisations are pushing to keep the momentum going. South Australia established the only Royal Commission into family, domestic and sexual violence in the country which handed down its final report earlier this year. Can we expect governments across the country to ...
You could easily be forgiven for thinking the state of climate policy was a bit dire in Australia after weeks and months of speculation over the Coalition's eventual decision to dump net-zero targets. Despite all that, it appears emissions will continue to go down as state and territory Liberal parties have reaffirmed their support to meet net-zero in coming decades. Experts say the world is moving in the same direction to a low-em...
50 years on from the Whitlam dismissal fewer and fewer people can recall exactly what happened and why it was such a critical moment in Australian political history. It's a story of holding up democracy, the human impact of politics, and something we should all remember so it isn't repeated it in the future. Presenter - Noah Secomb, Producer - Martin Davies.
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Shouldn’t we all have a right to clean air? It’s a question being asked by some in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales. Air quality monitors sit amongst the vast scale open cast coal mining, but are they adequate, and are they really protecting locals' lungs in an area where a medical trial suggests asthma levels are higher than elsewhere.
Presenter - Noah Secomb, Producer and reporting, Martin Davies.
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It isn't reasonable to say there is one sure-fire way to fix the housing crisis here in Australia. For all the federal government's talk of supply shortages, it isn't the only barrier of entry for people trying to buy a home. UTS Professor Alan Morris explains some of the missing pieces in our national housing system and the unfair split between the 'haves' and the 'have nots'.
Presenter - Noah Secomb, Producer - Martin Davie...
Home ownership is increasingly difficult across the country with many young Australians simply giving up at the idea of saving up a deposit. Vulnerable households are further from the services they need and the identity of our towns and cities are changing as essential workers are being priced out of the inner suburbs. Under the current investment model for the housing system communities are being defined by who can afford to live ...
It's hard to comprehend the importance of over one-million square kilometres of land and even harder to keep track of what's going on throughout 'Australia's foodbowl'. Communities are facing unique and existential challenges at each stage of the largest river system in the country.
Presenter - Noah Secomb, Producer - Martin Davies.
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The looming under 16s social media ban could change the way we engage with the internet and the security of some of our most personal information. What will the government do to improve the online safety not just for young Australians, but all Australians?
Presenter - Noah Secomb, Producer - Martin Davies.
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This week, we return to Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod and her journey to becoming the world's leading researcher in early developmental speech pathology. While we spoke to Professor McLeod about the impact of free higher education, the impact of her work internationally goes far beyond the day-to-day politics of university reform.
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More Australians are reaching out for mental health support, but service providers are at capacity. Just what can we do to help our friends and family in times of crisis?
With World Suicide Prevention Day and R U OK Day just around the corner, we take a look at where we're at across communities, advocates, and the politicians pushing for change in Canberra.
Presenter - Noah Secomb, Producer - Martin Davies.
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Recent statistics suggest that 6% of all nurses in Australia were trained in the Philippines. The country encourages this exodus upto a point, and has support systems in place to ease their passage away from home, and then connect and support them as they settle here. But for some it's tough, lonely, and is challenging, as they are tasked with proving themselves in skills they had already mastered, back home.
Presenter - Mart...
The federal government's attempt to ban social media for children under the age of 16 years old has been met with scepticism across the country. Despite assurances the responsibility lies with the tech giants, parents are unsure what role they'll have to play when the ban kicks in later this year. Meanwhile younger Australians are feeling ignored throughout the process with some worried tech literacy will only get worse.
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Year in, year out we see outcomes worsen in First Nations communities in Australia. Although the federal government has committed to further funding, it isn't reaching where it is needed most. Meanwhile, Indigenous representatives are calling for the government to act on existing recommendations from a royal commission from over 30 years ago as incarceration and suicide rates continue to rise.
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Understanding destructive algal blooms, the mayor who wants to improve health with his communities new smelter, and the political analyst saying Tasmania has learned its lesson. These are the issues explored this week, as From Pillar to Post updates you on some of the big community based issues that we have brought to you over the past months.
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The federal government has committed to keeping manufacturing in Australia to weather international developments and to tackle slow productivity growth. But with industries struggling to stay afloat and communities facing existential threats as the market shifts, what can the government do to keep this essential sector sustainable?
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Federal politics has returned to Canberra for the first time since the May election with reforms to student loans/HELP debts the first thing to hit parliament. The 20-percent reduction is a welcome change for the three million Australians managing a student debt.
But is this the first change of many, or the last we can expect for a while?
We take a look at how the nation and the world has benefited from fee-free university, a...
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