Surveillance technology is now a standard feature in the fight against crime, states Natasha Mitchell on Life Matters. CCTV cameras are everywhere and CCTV camera vision helped to identify the man accused of the murder of Jill Meagher in Melbourne. Clubs and hotels also now scan licences or fingerprints before allowing access to the venue...

By Design looks at the future of three areas of regional Australian cities in the 21st century: Gladstone in Queensland, Geelong in Victoria, and the Pilbara cities in Western Australia. We examine their role and the challenges they face over the next 50 years. How important -- or irrelevant -- are they to the future...

Since the end of the 19th century people have struggled to build better cities, free of the slums and smoke that were part and parcel of the industrial revolution. Architects saw that the industrialised world was one of enormous possibilities with room for visionary ideas to escape the problems of the day, be it a...

By Design takes a stroll through the streets of Adelaide, investigating how the city has changed since the early 20th century. In 1936 photographer Gustav Hermann Baring celebrated the city in his publication Progressive Adelaide: As It Stands Today. This was both a catalogue of commerce and a labour of love. In 2012 photographer Mick...

Is this the last generation of newspaper cartoonists? And more importantly, what will we lose when they are gone? Phillip Adams from Life Matters discusses. A special global discussion about cartoons and whether they can survive the digital age. Listen in full