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Rating games; suing for privacy
It's taken a decade of debate, but Australia's states and territories have finally reached an agreement on violent and sexually explicit video games. The country's attorneys general have decided to introduce a new, adult rating for some video games: R18+. At last month's Standing Committee of Attorneys General, only New South Wales was holding out...
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Design, sustainability and the urmadic university
The Urmadic university is a university without a place, it isn't located anywhere, it is nomadic, it can move. This podcast features interviews with design academics and professionals exploring the university of the future and the future of sustainable design. Guests Cameron TonkinwiseAssociate Dean of Sustainability at Parsons, The New School for Design in New...
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Gender and leadership
This program asks why issues of gender equality and discrimination still exists after decades of the Feminist social movement. Feminism has been one of the most powerful social movements of the last fifty years. So why, after decades of progress, are questions of gender equality and discrimination still on the agenda? Wendy McCarthy ponders why...
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Who counts? A history of the census
Next week Australia holds its census, and so Rear Vision traces the recent history of this ancient institution, to make sense of who counts, and who does the counting. While there have been systems of "enumeration" in place since the Romans, Egyptians and Chinese wanted to keep track of populations and landowners, fighting forces and...
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Bigger cities, bigger slums
Our increasing urbanisation means a significant growth in the size and number of the world's slums. So, without romanticising the slum, can we make them places fit for living? And do we have any choice? Guests Billy CobbettManager of the Cities Alliance. Professor Paul JamesDirector of RMIT's Global Cities Institute & Director of the UN...