As more and more refugees arrive in Australian waters by boat, Rear Vision takes a look at the history of Australia's policies on asylum seekers, from the first boatload of Vietnamese back in 1976 through to today. First broadcast 7/4/2010 Guests Mary CrockProfessor of Public Law in the Department of law at the University of...

In this episode - the intriguingly named Decision Tree, self tracking tools, Second Life and the use of video games in aged care facilities? They're all part of a growing trend around personalised health and the way technology can be used to improve our health and wellbeing. Guests Thomas GoetzExecutive Editor of Wired Magazine and...

Australia's manufacturing sector is trying to recalibrate, to move into new cutting-edge industries, but innovation is only part of the equation. GuestsDr John KapelerisDeputy CEO, Australian Institute for CommercialisationProfessor Xungai WangDirector, Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation, Deakin UniversityProfessor Ian BoydDirector, Melbourne Centre for NanofabricationMichael JonesChief Technology Advocate, Google

Imagine if the future stretched on forever. Why do we need to die? Can we use science to extend our lives? And what about immortality? The social impacts, and the biological realities, of ageing - that's this week's program. GuestsJonathan WeinerMaxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism, Columbia UniversityDr Damien DowlingResearch Fellow, School...

Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored. Terrorists, she says, spend their days searching for money because terrorism is a very expensive business. The decisions and...