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In the frontline of the war against boredom
No full textAndrew Dodd reviews Bob Carr's absorbing and occasionally disturbing account of eighteen months as foreign minister
How it all went wrong
No full textPhilip Chubb's insider account of the demise of Kevin Rudd's climate scheme is essential reading, says Andrew Dodd
Crunch time: is the ABC really spread too thinly?
No full textSwinburne's program director of Journalism Andrew Dodd comments on the likely effects of funding cuts on the ABC
The government's media reforms: what 499 readers thought
No full textWhat we think about media regulation correlates strongly with what we read, write Ken Haley and Andrew Dodd
Premiers past - Joan Kirner
No full textJoan Kirner, Labor Premier of Victoria 1990-1992
The first female premier of Victoria, Kirner found herself at the top of a disintegrating government after the resignation of John Cain in 1990. She sold the State Bank, battled the ALP factions and was hounded by the Murdoch press before ultimately presiding over the massive defeat that marked the arrival of Jeff Kennett.
The interview with Andrew Dodd was first aired on the Radio National\u27s Verbatim program
Change agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
No full textThis is the first program in a new podcast series, Change Agents. It will focus on examples of ordinary people who have brought about profound social, political and cultural change, celebrating their success and explaining how they did it. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is the biggest social reform in Australia this century. By 2022 it will help half a million people access comprehensive disability support at a cost of around A$25 billion. On this program, two of the NDIS' founders explain how they developed something so radical and comprehensive and then won support for the idea. Bruce Bonyhady is the chairman and Rhonda Galbally is a board member of the National Disability Insurance Agency, the body that implements the NDIS. Change Agents is a collaboration between The Conversation and the Swinburne Leadership Institute and Swinburne University’s Department of Media and Communication. It is presented by Andrew Dodd and produced by Samuel Wilson and Andrew Dodd, with production by Heather Jarvis
Change agents: Stuart Morris and Leonie Hemingway on Australia’s most radical reform of local government
No full textVictoria's council reforms in 1994 remain Australia's most radical restructuring of local government.
The changes under the Kennett government reduced the number of councils from 210 to 79 through amalgamations. In this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd brings together Stuart Morris QC and Leonie Hemingway (formerly Leonie Burke), the two people who respectively led the Labor and Liberal governments' attempts at reform. They speak for the first time publicly about their successes and failures on the road to this overhaul of local government
Change agents: Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee on establishing a national women’s football league
No full textWhen it kicks off in 2017 the national women’s football league will include eight AFL teams from five states, with at least another five likely to follow soon after. The national competition is the culmination of decades of work by women’s football associations around Australia. These have steadily grown and overcome ignorance and discrimination to gain greater acceptance. On this episode of Change Agents Andrew Dodd talks to veteran footballer Debbie Lee, who is the community manager at the Melbourne Football Club, and businesswoman Susan Alberti, the vice president of the Western Bulldogs, about how they made the national women’s league a reality
Change Agents: Amee Meredith and Caterina Politi on reforming ‘one-punch’ laws
No full textThe death of Melbourne heart surgeon Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann has again focused attention on the fatal consequences of so-called “one-punch” attacks.
In response to this form of violence, Australian states and territories have enacted quite different laws, often following campaigns by family members seeking justice for a lost loved one.
On this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd speaks to two of these campaigners. In Victoria, Caterina Politi campaigned successfully for ten-year mandatory minimum sentences following the death of her son, David Cassai. And in the Northern Territory, Amee Meredith lobbied for tougher sentences after the death of her husband, Brett, who was also a territory police officer
Change agents: David Buchanan and Fr Paul Kelly on ending the gay panic defence
No full textThe gay panic - or homosexual advance – defence has allowed people literally to get away with murder. It's given them a way to convince juries they were provoked to kill because a homosexual person propositioned them. In an alarming number of cases, juries were convinced that an advance by a gay - or supposedly gay - man was sufficient provocation for killing him. Juries have opted instead to convict the defendant of the lesser offence of manslaughter. Over the past 14 years this practice has been abolished across Australia’s states and territories; Queensland is the latest state to do so. In this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd speaks to Catholic priest Fr Paul Kelly and Sydney barrister David Buchanan, SC, about how they did it
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