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] Date Posted: 21:39:24 09/23/13 Mon ABC News ProgramsPrograms Transcripts The most recent 250 transcripts from the ABC's Radio and TV Current Affairs programs. Vinyl record sales turnaround Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM4min 24sec Posted 1 hour 21 minutes ago While physical music formats like CDs fall victim to the digital era the latest figures show vinyl sales are back in the black. Topics: music, australia Australia's Caroline Buchanan now a double world champion Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM4min 22sec Posted 1 hour 27 minutes ago Over the weekend Caroline Buchanan became the first Australian to hold world championships in two different cycling disciplines. At just 22 Caroline Buchanan has now been world champion five times in two different sports yet she isn't a household name in Australia. Topics: cycling, sport, australia Obama renews his push for gun control laws at a memorial service for shooting victims Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM4min 40sec Posted 1 hour 31 minutes ago The US president, Barack Obama, says it's time for America to follow the example of countries like Australia when it comes to gun control. In a speech to honour the victims of last week's mass shooting in Washington, the president made another impassioned appeal to reform the country's gun ownership laws. Topics: crime, united-states Novelist Christopher Koch dies aged 81 Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM4min 42sec Posted 1 hour 31 minutes ago Christopher Koch, the novelist described as one of Australia's best writers has died in Hobart aged 81. Christopher Koch wrote 9 novels - the most famous was The Year of Living Dangerously which was made into a film starring Mel Gibson in 1982. Topics: author, tas Dispute over free trade deals after Government removes restrictions Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM4min 27sec Posted 1 hour 34 minutes ago | Updated 1 hour 21 minutes ago The Federal Government has removed Australia's blanket ban on Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions in free trade deals. It means it may be on the table in the world's biggest trade deal and Australia is being warned against it. Topics: trade, australia Appeal against Lloyd Rayney's acquittal dismissed Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM3min 19sec Posted 1 hour 49 minutes ago | Updated 1 hour 34 minutes ago An appeal against the murder acquittal of former Perth barrister, Lloyd Rayney, has been dismissed. In one of the highest-profile criminal cases in Western Australia's history, prosecutors appealed against a judge's decision that Mr Rayney was not guilty of murdering his wife Corryn. But today WA's court of appeal threw out that appeal. Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, wa Turnbull considers fresh appointments to NBN Co board Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM4min 44sec Posted 1 hour 50 minutes ago | Updated 1 hour 32 minutes ago The Communications Minister is considering whether he accepts the resignations of almost all of the board members of the company building the National Broadband Network. Malcolm Turnbull has previously criticised the board's expertise in building large infrastructure projects. It's understood six of the directors have offered their resignations. Topics: federal-government, australia Bowen: Government controlling media, not people smugglers Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM5min 12sec Posted 1 hour 51 minutes ago The Immigration Minister has held the first briefing on the operation overseeing the Government's border protection policy, Operation Sovereign Borders. Scott Morrison says the Government will be holding the briefings weekly to inform the public of asylum seeker boat arrivals, in place of the previous government's practice of issuing press releases when a boats arrived. Topics: immigration, community-and-society, australia Who is al Shabaab? Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM5min 21sec Posted 1 hour 52 minutes ago So what is al Shabaab and where did it come from?.The answer is - out of the hellish two decades of anarchy, warlordism and war that have wracked the country of Somaila for two. Joseph Siracusa is a Professor in Human Security and International Diplomacy and Discipline, and Head of Global Studies in the decades.School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, at RMIT University Topics: terrorism, somalia Terrorists threaten to kill hostages Audio Transcript and Verbatim PM6min 33sec Posted 1 hour 52 minutes ago | Updated 1 hour 39 minutes ago The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab is threatening to kill the remaining hostages in a Nairobi shopping mall. An audio statement carried by a website linked to the group said the hostages would die if force was used. Topics: terrorism, somalia Vic govt faces class action over abalone virus Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today4min 8sec Posted 6 hours 51 minutes ago | Updated 6 hours 19 minutes ago A trial for a class action against the Victorian Government over a deadly abalone virus has started today in the Supreme Court in Melbourne. The virus broke out in 2005 and wiped out abalone stocks across western Victoria, destroying what had been a very lucrative industry. Abalone divers say the legal challenge is not just about recovering lost income, but recognising the devastation that was caused to the industry and their lives. Topics: fishing-aquaculture, states-and-territories, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, vic Police offer reward over missing teen from 1979 Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today4min 14sec Posted 6 hours 52 minutes ago | Updated 6 hours 21 minutes ago Police in Victoria are offering a $100,000 reward to help solve the case of missing New South Wales teenager Kim Teer more than 30 years ago. The 17-year-old had been hitch-hiking around Australia when she disappeared in 1979. She was last seen in Melbourne, but police say it was up to two months before she was officially reported missing. Topics: missing-person, police, melbourne-3000 Fremantle prepares for historic grand final appearance Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today3min 25sec Posted 6 hours 54 minutes ago | Updated 6 hours 12 minutes ago Footy fever is consuming the West Australian port city of Fremantle today, as their local AFL team prepares for its first ever grand final. The Fremantle Dockers had a convincing win over the Sydney Swans at the weekend. They'll play Hawthorn in Saturday's grand final, and this week promises to be a euphoric one for Fremantle supporters. Topics: australian-football-league, fremantle-6160, sydney-2000 Calls to strip back Qld workers' compensation Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today4min 22sec Posted 6 hours 57 minutes ago | Updated 6 hours 15 minutes ago The Queensland Attorney-General is considering a proposal to ban staff from suing their boss if they're hurt on the job but it's not considered a serious injury. The state's business community also wants to scrap the scheme that covers workers if they're hurt in an accident on their way to and from work. Topics: workplace, states-and-territories, unions, judges-and-legal-profession, rights, work, parliament-house-4000, qld, brisbane-4000 Catholic Church has handed out 'millions' in compensation: Marr Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today10min 10sec Posted 7 hours 0 minutes ago Even before the Royal Commission into the sexual abuse of children delivers its findings, there are suggestions that the Catholic Church may already have paid out $100 million in compensation to abuse victims. The figure is reported by the journalist and writer David Marr in a profile of Cardinal George Pell, in the latest Quarterly Essay. Mr Marr tells The World Today the damages figure could have been far greater had the church been exposed to the kind of damages and liability lawsuits it faces in the United States. Topics: sexual-offences, child-abuse, catholic, royal-commissions, australia Cancer experts warn against axing preventative health agency Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today3min 41sec Posted 7 hours 4 minutes ago | Updated 6 hours 28 minutes ago Cancer experts say obestity is driving an increase in the number of young women with uterine cancers - and they've warned apparent Government plans to axe programs to combat the fat epidemic are short sighted and will lead to increased health costs Topics: cancer, medical-research, australia Immigration Minister outlines policy shift Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today5min 26sec Posted 7 hours 5 minutes ago The Immigration Minister Scott Morrison later today will give the Federal Government's first weekly update on asylum seeker boat arrivals. Under the new policy of handling asylum seekers, the Government wants to restrict information on boat arrivals, arguing that it will deprive people smugglers the opportunity to exploit that information. Mr Morrison says about half the people who've arrived in Australian waters since the election have already been sent offshore. Topics: refugees, federal-government, liberals, scott-morrison, parliament-house-2600, australia, act Almost 80 dead as suicide bombers target Christians Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today3min 3sec Posted 7 hours 7 minutes ago | Updated 6 hours 31 minutes ago A weekend suicide bomb attack in Pakistan has killed almost 80 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country. The two bombers blew themselves up outside a church in the city of Peshawar, as hundreds of parishioners streamed out of the building. Islamist violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in recent months. Professon William Maley from the Australian National University is a leading scholar on the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. He joins The World Today to discuss the attack, and its ramifications. Topics: terrorism, murder-and-manslaughter, pakistan Kenyan forces free most hostages from mall Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today3min 26sec Posted 7 hours 8 minutes ago Kenya's military says it has freed most of the hostages at a shopping mall in the capital. At least 68 people were killed when militants stormed the Westgate mall on Saturday. The militant group al-Shabaab, which has claimed responsibility, controls parts of neighbouring Somalia. Topics: terrorism, army, kenya, somalia NBN board clean-out could jeopardise project says analyst Audio Transcript and Verbatim The World Today4min 36sec Posted 7 hours 9 minutes ago Most of the board of the company that is rolling out national broadband has offered to resign. It's up to the Government to accept or reject those resignation, but an analyst is worried it could lead to long delays in the project or the complete unravelling of the NBN. Topics: internet-culture, federal-government, liberals, turnbull-malcolm, parliament-house-2600, act Most of NBN board offer resignations Audio Transcript and Verbatim AM3min 14sec Posted 11 hours 23 minutes ago | Updated 11 hours 14 minutes ago AM understands six out of the seven board members of the NBN Co have offered their resignations to Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Niether Mr Turnbull nor NBN Co are making specific comments this morning. Mr Turnbull has been critical of the board in the past. Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, government-and-politics, federal-government, information-and-communication, internet-culture, australia Election victory for the Tamil National Alliance Audio Transcript and Verbatim AM2min 35sec Posted 11 hours 23 minutes ago | Updated 10 hours 59 minutes ago Sri Lanka's main Tamil party has won a landslide victory in weekend elections in the country's battle-scarred north, raising hopes that there might be some degree of self-rule for the ethnic minority. Tamil politicians are now warning the national government not to renege on its promise to deliver political freedom to the region. Topics: elections, government-and-politics, sri-lanka Spruikers back as property prices boom Audio Transcript and Verbatim AM3min 28sec Posted 11 hours 25 minutes ago | Updated 10 hours 54 minutes ago Property spruikers have come out of hibernation to exploit rising property prices. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is warning that some sales pitches are targeting self-funded retirees. Veteran consumer advocate Neil Jenman says some spruikers are advising investors to buy property in the United States, which remains in the midst of the worst housing slump since the Great Depression. Topics: housing-industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia Germany's Merkel romps home to third term Audio Transcript and Verbatim AM3min 1sec Posted 11 hours 34 minutes ago | Updated 10 hours 47 minutes ago The German chancellor Angela Merkel looks certain to lead Europe's biggest economy for a third four year term after her CDU party scored a resounding victory in the country's general election. The party will need a coalition partner however, and the CDU's current partner has had its worst result in decades. Topics: elections, government-and-politics, germany Stanhope won't be silenced Audio Transcript and Verbatim AM3min 28sec Posted Mon 23 Sep 2013, 8:01am AEST | Updated 9 hours 28 minutes ago The Christmas Island administrator Jon Stanhope says he will have to reconsider his position if the Government orders him to keep quiet on asylum seeker boat arrivals [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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