Life Matters is a unique daily interview program about social change and day-to-day life.Julie McCrossin gets down to the crux of what's affecting our daily health and wellbeing at home, at work and at school.
Access to abortion in Australia: what are the costs?; Is it time to introduce EEO targets and quotas for women in the workplace?; We head to The Track as part of the RN series On Location; and meet Life Matters listener, Michelle Mamabake Shearer.
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with a major learning disability, but she was determined to try and overcome this and in so doing, she pushed against orthodoxies in science and in education. Over the years she has transformed her own life and she has helped change the lives of countless others. She says that: 'By changing the brain, we can change how we learn'. This makes sense to us today, but when Barbara started experimenting with her own brain, the idea that we can manipulate the physiology of our brains through excercising it, pushed against the orthodoxy of the time.
Can we prevent torture? An ex CIA interrogator believes so; the Australian colony in Paraguay still going strong after 120 years and human rights photographer, Jagath Dheerasekara.
Pastoral care for the FIFO workers around the country, and the fascinating life of beat poet Lemon Andersen. Plus we meet Beverley Bergen a former broadcaster and opera singer whose favourite place is on the ski slopes - complete with her newly reconstructed knee.
Should people on welfare be subject to compulsory income management? How can the bush effect the well-being of kids at risk? Opening Nadia Wheatleys picture books; and skiing opera singer, Beverley Bergen!
Race relations, sport and the sale of Nicky Winmars famed Aussie Rules Football Jumper; the modern classroom still a long way off? Modern Dilemmas and lusting after your boss.
How will the Budget impact social policy? Travelling the world and growing old disgracefully; and a listener who flew to France and met the love of her life within a week of her arrival.
Do employers need an incentive to recruit over 50's into their workforce? How a 'fit note' can be better than a sick note. And why does our mobile phone usage come with some evolutionary baggage. Plus your feedback.
Free-range parenting: are we over-protective or should children reign free?; the untold story of the notorious Milgram shock machine experiments; and well be making music with the Heaps Decent producers.
A snapshot of rental affordability; Modern Dilemmas what should you disclose in a job interview? And back to Wellington returning to the childhood home.
What are the days or moments that have affected your life? A new website created as part of the ABCs 80th birthday in July has drawn on the vast bounty that is ABC archives to bring you '80 days that changed our lives'.
Can post-traumatic stress be a powerful experience for growth? We also talk about the forgotten sister of Pride & Prejudice ... We look back at the 80 days that changed our lives ... and we hear the tale of a sailor and an astronaut
Skilling up the carers in aged care; dads with depression; meningitis - on World Meningitis Day whats the latest research on treatment? And we meet a listener who enjoys his solitude - at one time in his life his nearest neighbour was a space station.
The promise of microbicides in the treatment of HIV. Plus a couple of creative pursuits - how performance anxiety might be a good thing, and how children can learn critical thinking through art.
How important are the early years of a childs life for success at school and life? Well also be talking about renewables what do we really think of them? We walk through the shelves of the famous Readers Feast bookstore; and well find out just how one pair of grandparents came to the rescue.
Visiting American farmer Michael Ableman talks urban agriculture. A challenging interview with a couples counsellor on her novel exploring intimate violence at home. Plus a dilemma, whether to return a highly valuable donation to its rightful owner, or stash the cash for charity.
How will the National Disability Insurance Scheme work and what does it mean for those who need it most? Micro-labour ... a new era of bidding for work online. And we look at whats being called a positive new approach to raising happy teen girls.
Kids and the flu vaccine; a former Neighbours star who, after he broke his real-life neighbours nose realised he needed to confront his anger management problem; a business started 45 years ago was really ahead of its time and we speak to its founder, Dena Blackman and a listener who cant get enough of life in the desert both here and overseas.
The homework debate; drug users respond to our recent interview on the ethics of cash incentives for drug addicts to take long acting contraception; and our fashion writing in cyberspace.
As the debate continues over the merits of extending childcare subsidies to cover the costs of nannies, one Australian woman says we need to be taking a bigger view. Plus comedian Shappi Khorsandi, the daughter of Iranian refugees will be performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Plus how four bikes and one tent can make for a ripping adventure.
A targeted way to treat problem gamblers: is it effective? Ben Robertson: stay at home dad; And modern dilemmas: what can you do when your boss is a liar?
Grandparentstheyre the custodians of family wisdomliving ancestors who communicate the history of the family and nurture their charges. But whats it like to be a grandparent today? Australians are working longer and having babies later so what impact does this have on the role of grandparents? Of course its not always all beer and skittlesmaybe youre a grandparent whos struggling to juggle the competing priorities of work, caring for your own parents, meeting your own childs requests for child care and trying to find a moment for yourself to boot.
Confronting research on some of the disturbing sexism found in lads mags, sex ed by stealth. Personalised medicine and how genomics might change our next trip to the doctor . Plus a question of human liberty or protecting the innocent, is it morally acceptable to offer financial reward to addicted men and women who agree to sterilization or long term contraception.
Young leaders encouraging more youth to be active in the social services sector, and talking of social did you know it was impossible for some people with disabilities to access sites like Twitter why and how is it getting fixed? And how would you react if your 7 year old son told you he was gay?
A new report on the sex industry in New South Wales says that decriminalization has produced good occupational health and welfare standards and cautions against alternative regulation, Legendary British comic and agitator, Mark Thomas talks about his attempt to walk the entire length of the Israeli barrier in the West Bank and we meet a listener who is having a love affair with the Ukelele.
Fertility - new research suggests many men and women still dont understand the specifics of declining fertility; Ottmar Edenhofer, the head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Modern Dilemma: What to do when the adult kids wont pay their way?
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