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In this episode, speculation continues over a potential merger between Myer and David Jones, Indigenous models in demand in the fashion world, and Google adds more features to it's tech eyewear.
Topics: company-news, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fashion, consumer-finance, australia
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In this episode, we take a look at one Australian chef's quest to bring native bushtucker back to the dinner table, and a New Zealand farmer and cheesemaker team up to produce the first commerically available cheese using deers milk.
Topics: food-and-cooking, food-and-beverage, australia
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In this episode we examine the increasingly daunting prospect of getting into Sydney and Melbourne's property market, and the importance of business innovation.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedIn this episode, scientists descend on Darwin to work out why some cyclones are more severe than others, protests against the WA Government's shark cull, and what's happened to Tasmania's shorebirds?
Topics: environment, australia
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| UpdatedIn this episode of the Weather Quarter, the summer has brought all types of weather but it's really been the overwhelming extreme heat that's been grabbing attention.
Topics: weather, storm-event, storm-disaster, cyclones, drought, rainfall, australia
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In this episode of The Arts Quarter, we talk to the big AACTA winners, speculate on whether Cate Blanchett will be affected by sexual abuse allegations made against Woody Allen, meet some cooks who've found themselves in theatre, and we check the progress of one of Sydney's newest buildings.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, academy-awards-oscars, awards-and-prizes, architecture, sexual-offences, child-abuse, australia
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In this episode of The Health Quarter, a Productivity Commission report details a rise in serious mistakes in hospitals, leaps and bounds are made in stem cell research, and a magical form of therapy changes young lives.
Topics: health, child-health-and-behaviour, healthcare-facilities, health-administration, medical-research, australia
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In this episode of The Rural Quarter, Queensland's beef industry is severely affected by drought, a national plan to fight fruit flies is called for, wild pigs cause havoc on Flinders Island, and cave-dwelling scientists unlock the secrets of groundwater.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, livestock, fruit, water-supply, drought, australia
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| UpdatedIn this episode of the Consumer Quarter there are signs plain packaging on cigarette packets is working and we also look at the health problems associated with using caffeine strips.
Topics: caffeine, consumer-finance, smoking, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedIn this episode, the gore and the glory of the ancient Incan empire, and we look at Australia's best political cartoons at a new exhibition in Canberra.
Topics: popular-culture, australia
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In this episode: how to pick the life insurance that's right for you; the Australian dollar in 2014; and we take a look at the electronic currency, Bitcoin.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, consumer-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, markets, australia
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In this episode: Kimberly goannas being saved from extinction; shipping lanes disrupt whale communication and researchers work to predict Summer thunderstorms.
Topics: environment, research, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, australia
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In this episode of the Technology Quarter we look at disaster-proof phones, robots taking over the workplace, and technology accelerating the dating game.
Topics: science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedIn this episode of the Arts Quarter we focus on Australian artists, and a major review of the visual arts with the aim of assisting starving artists, and an opera in Tasmania based on an early expedition to Antarctica.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, australia
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In this episode: a new test that could prevent stillbirth; a drug to treat advanced leukemia; and Australia's first euthanasia clinic.
Topics: health, child-health-and-behaviour, australia
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| UpdatedOn this episode of The Consumer Quarter: taking aim at the retailers that sell dangerous toys, the rapid rise of digital advertising and should it be compulsory for your pet to wear a seatbelt?
Topics: family-and-children, safety, advertising-and-marketing, digital-multimedia, animals, australia
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In this episode of The Food Quarter we look at the Mackay family’s innovative banana business, a commercial onion farm being trialled in the middle of the Aussie desert and increased alcohol and drug use in apprentice chefs battling in the cut-throat hospitality industry.
Topics: food-and-beverage, bananas, agricultural-crops, apprenticeships, hospitality, drugs-and-substance-abuse, australia
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In the last edition of the Finance Quarter for 2013:
Simple advice to add tens of thousands of dollars to your retirement savings; why rapidly rising house prices are not being met by a rise in demand for loans; and how to make your shop stand out during the Christmas rush.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, australia
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In this episode: an alpine bio-scan unearths a new species; a coral sperm bank to preserve the Great Barrier Reef; and the largest coal seam gas exploration in New South Wales begins.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-technology, australia
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On this episode of The Weather Quarter, we look back at the extreme weather, at home and abroad, that marred the end of Spring, and we meet some glider pilots lucky enough to ride Queensland's mysterious and beautiful Morning Glory roll cloud.
Topics: weather, cyclone, storm-event, rainfall, phenomena, australia
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In this Arts Quarter, we explore an edgy new exhibition on dinosaurs, we meet legendary news anchor Ron Burgundy, and Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art scores another coup.
Topics: contemporary-art, dinosaurs, film-movies, science-fiction-films, visual-art, comedy-film, australia
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In this episode: the Northern Territory trials its first commercial onion farm; residents of Rockhampton push to round up the city's bull statues; and Australian dairy farmers concerned for the future of their industry with so much international interest in Warrnambool Cheese and Butter.
Topics: rural, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, tourism, dairy-production, australia
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In this episode: battling diabetes related blindness; a breakthrough in cystic fibrosis treatment; and why chefs are at a higher risk of addiction.
Topics: health, health-policy, australia
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In this episode: we further explore the disadvantage women face in superannuation; and how to protect your business from copycats.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, consumer-finance, consumer-protection, corporate-governance, australia
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| UpdatedIn this episode of the Consumer Quarter Christmas is near, will it give reason for retailers to cheer? And face detection technology to assist in advertising.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, small-business, christmas, australia