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• Remembering Canada’s Stolen Generations

  Tuesday 7 July 2015

  

  Canada may have a reputation as a good guy on the world stage, but its recently completed Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed a dark truth: for nearly a century the government forced indigenous children into special schools where up to 75 per cent were abused. Annabelle Quince reports.

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• Five relationship tips from existential philosophers

  Tuesday 7 July 2015

  

  In the western world, lovers are free from arranged marriages. Yet all too often we bring chains to relationships in the form of misplaced expectations and ideals. Skye Cleary reaches for her existential classics for help, with five philosophical tips for a happy love life.

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• The pop star, the nuns and the LA property battle

  Wednesday 8 July 2015

  

  Katy Perry has become involved in a dispute between five elderly nuns and the archbishop of LA over the multi-million dollar sale of a former convent. The singer wants to purchase it, but the sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary have other ideas. RN Breakfast reports.

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• Richard 'Riff Raff' O'Brien looks back on 40 years of Rocky Horror

  Tuesday 7 July 2015

  

  Forty years after The Rocky Horror Picture Show first bewildered and delighted cinemagoers the world over, Books and Arts sits down with the creator of the original production, Richard O'Brien, to talk fishnets, stilettos, Meatloaf and the show's unique legacy.

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• The Dalai Lama breaks the rules

  Monday 6 July 2015

  

  As he turns 80, the 14th Dalai Lama is as active as ever, criss-crossing the globe preaching about the benefits of Buddhism and spreading a message of peace. Rachael Kohn puts His Holiness in historical context and wonders what’s next for Tibet, China and the office of the Dalai Lama.

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• Is pornography destroying our minds and our sex lives?

  Monday 6 July 2015

  

  The rise of readily available online pornography has sparked concerns that these sexually explicit images are addictive, damaging young minds and destroying sex lives. Emerging research a shows more complex picture. Wendy Zukerman investigates.

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• Why psychopathic managers are so successful

  Tuesday 7 July 2015

  

  Is your boss insensitive, narcissistic, controlling and a bully? There could be a very good reason for that. According to author and academic Adrian Furnham, psychopaths possess a number of traits that allow them to survive and thrive in the corporate environment. Late Night Live takes a look.

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• Love Poems and Death Threats

  Monday 6 July 2015

  

  Mike Ladd talks to one of his favourite Australian poets, Samuel Wagan Watson about his new book, Love Poems and Death Threats. Wagan Watson discusses his tensions with his Indigenous identity, the influence of Japanese verse on his poetry and the capacity to love and hate in the same breath.

  Earshot

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• Australian lighthouses in the spotlight for 100th anniversary

  Monday 6 July 2015

  

  This week marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service. With its enormous coastline, Australia plays host to more than 300 lighthouses, and as Ann Jones learns, many of them are architecturally and technologically unique.

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• Nicaragua divided over canal plan that will cut the country in half

  Monday 6 July 2015

  

  Work has begun on one of the largest infrastructure projects the world has ever seen: an inter-oceanic canal that will cut Nicaragua in half. Reese Erlich reports on the massive development, which has divided the Central American nation in more ways than one.

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