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| UpdatedHost: John Barron. Panel: Kerryn Phelps, Tory Maguire and Judith Troeth. Interview with: Casey Bruce.
The panel discusses: the Melbourne Cup, Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal Party, suspicion of non-drinkers and quitting social media.
Topics: horse-racing, alcohol, turnbull-malcolm, liberals, australia
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| UpdatedHost: John Barron. Panel: Tracey Spicer; Sam Crosby and Kate Carnell. Interview with: Miranda Stewart.
The panel discusses: proposed changes to the GST, lowering the voting age and doing away with the titles knights and dames.
Topics: tax, money-and-monetary-policy, elections, youth, awards-and-prizes, australia, new-zealand
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| UpdatedElle Hardy; Tim Elliott and Paddy Manning join John Barron for The Drum to talk China's one child policy, climate change and swearing
Topics: climate-change, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, world-politics, antisocial-behaviour, australia
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| UpdatedPeter Reith; Deborah Cheetham; Tom Allard join John Barron on The Drum
Topics: immigration, federal-government, indigenous-policy, foreign-affairs, australia
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| UpdatedHost: John Barron. Panel: Kerry Chikarovski, Nathan Rees, Annabel Crabb and Jonathan Green. The panel discusses: Tony Abbott's comments at the Margaret Thatcher Lecture in London; social class in Australia; poker machines and politicians' cooking preferences.
Topics: government-and-politics, abbott-tony, refugees, social-capital, gambling, food-and-cooking, australia, england
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| UpdatedHost: John Barron. Panel: Peter Collins; Josh Bornstein and Madonna King. Interview with: Dr Ziggy Switkowski.
The panel discusses: nuclear and renewable energy; a proposal for compensation for child sexual abuse survivors and whether red meat causes cancer.
Topics: nuclear-energy, alternative-energy, science-and-technology, child-abuse, sexual-offences, diet-and-nutrition, bowel-and-rectal-cancer, electricity-energy-and-utilities, australia
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| UpdatedHost: John Barron. Panel: Rebecca Huntley; Judith Whelan and Chris Berg. Interview with: Peter Hutton.
The panel discusses: high school dropout rates; increasing superannuation for women; Iraq War debate and Lego art.
Topics: access-to-education, schools, superannuation, women, tax, unrest-conflict-and-war, visual-art, australia, iraq
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Anne Summers, Kate McClymont and Michael Jensen. Interview with: Ian Verrender; Tony Ortega.
The panel discusses: interest rate rises; conditions in offshore detention centres; the Church of Scientology; taboo words; golf clubs and myths about the birth order of children.
Topics: banking, money-and-monetary-policy, federal-government, refugees, healthcare-facilities, religion-and-beliefs, golf, children, australia, united-states, papua-new-guinea, nauru
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Ben Oquist, Tim Wilson and Katharine Murphy. Interview with: James Moody.
The panel discusses: the gay marriage debate; emoji use by politicians; Australia's foreign policy and proposed regulations for the sharing economy.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, marriage, federal-government, mobile-phones, social-media, foreign-affairs, unrest-conflict-and-war, consumer-protection, transport, australia, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Jane Caro; Warren Mundine and Tony Wright. Interview with: Norman Hermant.
The panel discusses: Joe Hockey's valedictory speech; changes to family payments; the new Canadian Prime Minister and backlash over the David Jones' Adam Goodes advertisement.
Topics: hockey-joe, federal-parliament, children, tax, elections, advertising, aboriginal, australia, canada
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Ticky Fullerton; Graeme Innes and Sabine Wolff.
The panel discusses: the Government’s Murray Review response; Joe Hockey's resignation; anti-Islam political parties and tattoos.
Topics: consumer-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, hockey-joe, unions, minor-parties, multiculturalism, australia, india
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| UpdatedHost: John Barron. Panel: David Miles; Kate Mills in Sydney and Simon Banks. Interview with: Lucy Haslam.
The panel discusses: the leadership polls; the moral case for coal; medicinal cannabis and the case of a pregnant asylum seeker.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, federal-government, coal, alternative-energy, cannabis, refugees, abortion, australia, nauru
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Tom Burton, Rowan Dean and Jeannette Francis. Interview with: Sarah Dingle.
The panel discusses: tax; the latest from the Trade Unions Royal Commission and the strike by soccer team the Matildas.
Topics: tax, royal-commissions, unions, soccer, women, australia
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Adam Creighton; Susan Ryan and Peter Martin. Interview with: Andrew Quilty.
The panel discusses: counter-terrorism; tax havens; unemployment figures; the bombing of a MSF hospital in Kunduz and MPs using the app Slack to communicate.
Topics: terrorism, defence-and-national-security, tax, unemployment, unrest-conflict-and-war, charities-and-community-organisations, wireless-communication, australia, cayman-islands, afghanistan
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Tom Dusevic; Jennifer Hewett and Shane Wright. Interview with: Karen Willis.
The panel discusses: domestic violence; tax concessions; the future of the Catholic Church and Playboy magazine.
Topics: domestic-violence, state-parliament, tax, superannuation, catholic, print-media, assault, australia, holy-see-vatican-city-state, cayman-islands
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Julian Leeser, Michael Gleeson and Samantha Maiden. Interview with: Patrick Fair.
The panel discusses: data retention laws; terrorism control orders for kids; the China free trade agreement and revenge porn.
Topics: social-media, internet-technology, telecommunications, terrorism, laws, crime-prevention, international-aid-and-trade, agreements-and-treaties, pornography, sexual-offences, australia, china
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Host: Julia Baird. Panel: Peter Lewis, Terry Barnes and Latika Bourke.
The panel discuss: Federal Parliament resumes with the Government and Labor at 50-50 in the polls; new research that shows most welfare recipients are living in poverty and is gentrification improving our suburbs or creating exclusive enclaves?
Topics: government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, refugees, australia
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Panel: Julia Baird. Panel: is Clem Bastow, Paul Sheehan and Deborah Clay.
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Topics: government-and-politics, human-interest, australia
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Host: Julia Baird. Panel: Osman Faruqi, Simon Cowan and Joanne Gray.
The panel discuss: Labor's $10 billion plan for infrastructure; a woman who was raped on Nauru pleads with the Prime Minister to let her come to Australia for an abortion and the word 'rorter' banned in Victorian Parliament.
Topics: government-and-politics, health, unrest-conflict-and-war, australia, nauru
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Host: Julia Baird. Panel: Ian Hickie, Rebecca Weisser and Georgina Dent.
The panel discuss: the connection between radicalisation and mental illness; a landmark genetic patent decision in the High Court and Cate Blanchett gives an almighty serve to adults who take selfies.
Topics: government-and-politics, mental-health, australia
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Host: John Barron. Panel: David Hetherington, Anne Davies and Joanne Nova.
The panel discuss: The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is finally struck; the Prime Minister confirms he turned down a diplomatic posting to Washington and a proposal to sell the right to migrate to Australia.
Topics: government-and-politics, climate-change, international-aid-and-trade, agreements-and-treaties, foreign-affairs, australia
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Host: Julia Baird. Panel: Professor Kerryn Phelps, Peter Fray and Jeff Kennett.
The panel discuss: Nauru's decision to lift curfews at detention centre and process all asylum seekers; Muslim leaders welcome the Federal Government's calls for unity after the murder of a NSW police employee and Olympic champion Leisel Jones talks mental health.
Topics: government-and-politics, mental-health, sport, terrorism, australia
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Host: John Barron. Panel: Dr Karen Hitchcock, intensive care specialist Peter Saul, health economist Professor Stephen Leeder and Jane Phillips, Director of the Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care and Professor Nursing (Palliative Care) at UTS.
Topics: health, human-interest, death, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-ethics, australia
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Host: John Barron. Panel: Helen Conway, Sharri Markson and Jonathan Green.
The panel discuss: Business leaders, social groups, unions and politicians gather to discuss economic reform; university deregulation plans shelved until the next election and Russia begins air strikes in Syria as the US flags concern over targets.
Topics: government-and-politics, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, abortion, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Host: John Barron. Panel: Wendy Machin, Verity Firth and Catherine McGrath.
Topics: government-and-politics, domestic-violence, work, international-aid-and-trade, australia