Apology to NZ Vietnam Vets

The New Zealand Government has delivered an official apology to the country’s Vietnam War Veterans for the way they were treated since their return from combat.

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Treaty to ban cluster bombs

A meeting has been taking place in Dublin to hammer out an international treaty to ban cluster bombs, sadly Australia has been pushing for some exemptions in the treaty though.

Celia explained whats happeing in Dublin surrounding the meeting.

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and here in Australia, GETUp have been pushing for Australia to fully support the ban without exemption clauses. Here’s a link to their website

www.getup.org.au

Can you leave home without your mobile phone?

Mobile phones are being used more often than the home phone these days, and it’s also taken over other functions like internet access and tv viewing. Jen Seifert explained how the mobile is changing our lives…

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Indiana Jones and the Kindom of the Crystal Skull

It’s been a long time coming, but finally Harrison Ford has donned the hat and jacket, his whip at his side and once again he is Indiana Jones.

Kat McCarthy brought her REEL TIME sidekick, Tristan to breakfast this morning for his review of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

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Peak Oil in Peak Hour

“On Your Bike Mike!!” “Buy Local Save Fuel” If these phrases seem familiar, it’s highly likely you were sitting at the intersection of King William Street and North Terrace this morning as members of Beyond Oil SA held a demonstration to alert the Government to the problems we face with peak oil.

Sarah Tomlinson headed down to the action and spoke with Beyond Oil SA’s Michael Dwyer.

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Cyclists ride in silence to honour fallen bike riders

The traffic in Sydney’s CBD was at snails pace last Saturday, as over a hundred protest riders made their way through the city streets. The Ride of Silence is an international memorial event which honours cyclists maimed or killed on our roads. Kate Pinnock spoke to the Green’s Lee Rhiannon who says the NSW Minister for Transport Eric Rosendahl is not taking bike riders issues seriously. She’s highly critical of the minister’s suggestion to ban cyclists in Sydney’s peak hour traffic.

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Petrol’s only gonna get dearer!

Alot of people have their heads in the sand over this notion of ‘Peak Oil’, basically it means that we have reached the peak (or nearly) of oil production and the worlds oil reserves will start running out… meaning less oil to go around, and therefore higher prices. Whether we have reached the peak, passed the peak or are still to reach the peak, it makes no difference, we will sometime (probably sooner than later) run out of oil.

Amongst those with there heads in the sand over peak oil is our federal government. Michael Lardelli from Peak Oil South Australia joined us this morning…

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Carriage ride in Central Park

One of the worlds great urban parks is Central Park in New York. Jess decided a horse and carriage ride would be a wonderful romantic way to see Central Park. The missing element was someone to share the romantic ride with… well there was Romeo the horse and the driver though!

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Needle exchange programs in prisons

Needle exchange programs within the community exist to minimize and prevent the spread of infections such as Hepatitis C and HIV through the shared use of needles by illicit drug users. But within Australia’s prisons system no such exchange programs exist.

The Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) is calling on Federal, State and Territory Governments to implement exchange schemes within prisons. They argue that a person’s capacity to access health services should not be compromised due to imprisonment and that services within prisons should be to the same standard as those provided in the community

Executive Officer with AIVL, ANNIE MADDEN told us this morning a number of factors come together to make prisons a high risk environment for the spread of Hep C and HIV…

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More time on the web than watching tv!

A new survey of internet consumer trends has found that people with braodband internet connections spend more time on the net than watching television. It found that broadband users spend on average 22 hours surfing the net, 14 hours watching tv.

Jen Seifert told Katherine the results weren’t that surprising really.

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