If you’re craving a unique dance experience her in Adelaide then we have something that will be right up your alley.
As part of the Adelaide’s Festival’s Centre’s OzAsia Festival, Leigh Warren and Dancers present Dreamscape for this weekend only, in the Dunstan Playhouse.
The Artistic Director, Leigh Warren joined Tim in the studio today to tell us all about it. But first, they discussed the approach of spring. As Tim reminded us all, today is the last day of winter for the year.
Now we all know men love their sheds. Or do they?
More and more men are taking over the kitchen as their space, leaving behind the hammer for the whisk.
Is this all part of the Masterchef craze or is this men stepping up in modern families, doing their share of the housework?
Associate Professor John Spoehr from the Australian Institute of Social Research joined Tim so we could find out what’s getting men in the kitchen and keeping them there.
Adelaide is the 8th most liveable city in the world, believe it or not.
Today Tim was joined by Dr Erstwhile Truthwright to find out why, and that’s not all they discussed. Political anecdotes were rolling with topics including wikileaks, Gillard polling and even a $40,000 investment into a USB Vibrator.
Overcrowding and stretched resources are putting patients at risk in major hospitals across South Australia.
Monday afternoon Emergency departments got glimpse of just how much our healthcare system is struggling as all our major hospitals hit or were above their capacity.
Red flashed on the government’s emergency department dashboards as each hospital reached their peaks of 95-125% capacity.
Our state’s 265 emergency department beds across hospitals couldn’t cater for the 293 patients that were in need of the services.
The Women’s and Children’s hospital was the worst with 45 patients being treated in its 20-bed ward and 16 waiting to be seen by 9pm last night.
Today Tim was joined by the branch Secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, Elizabeth Dabars.
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Japan has seen another power change with parliament getting its sixth Prime Minister over a five year time frame.
Yoshihiko Noda is Japan’s new Prime Minister.
Are sexism and a curious stance on war crimes amongst the quirks of the new leader of the country?
Today Tim spoke to our regular correspondent Professor Toby Slade to find out.
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They’re doing something really interesting over at the Centre for Policy Development.
You know how Australia has the world’s 3rd largest marine estate? Well they’re trying to quantify it’s economic value.
Effectively putting environmentalism into the language of business. Sounds exciting but also very daunting.
Tim spoke to Laura Eadie, the Sustainable Economy Director at the Centre for Policy Development to find out more.
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Kicking off our live music extravaganza for Tuesday mornings, Tim Brunero was joined by Jon Marco and Tony Marshall of Adelaide local band The Honey Pies.
They began with a track off their last album ‘Think of England’ and then performed a new song live in the studio.
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While the Wallabies were celebrating an upset win against the powerhouse All Blacks at the weekend, major sponsor of the team, QANTAS, was caught up in an online racial row.
Pictures of two competition winning fans dressed as Fijian/Australian debutante, Radike Samo, caused a stir online when the official QANTAS twitter account tweeted pictures of the two men dressed in black face and wigs.
In a separate incident across the Tasman… Big Boi, a famed hip-hop act and one half of the critically acclaimed duo OutKast, tweeted outrage after noticing the sale of Golliwogs at the Auckland airport. When media notified the airport, the dolls were pulled from the shelves.
So what is all the fuss about?
This is not a new debate. Two years ago, Hey Hey it’s Saturday whipped up an international racism frenzy with the Jackson Jive black face debacle… so does this mean the Trans-Tasman region is just not getting it or are we too quick to push the politically correct buzzer?
To discuss this burning issue Tim Brunero spoke to Professor Martha Augoustinos, a social psychologist at the University of Adelaide’s School of Psychology.
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Tagged All Blacks, Auckland, Big Boi, black face, Golliwog, QANTAS, racism, Radike Samo, rofessor Martha Agoustinos, Wallabies
It might come as a shock to you that suicide is the leading cause of death in young people aged between 15 and 24.
Worse still, in 2009, over 2000 deaths were attributed to suicide. This was higher than the road toll that year.
With so many suicides occurring in Australia, why do we not read about them in the media or see them on the evening news? Every newspaper in the country carries a road toll as a sad reminder of the need for safer driving practices. Yet suicide is swept under the rug.
Well the Uniting Church of South Australia has launched the campaign ‘Suicide – it’s no secret’ to help combat the stigma and taboo surrounding the issue and help those affected by or at risk of suicide.
Tim Brunero spoke with Reverend Sarah Williamson the Solidarity & Justice Officer for the Uniting Church of SA about this new initiative.
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Hurricane Irene has been all over our headlines with reports of 40 people dead, severe flooding and 4 million homes left without power. The now downgraded tropical storm is still creating havoc as it spirals it’s way north into New England and Canada.
But for some people this natural disaster will only serve as a chilling reminder of the much bigger catastrophe which hit New Orleans 6 years ago to the day. Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but it was what happened after which left the deepest impression on the American psyche.
It’s not so much the fact it was the most devastating Hurricane to hit the US in 80 years, or that it cost 2000 lives and did $81 billion worth of damage; most of that in New Orleans – 80% of the city was flooded.
It was the anarchy and living hell that descended on the city after the disaster. Looting, carjacking, violence and rapes gripped the city. And over 50,000 heavily armed troops and police were brought in to restore order.
Yasmin Bright is a young Australian who was backpacking at the time and got caught up in the disaster. She spoke to Tim Brunero about her experience in New Orleans and the frightening conditions in the Super Dome.
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Tagged Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Tim Brunero, Yasmin Bright
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