The Sydney Alliance – changing the face of politics?

Are you sick of sound bite politics?

The way any policy debate or depth of analysis gets discarded in the rush to tritely respond to the media’s latest front page. Well you better let out a big hallelujah because there’s a new political alliance in town that wants to rid us of ‘sound bite politics’ forever.
It’s an alliance of community groups from Catholic Archdiocese from around Sydney, the Arab council of Australia, to prominent unions, to Hindu groups to youth and women’s advocacy groups.
Together they’re called The Sydney Alliance and they’re exploding on the political scene this Thursday with their inaugural meeting.
Amanda Tattersall is the alliance’s co-coordinator and she spoke to Tim Brunero about this new initiative.

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Live And Acoustic – Freya And Juliette (Gold Bloom)

These girls seem to be hitting all the right notes at the moment. All girl rock group, check. Members from varied successful other Adelaide bands, check. Babe appeal, check.

Freya and Juliette from local outfit Gold Bloom joined us on the show to play their track ‘The Moth’ live and acoustic and conversely, turned the studio into Babetown for the day.

No offense Tim.

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Photographing the final frontier.

If you’re anything like the Tuesday Breakfast team then the extent of your own personal stargazing experience may go a little something like this scene from The Lion King….

Pumbaa: Timon…
Timon: Yeh?
Pumbaa: Ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
Timon: They’re fireflies, that got stuck up in that big, bluish-black thing.
Pumbaa: Oh. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
Timon: Pumbaa, with you, everything’s gas.

If Timon’s knowledge of astronomy represented the Tuesday Breakfast Team, then our next guest is surely the Pumbaa of this analogy.

Paul Haese, the Vice President of the Astronomical Society of South Australia has found success in taking jaw-dropping photographs of Saturn’s Dragon Storm…. a phenomena said to rival Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Storm.

The Greenwich Observatory has recently announced the winners of their prestigious Astronomy Photographer of the Year and Paul has found himself the runner-up to the overall winner in the Solar System category.

To build on the lesson we all learned from The Lion King, Tim Brunero spoke to Paul to shed some light on the final frontier,… outer space,… as well as the ins and outs of his fascinating passion.

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The Malaysia Solution

The Prime Minister announced yesterday that the Federal Government is committed to the “Malaysia Solution” for asylum seekers, despite the recent rejection of the plan by the High Court.

She declared it is “the best option for smashing the people smugglers’ business model” and that she would change Australia’s migration laws to ensure the people swap plan could proceed.

But can the government change domestic laws in a way that will satisfy the High Court and our international agreements?

Tim Brunero spoke to Professor Clem McIntyre, Head of the School for History and Politics at the University of Adelaide about this controversial deal.

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The Big Issue with Patrick Witton

Tim Brunero spoke with The Big Issues’ Patrick Witton and they covered a range of topics that you can find in the current edition.

The cover story story deals with the silence disease dimentia that effects a growing portion of Australians, there’s an interview with director Fred Schepisi about his first Australian-made film in more than 20 years (Eye of the Storm) and, in ‘Roving Eye’, photographer Claire Martin meets the squatters and misfits populating the Slab City decommissioned military site in the Colorado Desert.

Grab a copy of The Big Issue today.

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