Inspired by Occupy Wall Street and the global movement against corporate greed, participants of Occupy Adelaide have been gathering in the CBD’s Hindmarsh Square CBD since mid-Saturday.
Radio Adelaide reporter Anna Gordon was at the rally on Saturday finding out what the Occupy movement is all about.
She asked the participants why they turned out to support the movement and we will hear some of their responses in this report.
It’s Tuesday and you know what that means, political discourse with the effervescent Dr. Erstwhile Truthwright.
With credentials such as Chief Executive of Outreach Services for the Vote Smart Democracy Institute (the Southern hemisphere’s leading profit oriented Democracy Think Tank), Dr. Truthwright comes highly regarded in his field.
This morning the Doctor touched on the big issues that have been plaguing the headlines in Australia and around the world.
We were fortunate enough to catch him from Italy as the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sent shock waves through political circles, but sighs of relief for women’s rights advocates.
For all your political needs, Dr. Erstwhile Truthwright has got you covered.
Always informative, never researched.
During the last state election, the Royal Adelaide Hospital became a divisive political pawn, with debate raging over rebuilding at the current location versus a new building on the rail yards.
Cut to 2011 and the new RAH is going ahead on the banks of the Torrens.
Now if you’ve been driving down North Terrace lately, you’ve probably seen a few cranes popping up and a building rising from the ashes of the waste land that was the rail yards. But it’s not the highly lauded, billion dollar hospital, it’s actually a federally funded medical research facility – The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).
So why has there been little fanfare about this high-profile piece of health infrastructure and what exactly will be going on in there once it’s completed?
To find out how South Australia’s new health precinct is developing, Tim Brunero spoke to the Executive Director of the SAHMRI, Professor Steve Wesselingh.
For more information visit the SAHMRI website:
http://www.sahmri.com/
Did you know that 1.5 million obsolete TV sets are sent to land fill every year even though most of the glass, metals and plastics can be recycled?
Well the state government knows and is doing something about it.
On today’s show Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation Paul Caica spoke to Tim Brunero about the initiative.
For more information call 1300 137 118 or check out the website:
http://www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au/e-waste
Posted in INTERVIEWS - General
Tagged e-waste, Minister Paul Caica, Producer Mike Nicholson, Tim Brunero
If your dial ever veers away from 101.5 and you stumble on to one of the commercial networks, chances are you’ll probably hear the same five songs over the course of a day. Sometimes Aussie music trickles its way onto the playlist, but more often than not, it’s a hard slog for Australian bands to feature on mainstream networks.
Currently the commercial networks are required to play 25% Australian music and rarely play any more than the bare necessity.
Are Aussie artists not making quality music or is there something more sinister at play here?
This year it seems as though Gotye has singlehandedly rectified the distinct lack of alternative Australian music on the commercial airwaves. But playing the same track constantly to boost the quota is still not really a step in the right direction.
We here at Radio Adelaide strive to bring our listeners a balance of music, whilst still playing 50% Aussie content (well over our quota). If we can do it, then why do the commercial networks struggle?
To explain the need to maintain Aussie music quotas on our airwaves and what is going on with the commercial networks, Tim Brunero was joined by the General Manager of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association, Nick O’Byrne.
Seed collection is a vital part of Trees For Life (TFL). The main time for seed collection is over the summer months; a group of volunteers goes out with staff to collect seeds from different regions, targeting specific species related to our Tree Scheme program.
Propagation kits containing 1481 combination of species (ie seed) are currently being delivered to more than 1200 volunteer and landholder growers Statewide for growing this summer. Seed collected by TFL is also used in their Direct Seeding program (broad scale revegetation).
To give us a greater insight into seed collection, Bruce Smith, the Seedbank Manager at Trees For Life, joined Tim Brunero in the studio. As the Seedbank Manger, Bruce also runs seed collection workshops and manages an extensive seed collection ‘vault’ at the TFL office, which contains 220 seed species for 42 different zones around the State.
For more information, check out the website:
http://www.treesforlife.org.au/volunteers/seedcollectors/
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