RN Breakfast - separate stories
RN Breakfast - Separate Stories
Radio National Breakfast brings you the most comprehensive coverage and analysis of national and international events -- serious, fun, topical and diverse without being overwhelming. Presented by Fran Kelly.
This 'RN Breakfast-individual stories' podcast is for listeners who want all of ...
Tuesday 6:19 Cultural sacrifice of animals
In a matter of hours thousands of Hindus will gather in a village in Southern Nepal for a planned sacrifice of around 5,000 animals. Religious organisers say it's part of a century-old Hindu tradition, one that is held every five years. But animal rights ...
Tuesday 8:22 Music from album of the week: Joe Gideon & The Shark
This is not an album for the faint of ear. It is a truly wonderful blues rock experience delivered by a UK brother and sister act that has an evangelical-meets-road-trip sound. The lyrics are delivered mostly as a spoken narrative from a storyteller ...
Tuesday 8:15 TV with Sue Turnbull
If there's one thing Australians love more than travel, it's TV programs about travelling. The commercial stations have had long-running holiday programs. On the ABC, the various Michael Palin and Billy Connolly travel programs have been popular. Well, ...
Tuesday 7:55 Victims of Storm Financial collapse
Let's return to the recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of Storm Financial Services. The collapse of the Townsville-based group left hundreds of investors, big and small, with losses of about $3 billion dollars.
Sean McArdle ...
Tuesday 6:58 Finance with Rebecca Hyam
The latest finance news here and abroad with Rebecca Hyam.
Tuesday 7:43 Update: National Disability Insurance Scheme
The Prime Minister last night announced an important step towards a National Disability Insurance Scheme. Kevin Rudd told a disability awards function that the Productivity Commission will investigate the feasibility of no-fault insurance cover for ...
Tuesday 6:50 Parliamentary inquiry into Storm Financial
The failure of the Queensland-based advisory firm Storm Financial saw a lot of Australians lose a lot of money. Now the long awaited parliamentary inquiry has come up with 11 recommendations, but has stopped short of imposing an outright ban on financial ...
Tuesday 7:32 Sport: Warwick Hadfield
The latest sports news with Warwick Hadfield.
Tuesday 6:43 The commodity supercycle
They say follow the money, so you might be interested in what our next guest has to say. Evy Hambro manages about A$12 billion in resource investments for the world's largest commodities investment fund, the Blackrock World Mining Fund.
He says the ...
Tuesday 8:05 Breath of life
Now to the incredible tale of some very brave Australians who risked their lives to help save the lives of others. In 1959, 12 men and women were injected with Curare, a poison used by South American Indian tribes on the tips of their hunting arrows, and ...
Tuesday 6:36 Housing a population growth
'Population', it's become something of a backyard barbecue stopper in recent weeks. The federal government's told us, several times now, that we're growing faster than expected. Australia will have an extra 13 million people by 2050. And it's the ...
Tuesday 6:26 Papers: James Carleton
What's in the newspapers? James Carleton's daily wrap of the print media.
Tuesday 7:48 Mike Rann sex scandal
Now to the allegations against the embattled South Australian Premier Mike Rann. In a paid commercial television interview aired on Sunday night, Michelle Chantelois alleged she had sex with the premier on his desk in Parliament House. In a press ...
Tuesday 7:10 AM: Tony Eastley
The ABC's daily morning current affairs program hosted by Tony Eastley.
Monday 6:17 Aqua film picked for UN program
Climate change will be central to politics this week, as the opposition assesses the government's amendments to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill. But screening in Parliament House tonight will be a little film entitled Aqua, made by filmmakers ...
Monday 8:19 Album of the week: Joe Gideon & The Shark
This is not an album for the faint of ear. It is a truly wonderful blues rock experience delivered by a UK brother and sister act that has an evangelical-meets-road-trip sound. The lyrics are delivered mostly as a spoken narrative from a storyteller ...
Monday 8:06 Gender pay gap
Almost 40 years have passed since Australian women were granted equal pay for work of equal value. But they still face a significant pay-gap: female workers earn 17% less on average than male workers. The difference works out at an average of about $196 ...
Monday 7:10 AM with Tony Eastley
The ABC's daily morning current affairs program hosted by Tony Eastley.