 | Conversations with Australian Artists Series 2
ABC Schools TV
Conversations with Australian Artists is a documentary series commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales which offers a unique view into contemporary art practice in Australia through portraits of three significant and diverse artists. The program is suitable for students in Upper Primary to Upper Secondary and screens on Fridays at 10.40am from November 9 to November 23.
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| | | | Economic reform: what's needed now?
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
It's universally agreed that Australia has reaped enormous advantage from a series of economic reforms undertaken over a quarter of a century ago, but what kind of reforms are needed today to ensure a prosperous future? According to John Daley from the Grattan institute, "If Australian governments are serious about raising rates of economic growth, they must reform the tax mix and increase the workforce participation rates of women and older people. There's nothing else big enough to change the game over the next decade." (Highlights from Game Changers: Reform priorities for economic growth in Australia, June 12 2012, Sydney)
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| | | | What we can learn from the multicultural experience
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Philosopher Tim Soutphommasane asks what can we learn from the multicultural experience.
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| | | |  | Ideas that change the world for women
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Abolish school homework, recognise unpaid work and its contribution to economic activity, concentrate on the ideal workplace rather than the ideal worker. These are just some of the suggestions made by leading female researchers and academics that could make a difference to the lives of women. (Highlights from Ideas that change the world for women, a panel discussion and forum presented by the Women and Work Research Group and the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, August 31 2012)
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| | | | | Politics and polling
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Opinion polling is a dominant feature of modern politics and political reporting. Are our politicians too poll driven? Do they pander to the polls, following rather than leading? Can properly conducted polls provide an important insight into what we are thinking?
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| | | | Copyright, creators and the connected world
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Hero of the open source and creative commons movements, Cory Doctorow, takes a swipe at copyright, digital locks and rights management arguing that the current provisions are inadequate. He discusses some of the new challenges and frontiers for creators and consumers asking us to question who we give our rights to and how creators can best take advantage of a more connected world. (Highlights of his keynote address from the Sydney Vivid festival, June 1 2012)
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| | | | | Magazines, Misogyny and Manners: Ita Buttrose
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Ita Buttrose reflects on her career as a powerful woman in a male dominated industry. She also talks about the future of publishing and journalism, gender and the workplace and her recently revised book A Passionate Life. (Highlights from The Fifth Estate: Magazines, Misogyny and Manners, Ita Buttrose in conversation with Sally Warhaft presented by the Wheeler Centre).
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| | | | | The Fifth Estate
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Social media, like Twitter and the blogosphere, is influencing Australian politics. Witness the controversy which recently engulfed the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who was called upon to clarify her role in setting up a union fund, later misused, when she was a solicitor back in the early 90s, and which grew like topsy in the blogosphere. Blogger Greg Jericho, of Grog's Gamut, talks to Paul Barclay about the rise of the so-called Fifth Estate and how it's changing politics and the political journalism.
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| | | | ABC Reading Eggspress: Free 4 week trial
ABC Shop
ABC Reading Eggspress is an online reading program for 7-13 year olds, designed to build reading and comprehension skills for students in Grades 2-7. The website has an enormous range of learning resources, lessons, motivational games, over 1000 e-books and a comprehensive reporting system that together create a unique learning environment. Visit abcshop.com.au/readingeggspress for a free 4 week trial.
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| | | | Man-made chemicals giving our pets cancer
ABC Environment Online
Increasingly, pets and their humans are sharing the same diseases. Now, doctors and veterinarians have begun to work together to investigate common risk factors, such as pesticides, air pollutants, cigarette smoke and household chemicals.
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| | | | | How 'Miss Carson's book' changed the world
ABC Environment Online
Fifty years ago today, a book called Silent Spring was published. The thin volume inspired the modern environmental movement and was the opening salvo in a battle against vested interests that continues to this day.
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| | | | | The decades-old fight for cash-for-cans
ABC Environment Online
The fight for a national container deposit scheme has been going on for decades. So why don't we have one yet?
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| | | | | Australia's rivers: an environmental assessment
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Professor Richard Kingsford delivers the 2012 Eric Rolls Lecture and offers an environmental assessment of the current state of the Murray-Darling Basin, the Paroo River, Lake Eyre and the tropical rivers in northern Australia. (Highlights of A Meander Down a River or Two: How Water Defines Our Continent and Its Future, National Library Canberra, July 17 2012, presented by the Watermark Literary Society)
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| | | | | 2012 Menzies Memorial Lecture - From Botany Bay to Breathing Planet: Reflections on plant diversity and global sustainability
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Plant diversity has never been more important than now. It offers solutions towards food security and sustainable livelihoods, and yet we continue to destroy species at an accelerating pace. What are strategies to preserve plant biodiversity?
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| | | | Introducing ABC Splash: the ABC's new education website
ABC Splash| ABC Digital Education
The ABC is excited and proud to introduce ABC Splash, the ABC's new education website - www.abc.net.au/splash. Created by the ABC in collaboration with Education Services Australia (ESA), ABC Splash is the first interactive digital education site developed for all Australian students, parents and teachers, unhindered by school or location. The website will feature the best ABC content, specially selected to align with the new Australian Curriculum. It will also offer unique, innovative new interactive learning resources for students, parents and teachers. A first-stage preview is being made public on October 30 2012 to give teachers the chance to interact and give feedback on the site. The site will then be officially launched to students and parents in March 2013. The current ABC Learn site will be updated to become ABC Splash. The quarterly Learn Update newsletters will also be replaced by Splash e-news and will be emailed once a month. As a subscriber to Learn Update newsletters, you will be automatically subscribed to Splash e-news. If you do not want to receive Splash e-news, please unsubscribe here. Stay tuned and join us on our education revolution!
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| | | | | What's wrong with our universities?
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
We are forever talking about the importance of education, but what types of education are our universities providing? According to Richard Hill, the contemporary Australian university is under-funded and characterised by overburdened academics, falling standards, and never ending reviews and audits.
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| | | | | Untold stories of teachers' work
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Do you have a teacher who has inspired you - and in what way? What makes good teaching and how can you measure it? A Big Ideas panel looks at the challenges of teaching and the role of teachers in our society.
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| | | | | Graduate winners - public losers
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
The cost of higher education in Australia is in the billions and over the next few years is expected to rise - so who should pay for it? Andrew Norton's proposal is that graduates make a far greater financial contribution to the cost of their tuition. Having a degree, he says, usually means a higher income as well as other private benefits. Tuition subsidies simply redistribute income to students and graduates at the expense of the general public - particularly those who don't go to uni. According to Norton, it's a case of graduate winners - public losers. However, many in the higher education sector are unconvinced by the ideas raised in his report. (Highlights of Graduate winners - public losers, August 13 2012, presented by the Grattan Institute)
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| | | | | University degrees: are they overrated?
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
What was once an elite experience is today shared by many. Since Australia's higher education system was expanded in the late 1980s the number of people with a university degree has grown considerably. Having a degree once meant economic and social advantage - but is it still the case today? (Highlights from The Intelligence Squared debate That having a university degree is grossly overrated, Adelaide Town Hall, July 11 2012, presented by the St James Ethics Centre and the National Centre for Vocational Education Research)
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| | | | | ABC Exhibition Trailer
Become the star of your own ABC TV or Radio program on the ABC Exhibition Trailer! Fitted with a digital TV studio, students can experience the magic of the television chroma key and teleprompter while presenting the news or weather, or singing along to their favourite ABC Kids tune. If radio is more their style, students can panel their own radio show with loads of programs to choose from. All performances can be downloaded FREE from our website. The Trailer also features LED screens, self guided documentaries, an iPad kiosk, ABC website stations, interactive games and more! Want us at your school? Keep an eye out for our 2013 schedule on the website and express your interest via our contacts page.
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| | | | | ABC Schools TV
The ABC Schools Television Service offers programs suitable for students from a Lower Primary to Upper Secondary school audience. ABC Schools TV covers a comprehensive range of programming which provides teachers with resources in all Key Learning Areas. Visit our website for the full Semester 2 Program Guide. ABC Schools TV is now also available on iView.
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| | | | | Visit an ABC Centre in your capital city for you next student excursion!
Where else can your students explore Television, Radio and Online in the one place, rubbing shoulders with some of the country's most respected journalists, producers and media technicians? ABC Centres are working spaces, so no two tours are ever the same. Your tour is likely to include a visit to one of our digital state-of-the-art television production studios, an on-air radio studio, a news studio and control room, as well as an insight into a variety of other ABC services. Tours are available in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra with a new program starting in Darwin in early 2012. To make a booking or find out more, visit our interactive website. More >>
| | | |  | | Health & Physical Education | | | | Places to Dance
ABC Schools TV
Contemporary dance in the most unexpected places: a farm, a train station, and a library. Humorous dance vignettes exploring a range of movement in both solo and ensemble forms. Places to Dance is suitable for Upper Primary to Middle Secondary students and screens on Fridays at 10.30 from October 19 to November 2.
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| | | | | Introducing a fat tax
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Australia's obesity problem has fuelled skyrocketing health costs. A recent UK study claimed that a 20 per cent tax on unhealthy food and drinks could be the answer. Several countries in Europe went down that path, and apparently 70 per cent of Australians would support an increase in the price of junk food. But is a fat tax a fair tax?
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| | | | | In poor health
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
More than 2 million Australians live in poverty. Research shows, the lower your social and economic position, the worse your health - physically and mentally. Poverty is both a cause and a consequence of poor health. Spending more on doctors and hospitals may help improve health but it's only a part of the picture. To become healthier we need to address social and economic disadvantage.
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| | | | My Place Series 2
ABC Schools TV
Based on the much loved Australian children's classic by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins, My Place tells the story of the children who live in one place over 200 years. Featuring an extensive cast of acclaimed Australian actors, My Place is a standout program that has many curricular uses - History, English, Arts (Drama), Study of Society and Environment (Media), and Indigenous Studies (Histories and Culture). My Place is aimed at Middle Primary to Lower Secondary students and screens on Tuesdays at 10.35am from October 30 to November 27.
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| | | | | The classical world: is it dead and buried?
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Classics scholar Richard Jenkyns sees the enduring legacy of ancient world in almost every facet of modern life. From Karl Marx to Sigmund Freud, in architecture, law, medicine, science and the imaginative cultures of Europe. He notes after a long decline, at least in his university, there now appears to be resurgence in interest among students in the classics. (Highlights of Encounters: A Classical World presented by the British Council and the Edinburgh Festival August 17 2012)
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| | | | 20 years of women priests: was it worth it?
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
This year we celebrate 20 years of women priests in the Anglican Church. Today women serve as deacons, chaplains, deans and assistant bishops. But the path to women's ordination had not been smooth or painless. Dr Muriel Porter, author, journalist and leading Anglican laywoman, reflects on this path and asks 'was it worth it'?
More >> | | | | Are we alone in the universe?
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Is intelligent life trying to communicate with us from space? Professor Paul Davies explores the potential and limits of research into the origin and evolution of life and the search for life beyond Earth. Has ET maybe visited our planet ages ago and left us a message? At the Australian National University, Paul Davies discussed his latest book The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?
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| Allison-Levick Memorial Lecture: The accelerating universe
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Dark Energy is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up - and not to slow down as everyone expected. This discovery overturns astronomers' ideas about the history and the fate of the universe. Professor Brian Schmidt describes the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in Physics last year.
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| Possible discovery of the Higgs boson
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
The recent discovery of a new subatomic particle, believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson, was hailed as one of the biggest announcements in physics for a century - as a human achievement which will be known 300 years from now. The Higgs Boson is the final missing ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics. This model describes the fundamental particles from which every visible thing in the universe is made, and the forces acting between them. Listen to the scientists at the level of the experiments which led to this discovery.
More >> | | | | Welfare without the state
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Has pride in self reliance been lost for good or can social policy encourage more personal responsibility? Four speakers outline why and how welfare and the provision of social services can be reformed. Issues raised include the vexed question of child support. Specifically, how to get payments from fathers who ignore or evade their financial obligation to their children, why there needs to be a big shift in child protection policy, how freehold title for indigenous Canadians could break the vicious cycle of dependency and what can a historical analysis reveal about our changing attitudes to work and welfare. (Highlights of Welfare without the State, a forum presented by the Centre for Independent Studies August 27 2012)
More >> | | | | Streams of consciousness
Big Ideas | ABC Radio National
Subscription-based music streaming has arrived in Australia. It may help to combat illegal music downloads and provide some sort of an income stream to musicians, who've been hit by a massive decline in CD sales, and rampant music piracy. Is streaming changing the music game? Are the days of owning your own personal music collection about to go the way of the cassette tape?
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