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Aboriginal group defends Wanilla Forest from tree thieves and vandals

An Aboriginal group has installed a caretaker to protect a forest near South Australia's Port Lincoln from an escalating spate of wood thefts.









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DIY obstacle courses keep this two-year-old entertained in lockdown

Brisbane parents Lachlan and Kristin Ryan are keeping their energetic daughter Sophia entertained while in lockdown with games and obstacle courses.




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Brains old, new, and augmented

Believe it or not … a Formula 1 car can be driven by someone just using their brain. We consider the neurogeneration: people who in the future are likely to be using some kind of brain-powered technology to do their job or to extend their knowledge. But we don’t leave the past behind, there’s also a peek into the brain collection of Cornell University.



  • Brain and Nervous System
  • Science and Technology
  • History

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When your eyeballs become audible

When some people take a deep breath they can hear air rushing into their lungs. As their lungs expand they can hear their ribs creaking… and their heart beating… and their blood moving. These things happen to people with Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome. It's so strange and rare that most doctors haven’t even heard of it, yet it can have a profound impact on a person’s life and mental health. We go into a hospital operating room to learn about this little-known condition. Warning: this episode contains a description of a surgical operation.




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The ageing brain: it ain't all downhill

Growing older is something we only get to do if we’re lucky, so why are so many of us unenthusiastic about the prospect of ageing? We speak to neuroscientist and author Dan Levitin about his new book The Changing Mind, which looks at the ways the brain actually improves as we age, and how we can help it. 




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How can tech fight coronavirus?

It’s a weird time in the world, but what role does technology play in the age of COVID-19? Also, forget roll call, schools could soon have facial recognition. And will it ever be possible to get conspiracy theories off YouTube? Guests: Nick Kwek, Technology Journalist & Filmmaker @NICKKWEK and Angharad Yeo, ABC television presenter, video game critic, technology journalist and entertainer @angharadyeo




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Updated: Locked down and ready to Zoom

There are too many video conferencing apps. So this week on Download This Show, which is the least worst? Plus, how well is Australian internet holding up to our socially isolated future? And, how are streaming services responding to us all being stuck in the house? Guests: Tegan Jones, Editor, Gizmodo @Tegan_Writes and Seamus Byrne, writer, broadcaster of tech, future, gaming and digital culture @seamus This is an updated version of our episode




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Is new streamer Quibi any good?

This week on DTS, why 5G towers around the world are being torched. Plus, we'll put Quibi under the microscope and look at just how secure your Zoom meeting really is. Guests: Rae Johnston, Science and Technology Editor, NITV @raejohnston + Angharad Yeo, ABC television presenter, video game critic, technology journalist and entertainer @angharadyeo




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How safe is COVIDSafe?

This is one of the big questions when it comes to the government's new app, but is there a simple answer? Plus, how an entire country in the South Pacific managed to lose their domain to Sweden. And Facebook launches their Zoom competitor, but is it really necessary? Guests: Ariel Bogle, online technology reporter, ABC Science @arielbogle + Nic Healey, Breakfast presenter, ABC Western Plains @dr_nic




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The Black Death - the plague that never went away

In the fourteenth century, the plague killed about half the population of Europe and Asia, making it one of the most devastating pandemics in human history - and it's a disease that persists to this day.



  • Diseases and Disorders
  • Infectious Diseases (Other)

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SARS and MERS - what did the earlier epidemics teach us?

Singapore and South Korea – partly because of their experience with previous corona virus outbreaks – have managed this pandemic without locking people in their homes or shutting down their economies. How did they do it?




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SARS, Ebola and now Covid-19 - world health and the role of the W.H.O.

For over 60 years the World Health Organisation has been the pre-eminent international health organisation but questions have been asked about its response to several infectious diseases. This is the story of the WHO, its strengths and its failings. Episode first aired 1 March 2015




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What happened to the NBN, Australia's 'information superhighway'?

The NBN was supposed to provide all Australian homes with reliable, super-fast internet connections. As many of us adjust to living and working from home, connected with our jobs, friends and family online, has it lived up to its promise?




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In a fix - how match fixing became sport’s biggest threat

Find out how match fixing works. It's ubiquitous and now recognised as the biggest threat to sport integrity.




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Will Joe Biden be the next President of the United States?

Joe Biden has emerged as the Democratic nominee for the United States Presidential race in November. But he’s run twice before and both times been defeated soundly. Why did he win this time and how did he gain the support of African American voters?




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The Merry Widow

Always a fan of opera, reviewer Nigel Munro-Wallis finds there's plenty to like about Opera Queensland's prodoction of 'The Merry Widow'.



  • ABC Local
  • brisbane
  • Arts and Entertainment:Opera and Musical Theatre:All
  • Australia:QLD:South Bank 4101

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Waltzing the Wilarra

Last night, Waltzing the Wilarra inspired that same elation, that slight prism shift. This show is funny, poignant and unerringly confident, enlivened by a suite of superb ballads by the play's writer-composer David Milroy.



  • ABC Local
  • perth
  • Arts and Entertainment:All:All
  • Arts and Entertainment:Opera and Musical Theatre:All
  • Arts and Entertainment:Performance Art:All
  • Arts and Entertainment:Theatre:All
  • Australia:WA:East Perth 6004
  • Australia:WA:North Perth 6006
  • Australia:WA:Perth 6000
  • Australia:WA:Perth Airport 6105
  • Australia:WA:South Perth 6151
  • Australia:WA:Subiaco 6008
  • Australia:WA:West Perth 6005

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Appalling Behaviour Review

If this one-man show at The Blue Room is anything to go by, it would be appalling behaviour indeed if the rest of the Blue Room Season "Close Up" was not well attended. I'm not one for one-man shows generally, or for that matter one-woman shows. They can often be hard to sustain especially when the subject matter is not comedic.





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Review of 'Wish'

You've got to love experimental theatre don't you? Even when they choose a subject that would challenge most theatre goers. I went to see 'Wish' at the Blue Room last week. The second production in their 'Up Close' season of eight productions. And I haven't stopped thinking about it.




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Riverdance, The Farewell Tour

A thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance, Riverdance has tapped its way onto the world stage since its inception in 1994, has thrilled more than 22 million people in over 300 venues worldwide throughout 32 countries across 4 continents, and has grossed over US$1.6 billion worldwide.




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Opening night Pan.Optikum - Audience Review

Like four buzzing bees to the honey pot, my husband, son, his teenage friend and I all flew into the city centre ready for a treat. None of us had any idea what the festival opening was about. I had merely glanced at the festival email as it hit my inbox and was instantly drawn in by the images of acrobats a top spinning things and fire and light filling the sky - a theatrical cacophony.




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The warrior who haunts the Kimberley

The ghost of Jandamarra has returned to the warrior's Kimberley heartland in a spectacular production, says 720's cultural reviewer Victoria Laurie.




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When the rain stops falling

He wrote the award winning film 'Lantana' and co-wrote the original screenplay for Baz Luhrmann's 'Strictly Ballroom'. Now Kalgoorlie-born writer Andrew Bovell brings you a poignant story of guilt, hope and truth in 'When the Rain Stops Falling'.




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Oliver Morrison: ABC Junior Arts Reviewer

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival.




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Sofie Kerr: ABC Junior Arts Reviewer

ABC Junior Arts Reviewer, Sofie Kerr reviews the 2011 AWESOME Festival.




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Emily Felstead: ABC Junior Arts Reviewer

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival. On Saturday 19th November, our reviewers got their ABC media passes and headed for a tour of the festival - seeing performances and installations that feature from 19 - 27 November in spots around the city.




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Jack Higgins: ABC Junior Arts Reviewer

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival.




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Rohan James: ABC Junior Arts Reviewer

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival. On Saturday 19th November, our reviewers got their ABC media passes and headed for a tour of the festival - seeing performances and installations that feature from 19 - 27 November in spots around the city.




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'The Boys' hits hard at Wollongong

The latest production of Griffin Theatre Company's 'The Boys' is a performance so disturbingly real that you're relieved when the house lights come up and you can leave.




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Blackbird: review

Perth Theatre Company's latest play, reviewed by ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.




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Review: Arcadia

If you have to take a quick crash course in thermodynamics and chaos theory before seeing a play, is it really worth seeing? It's a question that could be posed by Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's bulgingly brainy theatre piece that Black Swan State Theatre Company has chosen for its second 2012 season offering.




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NORPA delightfully on track with Railway Wonderland

ABC North Coast resident arts reviewer Jeanti St Clair looks at the latest music and theatre to hit the region




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Black as Michael Jackson: review

A modest show about Nyoongar identity is a comic insight into living in two worlds, says 720 ABC's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie



  • ABC Local
  • perth
  • Arts and Entertainment:Comedy (Humour):All
  • Arts and Entertainment:Theatre:All
  • Community and Society:Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander):All
  • Community and Society:Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander):Indigenous Culture
  • Australia:WA:Perth 6000

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Review: It's Dark Outside

In expert hands, even memory loss can be a topic for satisfying drama, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie




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Review: On the Misconception of Oedipus

How did Oedipus become such a naughty little boy? Is it all the fault of his mother? Perth Theatre Company's latest show is an imaginative take on the Greek myth, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie




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What can genes tell us?

Can our genes tell us if we're gay? Or intelligent? Science says the answer is complex, and that genetic determinism — the idea that we're genetically hardwired for certain outcomes — shouldn't be taken seriously. But genetic determinism has taken hold of the public imagination.




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Saving the renewable industry

Building a sustainable renewable industry.




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Russia, the Wily Man and corona

Compromises and working within Putin's Russia and the current state of COVID-19.




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Who was Justice Robert Hope?

The man who shaped and reformed Australian intelligence services receives an overdue biography.




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How is Africa coping with the virus?

The dire predictions for Africa are all in place, but so far they haven't come true.




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Which way ahead for the global economy

Some pundits say capitalism can never recover from Covid-19, and there will need to be bigger government. Others say the future economic recovery rests with the business sector.




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Big week for banks

It’s ‘reporting season’ - where the ANZ, Westpac and NAB announce six month results. And in this year of economic crisis, those results were always going to be significant. The big banks are increasingly seen as economic bellwethers. Their fate tells us a lot about how everyone else might be going.




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The Pick: what to read, watch and listen to in May

What to read, watch and listen to in the month of May to broaden your world.




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Sweden's unique approach to coronavirus

Most of the world is locking down and spatial distancing - but in Sweden the powerful public health agency has steered the country down a very different path.