Nov 20, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topics: Royal Commission into child sexual abuse, proposed changes to discrimination laws, GST Laura Jayes: Hello and welcome to Lunchtime Agenda, I’m Laura Jayes. We are getting down to the business end of the parliamentary year. The Senate is sitting this week and...
Nov 8, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topics: Barack Obama’s election win, China, Treasury costings, domestic leadership Helen Dalley: Hello and welcome to The Nation. I’m Helen Dalley and I’m sitting in for David Speers who has been covering, as you no doubt know if you’ve been glued to Sky News, who has...
Oct 9, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topic: Peter Slipper’s suitability as Speaker of the House of Representatives Lyndal Curtis: Hello and welcome to Capital Hill, I’m Lyndal Curtis. Just one vote is all it took for the Government to save its Speaker today. Tony Abbott, the Opposition Leader,...
Sep 17, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topics: Opinion polls, same-sex marriage, GST Lyndal Curtis: Hello and welcome to Capital Hill, I’m Lyndal Curtis. The impact of opinion polls on politics and whether it should be so is a much discussed topic. Today, you couldn’t get away from the opinion polls. There...
Sep 13, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topics: state government job cuts, mining tax, supertrawler, asylum seekers, Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd, foreign investment David Speers: Welcome to the program. Cutting budgets is never easy, whether you’re in business or politics. This week we saw Campbell Newman in...
Aug 31, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topics: Twitter and online behaviour, CFMEU-Grocon dispute, RU486, Afghanistan Neil Mitchell: Join the debate with me, Left and Right. Bill Shorten is off, presumably trying to fix the Grocon dispute, and Joe Hockey is, we know not where. With me is Senator Stephen...
