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Inside Story
by Swinburne University of Technology
Inside Story combines original, high-quality journalism and rigorous analysis to bring its readers a distinctive view of Australia and the world. Drawing on a network of Australian writers and academic researchers, together with correspondents in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas, Inside Story investigates the forces shaping politics, society and culture.
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Time to rethink the Great Australian Dream (Inside Story)
Homelessness is entrenched and many Australians face overwhelming housing costs, yet housing policy has slipped off the political agenda. In this discussion with Peter Clarke, housing specialists Wendy Stone and Peter Mares trace the rise and fall of housing policy in Australia, and how the right...
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The revolution continues (Inside Story)
A decade after her first interview with Inside Story, writer and media analyst Margaret Simons talks to Peter Clarke about ten years of change, and looks at the prospects for journalism and the media Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website 31 December 2018.
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Fit for purpose? (Inside Story)
Australia's last big healthcare reform was in the 1970s. As the election campaign gets under way, two analysts talk to Peter Clarke about urgently needed reforms. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website 15 April 2019.
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The elusive x-factor (Inside Story)
Two political insurgencies - in Batman and in South Australia - failed to live up to expectations this weekend. Peter Clarke talks to political scientist Rob Manwaring about why. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 18 March 2018.
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In Melbourne, progress on chronic fatigue (Inside Story)
With its debiliating symptoms - fatigue, "brain fog," pain, gastrointestinal disorders - and its elusive causes, chronic fatigue syndrome has been one of the great unsolved medical mysteries. Now, a growing number of research teams around the world are tackling the challenge of diagnosing and...
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Do synonyms exist? (Inside Story)
They might have started off meaning the same things, but words acquire all kinds of baggage along the way - which means that mutts, hounds, curs and canine quadrupeds aren’t interchangeable, despite what the thesaurus might imply. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 12...
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Noun, verb, adjective - or all three? (Inside Story)
Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 28 September 2016.
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No need to be possessive about apostrophes (Inside Story)
Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke explore the erratic history, contentious present and far-from-certain future of this tricky piece of punctuation. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 14 September 2016.
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Pardon our French (Inside Story)
Dutch courage, French letters, it's all Greek to me... In the latest Inside Language podcast, Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge about how outmoded attitudes have hung around in English. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 25 July 2016.
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Me, myself and I (Inside Story)
Small words can create big problems. In the latest Inside Langage podcast, Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge about misplaced pronouns. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 24 June 2016.
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Turning point in the US primaries (Inside Story)
Ted Cruz has gone; Bernie Sanders's numbers still don't add up… it looks like Clinton vs Trump in November. Political scientist Simon Jackman talks to Inside Story podcast editor Peter Clarke about how the contest is likely to unfold and what it means for Congress and the post-2016 political…
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Untangling nots (Inside Story)
Nouns and verbs aren't the only parts of the language on the move, says Kate Burridge. She talks to Peter Clarke about the evolution of that short but unequivocal word, "not". Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 8 April 2016.
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The contronym conundrum (Inside Story)
English is peppered with contronyms - those words that mean one thing in one context, and the opposite in another. Where do they come from and what do they signify, asks linguist Kate Burridge in this conversation with Peter Clarke. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 28...
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Bad language (Inside Story)
Content contains strong language. Once a word attracts negative connotations there seems to be no going back, linguist Kate Burridge tells Peter Clarke in the second of a series of Inside Language podcasts. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 17 January 2016.
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On the slippery slope with rorters and fraudsters (Inside Story)
Once a word attracts negative connotations there seems to be no going back, linguist Kate Burridge tells Peter Clarke in the second of a series of Inside Language podcasts. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 8 January 2016.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and the art of distance assimilation (Inside Story)
Benedict Cumberbatch set off a small storm when he unconsciously pronounced penguin as "pengwing" in a recent wildlife documentary. For linguist Kate Burridge, it was another case of "distance assimilation," one of the ways we tend to harmonise the elements of difficult words as we speak. In the...
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For better or worse (Inside Story)
Ian Macfarlane's failed attempt to switch from the Liberal Party to the Nationals highlights problems in Queensland's merger of the two main anti-Labor parties and suggests tensions within the federal Coalition. With a leadership change looming for the Nationals, Peter Clarke talks to Brian…
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The Baird factor, the Abbott factor, and the challenge for Labor (Inside Story)
The Coalition has won a convincing victory in New South Wales. Stephen Mills talks to Peter Clarke about the result and its implications. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 29 March 2015.
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Coalition still ahead in New South Wales, still behind in Canberra (Inside Story)
Down to the wire? In this fifteen-minute podcast, Peter Clarke talks to psephologist Peter Brent about this Saturday's NSW election and the federal Coalition's continuing problems. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 25 March 2015.
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Queensland: how it happened and what it means (Inside Story)
To the surprise of most commentators, Labor looks set to form government in Queensland. Not so surprised was Brian Costar, professor of politics at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research. He talks to Peter Clarke about what went wrong for the Liberal National Party. Interview originally...
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Three elections and a hypothesis (Inside Story)
The Coalition lost in Victoria and looks like doing less well than expected in Queensland and New South Wales. Peter Clarke discusses why, and what it says about the Liberal Party, with Brian Costar, Sally Young and Peter Brent. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 22…
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Fixing the Senate (Inside Story)
Senate voting needs to be simpler and more transparent. Brian Costar talks to Peter Clarke about a plan to fix the system, and looks at the politics of the federal budget. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 16 May 2014.
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Winners and losers (Inside Story)
Bill Shorten discusses Labor factions, parliamentary career paths, and winners and losers in this interview with Peter Mares recorded in 2006. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 14 October 2013.
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Independent in Indi: what happens now? (Inside Story)
Peter Clarke talks to Brian Costar about why Cathy McGowan is likely to serve more than one term, why the Electoral Commission is under attack, and who should lead the Labor Party. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 27 September 2013.
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The facts are the story (Inside Story)
Peter Clarke talks to Fact Check presenter John Barron about the ABC's newest project. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 20 August 2013.
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Kerry Packer: the interview (Inside Story)
A third Kerry Packer-based TV series is in production just as the late mogul's magazines head offshore. In this interview in 1978 with Terry Lane, Packer provided a rare insight into his childhood and the influence of his father. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 5...
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'If you can reach that point of almost nonchalance in playing, that's a different level of creativity again' (Inside Story)
John Bell talks to Peter Clarke about acting, King Lear and the Bell Shakespeare Company. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story web site, 30 June 2010.
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Great expectations (Inside Story)
The Victorian government has invested considerable effort in securing the UNESCO designation, City of Literature, for Melbourne. Infrastructure and staff are now being assembled to help the city match the title with reality. A new literary hub, the Wheeler Centre, has been established in a...
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In the red zone (Inside Story)
Australian journalist Martin Chulov tells Peter Clarke about the challenges of reporting from Iraq and the preparations for January's election. This interview originally appeared on the Inside Story web site on 9 November 2009.
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Living the language (Inside Story)
After nearly a quarter of a century collecting data among the Mennonites of southern Ontario, Kate Burridge is identifying the broader linguistic implications of her research. She talks to Peter Clarke. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story web site, 1 October 2009.
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Authenticity and the ABC (Inside Story)
Six months into the job, the ABC's director of news, Kate Torney, talks to Peter Clarke about where the national broadcaster is headed. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story web site, 16 November 2009.
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The subtle art of collaboration (Inside Story)
Australia's twenty-second prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, defeated in 1983 by Bob Hawke after almost eight years in office, has remained a significant public figure. But he has written little about the often-turbulent events of his long political career. Now comes an autobiography written not by...
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'It's good to be back' (Inside Story)
Barack Obama has gone onto the front foot, but did he leave it too late? Political historian David Farber discusses the post healthcare reform prospects with Peter Clarke. Interview originally appeared on the 'Inside Story' website 28 April 2010.
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Fourth estate under scrutiny (Inside Story)
Peter Clarke talks to Margaret Simons and Tim Dunlop about the federal government's media inquiry and the fallout from the judgement in the Andrew Bolt case. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 11 October 2011.
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'I needed to know all about them. And, more than that, I needed to write about them' (Inside Story)
Brian McFarlane talks to Peter Clarke about a lifetime at the movies. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story web site, 23 December 2010.
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Rob Oakeshott: why I became an independent (Inside Story)
In this interview with Terry Lane, first broadcast on ABC Radio National's The National Interest in 2002, Rob Oakeshott discusses why he joined the Nationals, and why he left. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 25 August 2010.
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Digging up a scandal: the story of how two journalists unearthed the Securency scandal shows what would be lost if newspapers stop funding investigative journalism (Inside Story)
After simmering for a year in the Melbourne Age, allegations of international bribery involving Securency, the bank-note company half-owned by the Reserve Bank, have gained national coverage following a Four Corners story late last month. Age investigative journalists Richard Baker and Nick...
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Paywalls: the good news and the gamble (Inside Story)
With the Australian's online paywall up and running, Peter Clarke talks to the former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Gordon Crovitz, Crikey editor Sophie Black and the University of Canberra's Jason Wilson about the Australian's experiment, the success of the New York Times's 'porous...
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Getting off the bus (Inside Story)
Even before election day the signs were that the news media were struggling to interpret national politics in a way that captured the interest of readers and viewers and enhanced the democratic process. Meanwhile, neither of the major parties was making a convincing pitch for a majority of votes....
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Getting back to the craft (Inside Story)
Conferences on 'the future of journalism' have become a growth industry. In many ways, the news media's own digital evolution has become one of its biggest stories. The collapse of the twentieth century funding model for (quality) journalism is pre-occupying western news operations. Rupert…
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Will democracy survive (Inside Story)
There are some shocks in John Keane's (University of Westminster) latest book, The Life and Death of Democracy. First, he punctures the "democracy started in Athens" myth - "assembly democracy,"" he writes, was practised much earlier and further east. But a bigger jolt comes from his thesis that...
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Schooling and the common good (Inside Story)
Education reform is back on the national agenda. Among the many issues being discussed are the need for a significant improvement in teaching skills and standards and the knotty and persistent problem of entrenched inequity of opportunities and outcomes. A marked flight away from government...
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A trillion dollars on the table: Part 1 (Inside Story)
Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama is facing the first major legislative test of his administration: the passing of his reforming health care bill, with a potentially massive impact on spending. If Obama doesn't succeed on this key legislation, his entire reform agenda and his…
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A trillion dollars on the table: Part 2 (Inside Story)
Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama is facing the first major legislative test of his administration: the passing of his reforming health care bill, with a potentially massive impact on spending. If Obama doesn't succeed on this key legislation, his entire reform agenda and his…
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Evolution and creativity (Inside Story)
It's relatively easy to accept the fundamentals of evolutionary science when it seeks to describe changes in physical features through the processes of natural selection. But it becomes harder when evolutionary psychologists argue that our ways of thinking, use of language and even creating and...
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Revolutionary highway (Inside Story)
Humans have always craved and shared news. News journalism started to emerge after the Gutenberg Revolution in the fifteenth century eventually blossoming as a profession with the Industrial Revolution and the invention of a clutch of mass media technologies that characterised the twentieth...
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Has radio's future passed? (Inside Story)
Digital radio as an evolving technology has been around for over twenty years. Now, after much plotting, planning, tests and delays, it will start up in Australia in the middle of 2009. It comes with a joint promise: better audio quality and potentially more diversity of audio content. But since...
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Making famine history (Inside Story)
For many people around the world, especially in developing countries, famine is not an abstract notion. Wars, crop failures, callous urban elites and ruthless dictatorships are the classic causes, but countervailing factors are increasingly at work. Could it be that a true famine is now close to...
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Child Care: where we came from and where we're going (Inside Story)
If any area of social policy deserves the label, "never-ending-story", it is childcare in Australia. Once the province of community-based providers, from the late eighties childcare gradually became broadly privatised under both Labor and Coalition governments. Recurring questions of standards…
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Black Saturday's pre-history (Inside Story)
Black Saturday seared itself into the history books and the memories of many on 7 February 2009. The grieving, the slow recovery and the debates continue. Over missions of years, the world's tallest flowering plants, the great Mountain Ash eucalypts of the forests of Victoria, have evolved as…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Inside Story combines original, high-quality journalism and rigorous analysis to bring its readers a distinctive view of Australia and the world. Drawing on a network of Australian writers and academic researchers, together with correspondents in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas, Inside Story investigates the forces shaping politics, society and culture.
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Swinburne University of Technology
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