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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Think this will be worthwhile listening to, or downloading, or reading the transcript next week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Paula<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paula Christophersen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">ICT Curriculum Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Victorian Curriculum and Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Authority<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">(03) 9651 4378<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Background Briefing [mailto:backgroundbriefing@your.abc.net.au]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 15 September 2011 3:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christophersen, Paula P<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Don't trust the web<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:12.75pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C4093"><a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/29511/0/">DON'T TRUST THE WEB</a>
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Reporter: Hagar Cohen <br>
The internet is awash with misinformation, manipulated identities, fake reviews, and dishonest comments. Politicians use astroturfing. So do businesses and marketing firms. Beware—its infecting everyone.
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Sunday 18th September 9.10am <br>
Tuesday 20th September 7.05pm <br>
Wednesday 21st September 4.05am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Reporter: Di Martin <br>
Container deposit schemes operate in many parts of the world, in SA, and soon in the NT. Why will some firms go to great lengths to prevent them? Politicians often fear the financial and strategic might of big business - even when it's about who picks up the
drink can or the beer bottles. <br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/29194/0/">NOWHERE TO LIVE</a>
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Reporter: Anita Barraud <br>
Rents are rising even in country towns, and more people are forced into caravan parks, the back rooms of old pubs - or the river bank - even with young children. It can happen to anyone. It will get worse. Various attempts to create more places for people to
live at cheap rent are not meeting the need. <br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/29071/0/">SOCCER AND TECHNOLOGY</a>
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Reporter: Tim Long <br>
Soccer is the biggest sport in the world and an enormous business. Millions can be lost through a wrong call made by a person with a whistle. Why won't FIFA allow the technology now common in other sports? The controversy is raging over line ball technology.
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/28810/0/">AMOS OZ ON FANATICISM</a>
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Speaker: Amos Oz <br>
Renowned Israeli writer, poet, activist, and historian Amos Oz talks about the most urgent topic of our time—fanatics on all sides of politics and religion. If the UN agrees to recognise Palestine he hopes Israel will be the first to embrace the decision—and
move on from there. The Ervin Graf Memorial Oration at the Shalom Institute. <br>
Also Charles Massy talks about the $10 billion collapse of the wool industry in Australia.
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/28586/0/">AUDITING THE AUDITORS</a>
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Reporter: Stan Correy <br>
Where does the buck stop when big banks and corporations, even nations collapse. Who signs off on the books? The auditors or the board directors. And who should tell investors when there’s something shifty going on?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Reporter: Di Martin<br>
The NBN business model is <a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/29512/0/">
under fire</a> from Professor Joshua Gans for being ant-competitive. Di Martin looked at the value of the NBN last year in her program
<a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/19333/0/">HANGING BY A FIBRE</a> .
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://abcmail.net.au/t/1503572/553073/25265/0/">TAXING MINES</a>
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Reporter: Stan Correy <br>
As the government puts its carbon tax before the parliament and the value of Australia's resource and energy exports rises to $175 billion for the last financial year, it is a good time to reflect on what went wrong with the "super-profits tax" put forward
by former PM, Kevin Rudd. Why did it fail? <br>
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