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Rear Vision

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We tease out the complex history behind those baffling events in the news.


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2009-11-04 Dreams of peace - the Philippines

The roots of the four decade long Muslim insurgency in the Southern Philippines lie centuries ago, when the islands of Sulu and Mindanao were sultanates. Peace remains a dream in this largely Catholic nation....

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[ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-28 `Not flash, just Gordon´

When Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair he promised to put an end to spin but it seems that British voters aren't happy with the substance he offered instead. On Rear Vision next week, the short rise and sharp decline of Prime Minister Gordon Brown....

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[ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-21 Indonesia´s democracy: fighting fit or fragile?

Indonesia was a latecomer to the global wave of democracy during the last 30 years of the 20th century. Yet the decade since 1999 has seen a dramatic reversal around the world, with 29 newly democratising countries returning to authoritarian rule. Can Indonesia avoid this fate?...

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[ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-14 Afghanistan: the unwinnable war

As the Obama administration carries out a major review of strategy in the increasingly unpopular war, Rear Vision traces eight years of conflict in Afghanistan....

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[ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-07 The Freemasons

This week we examine the early history of one of the world's most secretive societies - the Freemasons....

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[ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-30 China before Mao

As the People's Republic celebrates its sixtieth birthday, Rear Vision looks at China before Mao and the background to the Communist revolution....

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[ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-23 The Middle East conflict and the two-state solution

American president Barack Obama is committed to the Middle East peace process and the two-state solution. That is, that between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River there should be two states: one Israeli and the other Palestinian. We take a look at the history of the two-state solution....

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[ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-16 The Republic of Great Britain?

This week, Rear Vision looks at the short history of the modern British monarchy and the small but passionate debate over its future....

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[ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-09 A question of gender: the sex testing of female athletes

At the world athletics competition in Berlin last month two performances stood out above all the rest: that of the Jamaican sprinter Usian Bolt and the South African runner Caster Semenya. Both won gold, yet while Bolt was hailed as one of the greatest sprinters, Semenya's victory in the 800 metres was met with suspicion and questions about her gender. But Semenya is not the first person have her gender questioned, for over 50 years elite female athletes have had to prove that they are really wo...

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[ Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-02 The Lockerbie trial revisited

A Scottish judicial inquiry decided two years ago that there was enough doubt about the justice of the original trial to allow Abdel Baset al Megrahi a fresh appeal. Hear the Scottish lawyer who proposed the framework for the original trial and the UN´s special observer to the proceedings, as well as the latest from Megrahi´s solicitor. The original program on the trial was first broadcast on 9th September 2007...

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[ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-26 Elections in Japan

The Liberal Democratic Party has governed Japan for most of its post-war history, but polls suggest the opposition Democratic Party will win a historic victory in elections on 30 August. How did the DLP keep an almost unbroken grip on power for 50 years, and why now have voters finally had enough?...

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[ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-19 The lost reform!

For 100 years American Presidents, both Republican and Democrats, have tried to introduce a comprehensive national health insurance scheme in America, and they have all failed. As President Obama tries to sell his revised plan to Congress and the American people we take a look at those previous attempts and why they didn't succeed....

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[ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-12 Regarding human remains

The collection and display of human remains and human body parts were once legitimate activities for the great universal museums. Rear Vision tracks the changes in attitudes towards such displays from outside the museum world as well as from within....

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[ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-05 Australia's Education Exports

Overseas students have been coming to Australia since the 1950´s, for the first 30 years they came as our guests, today they are full paying students paying us billions of dollars every year. So how and why did this change occur? And what impact has the change had on our higher education institution?...

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[ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-29 China at 60: the forces that shaped revolutionary China

Rear Vision revisits key moments in China's modern history as the People´s Republic prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Communist Revolution....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-22 The end of fish

We seem to have eaten all the fish in the sea. We caught them because we could; we had the means to do it, with technology that made it physically possible and economically viable. Rear Vision explores the role played by technology in the disappearance of wild fish and looks at some of the reasons why attempts to control it have had limited success....

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[ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-15 The Story of the Gold Standard

Once upon a time currencies were backed up by gold - piles of gold bullion sitting in bank vaults. When the gold standard was abandoned during the Great Depression, there was public panic, and the end of Western civilisation was predicted. Luckily that didn't happen, but could the present crisis be a reason to return to the gold standard?...

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[ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-08 The Impact of the Versailles Treaty

The treaty of Versailles was signed 90 years ago - it ended WW1 and was supposed to end all wars. But as we all know it didn´t end war and arguably laid the foundation for a century of ethnic conflict and political instability. How the Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty shaped the 20th century and the world we live in today....

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[ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-01 The Paris Peace Conference 1919

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919, held just months after the ended WW1, gathered together the leaders of the world. Their task: to redraw the map of the world and create a peace that would last forever. While it clearly failed in its second task, 90 years on we still live in a world created at that conference. Rear Vision re-examines the Paris Conference and the Treaty of Versailles....

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[ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-28 The Iranian Revolution

Is Iran on the brink of another revolution? As the world watches the civil unrest and violence unfold in the streets of Tehran we look back at the events that led to the Iranian Revolution 30 years ago - it was an event that shocked the West, inspired millions of Muslims and redefined Middle Eastern politics. First broadcasted on 11 February 2009...

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[ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-24 Oil, democracy and a CIA coup

Since the Iranian presidential elections Tehran has been engulfed by civil and political unrest. Not since the Iranian Revolution has Tehran experienced this level of violence and political disobedience. But why do the Iranian leadership accuses Britain and America of fermenting the current political unrest? It's a story that begins in 1953: a story about oil, democracy and a CIA coup. First broadcast on 30th September 2007...

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[ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-17 Venezuela in the time of Chavez

Depending on your point of view, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela´s president, is either a demagogue and would-be dictator or a new kind of twenty-first century socialist building a fairer society for Venezuela´s poor. Rear Vision looks at what has happened in Venezuela over the last decade....

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[ Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-10 Deeper in debt: a history of consumer credit

The balance outstanding on credit cards – that´s debt that´s accruing interest because it´s not being paid off – has more than doubled in Australia in the last six years, jumping from $16 billion in 2002 to $33 billion in 2008. Rear Vision traces the growth of consumer credit and its increasingly central role in our economy....

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[ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-03 Tax havens

If you pay tax you´re not rich enough, if you were you'd set up a bank account in Geneva, the Isle of Man or in the Bahamas or one of the other Tax havens and life would be tax free. A history of tax havens: when and why they first appeared and how it is that they have come to play such a major role in the international finance system....

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[ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-27 Palliative care

Although modern palliative care has only a short history, its practice has spread around the world. Rear Vision tracks the history of this approach to dying from its origins in Britain to Australia, where the world´s first professor of palliative care was appointed....

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[ Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-20 Thailand's Democrcay

Last month the streets of Bangkok erupted into violence, as protesters, dressed in red shirts, blockaded the prime minister´s office, demanding his resignation. Last year demonstrators, dressed in yellow shirts, shut down Bangkok´s main airport and demanded the removal of the whole government. So what´s going on in Thailand and who are these yellow and red shirted protesters?...

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[ Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-13 Childcare in Australia

The repercussions of the collapse of ABC Learning are still being felt around the country and the associated legal matters will take years to play out. Rear Vision looks at the history of childcare in Australia and how ABC Learning became such a giant before it went bust....

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[ Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-06 The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919

The history of the world's worst flu pandemic, the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu, was caused by an unusually virulent virus. It killed around 50 million people worldwide and what made it especially deadly was the fact that it killed healthy young adults, not just those with compromised immune systems....

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[ Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-04-29 Iceland votes

The collapse of Iceland´s economy last October was followed by street protests that brought down the government, prompting early elections this month. Rear Vision looks at the background to this story as Iceland struggles for economic recovery....

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[ Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-03-04 Fiji; coup country

Fiji has suffered four coups since independence in 1970, the most recent in 2006 when the government of Laisenia Qarase was overthrown by Commodore Frank Bainimarama. Rear Vision investigates the tension between the military and democratic rule in Fiji....

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[ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]

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