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Politics and Economics

Employment Comment - John August / Timothy Govers
Discussion of employment between John August , convenor of the economics and politics discussion group the Sydney Shove and Timothy Govers.

Society for Heterodox Economics Meeting, 2006 - John August / Amelia Hunter
Details of a paper on corporations John August presented at the Society for Heterodox Economists meeting at the University of NSW, Sydney, Australia in December 2006, together with a few thoughts on economics from the conference.

Abolish State Governments in Australia - John August / Amelia Hunter
Discussion of the pros and cons of abolishing State Government in Australia.

The Secular Party of Australia - John August / Amelia Hunter
The Secular Party of Australia plans to promote the separation of church and state along with maintaining freedoms against religious influence. Comprehensive Secularism involves the separation of Church and State, impartiality between different belief systems, and the primacy of individual human rights over religious perogatives.

Law discussion - John August / Amelia Hunter
Discussion of issues of local courts and administration of fines; their problems, and more general problems with traffic and speeding laws.

Louise Steer Philosophy Dogwatch 17th August 07 - John August / Louise Steer
Interview with Louise Steer on the law and recent government changes to legal process, on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 17th August 07, hosted by John August

Housing Comment, Philosophy Dogwatch 17th August 07 - John August
John August 's comment on Housing Affordabily, Housing Stress and related issues on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 17th August 07, hosted by John August

Howard and Keating Comment Philosophy Dogwatch 17th August 07 - John August
John August 's comment on Howard's fear based election campaigns, with causal chains going back to Keating's election campaign in the distant past, on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 17th August 07, hosted by John August

Herando de Soto - 2SER Tuesday Daily - John August / Sarah Hanniffy
A discussion of ideas from Hernando de Soto, author of the book "The Mystery of Capital" with the host of 2SER's Tuesday Daily, Sarah Hanniffy

World Affairs

Employment / Iraq Comment - John August / Timothy Govers
Discussion of employment and Iraq between John August convenor of the economics and politics discussion group the Sydney Shove and Timothy Govers. You'll find the Sydney Shove discussion at www.sydneyshove.org#Iraq

Israel - Lebanon comment - John August / Amelia Hunter
A discussion of some issues in the then current (July 2006) Israel - Lebanon conflict. John August is sympathetic to Israel over its concern for the Hezbollah missiles - but equally critical of how genuinely Israel is trying to minimise civilian casaulties. A more detailed written piece is available at : http://www.philorum.org/speech/20060816IsraelLebanonConflictJohnAugust.html

Historical and contemporary conflicts around Israel - John August / Amelia Hunter
Reading from 'The Seventh Day' on the Six Day War, and the Combatants for Peace website. Also a story from an Australian POW to the Japanese, and how a work of art saved a life.

Science

Oil comment - John August / Amelia Hunter
Discussion of oil and the future - different ideas on whether we are running out, the alternatives, the implications

Evolution and Sex - John August / Amelia Hunter
Challenging the idea that we don't know why there are sexes, or even why there are 2 rather than 3 or more, John August explains the evolutionary history of sex.

The Ritzian alternative to Relativity
John August outlines the Ritzian alternative to the theory of relativity, a theory which has the same outcomes as relativity, but relies on the forces between objects diminishing, rather than mass and time changing, as with relativity.

Vegetarianism, Meat and 'Saving the World with Pesticides and Plastic' - John August / Amelia Hunter
Sadly, this is a lower quality recording ... the original archive noised it up. We discuss vegetarianism and meat eating, with reference to 'Saving the World with Pesticides and Plastic' by Dennis T. Avery and some other ideas.

Appropriate Technology - John August / Amelia Hunter
Outlines the 'cloth filter' and indoor fires - a major source of pollution and deaths in third world countries, together with reference to an Engineers Without Borders event.

Marshal Savage's plan for the Galaxy and Zubrin's plan for Mars - John August / Amelia Hunter
Considers ideas about space colinisation and exploration, including the the book 'Conquering the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps' by Marshall T. Savage, and also Robert Zubrin's plan for exploring and colonising Mars.

Diffusion 26th July 2007 - The Diffusion Team
Global Swindle, Snow Science, E-voting News by Ian Woolf - Australian Audiovisual Archive - Caffeine Thinking - Gesture Control - Micro Movers - Early Altruism Global Warming Swindle Review by John August Snow Science by Patrick Rubie E-voting by Ian Woolf Presented by Emily Fearn Produced by Ed Pollitt

Global Warming Swindle - 2SER Tuesday Daily - John August / Sarah Hanniffy
Discussion of the documentary "The Global Warming Swindle" with the host of 2SER's Tuesday Daily, Sarah Hanniffy

Philosophy

Freewill - John August / Amelia Hunter
Details of a discussion at Sydney Philorum on free will.

Symbols - Pictograms, SMS, Inter-Civilisation and Inter-Species Communication - John August / Amelia Hunter
A review of Bliss Symbolics, a pictographic language; research into how Australians and Japanese SMS each other; inter - civilisation communication to warn people of nuclear waste; and inter species communication via information attached to planetary probes.

Adrian Tan : Philosophy Dogwatch 27th July 07 - John August / Adrian Tan
Interview with Adrian Tan, convener of the Russoc Philosophy Discussion Group, on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 27th July 07, hosted by John August

Ellen Watson Philosophy Dogwatch 27th July 07 - John August / Ellen Watson
Interview with Ellen Watson, on ideas about information an consciousness, on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 27th July 07, hosted by John August

Ellen Watson Philosophy Dogwatch 17th August 07 - John August / Ellen Watson
Interview with Ellen Watson, on ideas about collective guilt and responsibility, on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 17th August 07, hosted by John August

Lisa Thatcher Philosophy Dogwatch 17th August 07
Interview with Lisa Thatcher, committee member of the Philo Agora philosophy discussion group Sydney, on lay philosophy and continental philosophy, on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 17th August 07, hosted by John August

Hobbies and Interests

Dorkbot, Robo Wars and Rocket Car Day - John August / Philippe Perez
Reports on a meeting of Dorkbot, where people do strange things with electricity; the Australian Battle Bot League, where radio controlled robots do battle; and Rocket Car Day, where model cars are propelled by rocket motors.

Urban Exploration and the Sydney Cave Clan - John August / Amelia Hunter
A discussion of urban exploration - that is exploring drains and old factories - the people who do it, and their motives.

Community radio - special edition - John August / Amelia Hunter
John August talks community media and his segment 'The World and its Ways'.

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's UFO series - John August / Amelia Hunter
John August reviews the UFO series, from the 1970's, where Earth is defending itself from attack by aliens who abduct humans for use as spare parts.

Autonomous Astronauts - 2SER Tuesday Daily - John August / Sarah Hanniffy
Reading of the statement in support of the Dreamtime mission of the Autonomous Astronauts Association on Sarah Hanniffy's 2SER Tuesday Daily Program.

History

Poems - including 'O What is that Sound' by WH Auden - John August / Yaeli Ohana / Amelia Hunter
Readings of a parody of 'I Love a Sunburnt Country', and the poem 'O What is that Sound ?' by WH Auden

Back to the mid - late 1800s
We take a journey back to the UK in the mid/late 1800s, reflecting on how progress, technology was viewed from that time.

The Whitlam Dismissal - An alternate history - John August / Amelia Hunter
Making use of the 'tachiscope' radio receiver, we listen on a report of an alternate history where Gough Whitlam did not stand down.

The New Vietnam Scholarship - John August / Amelia Hunter
A retrospective on Vietnam, drawing in particular from the (then) "New Vietnam Scholarship" of the 1980s

Readings from "The Sun Goes Down" on WWII Japanese Soldiers - John August / Amelia Hunter
Readings from "The Sun Goes Down", a book of last letters from Japanese soldiers and suicide pilots

Poem - 'O What is that Sound' by WH Auden - John August / Yaeli Ohana / Amelia Hunter
Reading of the poem 'O What is that Sound ?' by WH Auden. Another entry also includes a second poem and an introduction - this was a clipped version of just the poem which I mistakenly uploaded initially.

Rudyard Kipling's Poem Philosophy Dogwatch 17th August 07 - John August
Reading of Rudyard Kipling's "The Young British Soldier" on the 2SER Dogwatch program, 17th August 07, hosted by John August