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Uncovering Victorian taxi drivers' stories: 9.6.2009
When the hours can be long and late... the pay isn't great ... and being abused in the course of your job is not uncommon -- who'd want to be a taxi driver?
Some people CHOOSE to do it... others DO it, to have a job.
Well, collecting some of the stories of taxi drivers has been the mission of Melbourne woman, Rachael Guthridge.
She's been telling Caroline Davey why.
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Meet feminist Islamic scholar, Shaykh Kabbani: 5.6.2009
The president of the world's most populous Muslim nation seeks his spiritual guidance.
Leaders of other Indonesian political parties do likewise.
The spiritual teacher I'm talking about is Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani .. or Shaykh Kabbani for short.
He's an Islamic Sufi scholar.. born in Lebanon but now living in the United States.
Shaykh Kabbani is the chair of the Islamic Supreme Council of America.
For this edition of INSIDE OUT, Shaykh Kabbani gives us an insider's look at Sufism - often described as ISLAM's mystic school.
He's speaking with Caroline Davey.
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Interactive Forum: Donating Blood - Pt 1: 5.3.2009
Accidents, surgical operations, as well as some diseases call upon that life-giving force of humans - blood.
The severe and deadly bushfires in Victoria have most recently brought home the need .. and indeed demand .. for more blood.
In other parts of the world it can be the impact of war.
Here's Caroline Davey with the first part of this week's interactive hot seat forum... on blood donating - looking at donating rates, systems, and typical donor profiles around the world.
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Forum panel is made up of Dr Pip Hetzel (National Operations Manager with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service), Biljana Ristic (blood donor from the Serbian Australian community), Tanju Yenisey (unable to donate for health reasons), and Marlene Galea (a Maltese Australian who's always intended to donate blood but somehow hasn't got around to doing it).
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Interactive Forum: Donating Blood - Pt 2: 5.3.2009
Are you a blood donor?
If you're not, is it just because you've never got around to it.. or perhaps you've never thought about it.. never been closely affected by someone needing a transfusion?
It's a topic World View's Caroline Davey decided to explore.. in the wake of the devastating bushfires in Victoria.
Coinciding with the bushfires, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service launched 2009 as The Year of the Blood Donor.. and along with it, a national recruitment drive - very timely!
Also timely to look at how good we are at donating our blood.. how we compare with other countries.. At why some of us are reluctant to, and at which recruitment campaigns are successful.
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Forum panel is made up of Dr Pip Hetzel (National Operations Manager with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service), Biljana Ristic (blood donor from the Serbian Australian community), Tanju Yenisey (unable to donate for health reasons), and Marlene Galea (a Maltese Australian who's always intended to donate blood but somehow hasn't got around to doing it).
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Red Cross Blood Service helps potential donors from different cultures: 3.3.2009
Industrial scientists can do lots of things - but one thing they haven't managed to do is manufacture blood.
I mean blood for transfusions to humans... after an accident and loss of their own blood, or for cancer patients needing a boost in their immune system.
As we know, about a quarter of us living here in Australia come from a non-English speaking background - a sizeable proportion of us who therefore also go to hospital.
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service is aware of this as well .. and wants to encourage more people from different linguistic and cultural groups to become blood donors.
The Service's Duncan Reynolds says they have some special programs in place to help potential new donors.
As he explains to Caroline Davey.
NOTE: World View will take a deeper look into the practice and culture of donating blood in Australia and overseas... this Thursday 5 March.. at 6am .. And at 5pm, our special panel will explore some ways to make it more conducive for people to actually get around to donating!
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Vox Pop: Aussie views on donating blood : 3.3.2009
Where do YOU line up with these Australians .. who explain why they are, or they're not.. Blood Donors?
NOTE: World View will take a deeper look into the practice and culture of donating blood in Australia and overseas... this Thursday 5 March.. at 6am .. And at 5pm, our special panel will explore some ways to make it more conducive for people to actually get around to donating!
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Hands for Hope Charity to Help World View Radiothon: 18.2.2009
Among the thousands of people who have come forward to help victims of the Victiorian bushfires, is a small Melbourne-based charity group more commonly associated with helping disadvantaged children in Vietnam.
Hands for Hope CEO, Nham Nguyen, tells Andrew Kruger why her group has decided to get involved.
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10-day Tassie festival "unique": organiser: 18.2.2009
Tasmania is a state that likes to be a little different from its mainland cousins.
And it's proud that it can use its compact size when it comes to running a unique international festival.
Elisabeth Walsh is the artistic director of '10 Days On The Island'... which runs from March 27th to April 5th.
And she beckons mainlanders to "dive in and have a look" at the festival program for 2009.
Elisabeth Walsh gives some highlights to Daniele Kemp.
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Paul Dillon on drug abuse: 18.2.2009
With the death over the summer of a 17 year old girl from a drug overdose at the Big Day Out Music Festival, new questions are being raised about what constitutes social drug use among some members of GEN Y.
Paul Dillon from Drug and Alcohol Research and Training says some young Australians are bingeing on drugs just as they do on alcohol. He's speaking with Peggy Giakoumelos. ...
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Hot Seat Forum on bilingualism and ethnic communities: 18.2.2009
This Hot Seat Forum, is dedicated to bilingualism how bilingualism is perceived in mainstream Australia and whether it's an important value to ethnic communities in Australia.
Our guests are Christian Froelicher, a Swiss-German, Maridel Martinez, a Filipina, and Marc Orlando, who's originally from France.
The attitude of mainstream Australia hasn't always been very open to languages other than English.
To start off the discussion, we hear the story of a second-generation Italo-Australian and her family.
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