On Air Highlights
Archive for August, 2011
31 August 2011
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The Australian High Court dealt a big blow to the Government’s asylum seeker policy on Wednesday, ruling 6-1 that asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat could not be sent to Malaysia under a controversial people swap deal.
31 August 2011
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The Song Peoples Sessions is a collaboration between traditional and contemporary Australian Indigenous musicians to support the protection of cultural heritage and maintain Indigenous languages and traditional song cycles.
31 August 2011
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The Australian High Court has blocked the government’s asylum seeker-refugee swap deal with Malaysia saying it’s invalid.
31 August 2011
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Despite a lack of training facilities and boxing scholarships in Samoa and Papua New Guinea, their boxers’ campaign for gold are fired up by cultural, spiritual and inner strength referred to in the Pacific as Mana.
31 August 2011
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This week’s Backstory is about the immigration official who’s speaking out after more than a decade on the frontline of Australia’s controversial immigration detention network.
31 August 2011
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Local lad made good Christian Karembeu is one of the ambassadors for the 14th Pacific Games.
31 August 2011
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As the ten year anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan approaches, a former Afghan parliamentarian says all foreign troops should leave the country.
30 August 2011
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A respected Filipina journalist goes on trial next month for allegedly defaming a Supreme Court Justice.
30 August 2011
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The trial of Australian businesswoman Charlotte Chou on embezzlement charges, has begun in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, with unprecedented courtroom access to journalists.
30 August 2011
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The Va’a finals in the 2011 Pacific Games were won by the Tahitians, who traditionally dominate the sport.
