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  • MEDIA

    Digital Radio set for 2009 stillbirth?

    • Michael Mullins
    • 18 May 2006
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    Last month, Communications Minister Helen Coonan put industry interests ahead of those of listeners when she announced a comparatively distant launch date for digital radio, and said it is highly likely current analogue services will never be switched off.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Signing off

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    Well, here we are, talking like this for the last time. How has it been for you, the last ten years?  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What crisis?

    • Jack Waterford
    • 27 April 2006

    The population is ageing. In 40 years, seven million Australians—a quarter of the population—will be aged 65 or older.  So what’s the answer to this as a public policy dilemma?

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Positive influences

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 25 April 2006

    How do people decide when to stop clapping after a performance?  The progress of fads and fashions—in thought, opinion or consumer behaviour—can be described by one of the laws of magnetism.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Boxed in

    • Brian Matthews
    • 25 April 2006

    In a life liberally studded with trips in cabs, I have found cabbies to be in general an amiable lot.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Pepysian paradox

    • Luke Fraser
    • 21 April 2006

    Samuel Pepys’s diaries chronicling London life in the 17th century—now on the internet—remain as fresh and engaging as ever

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