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Is overseas aid worth it?April 2012BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, Melbourne
Since the GFC there has been increasing pressure to cut Australia's overseas aid.

Archbishop Philip discusses this with Valerie Browning, an Australian-born nurse and midwife, who for 35 years has devoted her life to people in the Horn of Africa and since 1989 to helping the nomadic Afar clan in NE Ethiopia; and Dr Jonathan Cornford who works for Manna Gum, an independent Christian organisation motivated by a vision of the world in which there is enough for all.
The Role of Reason in Faith and UnbeliefApril 2012St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne
The Revd Brendan Purcell, Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at Notre Dame University, Sydney and former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Dublin, debates Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. Moderated by the Acting Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Dr Ray Cleary.
Jail for violent kids?Aug 2011Radio 1377 - Steve Vizard talkback
The Victorian Government has proposed that juveniles aged 16 and 17 be given minimum two year jail terms for acts of ‘gross violence’. Dr Freier discusses with Steve Vizard.
Welcome Stranger? Australia and RefugeesMay 2011Conversation - BMW Edge
Guest conversationalists: Abdul Karim, Afghan refugee, youth worker and freelance writer; Jessie Taylor, Lawyer and Refugee Advocate; and Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific Editor of The Australian newspaper.  Discussion of Australia's treatment of refugees.
Australian Politics: Spin or Vision?Nov 2010Conversation - BMW Edge
Guest conversationalists: former PM Malcolm Fraser and Professor Robert Manne.  Discussion of the nature of Australian politics today.
Healing Mental HealthSept 2010Conversation - BMW Edge
Guest conversationalists: Professor Patrick McGorry and Ms Kerry Graham
Shopping, Loyalty and LoveSept 2010ABC Radio National - By Design program
Broadcast during Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2010.  Speakers: Dr Philip Freier, Michael Knox, Melinda O'Rourke, Kate Luckins and Jane Lindhe.
 

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