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June 17, 2019 What killed Tanya Day?
In late 2017 Tanya Day tried to catch a train from Bendigo to Melbourne. Two weeks later she was dead.
Today, we retrace that path; from being kicked off the train and being arrested in Castlemaine, to injuring herself in the watch house, and ultimately the emergency department.
Was she treated differently because she was an Aboriginal woman?
Her family wants the Victorian Coroner to consider whether systemic racism could be responsible for her death.
If she agrees, it'll be the first time that question has been considered from the start of an Australian inquest.
We speak to someone who works directly with police to try to fix that problem in the US, and the people who want police in Australia to try the same thing.
EDITORS NOTE:
Victoria Police has provided a statement to the ABC, saying it's doing an audit of existing police stations to try to make them feel welcoming and safe for Aboriginal people.
It says "The Victoria Police Aboriginal Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan was launched in 2018 with the goal of strengthening partnerships with the Victorian Aboriginal community and to increase Aboriginal employment, economic participation and inclusion within our organisation."
"Victoria Police is committed to strengthening its partnerships with the Victorian Aboriginal community and has made a lot of progress over the years."
Featured:
Belinda Stevens, Tanya Day's eldest daughter
Dr Phillip Goff, Co-founder and President, Centre for Policing Equity (US)
Tamar Hopkins, founder, Police Accountability Project (AUS)
20 min
June 16, 2019 Why New Zealand's media is censoring its biggest story
Brenton Tarrant, who's accused of murdering 51 people in the Christchurch mosque shootings, is being tried in New Zealand.
The whole world will be watching, but you might not find out about everything that goes on in court, because five key news outlets have made a pact to limit what they report.
The idea is to avoid giving a platform to hate speech or conferring notoriety on the accused.
It's self censorship, theoretically for the greater good. But is it the right call?
Or is it possible that in censoring the coverage, we'll miss an opportunity to confront and understand a problem?
Featured:
Peter Fray, Professor of Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
Megan Whelan, Digital Editor, RNZ (Radio New Zealand)
14 min
June 13, 2019 Understanding Bob Hawke
Everyone has regrets, even Bob Hawke, and today's episode is all about the political paradox of trying to stay true to your values and still bring everyone along with you.
The former PM is being remembered today at a State Memorial Service at the Sydney Opera House and we wanted to understand what drove him to make the changes he did to Australian life.
He leaves behind an impressive legacy, floating the dollar and introducing Medicare, but he was most proud of the work he did ending aparthied and saving Antarctica from mining development.
We talk to one of his closest offsiders to find out about the glory and the hazards of having such strong values.
Featured:
Dr Craig Emerson - Economist and former Labor Minister.
17 min
June 12, 2019 Hong Kong's last stand
About a million people have marched through the streets of Hong Kong this week, in sweltering heat. That's one in seven people who live there.
The protests have rolled on all week, and there have been clashes with police. It's not clear when the marches will stop, or how much they'll escalate.
Hong Kongers are protesting against a proposed extradition law, which could see dissidents sent to China, but the roots of their anger goes a lot deeper.
Mainland China has been trying to erode Hong Kong's independence ever since the British handover in 1997.
In fact, what's happening now is just the latest chapter in a long and weird history that involves being passed between two world powers over the course of more than a hundred years.
So how did Hong Kong get here, and is this its last stand?
Featured:
Jerome Taylor, AFP Bureau Chief, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
Dr Graeme Smith, Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University
16 min
June 11, 2019 What's wrong with a holiday in Chernobyl?
Today we're going to some very dark places: massacre sites, prisons and the town next to an exploded nuclear reactor.
Chernobyl is having a tourism boom, bookings are up 40% this year alone, fuelled by the release of an HBO mini-series.
It's known as dark tourism, but you don’t have to go overseas to find places where things have gone horribly wrong; Australia has plenty of places that fit the bill.
So what's the pull to dark tourism? Where should you never go, and is there a way to do it right?
Featured:
Dave May, filmmaker, Chernobyl visitor & friend of the pod
Liz Killen, nuclear chemist and Chernobyl visitor
Robert Clarke, University of Tasmania
16 min
June 10, 2019 How China stole the US crown jewels
Unit 61398 in the Chinese Army is full of hackers whose job is to steal US trade secrets.
It's not clear exactly how many years the unit's been around, but it's thought to be responsible for the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of intellectual property.
China agreed to stop stealing commercial secrets in 2015 as part of the world's first cyber espionage treaty, but ever since Donald Trump's trade war, those gloves have come off again.
America's science and technology secrets are its economic crown jewels. So just how much is being stolen, and is there anything that can stop it?
Featured:
Greg Austin, Professor of cyber security, strategy and diplomacy, University of New South Wales
James Martin, Associate Professor of Criminology, Swinburne University
15 min
June 09, 2019 FEATURE INTERVIEW: The uncut story of the Tank Man photo
Today's episode of The Signal is something a bit different.
So often, we have to cut our best interviews right down, but last week, we did one that was especially good, and we wanted to publish the whole thing.
Jeff Widener took the Tank Man photo that really came to represent the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and he had an incredible up close view of the events that lead up to it.
Today's episode is his unflinching and brutally honest account of those days, in full.
23 min
June 06, 2019 Where have all the soldiers gone?
The Australian Defence Force has been struggling to meet its recruitment targets for years.
The problem is so bad that an Australian warship has been stranded at a Perth dock for years because there aren’t enough sailors to crew it.
Low unemployment, a growing awareness of the effects of war, such as PTSD, and the lack of a clear threat are all contributing factors.
So in the face of it all, how can the ADF turn things around? What happens if they don’t? And as extreme as it sounds, is there a case for compulsory national service?
Featuring:
Andrew Greene, ABC Defence Correspondent
Ben Parkinson, army veteran and engagement officer at the Australian Student Veterans Association
John Blaxland, former Australian Army Officer, Professor in Intelligence Studies, ANU
18 min
June 05, 2019 Is the AFP really independent?
It's not every day the media gets raided by the AFP, but it has happened twice in 24 hours this week.
First it was NewsCorp and then the ABC - both times over national security stories.
So is it possible that the federal police are going after the media, on behalf of the Government?
In today's episode we ask exactly how independent the AFP is, what kind of influence the Government has there, and how hard it can be to say no to the people who pay your wage.
Featured:
Elise Worthington, reporter, ABC Investigative Unit
Dylan Welch, reporter, ABC Investigative Unit
18 min
June 04, 2019 Whatever you do, don't embarrass the government
A NewsCorp journalist who wrote a story last year about new national security powers has had her home raided by police, who say they’re investigating whoever leaked the information to her.
It's hard not to see the case as part of a trend in Australia towards cracking down on journalism that embarrasses the Government.
It's a tactic the Australian Government has imported from the US, which has a rich history of pursuing its critics in court.
One of the more famous examples of that is Julian Assange, who's currently sweating it out in an English jail cell, while the US dusts off something called the Espionage Act to reel him in.
It's a 100-year-old law that was designed to catch spies, but it's also been used on a lot of other people along the way.
Julian Assange is just the latest, and judging by how many investigations into public service leaks the US Government is running right now, he won't be the last.
So who's next? And is there anything that can stop the apparently unstoppable force that is the US Espionage Act?
Featured:
Carrie DeCell, Staff Attorney ,The Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University
14 min

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