Rear Vision — How History Shaped Today

Centrelink’s 'automated debt recovery system' - or Robodebt - sparked two Senate inquiries, an Ombudsman inquiry, numerous court cases and caused enormous stress to thousands of Australians. The Robodebt system has now been found to be unlawful by the Federal Court, but several questions remain unanswered. How and why was this system introduced? And why was it allowed to run for so long?

Although Australia is not doing particularly well when it comes to addressing climate change, there is one bright spot — the incredible rise of renewable energy as part of our electricity supply.

Today electricity produced by wind and solar is as cheap if not cheaper than any other form of energy. But 20 years ago, it was a very different story. How and why has the cost of renewables dropped so dramatically?

In a few weeks, six hundred million people will bid a political adieu to their troublesome neighbour. How has the EU handled Brexit and what lies ahead?

Since 1982, a group eight small island nations in the Western and Central Pacific have collectively taken control of their major natural resource, tuna, and created the OPEC of the tuna industry, the PNA, or Parties to the Nauru Agreement.

They have forced the foreign fish fleets from nations like Japan, Korea, and the USA to pay for access to their waters and to abide by the rules and regulations they have set to maintain the health of their tuna stock. It's David and Goliath story in the Pacific.