Wake Up Australia

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Luke Grant speaks to Tim Watson Munro, a criminologist that believes the string of backpacker disappearances in NSW could mean a serial killer is active in the region.

The Queensland farm lobby claims the state government’s own inquiry has proved its severely restrictive land clearing laws worsened last year’s tragic bushfires.

AgForce chief executive Michael Guerin says a review by the Inspector-General of Emergency Management found the “overly bureaucratic, restrictive and confusing nature” of the Vegetation Management Act had “hamstrung” landowners in both preventing and managing bushfires, recommending that they be overhauled.

Mr Guerin said the IGEM’s finding that the VMA exacerbated the fires that destroyed over 520,000 hectares of farmland and national park, killing thousands of wild animals and livestock, was “shocking but not surprising”.

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Michael Mclaren speaks to Shane Casey about Alan Turing's legacy.

Ken Morrison speaks with Michael Mclaren about the use of potentially harmful cladding in Australian buildings.

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Michael talks to Campbell Fuller from the Insurance Council of Australia which is one of Australia’s five largest business groups demanding urgent federal government intervention to reform the building industry.

The discovery of major defects in buildings has significantly reduced the ability of those building owners to find an insurer willing to accept the risk.

Building surveyors, engineers and architects are now struggling to obtain the insurance they need to do their job, which in turn could seriously affect future building or construction activity.

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Michael talks to Mark Day, Media Writer for News Limited, about the history & legacy of the Apollo Moon Mission which covered 13 years, cost $220 billion in today’s dollars, employed 400,000 at its peak… culminating with Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20 (July 21, Australian time), 1969.

Mr Day, who witnessed the landing at the Mission Control Centre in Houston, Texas writes “nothing on Earth today remains untouched by the extraordinary technological developments that spun off last century’s space race. How we live, how we communicate, the tools we use, the food we eat and the way we stay alive have all changed since, and in some ways because of, the Apollo program”.