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31/01/19

To extrapolate on the news of the week, Luke Grant is joined by writer for The Spectator Australia and contributor to Sky News, Terry Barnes.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

30/01/2019

The was extraordinary news on the energy front yesterday when it was announced by a government-appointed commission that Germany will phase out coal fire & nuclear power plants by 2038. 

In a move away from fossil fuels, the plan is to shift to renewable sources of power which made up more than 40 percent of the energy mix last year, beating coal for the first time.

Michael speaks to Mark McCallum, CEO at Coal21 - Low Emission Coal Aust & GM of Climate & Energy at Minerals Council of Australia to find out if this is a viable plan for Germany and could we ever see something similar here in Australia?

The United Nations has designated 2019 as the international year of the periodic table of chemical elements which coincides with the 150th anniversary of the table’s creation. 

Also marking a number of other milestones in the history of chemistry, Michael speaks to Professor Mark Ogden from Curtin University’s School of Molecular & Life Sciences to find out how important was the creation of the periodic table 150 years ago and how might it compare to other milestones of human discovery?

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29/01/2019

The pneumonic influenza or ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918-19 killed more than 50 million people worldwide. As soldiers returned to their home countries following the Great War of 1914-1918, the flu spread rapidly around the globe. It was the deadliest outbreak of infectious disease since the ‘Black Death’ of the Middle Ages.

‘Spanish Flu’ came ashore in Victoria in January 1919 and within months had spread to almost all major cities and towns across Australia.

Michael is joined by historian Dr Peter Hobbs to talk about this near forgotten piece of Australian history that saw about a third of our population falling ill and around 15,000 having died as a result of the infection.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

28/01/2019

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25/01/2019

Sydney-based lawyer & historian Margaret Cameron-Ash joins Michael to talk about her book ‘Lying For The Admiralty, in which she suggests James Cook deliberately hid the existence of Bass Strait from rival French explorers as he encountered the south-eastern coast of Australia, and even invented a fake “Point Hicks”, in a secret mission to prevent them from getting a foothold on the continent.

Researching Cook’s voyages, she suspects the navigator lied in his journal and hid several strategic landmarks he found from the rest of the world under orders from home.