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Can the global insurance industry survive weather whiplash?
Around the world last year, the cost of storms and cyclones alone was more than $400 billion US. In 2024 the planet was hit by 58 weather disasters with damages totalling more than a billion dollars. Not only are these events becoming more destructive and more expensive, they are increasingly happening back-to back in a phenomenon known as “weather whiplash”. And numerous insurance companies are either folding or limiting what they will insure. So who pays for the damage?GUEST: Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Queensland and as a Member of the OECD High Level Advisory Board for the Financial Management of Catastrophic Risks.PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer
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The pushback against Welcome to Country ceremonies
Welcomes to Country have become commonplace at all sorts of cultural and ceremonial events around Australia. But where did the modern ceremony begin? And why are some politicians pushing back against the custom?GUEST: Rhoda Roberts AO, Australian theatre and arts director, Widjabul woman of the Bundjalung nation
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The feminist publishing house that launched Australia's best writers
In the early seventies two Melbourne feminists hatched an idea to set up their own publishing house. Diana Gribble was a socialite working in advertising and Hilary McPhee a novice editor. McPhee Gribble Publishing was born. And soon authors like Tim Winton, Dorothy Hewett and Helen Garner were knocking at their door. But in 1989 it all came to an end when they were swallowed up by Penguin. GUEST: Hilary McPhee, founder and former Publisher at McPhee Gribble and Chair of the Australia Council from 1993 – 96. PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer
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An American bishop takes a stand against Trump’s immigration crackdown.
A growing number of Catholic Church leaders have criticised US President, Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Bishop Mark Seitz in El Paso, Texas, says that many of the changes go against the tenets of his religionGUEST: Bishop Mark Seitz, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration. PRODUCER: Ali Benton
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'A Masterpiece!' Farewell to the book blurb
Are those written blurbs on the front of books more about an author's connections in the literary world than real praise? Simon and Schuster, a major publishing house have banned the practice claiming it's part of an " incestuous and unmeritocratic literary ecosystem".GUEST: Ross Wilson, Professor of History and Theory of Criticism, Faculty of English, University of CambridgePRODUCER: Ali Benton
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