The 2 Best Rear Vision - Podcast Episodes
1) Palestinian politics under occupation
This week Palestinians should have been voting in their first election for 15 years, but the election was cancelled and now they are again involved in a battle with Israel. Why? The complexities of P...Show More
2) The evolution of cruising, from luxury trips to today's troubled waters
Cruise holidays were once only for the wealthy. In recent decades they've found a mass market, but how and at what cost?
The evolution of cruising, from luxury trips to today's troubled waters
29:06 | Jan 10th, 2021
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3) Papua New Guinea’s Election—Democracy with a difference
PNG has hundreds of languages groups, almost a thousand tribes and is one of only four nations globally that doesn’t have any women in parliament. Over three weeks the country is holding its national ...Show More
4) How did it come to this — the energy crisis we had to have?
Australia has everything it needs to produce electricity - coal, gas, sun, and wind. Yet we've wound up with energy shortages and huge price hikes. How did we get here - why is our energy system in su...Show More
5) United States Supreme Court
The selection of a new justice to the United States Supreme Court is frequently controversial and almost always political. It’s a 'captain's pick' for the US president and one that can shape American ...Show More
6) The economics of Inflation—Science, Craft, or Snake Oil
None of us need to be told that prices are going up or that interest rates are following. We are clearly now in a period of inflation which may or may not lead to a recession. But what exactly is infl...Show More
7) Not Quite Australian - What’s Australia’s problem with New Zealanders?
Despite being the closest of neighbours, for the last decade there’s been a worsening Trans-Tasman spat as New Zealanders in Australia are refused basic services and often deported. The new Albanese g...Show More
8) The NRA—Its history and its influence on the gun debate in America
It’s hard-to-understand America’s relationship with guns. Gun deaths and school shooting are commonplace in American communities – yet US politicians seem incapable or powerless to implement any type ...Show More
9) Predicting the weather—a history of the forecast
We take for granted the accuracy of predictions and warnings put out by our weather forecasters. Once, weather predictions were the butt of jokes but today the Bureau of Meteorology can accurately for...Show More
10) Zero-COVID in China—the social economic and political cost
While the rest of the world is learning to live with COVID-19, China is still following its zero-COVID policy with citywide lockdowns, mass testing and quarantine. But there’s a social and economic co...Show More