On a grey rainy day in the World War one  battlefields at Pozieres, two diggers made a promise to look after one anothers wives if either survived the conflagration setting down upon them.

That was the beginning of Legacy, and the Torch flame as the symbol of Legacy has been carried from France, across Europe and Australia on the 100 year centenary of that day.  The Torch is due to arrive in Sydneys Martin Place today, with Minister for Veterans Affairs Matt Thisthlethwaite, and Governor General General Sir Peter Cosgrove.

The Torch then turns south to travel through the Riverina and on to Melbourne where it will end at the first Legacy branch.

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Produced By: Roderick Chambers

Featured In Story: Lillian Sanelli Legacy Torch Relay Director

First aired on The Wire, Wednesday 12 July 2023

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Often people in more remote areas never got their birth registered and as such have no birth certificate.

This may not cause much of a problem as a child, but nowadays getting a licence, joining a club, doing anything with Government involves producing a birth certificate or Passport for which you need a birth certificate.

Pathfinders are a group led by First Nations people who help those without birth certificates

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Produced By: Roderick Chambers

Featured In Story: Ron Naden coordinator of the National Aboriginal Birth Certificate program Pathfinders

First aired on The Wire, Wednesday 12 July 2023

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Music has been shown to be cathartic for many people.  It can also help with language.

New research from the Lyon Research Centre in France, Western Sydney University MARCS Institute for Brain Behaviour and Development and the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre has shown that  regular rhythms can boost sentence repetition in children with Developmental Language Disorder.

They have tested these methods in French and Hungarian, now Vanderbilt has a study underway in English which should reinforce their findings.

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Produced By: Roderick Chambers

Featured In Story: Dr Anna Fiveash Cognitive psychologist and co-lead author from Western Sydney University MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development

First aired on The Wire, Wednesday 12 July 2023

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John Schumann (ex-Redgum lead singer/songwriter) and the Vagabond Crew are returning to Brisbane with The Redgum Years in August. Here, Schumann reflects on gigging in the dark days of the Bjelke-Petersen regime, and finds Redgums protest songs from the 70s and 80s still apply today.

It was September 1979. We were staying in some crappy three-star holiday units in Tweed Heads and Tim Woods, our tour manager, assembled us in one of the kitchens after breakfast.

Redgum was very much a part-time band then. Two of us were high-school teachers so touring opportunities were confined to school holidays. Tim, now a successful concert promoter, was the only member of the touring party who had the faintest idea about the music industry and Queensland.

Okay, anyone with any drugs at all I mean at all  put them on the table now.

People shuffled uncomfortably and little by little, small quantities of marijuana in tobacco tins and Gladbags and the odd morsel of crumbly black hash in tinfoil appeared on the Laminex table. It was pretty pathetic, really. These days the combined stash would be considered well within personal use limit for one person.

Right. Were going into Queensland. Were Special Branch targets so we need to be as clean as a bottle of Dettol. Smoke it now, flush it, bury it somewhere I dont care. But its not coming across the border.

Wed released our first album, If You Dont Fight You Lose, barely a year before. One of my contributions was a strident song delivered in my strangulated, nasal tones called Letter to BJ. It was addressed to Queenslands notorious premier and it had garnered a fair bit of attention on both sides of the civil liberties argument. Plenty of Queenslanders were dying to see us play it live. Plenty more would have been just as happy to see our heads on pikes lining the road out of Tweed Heads.

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When you modify a Boeing 737-700 with a state-of-the-art airborne early warning and control system, you get an Australian E-7A Wedgetail.

The Wedgetail is an invaluable piece of equipment for The Royal Australian Air Force with the ability to track maritime and airborne targets at a range in excess of four hundred kilometers, with aerial refuelling capability and all of the communication equipment required to act as a mobile command centre.

The Prime minister has pledged a Wedgetail to support NATOs logistical support for the Ukraine War in which the E-7A will be based out of Germany on the same day that the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has agreed to the purchase of one-hundred Boxer heavy weapons carriers wroth one billion dollars making it one of the biggest arms deals in Australia history.

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Produced By: Dominic Giles

Featured In Story: Dr James Dwyer, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Specialising in Security and Strategic Studies from the University of Tasmania

First aired on The Wire, Wednesday 12 July 2023

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New research from the University of New South Wales found out women with refugee backgrounds in Australia have more mental health concerns linked to the Covid19 pandemic.

Researchers found out more than 68 percent of women with a refugee background have a very serious issue with fear associated with Covid-19 because of the prior trauma they experience.

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Produced By: Xinchen Li

Featured In Story: Susan Rees- Professor in Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales

First aired on The Wire, Tuesday 11 July 2023

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A report by Industry Super Australia warns that an outdated law denying under-18 workers super contributions could cost them over $10,000 in the long term.

Approximately 375,000 young workers in Australia are locked out of the retirement system, as they are only eligible for compulsory super contributions if they work over 30 hours per week for the same employer.

Removing this discriminatory threshold would not only be fair to young workers but also remove the administrative burden for employers.

This exclusion affects over 90% of teenage workers who typically work fewer than 30 hours per week.

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Produced By: Moemina Shukur

Featured In Story: Bernie Dean Industry Super Australias Chief Executive

First aired on The Wire, Tuesday 11 July 2023

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Diabetes continues to be a significant epidemic in the 21st century, resulting in numerous complications that affect vital organs such as the heart, blood vessels, kidneys, and eyes.

In the past decade, significant progress has been made in diabetes management, leading to a reduction in these complications.

Due to the increasing prevalence of diabetes, there is a need for more extensive efforts at the public health level and the development of new therapies to further enhance the prognosis for this prevalent condition.

National Diabetes Week serves as a reminder of the ongoing global health challenge posed by diabetes, including within Australia.

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Produced By: Moemina Shukur

Featured In Story: Professor Mark Cooper Head of Department of Diabetes, Monash University.

First aired on The Wire, Tuesday 11 July 2023

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