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Life Matters - Full program podcast

ABC Radio National

Life Matters is your guide to contemporary Australian life. Be part of rich conversations on relationships, family, parenting, education, work, health and consumer issues.

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54:33

What's your experience of 'living with COVID' been like?

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/19

Not long ago, COVID daily case numbers in double figures were a cause for alarm, but these days cases are in the thousands. So, how are we all feeling about this new experience of life with COVID, and what might lie ahead, as winter approaches?

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54:38

Nature and grief, rethinking motherhood

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/18

Indira Naidoo on losing her sister, and how time spent in nature helped her through the grief process. Plus journalist Gina Rushton spent nine months reconsidering her earlier decision not to have children, after a medical emergency threatened her own fertility.

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54:38

Creative writing generates sparks in older brains,...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/15

The power and sheer entertainment that comes from setting creative tasks for older Australians. Plus in our 30th Birthday archival interview former host, Natasha Mitchell talks to then 23-year-old actor and disability advocate R.J. Mitte about his role in Breaking Bad and beyond.

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55:28

Flood housing aftermath, Angie Bowie from the...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/14

What are the long term housing solutions for flood affected communities in NSW and Qld? We dig into the archives for a famously prickly conversation with Angie Bowie, and for 23 years, Sally Warriner worked on a huge cattle station in the Northern Territory. Her title for this role? "Wife of the general manager."

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55:30

Teens and vaping, refugees from Afghanistan

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/13

Reports of students taking toilet breaks to vape and even using them in classrooms are alarming. We find out how to tackle addictive vaping behaviour in young people. Plus interviews, then and now with refugees from Afghanistan who attended Holroyd High School in 2005, and their former principal, Dorothy Hoddinott AO.

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54:36

Navigating a sliding property market and public...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/12

With the cost of living going up and people worrying about making their mortgage repayments in the coming years, what strategies could help you cope? And, how might the 'Great Dunny Hunt' help those with incontinence move about the world?

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54:35

What you vote on at the ballot box

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/11

With a federal election called for May 21, voters now face a six-week campaign of party pledges, pitches, and polls. But what issues matter the most?

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55:16

The ripple effects of overworked and overwhelmed GPs,...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/08

Peak medical groups argue that the country’s primary health care system is in crisis. And the consequences could be catastrophic for patients. From the Life Matters archives, a 2007 interview with lead singer from the Models, James Freud, a few years ahead of his untimely death. And the Too Hard Basket considers what to do when someone crashes your community choir.

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59:20

Politics of fear, a former PM from the archives, can...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/07

What are the impacts of scare campaigns on election outcomes and voter intentions? In our 30th anniversary series, former PM the late Malcolm Fraser opens up about his new life to Norman Swan, and what relationship lessons, if any, can we take from watching reality tv?

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55:51

Prolonged grief and the legacy of Dolly the sheep

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/06

Prolonged grief was recently added to the US psychologist's diagnostic manual and is now considered a mental health condition. So, how long should you grieve for? Plus, the legacy of Dolly the sheep and the future of cloning.

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54:36

What does climate justice look like? Parenting with...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/05

As people around the world experience climate change, the push for 'climate justice' intensifies. But where does that term come from and what does it mean? Also, what's it like to parent when you have ADHD, and a Life Matters 30th anniversary interview from the archives with Ireland's first female president, Mary Robinson.

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54:36

How older workers could benefit from lower unemployment

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/04

With unemployment rates relatively low, there many be an opportunity for people in middle age and older who can often experience age discrimination when looking for jobs. But how realistic is it to expect long held views about older workers to change?

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54:38

Sleep-deprived teens, Pamela Stephenson from the...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/04/01

How to talk to teenagers about why sleep matters, in a way that won’t get them rolling their eyes at you. In the Too Hard Basket, is it fair enough to feel annoyed when your younger colleague calls you, and everyone else, love, hon or darl? And from the Life Matters’ archives, Pamela Stephenson reflects on life with Billy Connolly.

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54:35

Public transport failures, Keating from the archives,...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/03/31

New research indicates many of our larger towns and cities are failing to provide adequate public transport to those who need it most, our 30th birthday archive interview features former PM Paul Keating, and a long time angler and fish scientist discusses his history and our sustainable future.

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54:35

Budget 2022 — Temporary cost of living relief and...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/03/30

The 2022 Budget has delivered more than eight billion dollars of cost of living relief including a $250 one-off payment for people on pensions and welfare, a $420 tax offset for low and middle income earners and the fuel excise is being halved for six months. Will it be enough to persuade voters and as part of Life Matters 30th birthday celebrations a little chat with Jane Fonda.

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54:36

Growing up in the country and Life Matters 30th...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/03/29

Many of us have romanticised ideas about the community spirit of a life in the bush, but what does life really look like for children growing up in regional, rural and remote Australia? Also, Life Matters kicks off its 30th anniversary special series remembering and re-examining the threat that, in 1999, had the whole world in a panic - the Y2K bug.

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54:36

Who are funerals for?

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/03/28

From socially distanced mourners to funerals held over zoom, the pandemic disrupted the grieving process for many families and changed longstanding traditions to mark the passing of, and celebrate, loved ones. What will this mean for the future of how we grieve and honour the deceased?

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54:36

The real health effects of mould, leadership through...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/03/25

Household mould has been linked to everything from asthma to depression, but what does the science say about the real harms of these kinds of fungal outbreaks? Who do children perceive as leadership material? And in the Too Hard Basket, who gets the cat?

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54:27

What values do we invest in our pets, and is concrete...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/03/24

The role animals play in our lives has changed markedly over the centuries. So what values do they represent for us these days? The utter destruction of roads in floods and fires has prompted the question; is it time to rebuild using a more resilient, but more expensive material, concrete?

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54:36

Outer suburban identity, food hang ups and defying...

Life Matters - Full program podcast ·

2022/03/23

One in five Australians live in outer suburbs but liveability isn't keeping up with housing growth, so how do you smash the soulless stigma and foster a sense of community and why some people have food baggage or hang-ups well into their adulthood.

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