PROGRAMS
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Tuesday, 26th February,2008CITY LIMITS
Will Australian cities survive the challenges of climate change? With 75 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions coming from cities, change is near.
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Tuesday, 30th October,2007ANOTHER COUNTRY
Air date: 30th October. Insight travels to Melbourne's City of Greater Dandenong to go inside a community where tensions are running high.
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Tuesday, 23rd October,2007FOOD BILL
Air date: 23rd October. With more than half of Australia's agricultural land in drought and food prices at record highs, should we be eating differently?
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Tuesday, 9th October,2007ALLERGIC REACTION: CHILDREN AND THEIR ALLERGIES
Air date: 9th October. Today one in 20 Australian children suffer from a potentially fatal food allergy with the main offenders being everyday foods like eggs, peanuts, milk and fish.
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Tuesday, 16th October,2007MY VOTE: THE YOUNG VOTERS OF MORETON
Air date: 16th October. It's been revealed that Generation Y lack party loyalty and could change their vote according to which candidate can address the issues they care about.
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Tuesday, 2nd October,2007DESPERATE HOUSING: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS
Air date: 2nd October. The economy is booming, there are plenty of jobs, yet many Australians are struggling to afford housing. Can housing be made more affordable?
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Tuesday, 25th September,2007
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL: INFORMATION, SECRECY AND GOVERNMENT.
Air date: 25th September. Like it or not, we all rely on the media for our information about what is happening in government, business and the broader community. So what happens when a raft of laws actively prevent information from getting out?
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Tuesday, 18th September,2007
CULTURE TEST: MIGRANT PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
Air date: 18th September. Insight talks to young people caught between their parents' traditional cultural expectations and the lives they want to lead as young Australians. Generational conflict is nothing new but when it involves a culture clash it can rip families apart.
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Tuesday, 11th September,2007
FEAR FACTOR: HOW FEAR AFFECTS OUR LIVES AND RELATIONSHIPS
Air date: 11th September. After 11 years, John Howard's leadership is on the line. Fear of losing the coming election has driven the party to consider the unthinkable, getting rid of the most successful leader it has had since Sir Robert Menzies. Fear is a powerful emotion. It can drive politics, security arrangements and the most basic aspects of our lives and relationships.
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Tuesday, 4th September,2007
TAKING A STAND: THE EFFECT OF PROTEST
Air date: 4th September. As APEC leaders arrive, police are anticipating violence from protesters. The Prime Minister has appealed to people not to protest, saying if they are really worried about poverty, security, and climate change, they should support APEC, not attack it.
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Tuesday, 21st August,2007
HOSPITAL EMERGENCY: STATE V FEDERAL
Air date: 21st August. A state-run public hospital sold to the Commonwealth for just one dollar? It is on the cards in Tasmania and it could just be the beginning of a much larger state federal tussle in the run-up to the election.
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Tuesday, 14th August,2007
BENNELONG VOTES: COULD THE PM LOSE HIS SEAT?
Air date: 14th August. Could the Prime Minister lose his own seat at the coming election? According to our poll conducted by Galaxy, it's a real possibility, but this is a complex contest as you will see shortly from our poll.
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Tuesday, 7th August,2007
STARVING FOR ANSWERS: EATING DISORDERS
Air date: 7th August. Anorexia is one of our deadliest psychiatric illnesses. Lots of young girls have it, yet we know alarmingly little about it or how best to treat it. Blaming media images and skinny role models for the problem just doesn't seem to explain destructive eating disorders.
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Tuesday, 31st July,2007
POWER GAMES: CLIMATE CHANGE
Air date: 31st July. Tonight, Insight is looking at what Australia is doing to meet the challenges of climate change. We are one of the world's biggest producers and users of coal and we're told clean coal is years away, but what if it doesn't work at all?
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Tuesday, 24th July,2007
NATIONAL EMERGENCY: CHILD ABUSE IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
Air date: 24th July. Bringing together indigenous Australians from across the country to talk about their children, Insight delves into the issue of child sexual abuse in indigenous communities and examines the government's response.
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