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The balance outstanding on credit cards – that's debt that's accruing interest because it's not being paid off – has more than doubled in Australia in the last six years, jumping from $16 billion in 2002 to $33 billion in 2008. Rear Vision traces the growth of consumer credit and its increasingly central role in our economy. First broadcast 10th June 2009 �Read�Transcript
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The Treaty of Versailles, signed 90 years ago, ended WWI and was supposed to end all wars. But as we all know it didn't end war and arguably laid the foundation for a century of ethnic conflict and political instability. Rear Vision investigates how the Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty shaped the 20th century and the world we live in today. �Read�Transcript
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The Paris Peace Conference of 1919, held just months after the end of WWI, gathered together the leaders of the world. Their tasks were to redraw the world map and create a peace that would last forever. While it clearly failed in its second task, 90 years on we still live in a world created at that conference. Rear Vision re-examines the Paris Conference and the Treaty of Versailles. �Read�Transcript
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Overseas students have been coming to Australia since the 1950s. Although for the first 30 years they came as our guests, today they are full-fee paying students, worth billions of dollars every year. How and why did this change occur and what impact has it had on our institutions of higher education? �Read�Transcript
As negotiators in Copenhagen try to reach a binding agreement on carbon cuts, Rear Vision revisits the negotiations that produced the first legally binding international agreement on global warming, the Kyoto Protocol. First broadcast 2nd December 2007 �Read�Transcript
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Wednesday 13 January 2010
We seem to have eaten all the fish in the sea. We caught them because we could; we had the means to do it, with technology that made it physically possible and economically viable. First broadcast 22nd July 2009
A Scottish judicial commission had recognised in 2007 that there may have been a miscarriage of justice. Rear Vision presents the compelling evidence in support of that view.
Over the past 2 centuries, Afghanistan has been invaded five times and each time the Afghans have forced the invading troops to retreat.
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