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Discover how behavioural economics can explain the quirks that might make you pay too much for a house. Look back on the start of the phenomenon that became the biggest touring music festival in the world. Hear Tom Switzer interview a beauty queen who's become a persona non grata in the eyes of the Chinese Government. And find out what Indigenous filmmaker Rachel Perkins will say in this year's ABC Boyer Lectures.
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| Are there tricks to save tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of dollars on a home, without trading off size, location or quality? Behavioural economics offers some hope to astute buyers who can exploit other people's unconscious biases to snap up homes at a discount.
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| The story of the first Big Day Out is the stuff of legend. One of the wildest gigs in Australian music history, it bagged Nirvana — the biggest band in the world — and in turn created a cultural icon, even though it ran out of beer.
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| When it comes to paying for sex in Australia, there's a demographic of buyers that is growing: women. The pursuit of pleasure is a major motivation, but it's not the only one.
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| Riley Lee first heard the shakuhachi — a Japanese bamboo flute — on a record his brother brought home to Hawaii in the late 1960s.
He had no idea that the experience would set off a chain of events that would define his life. Or how the gaps in the music — the silence — would come to be as important to him as the melodies he would play.
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My recommendation: Michael Janda | | | | RN Breakfast’s Monday finance commentator, and guest presenter on The Money, Michael Janda loves Saturday Extra – when he wakes up in time for it.
"What better way to ease into the weekend than the calm, warm and reassuring voice of Geraldine Doogue,” he says. "Even if the topics she’s discussing with her guests are far from reassuring!"
"Geraldine and her producers curate an astonishing array of guests from Australia and around the world, who can shed light on the key global problems and solutions.
"But it’s the tone of the program that makes it work – you feel like Geraldine has joined you for your Saturday morning coffee and brought some incredibly intelligent people along with her.
"It’s kind of like finding yourself in an Oxford college dining hall for weekend breakfast and eavesdropping on the conversations from the neighbouring tables."
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 | | | | | | | | Leading Indigenous filmmaker Rachel Perkins will examine how the Uluru Statement from the Heart provides a path to ending the “great Australian silence” on the rightful place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in this nation, in this year’s ABC Boyer Lectures. | | | | | | |
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 | | | | | | | | The final episode of the Somerton Man Mystery is out. Could DNA finally solve this puzzling case? And is it time to dig the unidentified man's body up? | | | | | | |
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