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Counterpoint (Radio National), the Glossary

Index Counterpoint (Radio National)

Counterpoint is an Australian podcast (and a former weekly broadcast) from the Radio National (RN) service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 47 relations: Amanda Vanstone, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Government, Big band, Bjørn Lomborg, Brendan O'Neill (columnist), Chick Webb, Claire Fox, Climate change, Climate change denial, Corey Tutt, David Henderson (economist), Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Furedi, Gamilaraay, Garth Paltridge, Golden Brown, Heroin, Howard government, I Want to Be Happy, Ian Castles, Jazz standard, Jennifer Marohasy, Late Night Live, Liberal Party of Australia, Living Marxism, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Michael Duffy (Australian journalist), Movement conservatism, Patrick Cook, Patrick Michaels, Phillip Adams (writer), Political correctness, Post-punk, Punk subculture, Radio National, Ray Evans (Australian businessman), Robert M. Carter, Sallyanne Atkinson, Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, Scientific consensus on climate change, Swing era, The Stranglers, Think tank, Tom Switzer, Vincent R. Gray, William Kininmonth (meteorologist).

  2. Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs
  3. Australian talk radio programs
  4. Conservatism in Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Amanda Eloise Vanstone (née O'Brien; born 7 December 1952) is an Australian former politician and a former Ambassador to Italy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Government

The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Bjørn Lomborg

Bjørn Lomborg (born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center.

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Brendan O'Neill (columnist)

Brendan O'Neill is a British pundit and author.

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Chick Webb

William Henry "Chick" Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer and band leader.

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Claire Fox

Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley (born 5 June 1960), is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Climate change denial

Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the scientific consensus on climate change.

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Corey Tutt

Corey Aden Tutt is an Aboriginal Australian STEM professional, author, social entrepreneur and the founder of DeadlyScience, an initiative that provides STEM resources to remote schools throughout Australia.

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David Henderson (economist)

Patrick David Henderson (10 April 1927 – 30 September 2018) was a British economist.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".

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Frank Furedi

Frank Furedi (Füredi Ferenc; born 3 May 1947) is a Hungarian-Canadian academic and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent.

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Gamilaraay

The Gamilaroi, also known as Gomeroi, Kamilaroi, Kamillaroi and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose lands extend from New South Wales to southern Queensland.

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Garth Paltridge

Garth William Paltridge (born 24 April 1940, Brisbane, Queensland) is a retired Australian atmospheric physicist.

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Golden Brown

"Golden Brown" is a song by English rock band the Stranglers, released as a 7-inch single on EMI's Liberty label in 1982.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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Howard government

The Howard government refers to the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister John Howard between 11 March 1996 and 3 December 2007.

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I Want to Be Happy

"I Want to Be Happy" is a song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar written for the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette.

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Ian Castles

Ian Castles (20 February 1935 – 2 August 2010) was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance (1979–86), the Australian Statistician (1986–94), and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy (born 1963) is an Australian biologist, columnist and blogger.

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Late Night Live

Late Night Live (LNL) is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program, broadcast on Radio National and also available as a podcast. Counterpoint (Radio National) and Late Night Live are Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs and Australian talk radio programs.

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Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia.

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Living Marxism

Living Marxism was a British magazine originally launched in 1988 as the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).

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Lord Mayor of Brisbane

The Lord Mayor of Brisbane is the chief executive of the City of Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, and the head of the Brisbane City Council.

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Michael Duffy (Australian journalist)

Michael Duffy is an Australian author and former journalist and broadcaster.

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Movement conservatism

Movement conservatism is a term used by political analysts to describe conservatives in the United States since the mid-20th century and the New Right.

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Patrick Cook

Patrick St.

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Patrick Michaels

Patrick J. Michaels (February 15, 1950 – July 15, 2022) was an American agricultural climatologist.

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Phillip Adams (writer)

Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian humanist, social commentator, ex-broadcaster, public intellectual and farmer.

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Political correctness

"Political correctness" (adjectivally "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.

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Punk subculture

The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of music, ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film.

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Radio National

Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide public service broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

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Ray Evans (Australian businessman)

Ray Evans (10 September 1939 – 17 June 2014) was an Australian businessperson, political conservative, and campaigner against climate change mitigation efforts.

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Robert M. Carter

Robert Merlin Carter (9 March 1942 – 19 January 2016) was an English palaeontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist.

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Sallyanne Atkinson

Sallyanne Atkinson AO (born 23 July 1942, Kerr) was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1985 to 1991 in Queensland, Australia.

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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Scientific consensus on climate change

There is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the Earth has been consistently warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, that the rate of recent warming is largely unprecedented, and that this warming is mainly the result of a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human activities.

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Swing era

The swing era (also frequently referred to as the big band era) was the period (1933–1947) when big band swing music was the most popular music in the United States, especially for teenagers.

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The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English rock band.

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Think tank

A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

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Tom Switzer

Tom Switzer (born 1971) is an Australian political writer who is the executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies, a Sydney-based libertarian public-policy research think tank that focuses on classical liberal issues.

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Vincent R. Gray

Vincent Richard Gray (24 March 1922 – 14 June 2018) was a New Zealand chemist, and a founder of the climate change denial organization New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.

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William Kininmonth (meteorologist)

William Robert Kininmonth is an Australian retired meteorologist noted for rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.

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See also

Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs

Australian talk radio programs

Conservatism in Australia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint_(Radio_National)