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Last month Iceland's financial system collapsed. Strangely, the British government had a fateful role in its downfall. Rear Vision looks at these events and also at the Cod Wars - a previous series of confrontations between the two countries over fishing rights in the North Atlantic. Read Transcript
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The Maldives have been advertised as a tourist paradise but, behind the luxurious image, the lives of its people have been crushed by an autocratic president. Last month everything changed, when the first ever democratic elections were held. Read Transcript
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As world leaders gather in Washington to address the current financial crisis, Rear Vision returns to a similar meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, following the crash of 1929, the Great Depression and World War II. Read Transcript
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When New Zealanders vote this Saturday they will be using an electoral system called MMP, or mixed-member-proportional. Introduced in the late 1990s in an attempt to make the NZ electoral system more representative, it has changed the face of New Zealand politics and the faces of many politicians. This week we take a look at why New Zealand made this change, and what impact it's had on their political system and their parliamentary democracy. Read Transcript
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After the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, the US Congress passed the Patriot Act -- giving the security services sweeping powers to undertake surveillance and track down terrorists. Read Transcript
Sunday 1pm repeated Tuesday 8.35pm
Presented by
Annabelle Quince and Keri Phillips
Sunday 07 December 2008
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 next week and, as the founding document for all international human rights treaties, it has played an important legal and intellectual role for the past 60 years.
Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwe's political landscape for the past 30 years.
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10.45am AEDT
First Person
Serialised reading of published autobiographies
