16 Sep 2015
New Zealander Lydia Ko has been ranked the world's number one women's golf player. And she's not even 18.
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16 Sep 2015
In New Zealand if you hurt yourself gardening, you can turn to the government for compensation! David Campbell reports.
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16 Sep 2015
The first Kiwi of Spring has hatched. Not that anyone would know, because you never see the bloody things.
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16 Sep 2015
Elton John says he wants to change Vladamir Putin's attitude to homosexuals. John Dobbie suggests the Russian doth protest too much.
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16 Sep 2015
Syrian refugees seem intent on making it to Germany. John Dobbie discusses the growing crisis in Europe.
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16 Sep 2015
They were big in the seventies. Now your Palitoy action figures could be worth a fair bit of dosh, says John Dobbie.
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14 Sep 2015
The government will force Syrian refugees to read a book teaching them how to speak Australian. But it misses out the real stuff.
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10 Sep 2015
McDonalds is trying anything to keep us eating there. As Richard Kazimer explains, it doesn't seem to be working that well.
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10 Sep 2015
Kim Davis of Rowan County has elected to go to jail rather than compromise her religious stance on gay marriage. Whatever.
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10 Sep 2015
Brian Haverty and Phil Dobbie discuss how to make violent video games safer for children.
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10 Sep 2015
Kids dug an escape route from a Kindergarten in the Urals. And you thought the Urals was an embarrassing body part!
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10 Sep 2015
Recent research shows Sydneysiders don't want more people. And, as Mark McCrindle explains, many don't believe we'll have the infrastructure to cope.
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10 Sep 2015
President Obama used his recent visit to Alaska to remind the world that we have to change our ways.
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10 Sep 2015
The GOP is starting to eat their own, with Donald Trump launchijg a verbal attack on fellow contender Jeb Bush.
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10 Sep 2015
Right wing shock jocks and populist politicians like Pauline Hanson are out showing stupidity and callousness in equal measure.
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31 Aug 2015
Are we seriously expected to believe that a stop and check operation was all in the mind of someone in the ABF's PR department?
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31 Aug 2015
Tony Blair thinks he'd be a disaster as leader, but John Dobbie suggests Jeremy Corbin could help redefine the UK's Labour party.
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31 Aug 2015
Whilst toploading the House of Lords with Tory peers, the UK PM is also busy capitalising on anti-migration sentiment.
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Balls Radio is like talk radio, but for thinking people. Now a short daily occurrence, Phil Dobbie offers his opinions on what's happening, in the UK and overseas: politics, social policy, economics, science, religion. Yes, it's another, slightly overweight middle-aged white man telling the world how it should be. But there's nothing alt-right about Balls Radio. And we try and have fun along the way.

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