Jonestalk: Table of Topics

Start time
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Duration mins/secs
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Item number
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Topic number
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News category
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Topic fn 6

Narrative connections

5.08am

3m58s

1

1

POL

Federal Minister for Family and Community Services, Kay Patterson, introduces new conditions for payment of child custody by non-custodial parents

Recycles 13 Oct, Item 23, with minor cuts

5.14am

9m15s

2

2

POL

Interview with Larry Wansley, US aviation security expert, about terrorism and his life experiences

Recycles 13 Oct, Item 31, with minor cuts

5.25am

3m12s

3

3

CRI

NSW Court of Appeal reduces sentences of gang rapists. Includes interview with father of one of victims

Recycles 13 Oct, Item 27, with no variation. Restates 3 other 13 Oct items

5.40am

2m38s

4

4

POL

Sydney road tunnels, especially the Cross-City Tunnel, and how the “people power” of Jones’ callers on Oct 13 has caused the toll to be reduced

Restates 11 items on 13 Oct, which also carried 4 items contesting the adequacy of NSW Road Transit Authority’s property compensations.

Topic also refers back to 8 calls on tunnels on 13 Oct, and is taken up by caller John at 6.29am

5.42am

1m29s

5

3 (2 nd)

CRI

NSW Court of Appeal reduces sentences of gang rapists

See under Item 3 above

5.44am

1m08s

6

5

SOC

State Ombudsman’s annual report maintains that NSW Department of Community Services is under-resourced and making bad judgements

Refers back to 13 Oct, Item 47, on how DoCS “failed little Desiree”

5.45am

2m15s

7

6

CRI

State Ombudsman’s annual report maintains that NSW RailCorp officers are overstepping their powers and assaulting commuters

New. Taken up by caller Jean at 6.28am

5.52am

0m16s

8

7

POL

NSW Government to bail out Sydney Airport Rail Link

One-off

5.52am

0m51s

9

8

CON

AFF

Federal Government research into flat tax arrangements undertaken by Treasurer Peter Costello as well as Liberal backbencher Malcolm Turnbull

New. Taken up by caller Ian at 6.19am

5.53am

0m23s

10

9

SOC

Increased unemployment rates in NSW, Victoria

New

5.53am

0m40s

11

10

SPO

Women able to enter British Open golf

One-off

6.10am

0m27s

12

4 (2 nd)

POL

Sydney road tunnels, especially the Cross-City Tunnel

See under Item 4 above

6.10am

2m24s

13

11

CON

AFF

Bradman family objects to the Bradman Trust’s use of his name to brand biscuits

Restates 13 Oct, Item 48

6.13am

1m10s

14

12

CRI

St Mary’s and Woolloomooloo police stations closed at night because of staff shortages

One-off

6.14am

1m20s

15

13

SPO

Caulfield Cup preview: second-ever female jockey

Refers back to 13 Oct, Item 50 on Caulfield Cup

6.21am

1m43s

16

6 (2 nd)

CRI

Are NSW Rail Transit officers overstepping their powers and assaulting commuters?

See under Item 7 above

6.24am

1m44s

17

14

REM

US couple has 16 children

One-off

6.41am

1m41s

18

4

(3 rd)

POL

Sydney road tunnels, especially the Cross-City Tunnel

See under Item 4 above

6.43am

0m41s

19

15

VIC

Sydney 15 year old dies from suspected drug overdose

Refers back to 13 October, Item 1, on drug use in Australia

6.43am

0m59s

20

9

(2 nd)

SOC

Increased unemployment rates in NSW, Victoria

Restates Item 10

6.45am

1m21s

21

16

POL

Federal Senate Economics Committee Report recommends discouraging speculative investment in rental properties

One-off

6.46am

1m30s

22

17

POL

Prime Minister John Howard “must have had a gutful of all the misinformation that’s gone on for some time about his industrial relations proposals”

Refers back to 3 items on 13 Oct on the Federal Government’s IR advertisements

6.51am

1m00s

23

18

POL

Federal Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, to monitor free-to-air TV’s supposed “hoarding” of sports events

One-off

6.52am

1m01s

24

19

CON

AFF

“Made in Australia” trademark may be copyrighted by one company

One-off

6.53am

1m07s

25

20

SPO

Sydney Cricket Ground groundsmen’s valuable work

One-off

7.08am

3m29s

26

21

CON

AFF

Alarmism re rising oil prices

One-off

7.16am

14m11s

27

4

(4 th)

POL

Interview with NSW Premier Morris Iemma about Sydney road tunnels, especially the Cross-City Tunnel

This item serves as a narrative climax to the 11 items on the topic on 13 Oct, and 3 earlier today. 2 more items follow

7.39am

1m26s

28

4

(5 th)

POL

Sydney road tunnels, especially the Cross-City Tunnel

This item re-routes the narrative somewhat insofar as it represents Jones’ views after his interview with the Premier

7.41am

1m56s

29

22

COM

RISK

Earthquakes in New Zealand and South Asia

Refers back to Item 7, 13 Oct, on the South Asian earthquake

7.43am

1m22s

30

23

SOC

Late-term abortions and adoption

Refers back to a partisan element of Item 6

7.45am

1m21s

31

24

CRI

2 journalists at the MelbourneHerald-Sun refuse to disclose their news sources

One-off

7.49am

0m34s

32

4

(6 th)

POL

Sydney road tunnels, especially the Cross-City Tunnel

The last of 17 items

7.51am

8m27s

33

25

POL

Likely Federal Government cut to mental health internet helpline, depressioNet. Includes interview with Federal Health Minister, Tony Abbott

Narrative climax of strand initiated on Monday 10 Oct

8.09am

2m56s

34

25 (2 nd)

POL

Lavish refurbishment costs for Federal Parliament House contrasted with its meanness towards depressioNet

See under Item 33 above

8.12am

0m50s

35

26

POL

New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark, likely to secure coalition partners for a Labour government

One-off

8.13am

0m56s

36

27

COM

RISK

Post-Katrina, “ New Orleans is dry” at last

One-off

8.14am

0m35s

37

28

ENT

New Beethoven manuscript is discovered

One-off

8.14am

1m00s

38

29

ENT

Harold Pinter is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

One-off

8.15am

0m45s

39

13 (2 nd)

SPO

Caulfield Cup preview

See under Item 15 above

8.18am

6m07s

40

30

CON

AFF

Two car insurers inaugurate new, complicated system for allocating claims to repairers. Includes interview with Tony Stewart, NSW Labor MP and member of Parliamentary Stay Safe Committee

One-off

8.40am

1m11s

41

31

COM

Listener’s overlooked email message

One-off

8.42am

1m28s

42

32

SPO

Motorcycle Grand Prix this weekend in Victoria

One-off

8.43am

4m47s

43

25 (3 rd)

POL

Likely Federal Government cut to mental health internet helpline, depressioNet: interview with ABC sports journalist Craig Hamilton about mental illness

See under Item 33 above. Leads directly into first of 8 callers today on this topic across 5 phone-in brackets

8.50am

1m03s

44

25 (4 th)

POL

Details of Jones’ lobbying of Abbott on likely funding cut to depressioNet

See under Item 33 above. Followed immediately by second of 8 calls on the topic

9.11am

1m01s

45

33

CRI

Grandmother stabbed in Lakemba

One-off

9.12am

1m14s

46

34

VIC

Runaway four wheel drive

One-off

9.13am

1m26s

47

8 (2 nd)

CON

AFF

Federal Government research into flat tax proposals

Restates Item 9

9.14am

0m54s

48

35

SPO

News on players from rugby league club St George Illawarra

One-off

9.25am

5m52s

49

13

(3 rd)

SPO

Preview of tomorrow’s Caulfield Cup. Interview with Richard Freyer, trainer of horse winning last week’s Winning Edge Stakes

See under Item 15 above

9.43am

8m08s

(includes music of singer)

50

36

ENT

Interview with Anthony Callea, singer of “The Prayer”

New

 

9.59am

0m28s

51

36

(2 nd)

ENT

Callea’s forthcoming appearance

Refers back to Item 50

Footnotes

1. The time in hours and completed minutes at which the item begins within the 5am-10am span of the show

2. The item’s length in minutes and seconds. Timings of items with interviews include interviewees’ words as well as Jones’

3. Numbers the items of Jones’ talk within the show

4. Given in italics, this supplies the number of the topic within the show. Restatements of a particular topic are marked with ordinals, eg “(2 nd)

5. Codes the news content of the item. Abbreviations are explained in Table 4

6. Describes the topic hopefully fully enough to spark readers’ memories – of at least some of the topics!


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