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Will Rudd drop the “R” word?

Kevin Rudd refuses to use the word "Recession." Yet he's appearing in Sunday Night's "Beating the Recession" special.

kevin_rudd1On Sunday night current affairs shows you’ll have to choose between Kevin Rudd, Coldplay or Iceland. Or you could always watch all three.

Rudd is appearing on Seven’s Sunday Night (he used to be a regular on Sunrise before he became party leader). Perplexingly, he is appearing on its special titled “Beating the Recession,” which is a word according to most journos neither Rudd nor Wayne Swan will use.

So will he actually use the ‘R word?’

Here’s what’s on offer this Sunday:

Sunday Night, 6:30pm Seven:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will come face-to-face with some of those hit hardest by the recession on a special edition of this week’s Sunday Night.

Hosts Chris Bath and Mike Munro will bring together a group of the nation’s leaders and senior financial advisors to provide the key to getting families through the tough times.

Mr Rudd will be answering questions from Australians in studio directly affected by the crisis while Sunrise’s David Koch will have his top five tips on saving money.

Of the 150 Sunday Night audience members, almost half have recently lost their jobs. Among them will be families hit by the Pacific Brands closure in Cessnock and mums and dads from Melbourne who placed their faith in financial professionals and lost it all.

We’ll also be joined by CNN’s global guru on finance Richard Quest, superannuation expert Jeff Bresnahan, property insider Neil Jenman and employment expert Andrew Banks.

The Sunday Night audience will be able to put questions to Mr Rudd and our panel on everything from investments and super to mortgages, job shifting and the sharemarket.

Plus we’ll look at the global snapshot and take a glimpse into the financial future.
Find out when this crisis will end – and where to put your money in the meantime.

Sunday Night: Beating The Recession
Sunday March 8, 6.30pm, Channel Seven

60 Minutes, 7:30pm, Nine:
Lethal Force
Such a tragic end, a terrible waste. Fifteen-year-old Tyler Cassidy, gunned down by Melbourne police.
How could such a thing happen? There seems little doubt Tyler was out of control that night. Confused, angry and armed with two knives. But it all could have ended so differently. For years, police in Victoria have wanted Tasers, stun guns, to help them subdue dangerous offenders. And Tyler’s mother is not alone when she says they would have saved her son’s life. On Sunday night, Michael Usher tells Tyler’s story, and finds out first hand how effective a Taser can be.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Hugh Nailon

The Venom Hunters
Liam Bartlett has just come back from a very scary assignment up in our remote north where the waters teem with deadly marine creatures. Box jelly fish, sea snakes, Cape York truly is the poisonous tip of Australia. Liam’s guides on this adventure were a bunch of gung-ho scientists who risk everything to milk these deadly animals for their venom. They’re convinced these highly-toxic poisons may in fact hold the key to incredible medical breakthroughs. All very well, but getting these nasty critters to part with their venom is not for the faint-hearted.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Howard Sacre

Red Hot Coldplay
It’s war, an all-out battle of the bands. Just like the good old days when the Beatles slugged it out with the Rolling Stones, now it’s U2 versus Coldplay. Who’s the biggest and the best. Well, Bono and the boys have been around a long time, but Chris Martin and Coldplay are giving them a run for their money. They’ve had four multi-platinum albums in a row. Their latest sold seven million copies and won a Grammy for rock album of the year. Then there’s the sell-out world tour, now storming across Australia. So, who are they and how do they do it? Steve Kroft hit the road with them to find out.
Reporter: Steve Kroft, CBS 60 Minutes
Producer: John Hamlin

Dateline, 8:30 SBS:
Dateline examines the aftermath of the ‘perfect storm’ that smashed Iceland’s economy and kicked off a domino effect of collapsing economies around the world.

A looming ‘perfect day’ of international investment opportunities that tap into Iceland’s green energy potential could be the cure. But they have some potentially devastating environmental consequences.

Iceland’s ‘green’ geothermal and hydro electric generators create as much energy as 20 nuclear power plants. To exploit that fact, industries requiring large volumes of electricity (such as aluminium production companies utilising Australian bauxite) are setting up business in Iceland to enhance their ‘green’ credentials.

This is not without controversy and environmentalists fear new power plants will irreparably damage Iceland’s unique environment.

11 Responses

  1. Neil Jenman made the most practical sense by far , including the hosts.
    Was this a political advertisement for the ALP sponsored by Linfox?
    What a beautiful couple they will make – the PM and the truckie ( the bold and the beautiful ).

  2. i think the media say that we are in a virtual recession. with q4 in 2008 being down .5%, it is virtually impossible for the economy to have any growth in q1 2009 as the first stimulus couldn’t stop the slide.

  3. The Live factor of Sunday Night’s format is really separating itself from what I consider a stale 60 Minutes format. When a story breaks, it won’t be 60 covering it that week, or that day. Perhaps they should follow suit and go live as well.

  4. Coldplay? A story Sunday Night covered some 3 weeks ago. They’re really jumping the gun aren’t they! Once again the 60 lineup screams like it should be on ACA. 30 Years means nothing when a show begins jumping the shark.

  5. Fair dinkum, anyone would think this country has never suffered a recession before, well we have, and they aren’t very nice, the difference this time is Kevin Rudd is trying to help keep it at bay and not shoving his head up his backside until it goes away. Shame on “Turnbully” for not supporting the second stimulus package, shame, shame, shame! As President Obama said “When your towns on fire every one grabs a hose”, “Turnbully” didnt, he and his Party should be condemned

    Oh, and a lot of us oldsters have been on the receiving end of losing our jobs in past recessions but we always get through it.

  6. Delayed tabloid journalism to be precise! 7’s plugging it as live up in Brissie, but in reality it’s delayed.

    If I wanted tabloid journalism, I would have the Page 3 girls hosting Sunday Night!

  7. 60 minutes is doing a story on coldplay?

    i expected that there was going to be some “one upping” by 60 minutes from sunday night this year but i didn’t think that it would be this obvious. They didn’t even do it themselves it’s bought from CBS.

    but i love coldplay so i will watch.

  8. “Beating the Recession” – I wasn’t aware that Australia was actually in a recession. That would mean _two_ quarters of consecutive negative GDP growth, instead of the one that’s only just barely been reported.

    Oh wait, that’s right – that’d be the media hyping up their own programmes and simultaneously talking down the economy by making people _think_ there’s a recession.

    It’s bad enough that Sunday Night is more of the tabloid journalism that we get from ACA and TT every weekday…but the PM appearing on such a sorry excuse for journalism and possibly validating their premise? That should be criminal.

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