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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 min. 2 sec.) ; 320173666 bytes |
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ISLAND OF THE DEADMost New Yorkers don't even know of its existence, but one of the city's islands houses a mass grave of more than a million bodies. For over a century, Hart Island has been the final resting place of those who died alone and unknown, and whose burial had to be organised by the city authorities. But it's emerged more recently that some children who died at birth were also buried there without the knowledge of their distraught mothers. On Tuesday's Dateline, Aaron Thomas hears the heartbreaking stories of their search for answers and follows their long battle with bureaucracy to go and pay their last respects. The island is controlled by the Department of Correction, which severely restricts access, leading some to call it the 'Prison of the Dead'. But the campaign to open this secretive island to the public is building momentum and campaigners hope New York's forgotten may at last have the chance to be properly remembered.FIJI'S DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGEOn the eve of Fiji's election, Tuesday's Dateline looks at the potential winners and losers in this crucial poll. It's the first since Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power in a military coup in 2006, but will it signal a return to democracy? Mark Davis speaks to Bainimarama, Deputy Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Opposition Leader Ro Teimumu Kepa, as well as gauging opinion across this Pacific nation. Will the Fiji First Party remain in power or will the country vote to take a new direction? And can the election settle the country's brewing racial tensions?DIVIDED KINGDOM?It's fiercely dividing opinion in the United Kingdom and on Thursday Scotland will vote on whether to become independent. With opinion polls finding it too close to call, Brett Mason meets some of the people getting behind the Yes and No campaigns. Taxi drivers are never short of opinions, and Dougie Brown from Edinburgh can't wait to see the back of the rest of Britain. He asks what the government in London has ever done for working class families like his. But Barry Wilcox, a businessman on the Scottish-English border, says independence would be devastating. His customers would straddle an international border, with all the currency, taxation and export complications that could bring. As politicians on both sides step up their campaigns, could it be the end of the United Kingdom as we know it? |
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Broadcast 2014-09-16 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Autonomy -- Economic aspects.
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Elections -- Political aspects.
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Fijians -- Social conditions.
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Referendum -- Public opinion.
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Voting -- Social aspects.
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Autonomy and independence movements.
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United Kingdom.
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Scotland -- Edinburgh.
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Fiji.
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Streaming video
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Rao, Anjali, host
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Mason, Brett, reporter
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Thomas, Aaron, reporter
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Aiken, Penda, contributor
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Bainimarama, J. V. (Josaia Voreqe), contributor
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Cameron, David, contributor
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Davis, Mark, contributor
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Grant, Laurie, contributor
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Hurt, Melinda, contributor
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MacAskill, Kenny, contributor
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