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Greens MLC Colleen Hartland.

Victoria's alcohol and drug treatment services have failed to keep pace with the growing substance abuse epidemic after a decade of neglect, an Auditor General's report revealed on March 2.

VCE and uni exams are coming to a close and students are quick to leap on the opportunity to earn some extra bucks. Why do students give up their summer breaks?

Reporters Hayley Crane and Nick Toscano.

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Summer jobs - SYNcast.mp3

What does your online profile say about you? Are you guilty of amping up a certain image online for friends to see?

Photo uploads, friend-requests, status updates...what effect is it all having on our social interactions in the real world?

Hayley Crane and Nick Toscano find out.

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Online identity - SYNcast.mp3

The war in Afghanistan is closing in on a decade, but this week marks the first parliamentary debate on Australia's commitment of troops.

Greens member for Melbourne Adam Bandt ignited the debate. John Langmore is former UN and political expert. They join Panorama's Hayley Crane and Nick Toscano.

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Afghanistan debate - SYNcast.mp3

Should the we follow France's lead and ban pro-anorexia (pro-ana) and pro-bulimia (pro-mia) websites, which promote extreme thinness and methods for self-starvation?

Panorama asks why sites like these exist, what purpose they serve and whether or not they should be censored under the proposed web filter.

Reporters Hayley Crane and Nick Toscano.

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ProANA - SYNcast.mp3

Julia Gillard doesn't believe in God. Unlike Howard, Rudd and Abbott, she's distanced herself from religion altogether.

Do you care whether or not our PM believes in God? Will it lose her votes on August 21?

Panorama's Nick Toscano talks to a young aetheist, a priest-in-training and Marion Maddox, author of 'God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australia'.

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Godless PM - SYNcast.mp3

Who'll be better at managing our economy? Did your $900 handout keep Australia afloat? Is our government debt a real problem?

The election campaign is in full swing, and both sides of the political divide are talking up their economic credentials.

Nick Toscano reports.

Gillard and Abbott are hard at it, lobbying their asylum-seeker policies as the issue heats up ahead of the federal election. Panorama breaks it down.

Does the language used by government and opposition signal a return to the hardline border protection of the Howard years?

Reporters Hayley Crane, Nick Toscano and Callum Moore.

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Asylum-seekers - SYNcast.mp3

Julia Gillard has renamed the federal population portfolio "Sustainable Population" as she moves the government further away from Kevin Rudd's idea of a big Australia.

Panorama's Amelia Caddy, Hayley Crane and Nick Toscano.

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Population - SYNcast.mp3

The Vulnerable Youth Framework was inteded to be a state action plan on how to tackle youth povery, homelessness, mental health problems and ensure all young Victorians have the same opportunities. Why has the Brumby government left funding for the Vulnerable Youth Framework out of its last two budgets?

Panorama's Nick Toscano talks to VCOSS and the State Shadow Minister for Youth Hugh Delahunty.

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VYF - SYNcast.mp3