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Cory Banister is the Senior Vice President and a chief lending officer at Latrobe financial. 

Bannister started his journey with La Trobe Financial more than 20 years ago, working in various roles, including lending manager, portfolio manager, and executive head of distribution. 

Mark and Cory discuss the current market and the impact on mortgage broker businesses and lenders. Are we seeing business volumes increase or decrease, and does Cory ​​foresee any future changes to lender appetite?

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With the global population growing rapidly every year and with millions already having limited access to enough food, where are the new productivity-enhancing farming practices that will enable the world to produce enough food to feed 9 billion people by 2050? 

One new farming practice with the potential to improve crop yields is called ‘subsoil manuring’, developed by Peter Sale and his team at La Trobe University, Melbourne, to improve subsoils for crop growth.

Read more:  https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2020.08.003 

In this episode we talk with Prof Robert Young from La Trobe University about the changing nature of philosophy in the 1970s, emergence of applied ethics, and early days of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria.

References

• Young, Robert. "Some Criteria for Making Decisions Concerning the Distribution of Scarce Medical Resources." Theory and Decision 6, no. 4 (1975): 439-55.
• Young, Robert. "Voluntary and Nonvoluntary Euthanasia." The Monist  (1976): 264-83.
• Young, Robert. "Voluntary Euthanasia." Medical Journal of Australia 142, no. 2 (1985): 166-66.

Music & Photo

• City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• Image modified "Bill Nye's History of the United States. Illustrated by F. Opper"

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Dan Brown's books mightn't be the best example of literature, but surely it has to have it's good points. Dr Chris Scanlon of La Trobe University's media department has some good things to say about it... or at least, the success it generates.

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The snail's ability to naturally cope with serotonin could be the key to treating heart disease in humans.

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