Why are families with twins, triplets and quadruplets overlooked in Australia?
Last year, a report found that Australia offers the least amount of parental leave support to parents of multiples in the OECD. In fact, extra payments to families with multiples only account 7% of th...
19 Maalis 202422min
Who is Banksy? After decades of anonymity, we might be about to find out
Banksy is the artist behind the most famous, subversive and satirical street art on the planet. Yet despite their notoriety over the last two decades, Banksy has impressively managed to maintain their...
19 Maalis 20249min
If the US bans TikTok, will Australia follow suit?
The US is moving to ban TikTok after a bill passed through its House of Representatives last week. It’s given TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest before 150 million users face ...
18 Maalis 202419min
Behind Putin's rigged, but significant, Russian election
Vladimir Putin has been re-elected as Russia’s president for the fifth time over the weekend. Before the polls even opened all serious challengers had been wiped out, with Putin’s only real opposition...
18 Maalis 202412min
Why won’t Egypt let Palestinians cross the border?
The war between Israel and Hamas has been raging for five months, more than 30,000 people have been killed, and it’s spawned a massive refugee crisis. Currently 1.4 million Palestinians who have fled ...
17 Maalis 202421min
Patrick deWitt on creativity and age
Patrick deWitt is an award winning author, and screenwriter. In this chat with Tom Tilley, Patrick talks about his latest novel The Librarianist, and why he hopes it provides readers with an escape fr...
16 Maalis 202438min
Veronica B on comedy and Crohn's disease
Sydney-based content creator Veronica B is many things, but she’s perhaps best known for her hilarious comedy skits where she plays Aunty Salma, a character she says represents “every ethnic mum”. In ...
15 Maalis 202431min
How Salad Fingers pioneered the weird part of the internet
The first ever academic study has finally been written about Salad Fingers, a video series created in 2004 that later went viral on YouTube. Salad Fingers featured a sickly green figure with lettuce l...
15 Maalis 202412min
