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
The deepfake voice scam that you need to be prepared for
There’s a new phone-scam that’s being reported around the world, and it’s petrifying. It uses an AI generated cloned version of a loved one, who calls, claiming that there’s an emergency (often that t...
14 Maalis 202421min
What's behind the chaos in Haiti?
Haiti has been all over international headlines this week, and it’s culminated in the Caribbean country’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry being forced to step down. His resignation follows weeks of mountin...
14 Maalis 202413min
Cheek Media shares its game plan in Meta's media war
Facebook and Instagram could soon be wiped of news content. It’s after their parent company Meta, announced it will stop paying for news content in Australia when the current deals it has expire. In t...
13 Maalis 202423min
