Tik Tok and the war against online drug trading
Tik Tok has been the fastest growing social media app ever. In just five years it has had over 2 billion downloads and now reports 1.6b regular users - about half of Facebook, already. Many of its us...
16 Kesä 202220min
The RBA's big mistake
The Reserve Bank of Australia provides forward guidance for the economy. One of the key levers of fiscal policy is interest rate projections. RBA boss Philip Lowe predicted he couldn’t see interest r...
15 Kesä 202225min
The four-day work week: a step closer to reality?
The concept of the four-day working week has been around for almost a century, but like the idea of working from home which needed a pandemic to make happen, the four-day week concept hasn’t really ta...
14 Kesä 202220min
Johann Hari and why you can't focus
Johann Hari’s new book Stolen Focus is all about the crisis in concentration sweeping the world. The book goes into why it’s happening, how much it’s affecting us, and what can be done to tackle the p...
13 Kesä 202221min
Is it time for Australia to become a Republic?
Australia’s new government has appointed an Assistant Minister for the Republic. Matt Thistlethwaite has been tasked with taking the Labor Party’s policy of making Australia a republic from policy to...
12 Kesä 202221min
Sophie Cachia - Then There Was Her
Sophie Cachia has always been in a rush. At twenty she met a bloke and fell in love, by age twenty-three she’d given birth to her first child, and within another year or two grew a formidable social m...
10 Kesä 202229min
Toadie and the end of Neighbours
Filming on Australia’s longest-running television show Neighbours, finishes today…..after nearly 9,000 episodes, 63 weddings, 20 births and 68 deaths. We’re joined by Ryan Moloney – who plays Jarrod...
9 Kesä 202220min
An Australian journalist locked up in a Chinese prison
Australian journalist Cheng Lei has been charged in a Chinese court of supplying state secrets. Detained since August 2020, her family and friends now say she’s been denied access to consular official...
8 Kesä 202221min
