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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 202221min
The massive inheritance being passed from Boomers to Millennials
In the next 20 years, almost 250 billion dollars will be transferred from baby boomers to Generations X, Y and Z. We’re joined by Aleks Vickovich, the Wealth Editor at the Australian Financial Revie...
7 Jun 202219min
What does Joe Biden have to do to curb US gun laws?
Will Joe Biden be the US President who actually changes gun culture in America? 19 students and two teachers were shot at an elementary school in Texas last week. It was the 27th school shooting in...
6 Jun 202218min
A new LiSTNR podcast you might like.....
The LiSTNR team has launched a new podcast, Post: News In Five Hosted by journalist and producer Ninah Kopel, Post: News In Five is a brand new, daily news short cast adapted from The Saturday Pape...
6 Jun 20221min
