Mack Horton: Olympic Swimming Champion and enemy of drug cheats
The Tokyo Olympics were scheduled to open last week before the pandemic pushed them back to next year. Australian Olympic Swimming champion Mack Horton would’ve been racing this week, defending his 40...
27 Jul 202017min
Why is Australia locking up 10 year olds?
Across Australia children as young as 10 can be arrested by police, charged with an offence, hauled before a court and locked away in youth prisons. We’re one of the only western countries that do tha...
26 Jul 202019min
The Weekend Briefing with Special Guest Julia Gillard
Welcome to a special weekend edition of The Briefing with guest Julia Gillard. In today’s episode, we catch up with Australia’s first and only female Prime Minister about her famous misogyny speech...
24 Jul 202031min
Job Keeper Rorts
Today we take a deep dive on JobKeeper rorts and the bosses taking advantage during the pandemic. Common issues include workers being forced to change hours and duties to receive JobKeeper, and worker...
23 Jul 202016min
Shark Attacks: What is behind the recent spate?
Shark attacks are at a ten year high in Australia. We’re only halfway through the year and we’ve already seen 18 attacks, 4 of those in the past 5 weeks. 5 of these attacks have been fatal, when the a...
22 Jul 202017min
Julia Gillard
When Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up in parliament and gave her misogyny speech in 2012 she had no idea it would become the defining moment of her career. It went viral with 6 million people wa...
21 Jul 202021min
Cyber security: What do we have to fear?
Last month our Prime Minister, side by side with the Defence Minister gave us a very strong warning about cyberattacks. Along with that warning here in Australia, there’s been a concerning development...
20 Jul 202019min
How does contact tracing actually work?
On todays episode we interview a disease detective hunting for patient zero and trying to stop the spread of COVID-19. Christian Peut is a Contact Tracer in the Communicable Disease and Control Branch...
19 Jul 202017min
