“Disbelief and shock”: arrested for protesting interest rates
As interest rates rise for a tenth consecutive time, we have a cautionary tale about Cherish Kuehlmann. One night last month the student was woken up by officers who ‘barged into the house’ and took h...
9 Mar 202317min
Are you part of Generation F’d?
In Gen F'd? economist Alison Pennington writes about how the most educated generation in Australian history looks set to be the first generation worse off than their parents. Millions of young people ...
8 Mar 202320min
South Korea: why is the country shrinking?
South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world and last month it broke its own record. The average number of expected babies per South Korean woman fell to 0.78 in 2022 down from 0.81 a year e...
7 Mar 202320min
The epic fail of our soft plastics recycling system
Australia's largest soft plastics recycling scheme REDcycle collapsed last November and last week the scheme was declared insolvent by the Supreme court. Soft plastics collected from supermarkets were...
6 Mar 202322min
Special International Women's Day ep with your fave LiSTNR hosts
March 8 is International Women's Day. We asked the women (and a couple of men) behind your favourite LiSTNR podcasts and radio shows to share about a time they’ve #EmbracedEquity and challenged gende...
6 Mar 202347min
"Maybe I'm superhuman": Why some people still haven’t had Covid
Three years into the pandemic there are still people who (as far as they know) have never contracted or tested positive for Covid. They’re called ‘novids’ and right now there’s an international, first...
5 Mar 202320min
Dilruk Jayasinha was never going to be an accountant
Dilruk Jayasinha is one of Australia’s most in-demand comedians. His new stand up show is called Heart Stopper, named as such because in Hindi, Dil means heart and Ruk means stop. But the show’s title...
3 Mar 202331min
Would you pay $20 a month for Facebook and Instagram verification?
Facebook and Instagram users can now pay for their blue verified tick. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last week what’s called the Meta Verification subscription bundle. It will enable users to in...
2 Mar 202322min
