Is Australia losing the race to ban plastics?
Covid 19 has made avoiding plastics a lot harder; cafes stopped taking keep cups, there was an increase in food and grocery deliveries - all wrapped in plastic and use of disposal PPE gear spiked … fo...
8 Jul 202123min
Vaping: a national crisis in our schools
In today’s briefing - the vaping problem in schools. Teachers and parents are extremely worried that school students are illegally dealing vapes... and that more and more students are taking it up. ...
7 Jul 202122min
Millennial malaise: real or imagined?
In 2019, Bridie Jabour wrote a piece for the Guardian about the malaise of millennials. She found herself and her friends talking about the painful, protracted end of their adolescence. They're lo...
6 Jul 202121min
Canada’s shame unearthed: the discovery of hundreds of bodies of First Nations children
Joanna, a Briefing listener, wrote to us via Instagram to ask us to do a story on the discovery of First Nation’s children in Canada. Hundreds of bodies have been found in unmarked graves. We’re jo...
5 Jul 202123min
The plight of the Afghan war interpreters
In the last two weeks dozens of people from Afghanistan have been evacuated to Australia because the war is ending - many had worked as interpreters for Australian troops. Harry Moffitt worked alon...
4 Jul 202121min
Michael Clarke's new love since cricket: Fatherhood
Michael Clarke has been called Australia’s controversial cricket captain. This kid from the western suburbs, with his blonde tipped hair, famous girlfriends and love of fast cars, took the conservativ...
2 Jul 202120min
Inside Britney Spears’ conservatorship nightmare
In this Briefing we’re going to take you into the world of Britney Spears - from where it all began to now - where she’s fighting to free herself from a 13-year conservatorship that she says is abusiv...
1 Jul 202121min
Could a dumb phone be the answer to our smartphone addiction?
Many Australians are addicted to their phones. We spend countless hours staring at our devices. A recent Monash University study found 43.3 per cent of respondents spent over three hours a day on the...
30 Jun 202122min
