The Weekend Briefing with special guest Andrew Denton
Welcome to a special weekend edition of The Briefing with guest Andrew Denton. Andrew is one of Australia’s most loved media identities and after losing his father to a painful death a few years ago h...
19 Jun 202020min
Voluntary Assisted Dying – Is it working? and should all Australians have access to this option?
Today marks one year since Victoria introduced a voluntary assisted dying scheme. It’s the first Australian state to enact Voluntary Assisted Dying laws, so the question is: Should the rest of the co...
18 Jun 202024min
The Bushfire Recovery effort: How are people doing?
Millions of you donated to help the bushfire victims. But have we helped the people that need it? Before the pandemic the devastation and the smoke from the bush fires was all consuming. Over 18.6...
17 Jun 202020min
Defunding the Police - What does it mean?
Defunding the police - What does it mean? and why is the US police force so different from our own? One of the demands of protestors since George Floyd’s death is the call to defund the police.Today...
16 Jun 202019min
Will COVID produce the opportunity of a generation for first home buyers?
Will COVID produce the opportunity of a generation for young people desperate to crack the housing market? Decades of surging house prices have created some intense intergenerational debates around ...
15 Jun 202021min
Should problematic statues be pulled down?
It’s a debate that’s happening across the world right now: Should we pull down statues of people whose actions now appear hurtful and deeply offensive in today’s context? Since the Global Black Live...
14 Jun 202018min
Is MDMA Therapy the modern day answer for our Mental Health?
Question: What do a former Liberal party cabinet minister and the rave scene have in common? Answer: An appreciation of the drug MDMA. Experts are warning Coronavirus will have a huge impact on ou...
11 Jun 202021min
How do we fix the broken relationship between police and Indigenous Australia?
The record breaking protests in the US have rightly put questions about the way Australia’s indigenous people are treated by police back on the agenda. Indigenous incarceration rates here in Australia...
10 Jun 202019min
