Will Alex Jones pay the Sandy Hook families?
Alex Jones is an American radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist who was last week ordered to pay almost a billion dollars US to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school massacr...
18 Okt 202220min
Amber Heard's lawyer speaks to The Briefing
In today’s Briefing we look at a perverse twist of Me Too. The wave of abuse stories has come with a wave of defamation lawsuits. London-based barristers Jen Robinson and Keina Yoshida have written a ...
17 Okt 202222min
Grace Tame's brutal joke
Our guest on the Briefing today is Grace Tame – former Australian of the Year and author of a new memoir: The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner. In her brand new book, Grace has told her story of being a ...
16 Okt 202218min
Emma Carey fell from the sky – and survived.
Emma Carey says she wasn’t a particularly positive person before her accident. She was working in a job that she didn’t particularly like, going through the motions of life without a lot of spark or a...
14 Okt 202229min
An important week in the battle for Ukraine
It’s been a critical week in the war in Ukraine. After almost 9 months of conflict, more than 6,000 people have died and countless regions heavily shelled. Many expected Ukraine would fall within day...
13 Okt 202220min
QLD’s DNA lab crisis from the man behind the Teacher’s Pet
An inquiry is underway into a Queensland lab that failed to test thousands of DNA samples. The lab demanded that to progress to DNA profiling, crime scene samples require the equivalent of at least 22...
12 Okt 202219min
The sliding doors of tragedy: Bali Bombing 20 years on
It’s the 20th anniversary of the Bali bombings. On 12 October 2002, 202 people - including 88 Australians - were killed when explosions ripped through the Sari Club and Paddy’s Irish Bar in Kuta’s nig...
11 Okt 202219min
Why the ISIS brides are coming home
The Australian government is preparing to launch a mission to rescue dozens of Australian women and children trapped in Syrian detention camps. More than 20 Australian women and more than 40 children ...
10 Okt 202219min
