You can now join a national revolution calling out shit rentals
Jordie van den Berg (known by his influential social media alias PurplePingers) and Lauren Michaelides (known as Toilet Paper Australia on X) have launched a free database to call out “shit rentals” a...
27 Sep 202321min
How a brutal murder sparked the Canada vs India conflict
Canada and India are at loggerheads, with both nations in a diplomatic storm that looks like it’s going to get much worse before it gets better. Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was assa...
27 Sep 202310min
Dan Andrews, the Victorian Premier who ruled from the left and survived
Dan Andrews, Labor’s longest reigning Premier in Victoria, has announced he will resign from the top job. What was the reasoning behind his decision, what impact will that have on the future of Victor...
26 Sep 202322min
Dan Andrews resigns. What will Victoria make of his legacy?
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has announced he’ll retire at 5pm tomorrow. He says he has no plans, and will take time to spend with his family. He led Victoria for nine years and was Labor leader for ...
26 Sep 20238min
Inside the sinister new experiment to kill death row inmates
The state of Alabama is planning to use nitrogen gas to execute prisoners on death row, after a series of botched lethal injections. Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Alabama have all approved nitrogen gas f...
25 Sep 202321min
Why are we so blasé about privacy a year after the Optus hacking breach?
It’s been a year since the details of nearly 10 million Aussies were compromised in the Optus data hack. Past and present customers were left confused and frustrated, asking why big companies are allo...
25 Sep 202310min
Cracking the whip on dating app safety
Popular online dating platforms like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge - are being threatened with government regulation unless they improve safety for users. The federal government is giving the industry unti...
24 Sep 202318min
Hugh van Cuylenburg on resilience
Welcome to this special series of the Weekend Briefing, where Jamila talks to some of her favourite guests - old and new - about a single, fascinating subject. Over the next two months, you’ll hear fr...
22 Sep 202327min
