North Korea is playing diplomatic gymnastics at the Olympics

Today on the Briefing we discuss how billionaires are getting richer – and the rest of us are picking up the crumbs. We’re joined by Andrew Leigh, a Labor MP and former economist who explains how an...

1 Feb 202118min

In today's Briefing, we explain what the dark web is... and what’s happened in the ten years since Silk Road first launched. Silk Road was the first big dark web marketplace to gain notoriety... bu...

31 Jan 202118min

Jamila Rizvi chats to Thomas Mayo, a campaigner for the Uluru Statement from the Heart and celebrated indigenous author.   Thomas has travelled around Australia to promote the statement’s vision for a...

29 Jan 202121min

Jamila Rizvi skips the small talk and goes deep during her conversations with celebrities, opinion shapers and newsmakers. Join The Weekend Briefing on Saturday mornings to slow down, lean back and ...

28 Jan 20211min

Does the federal government’s new Covid-19 ad campaign make you more likely to get the vaccine shot when it becomes available later this year? The grim reaper AIDS campaign in the 80s scared Austral...

28 Jan 202122min

Today we discuss the arrest of the man they call Asia’s el Chapo. It’s estimated, Tse Chi Lop oversees a drug empire worth $90 billion a year. Considering Mexico and South American drug lords trade ...

27 Jan 202118min

What do proposed buts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker mean for those who have come to rely on the increased payments in the wake of the Covid pandemic? We're joined by Charmaine Crowe from the Australian...

26 Jan 202120min

Today we learn how to form good habits and why willpower isn’t the answer. And that there is a way to form good habits... even when your willpower is waning. This is the time of year where the New ...

25 Jan 202120min