Harmony Day's racist roots
Today is Harmony Day when Australia celebrates its multiculturism and diversity, but did you know we’re the only country who does? It’s because Australia has a difficult relationship with what the day...
20 Mar 202423min
Monique Ryan wants you to pay less on your HECS debt
Last year, over half a million Australians saw their HECS debt grow faster than it was being repaid. Teal Independent MP Dr Monique Ryan says it’s because Australia has an unfair HECS indexation syst...
20 Mar 202411min
Why are families with twins, triplets and quadruplets overlooked in Australia?
Last year, a report found that Australia offers the least amount of parental leave support to parents of multiples in the OECD. In fact, extra payments to families with multiples only account 7% of th...
19 Mar 202422min
Who is Banksy? After decades of anonymity, we might be about to find out
Banksy is the artist behind the most famous, subversive and satirical street art on the planet. Yet despite their notoriety over the last two decades, Banksy has impressively managed to maintain their...
19 Mar 20249min
If the US bans TikTok, will Australia follow suit?
The US is moving to ban TikTok after a bill passed through its House of Representatives last week. It’s given TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest before 150 million users face ...
18 Mar 202419min
Behind Putin's rigged, but significant, Russian election
Vladimir Putin has been re-elected as Russia’s president for the fifth time over the weekend. Before the polls even opened all serious challengers had been wiped out, with Putin’s only real opposition...
18 Mar 202412min
Why won’t Egypt let Palestinians cross the border?
The war between Israel and Hamas has been raging for five months, more than 30,000 people have been killed, and it’s spawned a massive refugee crisis. Currently 1.4 million Palestinians who have fled ...
17 Mar 202421min
Patrick deWitt on creativity and age
Patrick deWitt is an award winning author, and screenwriter. In this chat with Tom Tilley, Patrick talks about his latest novel The Librarianist, and why he hopes it provides readers with an escape fr...
16 Mar 202438min
