How Covid-19's Delta variant engulfed Sydney
The nation is watching Sydney right now as it struggles to get this Covid-19 outbreak under control. For people in Melbourne, it's looking eerily similar to the second wave that sent the Victorian ca...
13 Jul 202120min
Is it safe to get Botox injections?
One of our listeners sent us a message asking us to do an episode on whether Botox is dangerous. We know it’s become incredibly popular since it was approved for cosmetic use 20 years ago We’re jo...
12 Jul 202119min
A Father’s Plea: bring my ISIS bride daughter home
Mariam Dabboussy was married in 2011 and she and her husband went on a holiday in 2015. Her husband took her into Syria and joined the ISIS fight to establish a caliphate. He was killed just before ...
11 Jul 202122min
Dannii Minogue uncut: UK phone hacking scandal, dealing with fame and more
A big episode for a big name! Dannii Minogue is one of the country's golden girls, with Australians growing up with her on Young Talent Time before she cracked the international market as a pop succes...
9 Jul 202136min
Is Australia losing the race to ban plastics?
Covid 19 has made avoiding plastics a lot harder; cafes stopped taking keep cups, there was an increase in food and grocery deliveries - all wrapped in plastic and use of disposal PPE gear spiked … fo...
8 Jul 202123min
Vaping: a national crisis in our schools
In today’s briefing - the vaping problem in schools. Teachers and parents are extremely worried that school students are illegally dealing vapes... and that more and more students are taking it up. ...
7 Jul 202122min
Millennial malaise: real or imagined?
In 2019, Bridie Jabour wrote a piece for the Guardian about the malaise of millennials. She found herself and her friends talking about the painful, protracted end of their adolescence. They're lo...
6 Jul 202121min
Canada’s shame unearthed: the discovery of hundreds of bodies of First Nations children
Joanna, a Briefing listener, wrote to us via Instagram to ask us to do a story on the discovery of First Nation’s children in Canada. Hundreds of bodies have been found in unmarked graves. We’re jo...
5 Jul 202123min
