Wonka, Mean Girls or Aquaman? The Briefing wraps your summer movies
It’s Boxing Day and that means there’s a good chance you’re heading to the movies. In this episode of The Briefing Sacha Barbour Gatt wraps of some of the biggest flicks of the season with Justin Hill...
25 Dec 202316min
Tree pickles, live carp and KFC: Christmas foods around the world
It’s Christmas and that means there’s a good chance you’ll spend most of today in a food coma, even if you’re not religious. In Japan, there’s even a tradition to eat KFC despite the Buddhism and Shin...
24 Dec 202310min
Summer Weekends: Maria Thattil from Miss Universe to the Jungle
Welcome to our summer series of the Weekend Briefing featuring some of your favourite interviews from 2023! Maria is a queer, South-Asian woman, the daughter of migrant parents and a former Miss Unive...
22 Dec 202326min
How to look after your mental health during the holiday period
In this morning's episode of The Briefing, we looked into how to manage difficult conversations with family members over Christmas. In this afternoon's episode, we turn the mirror inwards. For many pe...
22 Dec 202312min
How to navigate awkward conversations at the Christmas dinner table
With Christmas just days away, plenty of us are feeling a bit of trepidation (or perhaps a lot) at the prospect of spending time with family members we might otherwise not interact too much with. Whet...
21 Dec 202320min
Will you join the Coles and Woolworths boycott?
As public anger mounts over Coles and Woolworths’ super-profits during a cost of living crisis, Brisbane local Dylan Fragomeni is pushing for a boycott of the two grocery giants on December 23 and 24....
21 Dec 202311min
Why are we rewatching Aussie kids' shows?
Seven out of 10 Aussies are rewatching TV shows from their childhood and it’s all part of a nostalgia trend. A recent study by Swinburne, RMIT University, and Australian Children's Television Cultures...
20 Dec 202319min
Is today's court ruling the beginning of the end for Donald Trump?
The Colorado Supreme Court have just disqualified former US President Donald Trump from being listed in the ballot for the next election. They claim that his involvement in the January 6th, 2021 atta...
20 Dec 20239min
