Shark Attacks: What is behind the recent spate?
Shark attacks are at a ten year high in Australia. We’re only halfway through the year and we’ve already seen 18 attacks, 4 of those in the past 5 weeks. 5 of these attacks have been fatal, when the a...
22 Juli 202017min
Julia Gillard
When Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up in parliament and gave her misogyny speech in 2012 she had no idea it would become the defining moment of her career. It went viral with 6 million people wa...
21 Juli 202021min
Cyber security: What do we have to fear?
Last month our Prime Minister, side by side with the Defence Minister gave us a very strong warning about cyberattacks. Along with that warning here in Australia, there’s been a concerning development...
20 Juli 202019min
How does contact tracing actually work?
On todays episode we interview a disease detective hunting for patient zero and trying to stop the spread of COVID-19. Christian Peut is a Contact Tracer in the Communicable Disease and Control Branch...
19 Juli 202017min
The Weekend Briefing with Special Guest Dr Pimple Popper
Welcome to a special weekend edition of The Briefing with guest Dr Pimple Popper. In today’s episode, we catch up with global YouTube sensation, dermatologist Dr Pimple Popper AKA Dr Sandra Lee. She...
17 Juli 202019min
Dr Pimple Popper explains why the pandemic’s got us binging her videos
Is the pandemic making us watch strange internet videos? Jan Fran has felt the need to watch ASMR and Pimple Popping videos during lockdown and on today's episode we explore why? Pimple popping videos...
16 Juli 202021min
The Palace Letters explained
For 45 years letters between the Queen and Australia’s Governor General have been kept secret. This week, against the Queen's wishes this series of private letters were released. On todays episode o...
15 Juli 202018min
The Aussies who can’t get home
When most of us could travel overseas we knew that that if it all goes pear shaped you still call Australia home and it will be waiting for you with open arms. But for many Australians overseas that c...
14 Juli 202017min
