How global Covid trolls came to the Northern Territory
Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner broke down last month talking about death threats he and his family had received from online trolls protesting about the territory’s Covid vaccine mand...
6 Dec 202122min
Anti-vax to Q-Anon: the paranoid fusion of online conspiracies
Everyone knows someone who’s been swayed by internet conspiracies…misinformation about the Covid vaccine, covid conspiracies? 5G, fluoride. Was it QAnon? Far right groups? Parts of YouTube, Reddit or ...
5 Dec 202119min
Carly Findlay’s body isn’t up for public discussion
Carly Findlay is an author and appearance activist who lives with a rare skin condition called ichthyosis, which makes her skin scaly and red. What this means is that Carly has to put up with a lot o...
3 Dec 202133min
The Ghislaine Maxwell trial
There are landmark court trials littered through US history….Michael Jackson’s two trials and OJ Simpson. The Ghislaine Maxwell trial is poised to join them as a watershed hearing in front of the wor...
2 Dec 202121min
Could Omicron end the pandemic?
The world is trying to come to grips with the Omicron variant of Covid-19. It’s spreading like wildfire across the globe. Governments are scrambling to close borders and scientists are rushing to det...
1 Dec 202121min
Saxon Mullins’ fight to reform sexual consent laws
In 2013 on a night out in Kings Cross a devastating encounter in a laneway changed the course of Saxon Mullins’ life. It led to a rape case that went for five years... there were two trials, two ...
30 Nov 202119min
The Omicron story so far
The world has a new variant of the Covid-19 virus to contend with. Omicron was first detected in Botswana and has already been detected in the UK, Hong Kong, the Czech Republic and Australia. States ...
29 Nov 202117min
Western Australians speak their minds on border situation
Western Australia will stay closed for Christmas with its border not reopening until at least late January. WA premier Mark McGowan says waiting to lift restrictions until the state achieves 90% vacci...
28 Nov 202122min
