650 days in Myanmar jail: Aussie Sean Turnell's survival story

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 Juli 202121min

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 Juli 202123min

In the last two weeks dozens of people from Afghanistan have been evacuated to Australia because the war is ending - many had worked as interpreters for Australian troops. Harry Moffitt worked alon...

4 Juli 202121min

Michael Clarke has been called Australia’s controversial cricket captain. This kid from the western suburbs, with his blonde tipped hair, famous girlfriends and love of fast cars, took the conservativ...

2 Juli 202120min

In this Briefing we’re going to take you into the world of Britney Spears - from where it all began to now - where she’s fighting to free herself from a 13-year conservatorship that she says is abusiv...

1 Juli 202121min

Many Australians are addicted to their phones. We spend countless hours staring at our devices. A recent Monash University study found 43.3 per cent of respondents spent over three hours a day on the...

30 Juni 202122min

Three of Singapore’s most senior government officials wrote an article in the national newspaper, the Straits Times, to say the island nation was considering major changes to how it deals with Covid-1...

29 Juni 202120min

Ever heard the term helicopter parenting? Well, it’s about parents hovering over their children making sure they are never put at risk. Daisy Turnbull says not letting children take risks leaves th...

28 Juni 202120min