Sacked for using legal medicinal cannabis - a landmark trial
Mitchell Rice was dismissed by his employer Queensland Rail on the basis of having used a legally prescribed cannabis product to treat his medical conditions of anxiety and insomnia. He’s suing. ...
9 Dec 202122min
Did the Bitcoin trial solve the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto?
In today’s Briefing, we go back to a story we did two weeks ago about the inventor of bitcoin. A Florida court has ruled that Craig Wright, the Aussie who says he invented the blockchain currency, w...
8 Dec 202123min
Is infinite browsing limiting your ability to commit?
Do you find yourself infinitely browsing? Never able to make a commitment? To a movie? A partner? A job? Pete Davis is a writer and civic advocate from Falls Church, Virginia. His Harvard Law S...
7 Dec 202123min
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
