The Aussie metal band going green
Why has an Aussie heavy metal band gone green? In Hearts Wake have used their passion for ecological advocacy, to push the boundaries of the music industry by recording, releasing and performing their...
20 Okt 202223min
“Never seen anything like it”: Victoria’s flood disaster
Parts of NSW and Victoria are again under water as another big weather system heads for already sodden regions. Flood warnings are in place in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. Thousands ...
19 Okt 202218min
Will Alex Jones pay the Sandy Hook families?
Alex Jones is an American radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist who was last week ordered to pay almost a billion dollars US to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school massacr...
18 Okt 202220min
Amber Heard's lawyer speaks to The Briefing
In today’s Briefing we look at a perverse twist of Me Too. The wave of abuse stories has come with a wave of defamation lawsuits. London-based barristers Jen Robinson and Keina Yoshida have written a ...
17 Okt 202222min
Grace Tame's brutal joke
Our guest on the Briefing today is Grace Tame – former Australian of the Year and author of a new memoir: The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner. In her brand new book, Grace has told her story of being a ...
16 Okt 202218min
Emma Carey fell from the sky – and survived.
Emma Carey says she wasn’t a particularly positive person before her accident. She was working in a job that she didn’t particularly like, going through the motions of life without a lot of spark or a...
14 Okt 202229min
An important week in the battle for Ukraine
It’s been a critical week in the war in Ukraine. After almost 9 months of conflict, more than 6,000 people have died and countless regions heavily shelled. Many expected Ukraine would fall within day...
13 Okt 202220min
QLD’s DNA lab crisis from the man behind the Teacher’s Pet
An inquiry is underway into a Queensland lab that failed to test thousands of DNA samples. The lab demanded that to progress to DNA profiling, crime scene samples require the equivalent of at least 22...
12 Okt 202219min
