THE BEEFING: The AFL vs homophobia

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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