“A stab in an open wound”: why your student loan is blowing out today
Today student debts will increase by 7.1% for more than three million Australians thanks to indexation. The average national student debt is $24,770.75 and will be increased by an extra $1758.72 . We ...
31 Maj 202320min
"The drop out": Elizabeth Holmes finally behind bars
Elizabeth Holmes was "the world's youngest self-made female billionaire" with her company Theranos, which promised to detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes needing only a few drops of blood. I...
30 Maj 202318min
Does Gen Z need more praise? What the AFP boss got wrong
In senate estimates last week, the AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw mentioned how Gen Z needs more praise in the workplace. It turns out he’d misquoted some research; we find out from organisational psy...
29 Maj 202319min
Everest: a doctor takes us inside the "death zone"
40 year old South Australian man Jason Kennison was the 10th climber to die on Mount Everest this climbing season, one of the deadliest in recent history. An area of the mountain called the death zone...
28 Maj 202318min
The year Kevin Rudd apologised Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was taken from her family
Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, is a proud Bundjalung Widubul-Wiabul woman who was taken away from her family and her country at age 11. Vanessa would live with more than a dozen different foster families, ...
26 Maj 202335min
Why there's hope Julian Assange might be home before Christmas
At the National Press Club on Monday Julian Assange’s wife said 'we're the closest we've ever been' to securing his release and earlier this year Anthony Albanese expressed his frustrated over the det...
25 Maj 202320min
"Absolutely furious": how we all just got screwed by a consulting giant
If you pay tax, this story will make your blood boil. We explain how PwC, a firm that’s received hundreds of millions of tax payer funds, shared confidential information with corporations trying to pa...
24 Maj 202318min
"Poison in the bloodstream": Is the ABC failing indigenous journalists?
Last week Q&A presenter Stan Grant announced he was leaving the ABC after constant racial abuse, and a lack of institutional support. Torres Strait Islander Rhianna Patrick who is a Briefing host and ...
23 Maj 202320min
