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Firebombs and gang wars: The bloody fallout of Australia’s tobacco crackdown
Episode 2036
For years, Australia has made cigarettes increasingly expensive in an effort to drive down smoking. Now, the Coalition wants to dramatically reverse …
15 hours ago
Paul Keating's unfinished argument for an independent Australia
Episode 2035
Paul Keating has been out of office for thirty years. But he’s never really left the national conversation.
Keating wanted Australia to find its secu…
1 day, 15 hours ago
Chanel Contos on the fight to turn off your algorithms
Episode 2034
Speaking at the Press Club this week, consent education advocate Chanel Contos outlined how social media companies are feeding misogynistic content t…
2 days, 15 hours ago
Should Meta’s “pervert glasses” be banned?
Episode 2033
They’ve been dubbed pervert glasses. And with good reason – women around the world are reporting being sexually harassed, filmed without their conse…
3 days, 15 hours ago
Labor’s One Nation problem
Episode 2032
One Nation has declared that “politics has changed” after snatching a formerly safe Labor seat in a surprise by-election victory in WA over the weeke…
4 days, 15 hours ago
“Accident waiting to happen”: Why Nepal’s floods could happen again
Episode 2031
A wall of grey, silted water tears through a Himalayan Valley.
People look on in shock, disbelief and fear as buildings are swallowed. Cars are swep…
5 days, 15 hours ago
Anthony ‘the Mooch’ Scaramucci: The man who turned on Trump
Episode 2030
On day one of his role as communications director for the White House, Anthony Scaramucci sung Donald Trump’s praises.
He would serve in that role f…
6 days, 15 hours ago
Is Australia failing to teach kids to read?
Episode 2029
The latest NAPLAN results show around a third of Australian students are still falling short in literacy and numeracy – results that have barely budg…
1 week ago
The “three shocks” reshaping Australian politics
Episode 2028
Australia has changed in ways our politics is still struggling to understand.
We are now a majority migrant nation. Professional women have overtake…
1 week, 1 day ago
“I feel sick about it”: Tanya Plibersek on the Swans, Scots College and rising misogyny
Episode 2027
Over the past two weeks, allegations of sexual assault involving some of the country’s most powerful institutions – the Swans and Sydney’s Scots Coll…
1 week, 2 days ago