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Headlines: Govt appoints new illicit tobacco Commissioner

Today's headlines include: 

Australia’s first Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette Commissioner has been named by the Federal Government. 

Large parts of NSW are being told to brace for damaging winds, he…

Published on 6 months ago

The Glastonbury controversies, explained

Over the weekend, Britain’s biggest music festival Glastonbury was held on a farm in south-west England. This year’s edition made more headlines than usual due to a pair of acts: Irish rap group Knee…

Published on 6 months ago

Headlines: Watchdog finds "serious corruption" by senior official

Today's headlines include: 

Australia’s corruption watchdog has found a senior Home Affairs official engaged in “serious” corrupt conduct when she helped her sister’s fiancé secure a job in the depar…

Published on 6 months ago

A legal battle over religious posters in U.S. schools

A group of parents in the U.S. state of Texas have launched a lawsuit to stop the state government from forcing all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments — a list of moral orders c…

Published on 6 months ago

Headlines: Cassius Turvey's killers sentenced to life in prison

Today's headlines include: 

Two men have been sentenced to life behind bars over the 2022 Perth murder of teenager Cassius Turvey.

The media regulator has rejected a proposal to play more alcohol ads…

Published on 6 months ago

Why the ABC lost an unfair dismissal case

The ABC unlawfully dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf by cutting short her week-long radio hosting role, the federal court has ruled. Lattouf was sacked after sharing a Human Rights Watch post o…

Published on 6 months ago

Headlines: Jailed Aussie whistleblower's new appeal bid

Today's headlines include:

Jailed whistleblower David McBride has lodged an appeal application to Australia’s highest court, seeking to overturn charges for leaking secret defence documents. 

A forme…

Published on 6 months ago

The good news you missed this week

It’s been a particularly tense time around the world, as we've covered on the podcast this week. But we want to bring you something different for today's deep dive — an exclusively good news episode.…

Published on 6 months ago

Headlines: Monthly inflation eases to 2.1%

Today's headlines include:

Prices rose by 2.1% in the year to May, according to monthly inflation figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has described la…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Your Middle East questions, answered

For nearly two weeks now, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a war that has kept the world anxiously waiting to see what happens next.As we have covered this week, the U.S. effectively entered the …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago