Podcast Episodes

Your Shortcut to... the BRICS summit in South Africa

Season 4 Episode 190

Some powerful nations are holding a summit this week – and no, it’s not the G20, the Quad or APEC… It’s called BRICS and it’s a gathering of China, I…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... political conferences

Episode 189

Over the next few days you're going to be hearing a lot about the Australian Labor Party's national conference – the big Labor love-in which sets the…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... the Matildas

Episode 188

The Matildas have had a best-ever World Cup performance, progressing through to the final 4. So we thought now would be a great time to get across th…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... reporting season

Season 4 Episode 187

It's the most wonderful time of the year if you're a shareholder of a publicly listed company... Following the end of the financial year, businesses …

3 years, 2 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... Trump's Election Indictment

Season 4 Episode 186

Donald Trump has been charged with serious offences related to a plot to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. It’s Trump’s third i…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... Wally Lewis and concussions in sport

Season 4 Episode 185

One of Australia's greatest-ever rugby league players, Wally Lewis, is the latest sports star to speak out about a diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Enc…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... the downfall of China's Foreign Minister

Episode 184

China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, disappeared from public view in June, and after a month of speculation reports surfaced that he’d been removed fr…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... the future of the Commonwealth Games

Season 4 Episode 183

It's been just over a week since Victoria pulled the pin on hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games - and the future of the whole event is still up in th…

3 years, 3 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... Hollywood's strikes

Season 4 Episode 182

So many of the TV shows and movies we love come out of America, but a writers' and actors' strike over pay and the use of artificial intelligence is …

3 years, 3 months ago

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Your Shortcut to... China's economic slowdown

Episode 181

We've been hearing a drip-feed of worrying economic data coming out of China, and we heard this week that their annual growth rate might fall below e…

3 years, 3 months ago

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