Podcast Episodes

Problems, the world has a few...and are journalists one of them?

For the last 54 years, countless writers have lived by the words of the late author Graham Greene who wrote that writers should have a “splinter of ice in the heart”. He meant that we need to maintai…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Israel says there is no starvation in Gaza. Trump disagrees

The release of images of starving children lying listlessly in their mothers’ arms, in the Gaza strip, has pushed a growing number of global leaders to accuse Israel of breaking international law. 

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Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

The cancer drug, the faked data and the superstar scientist

Mark Smyth was one of Australia’s very top cancer scientists. Or, as one former colleague puts it, “the god of immunology."

But Smyth was a god who fell to earth and doubt now surrounds his work afte…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Ozempic: What the evidence says about side-effects

Obesity affects about a third of Australian adults, while another third are classified as overweight. But the weight loss drug Ozempic has proven to be a game changer in tackling this health epidemic…

Published on 1 month ago

A case of 'burger diplomacy' for Trump, and Barnaby Joyce puts his beef aside to oppose net zero

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces tricky terrain with the government lifting a ban on US beef imports to Australia this week, leaving him open to suggestions he has capitulated to pressure from D…

Published on 1 month ago

Trump sues Murdoch over Epstein files, and the ‘surreal turn’ MAGA loyalist Steve Bannon took

A showdown looms between two of the world's most powerful men, Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch, with the American president suing the media mogul for a whopping $10 billion.

Front and centre of the c…

Published on 1 month ago

The Australians poisoned by over-the-counter vitamins

You may be like half of all Australians who now take a multivitamin, to improve their health.

But are they safe? 

Melbourne dad Dominic Noonan-O’Keefe had no reason to think the multivitamin he took …

Published on 1 month ago

The sperm donor loophole that led to 27 half-siblings

More Australians are turning towards using in-vitro fertilisations to have babies, every year.

Often it's done through regulated IVF clinic, but sometimes parents - desperate for a child - search for…

Published on 1 month ago

Evictions rising in East Jerusalem and a Melbourne man’s part in it all

East Jerusalem is one of the most contested pieces of land in the Middle East. International law says it is an occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel claims it is an essential part of the Jewish stat…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Inside Politics: ‘Killing season’ is over, so what will Anthony Albanese do with this moment?

Well, here we are, a new term of parliament begins next week. There’ll be fresh faces and, hopefully, fresh ideas.
So will the government use its massive majority to press ahead with major reforms in …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago