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How AI is draining Australia’s green power
Episode 1798
In 2019, a new venture in the Australian outback looked set to export our solar power to the world – upending our neighbours’ reliance on fossil fuel…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The frontline of Australia’s family violence crisis
Episode 1797
Family violence in Aboriginal communities is a national crisis – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 33 times more likely to be victims o…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
The outdated trans study still doing damage
Episode 1796
In the 1970s, eight children in Perth were sent to a psychiatric hospital to be ‘treated’ for being transgender. Their experiences became the basis o…
1 month ago
The ‘messy couple’ that was the Coalition
Episode 1795
It’s the on-again, off-again political drama that has turned Australian politics into something resembling a soap opera.
For the second time in a ye…
1 month ago
Is Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ a power grab?
Episode 1794
Donald Trump has invited Australia to join his new “Board of Peace” – a Trump-led body he says will help bring peace to Gaza.
But the invitation come…
1 month ago
How hate speech blew up the Coalition
Episode 1793
This week, Labor’s watered-down hate speech laws passed the Senate.
The following day, the bigger story wasn’t the bill.
Three senior Nationals – Bri…
1 month ago
How Elon Musk's Grok started undressing children
Episode 1792
When Elon Musk first launched his AI tool Grok, he called it “rebellious” and anti-woke.
But over the summer, what that meant took a disturbing turn.…
1 month ago
Why Australia has more guns than ever
Episode 1791
In the aftermath of the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur, Prime Minister John Howard donned a bullet proof vest and argued the case for gun control, to c…
1 month ago
The AFP’s secretive new anti-protest command
Episode 1790
Rex Patrick is a former senator from South Australia. Before that, he was a submariner in the Navy.
Last year, he noticed a reference to a new arm of…
1 month ago
Revisiting Creative Australia’s decision to drop Khaled Sabsabi
Episode 1789
The fallout from this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week debacle has reignited fierce debate about political interference in the arts and about who gets t…
1 month, 1 week ago