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After the 'no' vote: Advance’s plan to destroy the Greens
Episode 1322
The hard-right group behind the “No” campaign, Advance, is amassing a multi-million dollar war chest to take down its next opponent: the Australian G…
1 year, 6 months ago
Read This: All Bruce Pascoe Needs Is a Biro
Episode 1321
It was 2014 when Bruce Pascoe went from being a prolific, yet relatively unknown writer, to public enemy #1 in Australia’s culture wars. That was the…
1 year, 6 months ago
‘It’s not 1800-phone-a-friend’: the failed promise of therapy apps
Episode 1320
“I didn’t have a boyfriend to text anymore so might as well text a therapist,” a millennial podcast host tells her audience while recommending they s…
1 year, 6 months ago
Linda Reynolds, Brittany Higgins and the rise of political defamation
Episode 1319
Brittany Higgins has now been at the centre of three court cases.
First, there was the criminal trial of Bruce Lehrmann - which was aborted with no fi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Inside the illegal underground schools for Afghan girls
Episode 1318
Three years ago the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan.
From his new home in Adelaide, Australia, Hazara human rights activist and photographer …
1 year, 6 months ago
Labor’s plan to put young people into aged care
Episode 1317
Neale Radley was in his early 40s when he dived off a houseboat and hit a sandbar, becoming a high-needs quadriplegic. With no family members able to…
1 year, 6 months ago
Imane Khelif and the scrutiny of female athletes’ bodies
Episode 1316
This year’s Olympics has been phenomenal for women in sport.
Paris 2024 also set a milestone as the first Olympics to achieve full gender parity on th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Read This: Eric Beecher Is a Media Mongrel
Episode 1315
In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, host Michael Williams speaks with journalist, editor and media proprietor Eric Beecher about his ne…
1 year, 6 months ago
Is Australia failing to teach kids to read?
Episode 1314
It’s been called a forever war: the fight over how to teach children to read.
For decades, an outdated method has lingered in Australian classrooms as…
1 year, 6 months ago
Battle of the VPs: Tim Walz v JD Vance
Episode 1313
In the weeks since he was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate, some of JD Vance’s past remarks have resurfaced. He is now at the centre of a num…
1 year, 6 months ago