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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, 9 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, 9 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For decades, an outdated method has lingered in Australian classrooms as…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, 9 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, 9 months ago
Who decides the future of Gaza?
Episode 1312
Hardly any foreign journalists have been into Gaza since Israel’s bombings began. The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes is one of the …
1 year, 10 months ago
‘Find some courage’: David Pocock on Labor’s flawed gambling laws
Episode 1311
They’re hard to miss: the number of gambling ads flooding our screens and devices everyday. They’ve become such an inescapable part of sport that a p…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Train family murders: A new age of radicalisation
Episode 1310
It was supposed to be a routine call out when four police officers attended a property in regional Queensland just before Christmas in 2022.
The young…
1 year, 10 months ago
Read This: Alexis Wright Is the 2024 Miles Franklin Winner
Episode 1309
In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, host Michael Williams speaks with the winner of the 2024 Miles Franklin Award, Alexis Wright. Her e…
1 year, 10 months ago
'I have eyes, but I don't see': The community groups helping refugees settle
Episode 1308
At Sydney Airport on a muggy night in November 2022, a group of volunteers from Sydney’s northern beaches crowd inside arrivals waiting to greet a fa…
1 year, 10 months ago
The end of ‘Twiggy’ Forrest's hydrogen dream
Episode 1307
It wasn’t so long ago that renewables pundits glowingly described hydrogen as the “Swiss Army knife” of renewable technologies, able to be turned to …
1 year, 10 months ago