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The Weekend Read: Angela Savage on the moment a child leaves the home
Episode 1237
Today, writer Angela Savage with her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly.
Parents often face the dilemma of helping their children become inde…
2 years, 1 month ago
Payments and a porn passport: Albanese’s snap national cabinet
Episode 1236
As Australia demanded answers to the domestic violence crisis, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese became a focal point in all the wrong ways when he got…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Australian journo on 'catch and kill' for Trump
Episode 1235
As Donald Trump zeroed in on his successful 2016 run to the presidency, he began to engage in what is called “catch and kill” journalism.
Trump and hi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jess Hill on why we need more than ‘awareness’ to end the killing of women
Episode 1234
It feels like hardly a week goes by where we don’t hear about a woman in Australia being killed by a man she knows.
Intimate partner deaths increased …
2 years, 1 month ago
How sales reps infiltrated operating theatres
Episode 1233
There are strict rules around how drug company representatives can interact with doctors to ensure they aren’t influencing how medications are prescr…
2 years, 1 month ago
‘A race towards minority’: Inside Labor’s re-election strategy
Episode 1232
There’s an old adage in Canberra: every first-term government gets a second chance.
But when voters head to the polls next year, could the current Lab…
2 years, 1 month ago
Australia v Elon Musk: Can our politicians really take on the tech billionaire?
Episode 1231
When Australia’s eSafety commissioner issued takedown orders to some of the world’s biggest tech companies at the beginning of this week, the commiss…
2 years, 1 month ago
'Outrageous and probably illegal': Offers to skip the queue at public hospitals
Episode 1230
The wait for elective surgery in our public hospitals is longer than ever, but it seems there’s a way to jump the queue.
If you can afford to pay for …
2 years, 1 month ago
The stabbing of a TikTok bishop
Episode 1229
An attack at a Western Sydney church last week was inextricably linked to social media.
The bishop who was stabbed is a social media celebrity, the at…
2 years, 1 month ago
Grace Tame is not a cat, she’s autistic
Episode 1228
Grace Tame knows how to advocate. Her campaigning for survivors of sexual assault and abuse helped to create real change and pushed powerful institut…
2 years, 1 month ago