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Over the last few weeks, almost two billion people have voted in elections, as part of what some are calling the biggest year for democracy ever. In today’s deep dive, TDA fact checker Lucy Tassell joins us to recap the biggest elections of the last month, and preview what’s next.
Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Lucy Tassell
Audio producer: Annabelle Nicol
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Over 7 million Australians use Buy Now Pay Later accounts, like Afterpay or Zip, and young people are the main adopters of this new form of credit.
But now the government is keen to apply the same rules that govern our credit cards or loans to these services - in one of the biggest changes to The Credit Act in years.
The government hopes the new laws will protect vulnerable people from accumulating debt by making everyone get a credit check to use the apps.
On today’s podcast, we’re going to take a look at what’s being proposed, why, and what the companies themselves think of the move.
Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Billi FitzSimons
Audio producer: James ElliottDo you have feedback for the podcast? Share your thoughts via our survey!
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For the first time in U.S. history, the son of a sitting President is facing trial and potential jail time. The trial of Hunter Biden, the son of current President Joe Biden, has begun in the US state of Delaware this week. He stands accused of illegally buying and owning a handgun while using drugs.
It’s another twist in what is becoming a legally-entangled Presidential election.
Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Billi FitzSimons
Audio producer: James ElliottDo you have feedback for the podcast? Share your thoughts via our survey!
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Australia’s workplace dispute tribunal, the Fair Work Commission, has delivered a ruling in the case between journalist Antoinette Lattouf and the ABC.It ruled that Lattouff was indeed sacked by ABC, which had been disputed by the public broadcaster.
This ruling paves the way for Lattouf to pursue a Federal Court claim that her dismissal was unfair.
Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Billi FitzSimons
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Australia is currently the only Western democracy without a national human rights act. Last week, a parliamentary committee recommended to the Federal Government that this change. It could mark a significant turning point in how rights are recognised and enforced across the nation. On today’s podcast, we sat down with Professor Justine Nolan, Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute and Professor at UNSW, about what this could mean for the country.
Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Billi FitzSimons
Audio producer: James Elliott
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It’s been a big few weeks for Donald Trump, whose first criminal case has just wrapped up after a five-week trial. The trial centred on Trump’s alleged cover-up of a ‘hush money’ payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. In today’s deep dive, we’ll cover what happened during the trial and what it means for the presidential hopeful.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
Audio producer: Annabelle Nicol
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The country has been rocked by another story of men’s violence against women after a Perth man killed a mother and daughter on Friday. It’s believed the man, a licensed gun owner, was looking for his ex-partner at the time of the incident. In the wake of the incident, the shooter’s daughter has issued a public statement about what she says is a failure by WA Police to adequately address safety concerns she and her mother had about her father. She claims she “raised the alarm” about her father three times, and was ignored by police.
In today’s podcast, we’ll discuss what we know about the incident, the investigation now being launched by WA Police and how the WA government has responded.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
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An expert panel has handed the Government a list of recommendations, aimed at reducing eating disorder rates in young people. It comes after eating disorder survivors and support advocates met with politicians and social media bosses in September last year. Now, they’re calling for legislative reform and changes to the way young people use social media. We'll unpack the panel's recommendations in the deep dive, and discuss whether these suggestions will lead to any change.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Emma Gillespie
Audio producer: Annabelle Nicol
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In the last week, there have been two major incidents of turbulence hitting commercial flights, causing injury. On Sunday, 12 were injured on a Qatar Airways Doha to Dublin flight while in the air over Türkiye. In today’s podcast, we talk to Professor Dr Jason Middleton, the Head of UNSW's Department of Aviation between 1995 and 2017, about why we’re seeing a sudden spike in incidents of turbulence, and why you should always wear a seatbelt.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
Audio producer: Annabelle Nicol
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News Corp and OpenAI, the tech company that created ChatGPT, have signed a multi-year content deal. Under the new partnership, News Corp’s content will be used to respond to ChatGPT user questions. News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said the deal will “set new standards for veracity, for virtue and for value in the digital age”. In today's deep dive, we'll explore why the deal matters, how the rest of the industry is handling the rise of AI and what comes next.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
Audio producer: Emmeline PetersonDo you have feedback for the podcast? Share your thoughts via our survey!
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Should kids under the age of 16 be banned from social media? A new campaign called 36 Months is calling for the age at which young people can sign up to social media to be pushed from 13 to 16. The organisers believe that the 36 months between the two ages are vital, and that “Kids need more time to develop healthy and secure identities before they’re exposed to the minefield of social media”.
On today’s podcast, we speak to Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli, one of two organisers of the campaign, about why he’s behind the push, how he thinks it could work in practice and what some of the shortcomings of this approach could be.
Find out more about 36 Months
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
Guest: Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli
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Over the last month, we have brought you a number of episodes about the rising rate of men’s violence against women in Australia. We have spoken about specific cases, about new statistics and about roundtables being convened to discuss the issue.
For today’s podcast, we wanted to go straight to the person responsible for making sure this rate comes down, the Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher.
Hosts: Billi FitzSimons and Zara Seidler
Guest: Katy Gallagher, Minister for Finance and Women
Audio producer: Emmeline PetersonDo you have feedback for the podcast? Share your thoughts via our survey!
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The International Criminal Court’s lead prosecutor has announced he’s applying for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
Today on the podcast, we’ll explain what this all means and what could happen now.
Hosts: Lucy Tassell and Emma Gillespie
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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have died in a helicopter crash. The helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain in northern Iran amid heavy fog, triggering a large-scale search. While little is known about what comes next, Iran’s Vice President is expected to temporarily take over the Presidency. In today's podcast, we'll explain what we know about the crash and what it means for the country.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
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Three A-League players were arrested in Sydney on Friday morning over an alleged corrupt betting scheme. A-League is the highest level of professional men's soccer in Australia - and this has the potential to be one of the biggest scandals to hit Australian football in decades.
In today’s podcast, we’re going to go through what we know about what has allegedly happened, what happens next, and Australia’s history of corrupt betting in sport.
Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Billi FitzSimons
Audio producer: Joe Kiely
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You may have seen that it is currently Fashion Week.
It’s an exciting time for Australia’s fashion industry - showcasing the talents of some of the country’s best homegrown designers.
But with fashion trends coming and going faster and faster, we're seeing more textiles going into landfill and becoming a problem for the environment, our health and our wallets.
So, how do we reconcile the need for businesses to make money by new trends coming through, with the need for a more sustainable fashion industry. We discuss this on today’s podcast.
Hosts: Billi FitzSimons and Zara Seidler
Guest: Nina Gbor, founder of Eco Styles
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For the first time, someone has been imprisoned in relation to Australia’s alleged war crimes. His name is David McBride. But he didn’t commit those crimes; he was the whistleblower for a 2017 report by the ABC that investigated alleged war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan. And this week, McBride was sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
On today's podcast, we'll break down everything you need to know about this story.
Hosts: Billi FitzSimons and Zara Seidler
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The Government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, had two big decisions to make: what to spend money on, and where to get that money from.
In today’s podcast we are going to focus on what it announced for young people.
Listen to our episode Why your HECS is changing
Hosts: Billi FitzSimons and Zara Seidler
Audio producer: Emmeline PetersonDo you have feedback for the podcast? Share your thoughts via our survey!
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The Federal Government has announced a plan to ban the export of live sheep from Australia. It comes after an independent panel urged the Government to introduce a ban.
In today’s podcast, we’ll discuss what the issue is, how this ban came to be, what the fallout has been.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
Audio producer: Emmeline PetersonDo you have feedback for the podcast? Share your thoughts via our survey!
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Algorithms, child abuse, domestic violence, scams, extremist material, mis and disinformation, and the availability of good journalism on social media - these are all areas identified by the government for investigation as part of a new parliamentary committee investigating the influence and impacts of social media on Australian society.
In today’s podcast, we’re going to look at what the committee has been asked to achieve, where this has all come from, and why it matters to you.
Listen to our episode What's a porn passport?
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
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