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A daily news show from the publisher of The Monthly and The Saturday Paper. Hear from the country’s best reporters, covering the news as it affects Australia. This is news with narrative, every weekday.
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May 14, 2024 • 17 mins
Jim Chalmers delivered what could be the most important budget of his political career last night. But how much will it help with the cost of living and how will we feel the impact?
Today, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Barlow on the budget that’s attempting to reshape Australia’s response to the living crisis.
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May 13, 2024 • 20 mins
It’s budget week, which means crunch time for the leaders tasked with tackling how expensive Australia is right now.
And the thing we’re all talking about is our grocery bills, why food seems to cost more each time we visit the supermarket.
Today, national affairs correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe on what some call the great price gouge and whether the government is doing enough to address the rising cost of puttin...
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May 12, 2024 • 22 mins
This week, as the federal budget is handed down, we’re bringing you The Cost: Inside the living crisis.
We’ll explore the impact this crisis is having on our country, why it just isn’t ending and whether our leaders are doing enough to protect our standard of living.
Today, executive director of the Australia Institute Richard Denniss on when prices will finally stop going up – and the kind of country we risk becoming once the cris...
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May 9, 2024 • 21 mins
The tasering of a 95-year-old grandmother, the double-murder of a Surry Hills couple, the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial and now the spike in domestic violence.
These are some of the biggest stories in Australia over the past 12 months, and all of them have drawn in one very powerful woman – Karen Webb, the commissioner of the NSW Police Force.
The veteran cop has found herself at press conferences and interviews having to defend ...
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May 8, 2024 • 20 mins
One of Australia’s favourite shows has a contentious sponsor this year.
MasterChef, a show that delivers fairytale stories of home cooks rising to national celebrity, is being supported by the gas industry.
So what does big gas want with MasterChef? And what are they paying for?
Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on the fight over the future of our kitchens and whether the gas industry can survive t...
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May 7, 2024 • 18 mins
Israeli airstrikes are targeting the southernmost city in Gaza and tanks have been seen entering the outskirts of the city.
Rafah was once the last safe haven in Gaza, where civilians fleeing Israeli bombardment had been told to seek refuge.
The United States, along with international allies, have long pushed for Israel not to invade the city.
Today, Middle East correspondent for The Economist Gregg Carlstrom, on Rafah and what it ...
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May 6, 2024 • 21 mins
It’s a small mystery in Australian politics: Why was Peter Dutton’s first major policy as opposition leader a promise to build nuclear power plants?
On the surface, it doesn’t seem like an obvious vote winner and early polling shows most Australians are yet to be convinced.
But this may be less about votes and more about holding the Coalition together, with the help of a lobby group most of us have never heard of.
Today, investigat...
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May 5, 2024 • 21 mins
In recent years, Australia has faced a reckoning over the actions of some of our special forces soldiers, who have gone from decorated heroes to murderers accused of horrific war crimes against civilians.
David McBride is the former military lawyer who first gave journalists documentary evidence of civilian killings in Afghanistan.
To his supporters he’s a war crimes whistleblower, but detractors say that was never his motivation.
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May 4, 2024 • 16 mins
Today, writer Angela Savage with her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly.
Parents often face the dilemma of helping their children become independent, while not wanting to let them go.
Angela’s story, ‘Fledglings’, tells the story of what changes when that moment finally comes.
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May 2, 2024 • 18 mins
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 into a confrontation with a rally organiser on Sunday.
But this week’s national cabinet meeting with state and territory leaders offered a chance to respond to the community’s concern and produce real solutions.
So what solutions came out of that meeting? And will they genuinely help ...
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May 1, 2024 • 18 mins
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 his lawyers developed relationships with journalists, who were allegedly prepared to track down damaging stories aboutTrump, and then take money to ensure they would never be printed.
Today, managing editor of The Saturday Paper Emily Barrett on the Australian who built a reputation as ...
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April 30, 2024 • 21 mins
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 by almost a third during the last reporting year and early counts by advocacy groups suggest this year is set to be even worse.
The spike in killings has led to protests, a national outcry and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declaring that violence against women is a national crisis.
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April 29, 2024 • 16 mins
There are strict rules around how drug company representatives can interact with doctors to ensure they aren’t influencing how medications are prescribed.
But when it comes to expensive medical devices inserted in our bodies during surgery – all sorts of screws, pacemakers and implants – those same rules don’t apply.
Medical device sales reps are scrubbed up and working in the operating theatre, even advising surgeons on which prod...
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April 28, 2024 • 17 mins
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 Labor government be an exception?
With so many Australians feeling the cost-of-living crisis, and the government facing a slump in the polls, evidence is mounting that Labor will struggle to retain majority government.
So what’s its strategy to change course?
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April 25, 2024 • 17 mins
When Australia’s eSafety commissioner issued takedown orders to some of the world’s biggest tech companies at the beginning of this week, the commissioner probably didn’t realise it would put us on the frontline of a global battle over the internet.
The orders were aimed at removing the kind of footage social media companies have agreed to remove in the past – but today things are very different, in large part because of Elon Musk....
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April 24, 2024 • 17 mins
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 private care in a public hospital, you might find yourself being offered more perks than just a free bathrobe and some slippers.
Today, lawyer and contributor to The Monthly Russell Marks, on whether our public health system is truly fair and what happens when your own child’s health ...
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April 23, 2024 • 19 mins
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 attack itself was live-streamed, and both the attack and the reaction may have been inflamed by online extremism.
The Australian government is so concerned it has picked a fight with the global social media giants X and Meta, ordering them to pull down content about the attack.
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April 22, 2024 • 18 mins
Grace Tame knows how to advocate. Her campaigning for survivors of sexual assault and abuse helped to create real change and pushed powerful institutions to be better.
Now, Tame is turning her focus onto something she has lived with her whole life and which is now on the agenda in Canberra, – autism and neurodivergence.
Today, former Australian of the Year and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Grace Tame, on Australia’s first atte...
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April 21, 2024 • 20 mins
It’s now been a week since the Federal Court of Australia’s Justice Michael Lee ruled it was substantially true that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittney Higgins in a minister’s office at Parliament House back in 2019.
In other cases, that may have been the end of the matter. But this case has drawn in dozens of characters, with careers ended, others on the rocks and Channel Seven appearing as if it could implode.
Today, senior reporter f...
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April 20, 2024 • 21 mins
Today, columnist Elizabeth Farrelly will read her piece about our modern cities and how they relate to the history of how humanity has imagined the perfect city.
Farrelly is one of Australia’s foremost writers on urban development and the communities of our cities – having earned devoted readers at the Sydney Morning Herald and now at Schwartz Media, inThe Saturday Paper.
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