July 29, 2025 • 12 mins
There's a growing push from some politicians to scrap Australia's net zero targets, but what would that actually mean for our climate commitments and energy future?
Plus, forget lifespan, we're exploring the science of "joyspan" and why maximising joy, purpose and connection might be the real secret to ageing well.
And in headlines today a man who killed four people with an assault rifle at a Midtown Manhattan office tower carried a note with him that appeared to blame the National Football League for his degenerative brain disease, An appeals court is set to decide today whether a community sentence given to the police officer who fatally tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland was "manifestly inadequate" requiring jail-time instead; Australian children will be barred from accessing YouTube after the government confirmed the video-sharing website will fall under its social media ban; An estimated 65,000 people turned out in central London to celebrate the English women's soccer team after their 2025 Euros win; A source has confirmed to People that Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are dating
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mumma mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mumma MIA's twice daily
news podcast, The Quickie. There's a growing push to scrap
our net zero targets, but what does that actually mean?
Plus what if getting older meant getting well better? We're
unpacking the signs of joy span before we get there.
Here's Claire Murphy with the latest from The Quickie newsroom
(00:44):
for Wednesday, July thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Thanks Taylor. An appeals court is said to decide today
whether a community sentence given to the police officer who
fatally tasered ninety five year old aged care resident Claire
Noland was manifestly inadequate, requiring jail time instead. Then Senior
Constable Christian White fight his taser at Missus Noland after
being called to yell and be lodged nursing home at
Koma in southern New South Wales on May seventeenth, twenty
(01:09):
twenty three. She was moving towards him slowly while carrying
a knife when White deployed his taser. Missus Nolan fell
did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later.
White was given a two year good behavior bond in
March and ordered to complete community service after a jury
found him guilty of manslaughter at a New South Wales
Supreme Court trial. This was despite prosecutors telling Justice Ian
(01:32):
Harrison the thirty five year old should be jailed for
his crime, launching a legal challenge to the sentence. The
court will decide White's fate today, either keeping him on
his community sentence or placing him behind bars instead. Australian
children will be barred from accessing YouTube after the government
confirmed the video sharing website will fall under its social
media ban. The website was initially spared from the ban
(01:55):
for under sixteens as part of an exemption for health
and education services, but advice from E Safety Commissioner Julian
man Grant has encouraged the government to change its mind
on the matter. YouTube will join other platforms such as Snapchat, Facebook,
Instagram and Tiak, which were included under the band when
legislation passed parliament in late twenty twenty four. A man
(02:15):
who killed four people with an assault rifle at a
midtown Manhattan office tower carried a note with him that
appeared to blame the National Football League for his degenerative
brain disease. Police have identified the shooter as Shane Temura,
a twenty seven year old Las Vegas resident with a
history of mental illness. Tomorrow was never an NFL player,
but online record show he played football at his California
(02:37):
high school and was a varsity player at a Los
Angeles charter school until graduating in twenty sixteen. The note
explained that he felt he had CT, a known brain
injury for those who participate in contact sport. Chronic traumatic
and cephalopathy is a serious brain disease with no known
treatment that can be caused by repeated banks to the
head while playing contact sports. It's been linked to aggression
(02:59):
and dementia. The NFL has its headquarters in the building,
alongside major financial firms, but Timura apparently entered the wrong
elevator bank and ended up in the offices of Rudent Management,
a real estate company, where he shot employees before turning
the gun on himself. The players of the English women's
soccer team kept asking whether anyone would turn up for
their bus parade in London after winning the twenty twenty
(03:21):
five euros, worried they wouldn't be as celebrated as the men.
Turns out they were worried for no reason, and estimated
sixty five thousand people turned out in central London to
celebrate the team's success after they beat world champions Spain
three one on penalties in a nail biting final in
Basel to secure their second consecutive European title, retaining the
(03:42):
crown they won as hosts three years ago. It's the
first time a senior England soccer team has won a
major trophy on foreign soil. Crowd standing twenty to thirty
deep in places packed the parade route, many holding young
children up to catch sight of the players as they
waived and film the scene from the top deck of
their buses. English captain Leah Williamson said after the players
had made their way to the stage to address the
(04:03):
flag waving supporters. Everything we do obviously we'd do it
for us and our team, but we do it for
the country and we do it for young girls. She
said she'd been crying all the way down the mall
and that this was probably one of the best things
she'd ever been a part of. A source has confirmed
to people that Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are officially dating.
The sauce says seventy three year old Nisan and fifty
(04:24):
eight year old Anderson are enjoying each other's company, saying
it's a budding romance in the early stages, but it's
sincere and clearly they're smitten with each other. The pair
met on the set of The Naked Gun, which premiered
this week, and have been playing it up for the cameras,
pretending to be caught making out during an appearance on
the Today Show.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Thanks Claire. Next, are we still going net zero? If
you've been hearing the words in net zero a lot lately,
but are a little like, what the heck does that
actually mean? Allow me to explain. When we say going
(05:04):
net zero or aiming for net zero, we're talking about
balancing out the greenhouse gases Australia releases into the atmosphere,
basically cutting our emissions as much as possible and then
offsetting whatever is left. Think tree planting, carbon capture, that
sort of thing. Australia signed on to hit net zero
by twenty fifty. Now that's our big long term goal,
(05:26):
but under the Paris Agreement. We also have to set
shorter term targets every five years. These are called nationally
determined contributions or DC's. Come September this year, Australia is
expected to report back to the United Nations with our
next round of targets, this time for twenty thirty five.
It's basically us saying here's how we plan to get
(05:49):
to net zero by twenty fifty. So with that cleared up,
why are we seeing so much talk about net zero
this week? Let's start with Pauline Hanson, the One Nation leader,
pushed a motion in the Senate to scrap the net
zero target and put cheap and reliable energy. First, she
had support from a handful of Coalition and Minor Party senators,
(06:10):
but ultimately the rest of the Senate shut it down
pretty fast. Then this former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce,
whose Private Member's Bill is still live in the House
of Representatives. He wants to dump the target all together,
calling it treacherous for jobs and Australia's security. He made
his position very clear during an appearance on ABC last week.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
This is about trying to help people in regional Australia,
help pensioners and also help our nation which is doing
something really dangerous to itself and we makingselves so vulnerable
and for no point what we are doing has no
effect on the climate whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
As for the Liberals, well they're split. Moderates like party
leader Susan Lee generally want to keep the policy, but
other members are making noise about acting it. They're waiting
for a formal party decision as they regroup from a
rough election. Meanwhile, scientists say Australia needs fast, deep cuts
to head off worst case climates than ours. If at
(07:11):
this point you're wondering why all this net zero business
even matters, Well, without a net zero target, there's no
clear end goal and that makes it way harder to
drive investment, cut emissions or hold anyone accountable. Plus ditching
it could spook business and global partners who are all
moving this way anyway. So no target equals no roadmap
(07:32):
equals well a bit of a mess. While the lips
try and figure out where they land, Labors sticking to
its guns, still backing net zero by twenty fifty and
pushing hard on the transition to renewables, and the latest
CSIRO gen cost report backs them up too. It shows
that renewables still come out as the cheapest option for
new electricity generation in Australia. Now, with politics parked, let's
(07:58):
switch gears and talk about the science of joy span.
Welcome to the joy Span Error. It's a new philosophy
straight out of gerontology aka the study of aging and
positive psychology. Basically, it says, the true secret to aging
well isn't just your physical body that how much purpose,
connection and joy you pack into every year. Instead of
(08:21):
focusing on lifespan, joy span is all about maximizing your
joy every single day. Think of it this way. A
long life without joy, purpose and good connection, there's not
much to celebrate, but a life filled with meaning can
make every year feel rich. To tell us how she's
putting joy span into practice in her own life, we're
(08:41):
joined by Mum and mea as lifestyle writer analytes Todd
analise you are quickly becoming our in house wellness guru.
Talk me through this one. What actually is joy span
all about?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Okay, So, rather than focusing on the length of time
that you live, which is your life span, joy span
is all about the quality and the quantity of the
time that you spend and all of the experiences that
bring you joy.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, so it's kind of like Marie condoing, but for
your entire life that idea of like if something doesn't
bring your joy, you don't do it.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I think it's more about adding joyful things than taking. Yeah, definitely,
it's more about adding.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Is it pseudoscience or like, what's the thought behind it?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
No, it's very scientific decay. It was developed by a
gerontologist and former professor of geriatric medicine, doctor Kerry Burnit,
and she draws this research from psychology, gerontology and her
own wellness research, and it really reveals that aging doesn't
have to be a period of decline and that growing
older can actually become an ear of expansion rather than contraction,
(09:44):
which I absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So why is well being just as maybe if not
more important in later life?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Obviously she's worked with geriatric patients. We know in Australia
women typically live until eighty five, men until eighty one,
and people with a really robust social network can have
a fifty percent increased likelihood of survival compared to those
who don't.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like that's huge.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, I guess we focus on punctuating our life with
things that make us feel good, if that's like eating
a meal that you really like, or going on a
big holiday, or just surrounding yourself in general with people
who make you happy. We really focus on punctuating our
lives more so towards the beginning in the middle part
with that, but then as you get older, maybe that
priority falls by the wayside. But clearly that is the
(10:27):
key to living a long, rich life. Yeah, we're an
aging population, analys so it does make sense that people
are looking to get the most out of life as
it gets longer than ever before. What does that look
like though, What could we actually do to enhance our
joy span?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Doctor Kerry created these four pillars, and it's around growth
about learning connection which is one of the really really
important ones, and especially as we get older, that social connection.
And I think it's so important to reach out to
like our granny's and all the people that are older
in our lives because their friends die, so typically people
spend a lot more time alone. About being adaptable and
(11:07):
also giving your time or a charity. So they're the
sort of pillars. And in terms of like day to
day life, you could schedule one activity a week that
brings you actual joy. You can reach out to an
old friend that you haven't spoken to in years or
ages and just have a meaningful conversation, learn a new skill,
even if it's just like a ten minute YouTube tutorial,
(11:28):
and find one way to help someone else each week.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Okay, so then how do you joy spad? You've been
looking into this.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yes, I love joyspand like it really did appeal to
me because it made me think of that movie Inside Out,
where we have different parts of our brain that are
taking charge. And I've definitely had periods of my life
where sadness was in charge, and I really try and
make sure that joy is at the rains, and so
just little things like silver linings, you know, that's my brand.
I'm always looking for, like the positives and the bright
(11:56):
out of any situation, and even in the dark times,
looking for those glimmers. And that's what the joy span
is about, even through really challenging times and adversity, it's
still finding joy in the darkness. And I also just
really like to find the huge we're in, the silly
in every situation, and just not take life too seriously.
Laughing is my greatest sense of joy, So just humor
(12:16):
and silly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. The quickie is produced by me Taylor Strano,
and Cleare Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mumma mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mumma MIA's twice daily
news podcast, The Quickie. There's a growing push to scrap
our net zero targets, but what does that actually mean?
Plus what if getting older meant getting well better? We're
unpacking the signs of joy span before we get there.
Here's Claire Murphy with the latest from The Quickie newsroom
(00:44):
for Wednesday, July thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Thanks Taylor. An appeals court is said to decide today
whether a community sentence given to the police officer who
fatally tasered ninety five year old aged care resident Claire
Noland was manifestly inadequate, requiring jail time instead. Then Senior
Constable Christian White fight his taser at Missus Noland after
being called to yell and be lodged nursing home at
Koma in southern New South Wales on May seventeenth, twenty
(01:09):
twenty three. She was moving towards him slowly while carrying
a knife when White deployed his taser. Missus Nolan fell
did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later.
White was given a two year good behavior bond in
March and ordered to complete community service after a jury
found him guilty of manslaughter at a New South Wales
Supreme Court trial. This was despite prosecutors telling Justice Ian
(01:32):
Harrison the thirty five year old should be jailed for
his crime, launching a legal challenge to the sentence. The
court will decide White's fate today, either keeping him on
his community sentence or placing him behind bars instead. Australian
children will be barred from accessing YouTube after the government
confirmed the video sharing website will fall under its social
media ban. The website was initially spared from the ban
(01:55):
for under sixteens as part of an exemption for health
and education services, but advice from E Safety Commissioner Julian
man Grant has encouraged the government to change its mind
on the matter. YouTube will join other platforms such as Snapchat, Facebook,
Instagram and Tiak, which were included under the band when
legislation passed parliament in late twenty twenty four. A man
(02:15):
who killed four people with an assault rifle at a
midtown Manhattan office tower carried a note with him that
appeared to blame the National Football League for his degenerative
brain disease. Police have identified the shooter as Shane Temura,
a twenty seven year old Las Vegas resident with a
history of mental illness. Tomorrow was never an NFL player,
but online record show he played football at his California
(02:37):
high school and was a varsity player at a Los
Angeles charter school until graduating in twenty sixteen. The note
explained that he felt he had CT, a known brain
injury for those who participate in contact sport. Chronic traumatic
and cephalopathy is a serious brain disease with no known
treatment that can be caused by repeated banks to the
head while playing contact sports. It's been linked to aggression
(02:59):
and dementia. The NFL has its headquarters in the building,
alongside major financial firms, but Timura apparently entered the wrong
elevator bank and ended up in the offices of Rudent Management,
a real estate company, where he shot employees before turning
the gun on himself. The players of the English women's
soccer team kept asking whether anyone would turn up for
their bus parade in London after winning the twenty twenty
(03:21):
five euros, worried they wouldn't be as celebrated as the men.
Turns out they were worried for no reason, and estimated
sixty five thousand people turned out in central London to
celebrate the team's success after they beat world champions Spain
three one on penalties in a nail biting final in
Basel to secure their second consecutive European title, retaining the
(03:42):
crown they won as hosts three years ago. It's the
first time a senior England soccer team has won a
major trophy on foreign soil. Crowd standing twenty to thirty
deep in places packed the parade route, many holding young
children up to catch sight of the players as they
waived and film the scene from the top deck of
their buses. English captain Leah Williamson said after the players
had made their way to the stage to address the
(04:03):
flag waving supporters. Everything we do obviously we'd do it
for us and our team, but we do it for
the country and we do it for young girls. She
said she'd been crying all the way down the mall
and that this was probably one of the best things
she'd ever been a part of. A source has confirmed
to people that Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are officially dating.
The sauce says seventy three year old Nisan and fifty
(04:24):
eight year old Anderson are enjoying each other's company, saying
it's a budding romance in the early stages, but it's
sincere and clearly they're smitten with each other. The pair
met on the set of The Naked Gun, which premiered
this week, and have been playing it up for the cameras,
pretending to be caught making out during an appearance on
the Today Show.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Thanks Claire. Next, are we still going net zero? If
you've been hearing the words in net zero a lot lately,
but are a little like, what the heck does that
actually mean? Allow me to explain. When we say going
(05:04):
net zero or aiming for net zero, we're talking about
balancing out the greenhouse gases Australia releases into the atmosphere,
basically cutting our emissions as much as possible and then
offsetting whatever is left. Think tree planting, carbon capture, that
sort of thing. Australia signed on to hit net zero
by twenty fifty. Now that's our big long term goal,
(05:26):
but under the Paris Agreement. We also have to set
shorter term targets every five years. These are called nationally
determined contributions or DC's. Come September this year, Australia is
expected to report back to the United Nations with our
next round of targets, this time for twenty thirty five.
It's basically us saying here's how we plan to get
(05:49):
to net zero by twenty fifty. So with that cleared up,
why are we seeing so much talk about net zero
this week? Let's start with Pauline Hanson, the One Nation leader,
pushed a motion in the Senate to scrap the net
zero target and put cheap and reliable energy. First, she
had support from a handful of Coalition and Minor Party senators,
(06:10):
but ultimately the rest of the Senate shut it down
pretty fast. Then this former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce,
whose Private Member's Bill is still live in the House
of Representatives. He wants to dump the target all together,
calling it treacherous for jobs and Australia's security. He made
his position very clear during an appearance on ABC last week.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
This is about trying to help people in regional Australia,
help pensioners and also help our nation which is doing
something really dangerous to itself and we makingselves so vulnerable
and for no point what we are doing has no
effect on the climate whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
As for the Liberals, well they're split. Moderates like party
leader Susan Lee generally want to keep the policy, but
other members are making noise about acting it. They're waiting
for a formal party decision as they regroup from a
rough election. Meanwhile, scientists say Australia needs fast, deep cuts
to head off worst case climates than ours. If at
(07:11):
this point you're wondering why all this net zero business
even matters, Well, without a net zero target, there's no
clear end goal and that makes it way harder to
drive investment, cut emissions or hold anyone accountable. Plus ditching
it could spook business and global partners who are all
moving this way anyway. So no target equals no roadmap
(07:32):
equals well a bit of a mess. While the lips
try and figure out where they land, Labors sticking to
its guns, still backing net zero by twenty fifty and
pushing hard on the transition to renewables, and the latest
CSIRO gen cost report backs them up too. It shows
that renewables still come out as the cheapest option for
new electricity generation in Australia. Now, with politics parked, let's
(07:58):
switch gears and talk about the science of joy span.
Welcome to the joy Span Error. It's a new philosophy
straight out of gerontology aka the study of aging and
positive psychology. Basically, it says, the true secret to aging
well isn't just your physical body that how much purpose,
connection and joy you pack into every year. Instead of
(08:21):
focusing on lifespan, joy span is all about maximizing your
joy every single day. Think of it this way. A
long life without joy, purpose and good connection, there's not
much to celebrate, but a life filled with meaning can
make every year feel rich. To tell us how she's
putting joy span into practice in her own life, we're
(08:41):
joined by Mum and mea as lifestyle writer analytes Todd
analise you are quickly becoming our in house wellness guru.
Talk me through this one. What actually is joy span
all about?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Okay, So, rather than focusing on the length of time
that you live, which is your life span, joy span
is all about the quality and the quantity of the
time that you spend and all of the experiences that
bring you joy.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, so it's kind of like Marie condoing, but for
your entire life that idea of like if something doesn't
bring your joy, you don't do it.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I think it's more about adding joyful things than taking. Yeah, definitely,
it's more about adding.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Is it pseudoscience or like, what's the thought behind it?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
No, it's very scientific decay. It was developed by a
gerontologist and former professor of geriatric medicine, doctor Kerry Burnit,
and she draws this research from psychology, gerontology and her
own wellness research, and it really reveals that aging doesn't
have to be a period of decline and that growing
older can actually become an ear of expansion rather than contraction,
(09:44):
which I absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So why is well being just as maybe if not
more important in later life?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Obviously she's worked with geriatric patients. We know in Australia
women typically live until eighty five, men until eighty one,
and people with a really robust social network can have
a fifty percent increased likelihood of survival compared to those
who don't.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like that's huge.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, I guess we focus on punctuating our life with
things that make us feel good, if that's like eating
a meal that you really like, or going on a
big holiday, or just surrounding yourself in general with people
who make you happy. We really focus on punctuating our
lives more so towards the beginning in the middle part
with that, but then as you get older, maybe that
priority falls by the wayside. But clearly that is the
(10:27):
key to living a long, rich life. Yeah, we're an
aging population, analys so it does make sense that people
are looking to get the most out of life as
it gets longer than ever before. What does that look
like though, What could we actually do to enhance our
joy span?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Doctor Kerry created these four pillars, and it's around growth
about learning connection which is one of the really really
important ones, and especially as we get older, that social connection.
And I think it's so important to reach out to
like our granny's and all the people that are older
in our lives because their friends die, so typically people
spend a lot more time alone. About being adaptable and
(11:07):
also giving your time or a charity. So they're the
sort of pillars. And in terms of like day to
day life, you could schedule one activity a week that
brings you actual joy. You can reach out to an
old friend that you haven't spoken to in years or
ages and just have a meaningful conversation, learn a new skill,
even if it's just like a ten minute YouTube tutorial,
(11:28):
and find one way to help someone else each week.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Okay, so then how do you joy spad? You've been
looking into this.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yes, I love joyspand like it really did appeal to
me because it made me think of that movie Inside Out,
where we have different parts of our brain that are
taking charge. And I've definitely had periods of my life
where sadness was in charge, and I really try and
make sure that joy is at the rains, and so
just little things like silver linings, you know, that's my brand.
I'm always looking for, like the positives and the bright
(11:56):
out of any situation, and even in the dark times,
looking for those glimmers. And that's what the joy span
is about, even through really challenging times and adversity, it's
still finding joy in the darkness. And I also just
really like to find the huge we're in, the silly
in every situation, and just not take life too seriously.
Laughing is my greatest sense of joy, So just humor
(12:16):
and silly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. The quickie is produced by me Taylor Strano,
and Cleare Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill
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