ABC News Daily
ABC News Daily is the podcast that helps you understand the issues affecting your world. Every episode, host Samantha Hawley walks through one story with the help of an ABC colleague or expert in under 15 minutes. When you want coverage you can trust, listen to ABC News Daily.
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In Australia, an increasing number of children are missing school and part of the problem is what has been called school avoidance or refusal.
But families who are struggling say it’s more accurately called ‘school can’t’ because some students experience a stress response that prevents them from getting to the classroom.
Today, Four Corners’ filmmaker Sascha Ettinger-Epstein shares her insights into the issue and ...
After the Bondi attack, like so many other women, journalist Louise Milligan found the horror of it hard to comprehend.
Since then and with the death of yet another young woman allegedly at the hands of a former partner this week, discussion about violence against women in Australia has been reignited.
Today, observations from years of reporting on this issue, Louise Milligan’s own encounters with threats of viole...
It must feel like a never-ending battle for Rupert Murdoch.
His British newspaper group is continuing to face legal action more than a decade after the phone hacking scandal came to a head.
Now he’s settled with the actor Hugh Grant who was accusing the Sun newspaper of everything from bugging his car to robbing his home to get stories.
Today, ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry on how Murdoch has paid out many millio...
Australian political leaders are united in their condemnation of Elon Musk.
He’s been described as an arrogant billionaire and a cowboy with no social conscience.
Now, Musk is ready for a legal fight over demands he remove videos of last week’s Sydney church stabbing from his social media platform X.
He says the concepts of free speech and censorship are at the heart of the matter.
Today, host of tech podcast Down...
Imagine opening your next electricity bill and it’s double what it usually is.
More Australians are finding themselves in a position where their power bills are rising, not because they’ve changed how much electricity they use, but because they’ve been unwittingly switched to a time of use tariff.
It means they pay more if they use power at peak times.
Today, energy reporter Dan Mercer explains the tariffs and ho...
He’s on trial for falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, but Donald Trump’s woes haven’t harmed him in the polls yet.
Instead, it’s abortion that’s become one of his most problematic issues as the former president works to get back to the White House.
Some voters are turned off by his pro-life record and so he’s been trying to massage his message. But will it win him votes?
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Prudence Flowers...
As the events unfolded at Bondi Junction last Saturday afternoon, an unsuspecting university student was falsely accused on social media of being the killer.
It spread on the X platform and by the morning Channel 7 was also wrongly telling its large audience that Benjamin Cohen was to blame.
How did the lie take off, who was originally behind it and how can we hold social media giants to account for misinformed and...
It’s hard to understand how a man could walk into a shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon and start stabbing people.
It’s left so many people demanding answers.
Today, we look at the offender Joel Cauchi’s mental health history and ask whether anything could have been done to stop the attack and save lives.
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Professor Kimberlie Dean, Chair of Forensic Mental Health at UNSW
It’s been an unsettling few days with two major knife crimes in Sydney.
The Bondi Junction attack left six dead and just days later there was an alleged act of terrorism at a church in the city’s west.
The circumstances are very different, but leaders are calling for calm and for the community to come together.
Today, extremism expert Josh Roose on what we know about the latest attack and the threat of terrorism.
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A defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann has ended with a dramatic finding against the former Liberal party staffer.
Justice Michael Lee is satisfied that on the balance of probabilities Mr Lehrmann did rape Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House in Canberra in March 2019.
Court reporter Patrick Bell steps through the judgement that was watched on a live stream by tens of thousands of people.
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Patric...
How did the attacker at a busy Westfield shopping centre select his victims?
Police are searching for answers after the Saturday afternoon rampage at Bondi Junction in Sydney’s east.
A 40-year-old Queensland man, armed with a knife, made his way through the centre stabbing innocent shoppers, killing six people.
Today, criminologist Xanthe Mallett reflects on the acts of heroism we saw and what may have driven the ...
The appeal of music festivals seems to be dying away with a string of cancellations this year.
Is it all about rising costs and fears of bad weather? Or is there more to it?
Today, Double Js National Music Correspondent Zan Rowe on whether the big music festival can be saved.
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Zan Rowe, Double J National Music Correspondent and host of Take 5 and Bang On podcasts
Australian Zomi Frankcom and six others died when their convoy of aid vehicles was struck by Israeli missiles in Gaza.
Israel says it was a mistake and a tragedy. But is its explanation good enough?
Today, host of ABC’s 7.30 program, Sarah Ferguson, on what we learnt from her interview with an Israeli military spokesman and whether what unfolded was a war crime.
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Sarah Ferguson, presenter of ABC 7.30
...Drugs, sex and lavish dinners out.
It’s not new that news organisations sometimes pay for interviews, but the allegations about what Channel 7’s Spotlight program gave to Bruce Lehrmann for a sit-down interview are surprising.
Today, Media Watch presenter Paul Barry unpacks what’s unfolded in court and discusses whether the public can trust the press when the chequebook is out.
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Paul Barry, Media Watch pr...
We’re meant to be transitioning to a greener future and getting rid of gas for good.
But now we’re talking about drilling for more of it, or importing supplies, because soon we might not have enough to keep the lights and heaters on.
How can that be when Australia is one of the world’s biggest gas exporters?
Today, energy reporter Dan Mercer explains how we’ve ended up here.
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Daniel Mercer, ABC energy repor...
Tesla has dominated the electric vehicle market for years, but watch out Elon Musk, because a Chinese car maker is giving it a run for its money.
The good news is - it’s a lot cheaper. But is there a problem with a Chinese firm dominating the market?
Today, EV expert Gail Broadbent on whether your next car might be a Chinese EV.
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Dr Gail Broadbent, adjunct fellow at the University of Technology Sydney
...Ozempic, the wildly popular drug for weight loss, is in short supply.
It’s prompting some chemists to make replica products that are now under increased scrutiny from the drugs regulator.
It is legal to dispense the Ozempic copycat, but investigative reporter Elise Worthington reveals the risks and rogue chemists.
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Elise Worthington, Four Corners reporter
Israel says it was a mistake and a misidentification.
But how does a powerful military manage to bomb a clearly marked aid convoy in Gaza, killing international aid workers including Australian woman Zomi Frankom?
Today, a long-time aid worker and former World Vision Australia CEO Tim Costello tells us why no one trying to distribute aid in Gaza is safe and what the world should do about it.
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Tim Costello...
In Alice Springs, it’s one week since a curfew was imposed on the town’s young residents following a riot and escalating violence.
But it’s a stop-gap measure, with the troubles in town much bigger and the solutions to rampant crime and intergenerational disadvantage far from clear.
Today, reporter Lee Robinson in the ABC’s Alice Springs bureau on the cycles of violence in the Northern Territory.
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Lee Robi...
What does the current state of the economy mean for the unemployment rate and your job?
For decades we’ve turned to well-read textbooks to help us understand how our economy will behave.
But right now something strange is happening and for some economists it’s a bit of a miracle.
They’re calling it ‘immaculate disinflation’, because when interest rates rise dramatically, as they have in Australia, you’d expect lots ...
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