Alice Hancock

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191 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Jul

Alice Hancock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Science Show · How bird brains help us understand human brains, and how eugenics had as much hand in the birth control movement as did feminism · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

It would be something that included helping women who wanted to keep their children as well as women who wanted contraception or abortion.

So that for a start.

And to have those things not in the way that far-right campaigners say that, you know, women who want an abortion have to undergo counselling first just to try and make them change their mind.

Not in that way.

But in the way of having all of the options that women might need or want available in the same space.

Jane Carey from the University of Wollongong.

I also spoke to Family Planning Australia's CEO, Sue Shilbury, to find out how, in its 100th year, the organisation is acknowledging its history.

So eugenics back then was focused on curbing the reproduction of people that were considered unfit or feeble-minded people that today we might consider to be disabled or have mental health issues.

So while it may not have the white Australia race side of things, the early Racial Hygiene Association was more focused on the unfit or feeble-minded.

Sue Shilbury, CEO of Family Planning Australia.

I'm Belinda Smith.

Robin and I will be back next week.

Thank you.

FT News Briefing · Why Elizabeth Warren is worried about SpaceX · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

Hey, Mark.

If you look at it, the Middle East region has been highly disrupted, obviously.

A fifth of the world's oil and gas transits the Strait of Hormuz normally.

So that being sort of effectively closed by Iran, who have exercised leverage over the Strait during this whole period, has obviously caused huge disruptions to energy markets, oil prices over $100 and so on.

But on the cargo and the container front, it's actually been a much more

No pun intended contained effect because the ships going into the Gulf were really serving the Middle East region.

So, yeah, good question.

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