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Spotlight: Inside the Tanya Day inquest
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Day was a 55-year-old Yorta Yorta woman who died in police custody. In this archive episode, Madeline Hayman-Reber covers the inquest that asked...
Tear gas in the Rose Garden
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Description: As protests against police violence and inequality continue in the United States, Scott Morrison had a private phone call with Donald Tru...
Like a scene from 'The Castle'
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Queensland town of Acland has been all but swallowed by a coal mine. After decades of legal battle, there is only one resident left. Tomorrow the ...
Killed during the pandemic
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the beginning of the lockdown, domestic violence workers warned of the heightened risk of abuse – especially for women on temporary visas. Last...
When is a bushfire like a coronavirus?
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of making us forget the bushfires, evidence suggests coronavirus will make us more conscious of the need for change. The urgent response to th...
The screens that ate school
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Big Tech has become an integral part of education. But there are questions over how much private companies are influencing curricula and what data the...
Morrison’s economy (unplugged)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The prime minister is adamant that the government will not commit to further stimulus of the economy. But as a $60 billion hole shows up in the JobKee...
The Accord according to Morrison
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Morrison’s appeal for a new compact between workers and business has reminded some of Bob Hawke’s 1980s Accord. But there are big difference...
Uber but for government money
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A multimillion-dollar contract for an app that places aged-care workers in nursing homes has triggered concerns about quality and access. The governme...
The crisis universities should have seen coming
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Almost overnight, Australian universities have lost the international student fees on which they depend. Some in the sector say universities were reck...
‘In my new home, I am loved.’
24 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After five years on Manus Island, Imran Mohammad was resettled in Chicago. He says arriving in America was one of the happiest days in his life. But t...
Don’t mention the trade war
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Morrison government is working hard to disguise the trade war opening up with China. But its excitement over an inquiry into the coronavirus outbr...
Who is really planning Australia’s economic comeback?
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister has appointed a panel of business leaders to develop a blueprint for the country’s economic recovery, but there are serious quest...
Back on the tinnies
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pubs, restaurants and other businesses across the country are reopening and the government is predicting an economic comeback. But will life, and the ...
How Covid-19 united conspiracy theorists
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conspiracy theorists have been energised by Covid-19, with misinformation on everything from 5G to vaccinations spreading online and featuring in real...
The push to expand ASIO’s powers
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has recently introduced legislation that would expand the surveillance powers available to Australia’s domestic s...
Back in black. Cough, cough.
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the federal government struggles to rebuild Australia’s battered economy, the threat of a trade war with China risks hampering our recovery. Toda...
The ABC’s funding crisis
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
ABC staff are revealing the pressure they are under as the public broadcaster absorbs budget cuts amounting to more than 100 million dollars a year. T...
Australia’s worst coronavirus cluster
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Ruby Princess is responsible for more than 10 per cent of Australia’s cases of Covid-19. The decision to allow the ship’s passengers to disemb...
Adam Bandt’s green capitalism
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Three months since becoming leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt has begun articulating a plan for the party that embraces “green” capitalism, and see...
Inside the Newmarch cluster
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An aged care facility in NSW is the site of one of Australia’s biggest clusters of Covid-19. Now, with 16 dead, the centre’s owners have been thre...
Snakes in the garden of Eden-Monaro
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Infighting within the Coalition has been exposed as candidates emerge and then quit in the race for the seat of Eden-Monaro. The by-election is reopen...
Jane Caro on reopening schools
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister has made reopening schools a priority of his response to coronavirus, and part of his argument is that school closures are leaving ...
Making sense of the Black Summer
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of Australians had their homes and lives destroyed by last summer’s bushfires, and now the pandemic is shattering their plans to rebuild. ...
The 160,000 jobs lost while the government waited
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The government’s economic relief package was broken into three phases, but serious questions are being asked about whether the timing and order of e...
The real reason supermarket shelves were empty
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed many Australians to shortages of food and essential items for the first time. Empty shelves across the country ha...
Bonus episode: Morry Schwartz on starting The Monthly
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fifteen years ago Schwartz Media launched The Monthly, a magazine dedicated to current affairs, politics, arts and culture. Today, to celebrate the ma...
How Scott Morrison sparked a new war with China
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s relationship with China has become more strained than ever, as Scott Morrison pushes for an international inquiry into the coronavirus o...
Evangelical Christianity in the age of coronavirus
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Morrison’s relationship to the founder of the Hillsong church has focused attention on the evangelical Christian movement in Australia. But wh...
The generation “done over” by coronavirus
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we learn more details about the economic fallout from the pandemic, it’s clear young people will bear the brunt of the downturn. Already younger ...
How Indigenous communities got in front of the pandemic
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Remote Aboriginal communities across Australia reacted swiftly and effectively to the Covid-19 outbreak. Their response reflects the disproportionate ...
Anthony Albanese’s pandemic response
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Labor leader Anthony Albanese is attempting to pull off a delicate balancing act: between appearing constructive, and holding the government to accou...
Malcolm Turnbull’s last word
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The country may be in the midst of a health and economic crisis, but that didn’t stop former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull going on a media blitz ...
The inside story of Australia’s coronavirus supercluster
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With two hospitals shut down and thousands of residents quarantined, the Tasmanian Covid-19 supercluster has brought the state’s health system to it...
The truth about coronavirus fines
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of Australians have been fined by police under Covid-19 public health orders. New analysis shows that a disproportionate number of them have...
The coronavirus endgame
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the number of coronavirus infections in Australia stabilises, talk has turned to how and when this crisis might end. With some countries gunning fo...
“I can survive until the end of May, maximum.”
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are over 1 million migrant workers in Australia who aren’t eligible for any financial support from the government as they try to navigate thei...
Virus economics: you and whose numbers
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the global economy facing its biggest downturn since the Great Depression, the Treasury and the IMF are at odds on the extent of the damage in Au...
What governments are hiding behind coronavirus
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Federal and state governments have quietly been winding back environmental regulations while most of the world is focused on the coronavirus pandemic....
Taking back control of our super
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The global economic downturn is straining our financial system, and it’s hitting our superannuation funds. But is the way we’ve structured our $2 ...
The other holes in Australia’s quarantine
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s strict quarantine measures have dramatically slowed the spread of Covid-19, but confusion between different levels of government has exp...
Spotlight: Badiucao, Chinese dissident
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Months before the latest mass protests began in Hong Kong, the Chinese government shut down an art exhibition in the city. The work was by Badiucao, a...
Spotlight: Inside Australia's biggest cult
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s, Anne Hamilton-Byrne set up Australia’s most notorious cult, The Family. Last month, she died. Martin McKenzie-Murray spoke to one of t...
Spotlight: Looking back at Christchurch
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year on from the Christchurch massacre, survivors face isolation and economic hardship. We speak to the men and women living through the aftermath o...
Spotlight: Tracing the source of coronavirus
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As coronavirus shuts borders and creates global panic, there is a risk it will reach a point where it cannot be contained. Rick Morton explains where ...
How coronavirus could break the NBN
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The NBN is facing it’s most crucial test yet, and there are serious questions over whether the network will handle the unprecedented load it’s und...
The women and children at risk in a lockdown (plus, the Pell verdict)
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lockdown, together with a shattered economy, means that many domestic violence victims are now trapped inside their home with their abuser, unable t...
Policing a pandemic
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The public health response to the coronavirus has quickly become a law and order issue. Extensive new powers have been granted to police in several st...
Surviving the economic turmoil of coronavirus
05 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In one share-house, all five housemates have lost work because of the coronavirus shutdown. Today we look at the human cost of unemployment and what t...
Bonus episode: Behind the scenes at The Saturday Paper and The Monthly
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a special bonus episode of 7am host Ruby Jones talks to the show’s editor, Osman Faruqi, editor of The Monthly, Nick Feik, and editor of The Satu...
How Scott Morrison became an accidental socialist
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The past week has completely changed the way politics works in Australia, with a right-wing government introducing the most radical economic measures ...
A Nobel prize winner explains coronavirus
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Peter Doherty won the Nobel prize for his research on how our bodies fight off viruses. Today, we ask him what makes Covid-19 different from...
Should we bail out the airlines?
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s airlines have been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, and they’re asking the government for billions of dollars in financial suppor...
Hoaxes, lies and coronavirus
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we try and contain the coronavirus outbreak, health authorities, governments and social media platforms are also battling the spread of misinformat...
How to survive the shutdown
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As more of Australia goes into coronavirus isolation, advice is being offered on how to manage mental health during a viral pandemic that forces us to...
Coronavirus, part five: One month in
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s now been one month since Scott Morrison’s first announcement on the coronavirus pandemic. Since then his response has been criticised as conf...
Coronavirus, part four: the Australian scientists who could beat it
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Teams of researchers are working around the clock to try and develop a vaccine against coronavirus. In Australia, a group of scientists at the Univers...
Coronavirus, part three: the economics of a shutdown
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With hundreds of thousands of Australians losing their jobs, the economic cost of coronavirus is becoming clear. On Monday the government passed its s...
Coronavirus, part two: How the government failed
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Medical experts say that the government’s slow response to the coronavirus outbreak has left Australia exposed, and a lack of resources could make t...
Coronavirus, part one: The frontline
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases grows in Australia, hospitals are gearing up for a spike in admissions. Today, Dr Nenad Macesic on how do...
The day coronavirus swallowed Scott Morrison
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Morrison has finally begun to acknowledge the serious economic cost of coronavirus, and speculation is growing about his next big stimulus packa...
Ten questions about coronavirus
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow, many in the community are still unclear about the virus’s symptoms, how they can keep themselves safe...
George Pell’s last stand
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, George Pell was sentenced to six years’ jail for the sexual abuse of two Melbourne choirboys. Last week, he appealed against that decisi...
Trust in the time of coronavirus
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Containing the coronavirus outbreak requires clear, decisive action from the government. But public trust in our leaders is at an all time low and it’...
The future of dairy
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Animal-free dairy could be the norm within the next decade, promising affordable, sustainable and cruelty-free milk. But what will the success of alte...
Can Team Australia beat the coronavirus?
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The economic and social effects of the coronavirus outbreak are accelerating, with new trade and travel bans announced. In Australia the government ha...
White terror, part three: The itch at your back
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year on from the Christchurch terrorist attack, Muslims in Australia are still wrestling with a new level of fear. Some have been drawn back to fait...
White terror, part two: The dossier
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A secret document prepared by ASIO warns of the threat of far-right terrorism in Australia. In detail never before published, it outlines the risk Aus...
White terror, part one: 35 widows
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year on from the Christchurch massacre, survivors face isolation and economic hardship. We speak to the men and women living through the aftermath o...
My name’s Scott Morrison, and I have a truth problem
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Scott Morrison finally told the truth about his attempt to invite Hillsong founder Brian Houston to a White House dinner. At the same time m...
A fear at the end of the earth
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Button spoke to scores of people about climate change and what it means to them. He found deep anxiety – but also a contradiction between how ...
Labor’s climate smokescreen
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Labor Party has committed to zero emissions by 2050, but hasn’t said how it will get there. And, its coal commitments contradict that target. Mi...
Could we end domestic violence?
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children has once again put Australia’s failure to grapple with domestic violence on the national agenda. ...
The town without abortion
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Description: A consortium of powerful religious doctors has made it impossible to choose a surgical abortion in one of NSW’s largest regional towns ...
Scott Morrison’s fortunate disaster
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coronavirus has provided Scott Morrison with an opportunity to re-establish his leadership credentials, but will it work? Today, Paul Bongiorno on how...
How coronavirus feeds Australian racism
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The panic generated by coronavirus has reignited an older, deeper panic about Chinese migrants. Ruby Schwartz on how a medical emergency has unearthed...
We need to talk about St Kevin’s
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode we speak to Luke Macaronas, a former St Kevin’s student. He wrote for The Saturday Paper about the way toxic masculinity define...
The prison riot sparked by climate change
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A riot caused by the intense summer heat in Alice Springs shows how vulnerable our justice system is to the impacts of extreme weather. Prison reform ...
How billions in government spending could be unlawful
23 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the past year, the government has directed nearly $5 billion to various schemes using a process lawyers say is likely unconstitutional. Karen Middl...
Does Scott Morrison finally have a climate policy?
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sandwiched between the climate deniers in his government and growing public pressure for real action on climate change, Scott Morrison has edged close...
The minister for nuclear power
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Pitt is a climate sceptic and coal evangelist. He is also the minister for Water and Resources. Mike Seccombe on how the parliament’s most str...
Suing over Howard’s camps
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More than 60 former asylum seekers are seeking compensation for the psychological trauma they endured in Australia’s notorious Baxter detention cent...
Plants, mental health and an unrecognised humanitarian crisis
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding among thousands of asylum seekers living in Australia without work rights and in some cases without housing. The im...
Zali Steggall’s climate breaker
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is a successful model to de-politicise climate change. It works in Britain, and a private member’s bill says it could work here. Paddy Manning...
Llew ‘Who’ O’Brien and the National Party turducken
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The upcoming Queensland state election is shaping Canberra politics and tearing the Nationals apart. Paul Bongiorno on what the elevation of Llew O’...
The tiny town where Scott Morrison is building a nuclear dump
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Morrison government has bought part of a farm in Kimba, South Australia, where it intends to build a nuclear waste dump. Millions have been spent ...
The love story behind Australia’s biggest political donation
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Scott Morrison’s re-election campaign received a huge boost from one of Sydney’s most reclusive families. So what prompted a 92-year-...
Did Clive Palmer buy an election for $84 million?
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Clive Palmer spent $84 million of his own money on the last federal election – and didn’t win a single seat. But his campaign still played a key r...
Profiting from Auschwitz: How 4 million books were sold on fabrications
09 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australian author Heather Morris has made millions selling books about the Holocaust. But the people she writes about are in many ways unrecognisable,...
Barnaby Joyce’s failed coup
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Barnaby Joyce lost his leadership tilt but has reopened a schism in the Coalition on climate policy. Paul Bongiorno on what Joyce promised - and the c...
Australia’s secret emissions target
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government is refusing to adopt stronger climate-change policies, but it turns out that might not matter. In this episode, Mike Seccombe r...
What happens if we don’t stop coronavirus?
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As coronavirus shuts borders and creates global panic, there is a risk it will reach a point where it cannot be contained. Rick Morton explains where ...
Honouring Bettina Arndt, men’s rights activist
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bettina Arndt has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of her work for “gender equity”. Feminist academic Eva Cox con...
The prime minister and the dung beetle
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Don Watson on why Scott Morrison is not really a politician, and how the collapse in difference between the major parties has created a vacuum of mean...
Scott Morrison’s eternal present
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As Scott Morrison pivots to the coronavirus evacuation and deploys the military to the fire zone, questions are being asked about the management of ...
Exclusive: Red Cross staff speak out
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Red Cross has collected more than $115 million since Australia’s bushfire crisis began. But where is that money going? The organisation has been...
Sports grants are the tip of the iceberg
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the government deals with the Bridget McKenzie scandal, questions are being asked about other larger grant programs. In this episode, Karen Middlet...
Brendan Nelson’s gravy sandwich
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As minister for defence, Brendan Nelson controversially spent $6.6 billion on Boeing fighter jets. Now he is running the company’s Australian divisi...
Fighting fire with... what?
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a terrible summer, the bushfire season still has months to run. The volunteers fighting the fires are exhausted and under-resourced. Rick Morton on...
A very Morrison Christmas
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As fires continue on both sides of the continent, and the government succeeds in putting off commitments at the UN climate talks, Scott Morrison has g...