Broken trust
Episodes
Broken trust: why police are failing to learn from their own mistakes
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the c...
Broken trust: how police failed Hannah Clarke and her children
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the c...
Introducing Broken Trust: a two-year investigation into the domestic and family violence crisis
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the c...
Gina: What does she want? – episode 7
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 13 years old, a young Gina Rinehart read a book that would help shape her worldview – Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which is having a moment aroun...
Gina: Mythmaking – episode 6
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, is well known as a pioneer of the iron ore industry in Australia but few realise Hancock started his mining ca...
Gina: The DNA request – update episode
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode, we covered historical claims made over the years that Lang Hancock, Gina’s father, had two unacknowledged daughters with separa...
Gina: The portrait – episode 5
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the portrait of Gina Rinehart that launched 1,000 memes, went viral globally and became Australia’s Mona Lisa. But it’s also a symbol of ho...
Gina: The first-born son – episode 4
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, John Hancock had dinner with his mother, Gina Rinehart. He says it’s the last positive interaction he had with her. In an in-depth...
Gina: Love and money – episode 3
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Rinehart has been Australia’s richest person for the last six years in a row. But where does her money come from? In episode three we unpack th...
Gina: Like father, like daughter – episode 2
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does Gina Rinehart, like her father before her, use wealth and power to influence politics? Rinehart’s first major foray into the political spot...
Gina: Becoming Mrs Rinehart – episode 1
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person – and as her wealth continues to rise, so does her power and influence. But what does she want? In the...
Gina: the billionaire who wants to make Australia great
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person – and as her wealth continues to rise, so does her power and influence. But what does she want? As the...
How to: Zoë Foster Blake on how to write a book
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does a hugely successful entrepreneur and parent find the energy, creativity and time to write a novel? Zoë Foster Blake tells Bridie Jabour how ...
How to: face your fears and ocean swim with Alice Marklew
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s obvious there are many benefits to open water swimming, but knowing how to prepare and where to begin can feel overwhelming. Founder of the Coo...
How to: Dolly Doctor on how to talk to teens about sex and consent
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 20 years Dr Melissa Kang helped Australian teenagers navigate puberty with her much-loved column Dolly Doctor. Kang speaks to Reged Ahma...
How to: Charles Duhigg on how to become a supercommunicator
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you find yourself replaying an important conversation in your head and thinking - ‘why did I say that?’ Journalist and Pulitzer prize-winning a...
How to: Karima Hazim on how to cook for a crowd
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we like it or not, some of us will have to host friends and family at home this holiday season. Karima Hazim, co-author of cookbook Sofra: Leb...
How to: Miranda Tapsell on how to cope with rejection
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you’ve been passed over for promotion or dumped by the love of your life, moving on from ‘no’ can be tough. Actor and writer Miranda Tap...
How to: Zara Wong on how to find your personal style
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fashion editor and consultant Zara Wong was attracted to the world of fashion from a young age. After successful stints at Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and A...
How to: Xavier Mulenga on how to know when to quit alcohol
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking of breaking up with the booze? Addiction specialist and psychiatrist Xavier Mulenga tells Bridie Jabour the common reasons people think they ...
How to: Thomas Mayo on how to hold on to hope
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The yes campaigner and author has had a hard year. After a heartbreaking voice to parliament referendum result and sustained attacks from the media, T...
How to: James Colley on how to be funny
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you tell a story that makes people laugh and what do you do when the joke lands flat? James Colley, a comedian and writer on ABC’s Gruen, tel...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh: the verdict
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amber Haigh was 19 years old when she disappeared in 2002, leaving behind an infant son. For months Robert and Anne Geeves sat in court accused of her...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 8
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All the evidence in the trial of Robert and Anne Geeves for the murder of Amber Haigh has now been heard. Reporter Ben Doherty tells Bridie Jabour abo...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 7
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week the supreme court of NSW heard the voices of both accused of murdering Amber Haigh. This week you get to hear them too. Robert and Anne Geev...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 6
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In court so far we have heard much detail about the two accused of Amber Haighs murder. People have spoken about them and for them but we haven’t he...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 5
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The trial of Robert and Anne Geeves for the murder of Amber Haigh has now heard 22 days of public hearings. Reporter Ben Doherty has previously heard ...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 4
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There have now been 38 witnesses called in the trial of Robert and Anne Geeves, who are charged with the murder of Amber Haigh. Ben Doherty tells Brid...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 3
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the trial of Robert and Anne Geeves for the murder of Amber Haigh continues, Bridie Jabour speaks to Ben Doherty, who has been watching it unfold. ...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 2
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Wagga Wagga the trial of Robert and Anne Geeves for the murder of Amber Haigh is now in its third week. Ben Doherty tells Bridie Jabour what was he...
Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 1
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More than 20 years after Amber Haigh’s disappearance, two people stand accused of her murder – one of them the father of her child. Both have plea...
Who screwed millennials? Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Guardian Australia’s new series Who screwed millennials, co-host Matilda Boseley spoke to Yanis Varoufakis about how the Australian housing marke...
Can millennials unscrew themselves? Part 5
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are no easy answers to undoing all the problems driving intergenerational inequality but hope is not lost. Young Australians are increasingly po...
Who screwed millennials out of affordable education? Part 3
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did a system that was meant to make access to university more equitable end up burdening students with the very $100,000 degrees John Howard promi...
Who screwed millennials out of affordable housing? Part 2
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did the government set fire to the Australian housing market? Jane Lee and Matilda Boseley look at how the threat of a communist uprising, a benig...
Who screwed millennials part 1: a generation left behind
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With rising house prices, a decade of wage stagnation and ballooning student debt, young people in Australia are living through what author Jill Filip...
Introducing: Who screwed millennials?
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Australian millennials are the first generation to be worse off than their parents, and things are only heading in the same direction for Gen Z. In th...
Part eight: the pursuit of truth
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of the defamation case Ben Roberts-Smith launched against three of Australia’s biggest newspapers were the articles published by Nick M...
Part seven: a hero’s downfall
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s most decorated living soldier has lost his defamation case against the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Canberra Times. A federal ...
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media part six: judgment day
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s most decorated living soldier has lost his defamation case against the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Canberra Times. A federal ...
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media part five: the letters
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In June 2018, an SAS soldier known in this defamation trial as Person 18 says he received two threatening letters at his barracks in Perth. In their d...
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media part four: the tunnel
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On 12 April 2009, the SAS arrive in the village of Kakarak in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province. It’s a Taliban stronghold where an Australian soldie...
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media part three: the affair
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An affair between Ben Roberts-Smith and a witness known to the court as Person 17 is one of the key contested elements of this extraordinary defamatio...
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media part two: death in Darwan
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of an attack on Australian soldiers by a rogue Afghan soldier, the SAS is sent to the Taliban-controlled village of Darwan. They arri...
Ben Roberts-Smith v the media part one: reputation
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the defamation trial of the century, Australia’s most decorated living soldier is seeking to defend his reputation against reports in three newsp...