News Club

Interview: ITV's Lizzie Robinson from inside a royal newsroom

21 Mar 2024

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Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram If you have 2 minutes, we'd love if you could complete our survey Lizz...

The Royals and that photo that won't go away...

19 Mar 2024

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Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram We ummed about this week’s News Club topic. Questions like ‘are pe...

Weekly Wrap: State elections, the US TikTok ban, and where's Kate...

15 Mar 2024

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Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram If you have 2 minutes, we'd love if you could complete our survey Link...

Interview: Tim Duggan on Meta and news

15 Mar 2024

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Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram If you have 2 minutes, we'd love if you could complete our survey Tim ...

Meta's beef with news

12 Mar 2024

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Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram Meta, the mega US company that owns Facebook and Instagram, recently a...

Weekly Wrap: Sam Kerr faces court, tweaks to paid parental leave, and 7 years of The Squiz

08 Mar 2024

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Support The Squiz by sharing our newsletters and podcasts with your friends. Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hoste...

Interview: Jamila Rizvi on the gender pay gap

08 Mar 2024

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Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram Jamila Rizvi is the Deputy Managing Director of Future Women, a gend...

Perspectives on the gender pay gap

05 Mar 2024

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Last week the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) published data from all private sector companies in Australia that employ over 100 people on the...

Weekly Wrap: A private look at the gender pay gap, viva las NRL, and is Kate Middleton ok...

01 Mar 2024

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

Supermarkets...price gouging or good business?

27 Feb 2024

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It’s the BBQ stopper of our time - how much things cost at the supermarket. Throw in six enquiries, headlines on competition, the cost of living, an...

Interview: Georgie Tunny on Taylor Swift

22 Feb 2024

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There isn’t much bigger news so far in 2024 than Taylor Swift. And there isn’t a much bigger fan than co-host of The Project Georgie Tunny. This N...

Is Julian Assange a criminal or journalist?

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For more News Club content, follow us on Instagram and sign up to our News Club newsletter. Club Picks: This article from Time is a good overview to ...

Weekly Wrap: Albanese proposes, Kanas triumphs, and VIC in the dark

16 Feb 2024

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

Weekly Wrap: A royal diagnosis, the right to disconnect, and our Grammy's roundup

09 Feb 2024

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

News Club: The backstory to The Squiz...

06 Feb 2024

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Drumroll....We're launching News Club! Before the first episode drops next week, Kate and Claire take a look back at how they met, how The Squiz start...

Weekly Wrap: Swifties tackle AI deepfakes, changes to tax cuts, and a Sydney shark attack...

02 Feb 2024

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

Weekly Wrap is back...

29 Jan 2024

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The Year Ahead with Abbey Gelmi and Georgie Tunny

24 Jan 2024

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In our final Year Ahead ep for 2024, Claire and Kate talk with sports journalist Abbey Gelmi and The Project host Georgie Tunny about their sports new...

The Year Ahead with Helen McCabe

17 Jan 2024

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Today, Claire and Kate talk with Helen McCabe, the former editor of Australian Women's Weekly and founder of Future Women. They chat about the number ...

We're working on something...

15 Jan 2024

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The Year Ahead with fashion editor Lauren Sams

10 Jan 2024

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We're talking with our friends in the news about what stuck with them in 2023 and their predictions for 2024, with 4 special episodes across January. ...

The Year Ahead with Sammy J

03 Jan 2024

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We're talking with our friends in the news about what stuck with them in 2023 and their predictions for 2024, with 4 special episodes across January. ...

Weekly Wrap: Our 2023 news wrap, floods and fires in Oz, and a news-y gift exchange

22 Dec 2023

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

Weekly Wrap: The UN resolution, QLD loses their premier, and what we googled in 2023

15 Dec 2023

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

Weekly Wrap: A big wrap of Aussie politics, airstrikes in Gaza, and Taylor Swift named 2023 Person of the Year

08 Dec 2023

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

Shortcuts has a new home...

04 Dec 2023

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Looking for your weekly explainer? It's got a new home over on The Squiz Today podcast feed. Just search 'Squiz Today' in your podcasting app, and hit...

Weekly Wrap: Bruce Lehrmann v. Network Ten, Aussie journos pen a letter, and a tunnelling hero

01 Dec 2023

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Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping yo...

Weekly Wrap Nov 25, 2023: The ceasefire in Israel-Gaza, Open AI's rollercoaster week, and Jeff Bezos's cowboy hat

30 Nov 2023

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25 November 2023: Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s al...

Weekly Wrap, Nov 18, 2023: Navigating antisemitism and Islamophobia, David Cameron's surprise return to UK politics, and the Robbie William doco

30 Nov 2023

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18 November, 2023 - Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s ...

Weekly Wrap Nov 11, 2023: Optus outage stops the nation, Maxwell's record innings, and Albanese's China visit.

30 Nov 2023

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11 November, 2023: Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s a...

Weekly Wrap Nov 4, 2023: Vale Matthew Perry, the Israel-Hamas propaganda war, and Albanese's visit to China

30 Nov 2023

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November 4, 2023: Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news, and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s a...

Your Shortcut to... what's going down at COP28

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

World leaders will be gathering in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations conference on climate change. It's the biggest event on the climate cale...

How Far We've Come: Giving a Gonski...

25 Nov 2023

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Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia, plus a look at the challenges we face today...

How Far We've Come: Put your pencils down... It's NAPLAN

22 Nov 2023

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Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia, plus a look at the challenges we face today...

Your Shortcut to... Sam Altman and OpenAI

20 Nov 2023

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Internal troubles at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, have led to its high profile CEO Sam Altman being sacked – followed by scrambled efforts b...

Your Shortcut to... the business of Taylor Swift (Part 2)

14 Nov 2023

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In our last Squiz Shortcut, we talked about the road Taylor Swift has taken to the top. In Part 2, we're going deep on why her music is so good; her r...

How Far We've Come: The HECS chronicles

11 Nov 2023

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Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia, plus a look at the challenges we face today...

Your Shortcut to... the business of Taylor Swift (Part 1)

06 Nov 2023

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Taylor Swift is a pop icon… Not only has her new music been lauded by the critics, she’s on a record breaking tour and remaking the rules when it ...

How Far We've Come: The tale of free and compulsory schooling

04 Nov 2023

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Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia, plus a look at the challenges we face today...

How Far We've Come: Learning and earning with TAFE

04 Nov 2023

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Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia, plus a look at the challenges we face today...

TRAILER: News Club

31 Oct 2023

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Hosted by the OG Squiz team, Kate Watson and Claire Kimball, News Club is the place to go for conversations about the news. The Weekly Wrap is like t...

Your Shortcut to... Lebanon and Hezbollah

30 Oct 2023

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As the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza continues to unfold, one major question is whether Israel’s northern neighbour Lebanon will be dragged i...

Your Shortcut to... Sam Bankman-Fried

23 Oct 2023

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Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial, accused of one of the biggest frauds in American history. In this episode we look at the rise of crypto's former golden...

Weekly Wrap, 21 October: The fallout in Israel-Gaza, unpacking the Voice referendum results, and some top linen tips...

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing the Weekly Wrap - the week in news, and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it drops at 6am Satur...

A quick hello from us...

19 Oct 2023

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We'd be over the moon if you could complete our survey. You can fill it out here.

Your Shortcut to... the Voice results

18 Oct 2023

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The votes are in, and so is the analysis. In this Squiz Shortcut, we break down the geography of the vote, and what the major players say are the next...

ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

11 Oct 2023

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Want opinion-free, agenda-free information on the Voice and the Referendum? We've got you covered with our resource centre here. If you found it usefu...

Your Shortcut to... Israel at War

10 Oct 2023

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Hamas militants launched a huge attack against the state of Israel in the latest in a long history of conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. But...

ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

04 Oct 2023

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Want opinion-free, agenda-free information on the Voice and the Referendum? We've got you covered with our resource centre here. If you found it usefu...

Your Shortcut to... New Zealand's Election

03 Oct 2023

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New Zealand is heading to a general election on the 14th of October, in a vote that’s predicted to see a big shake-up of the Kiwi government. It’s...

ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we cover questions about the wording of the proposal, how other nations have done constitutional recognition, and the difference betwe...

Your Shortcut to... Rupert Murdoch's empire

25 Sep 2023

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Rupert Murdoch has named his successor: his eldest son Lachlan Murdoch. The announcement comes as Rupert gets set to step down from his management rol...

ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

20 Sep 2023

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In this episode we cover the issue of campaign funding, who will represent the Voice, and how to postal vote if you can't get to the voting booth on 1...

Your Shortcut to... Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Noel Pearson

19 Sep 2023

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The referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament into Australia’s constitution is coming at us rather quickly, so in this episode of S...

ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we cover the issue of legal challenges, existing Indigenous bodies, and get into the nuts and bolts of voting again. Want opinion-free...

Your Shortcut to... the earthquake in Morocco

11 Sep 2023

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A powerful earthquake hit Morocco over the weekend, with the death toll quickly climbing over 2,000. As the search and rescue operation continues, we ...

ASK THE SQUIZ (Voice Referendum) - Ep1

06 Sep 2023

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In this episode we cover questions about improving Indigenous outcomes, how risky is constitutional change, and the ticks and crosses of your vote... ...

Your Shortcut to... India's G20 Summit

05 Sep 2023

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The G20 is meeting this weekend in New Delhi, India, and its a big opportunity for international leaders. So in this Squiz Shortcut we’re going to r...

Your Shortcut to... the Voice referendum

30 Aug 2023

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The date is finally locked in - we now know Australians will be voting on 14 October to decide if there should be amendments to the constitution to en...

Your Shortcut to... picking US presidential candidates

29 Aug 2023

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The next US presidential election is more than a year away, but the race to find the candidate from the Republican party is already in full swing. For...

Your Shortcut to... women's sport funding

23 Aug 2023

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Over the past month, the Matildas have not just brought the country together with their incredible performances - they've also raised big questions ab...

Your Shortcut to... the BRICS summit in South Africa

21 Aug 2023

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Some powerful nations are holding a summit this week – and no, it’s not the G20, the Quad or APEC… It’s called BRICS and it’s a gathering of...

Your Shortcut to... political conferences

16 Aug 2023

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Over the next few days you're going to be hearing a lot about the Australian Labor Party's national conference – the big Labor love-in which sets th...

Your Shortcut to... the Matildas

15 Aug 2023

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The Matildas have had a best-ever World Cup performance, progressing through to the final 4. So we thought now would be a great time to get across the...

Your Shortcut to... reporting season

09 Aug 2023

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It's the most wonderful time of the year if you're a shareholder of a publicly listed company... Following the end of the financial year, businesses b...

Your Shortcut to... Trump's Election Indictment

08 Aug 2023

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Donald Trump has been charged with serious offences related to a plot to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. It’s Trump’s thir...

Your Shortcut to... Wally Lewis and concussions in sport

02 Aug 2023

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One of Australia's greatest-ever rugby league players, Wally Lewis, is the latest sports star to speak out about a diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Ence...

Your Shortcut to... the downfall of China's Foreign Minister

01 Aug 2023

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China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, disappeared from public view in June, and after a month of speculation reports surfaced that he’d been removed...

Your Shortcut to... the future of the Commonwealth Games

26 Jul 2023

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It's been just over a week since Victoria pulled the pin on hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games - and the future of the whole event is still up in the...

Your Shortcut to... Hollywood's strikes

25 Jul 2023

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So many of the TV shows and movies we love come out of America, but a writers' and actors' strike over pay and the use of artificial intelligence is d...

Your Shortcut to... China's economic slowdown

19 Jul 2023

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We've been hearing a drip-feed of worrying economic data coming out of China, and we heard this week that their annual growth rate might fall below ex...

Your Shortcut to... the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

18 Jul 2023

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It's nearly kick-off time for the biggest women's sporting event ever held in Australia, and our own Matildas will be centre stage. So in this Squiz S...

Your Shortcut to... NATO and Ukraine's relationship

12 Jul 2023

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This week NATO held a summit of its leaders, with big consequences for the war in Ukraine. So in this Squiz Shortcut, we though we'd go back to basics...

Your Shortcut to... the Robodebt report

11 Jul 2023

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Robodebt has been in the news all week, after the Royal Commission dropped its final report into the illegal debt recovery scheme. So in this Squiz Sh...

Your Shortcut to... shrinking populations

05 Jul 2023

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We’ve heard a lot about overpopulation but for some countries including Japan and South Korea, the issue is not too many people, but too few. So in ...

Your Shortcut to... Israel's latest strike on Palestinian militants

04 Jul 2023

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At the start of this week, Israel launched its most intense airstrikes on the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades and sent hundreds of ground tro...

Your Shortcut to... Wagner's mutiny in Russia and what it means for Ukraine

28 Jun 2023

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All the crazy events in Russia over the past week have left the world wondering what it all means. So in this Squiz Shortcut, we take a look at some o...

Your Shortcut to... Yevgeny Prigozhin

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The recent turmoil in Russia centers on one man: Yevgeny Prigozhin. With all the talk of private armies and the potential end of Putin's regime, this ...

Your Shortcut to... sportswashing

21 Jun 2023

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When Saudi Arabia pumped billions of dollars into backing the rival LIV golf tour- there were howls of outrage - with many athletes and commentators c...

Your Shortcut to... the Mediterranean migrant ship disaster

20 Jun 2023

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More details are emerging about a migrant ship disaster off the coast of Greece, where an estimated 500 passengers are still missing. We take you thro...

Your Shortcut to... the 20th anniversary of podcasting

14 Jun 2023

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the birth of podcasting, so in this Squiz Shortcut, we look at how it all got started, how it completely chang...

Your Shortcut to... Trump's Second Indictment

12 Jun 2023

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Donald Trump has been indicted again, and it’s the first time a former US president has faced federal charges. Those charges will see Trump back in ...

Your Shortcut to... Prince Harry vs the British tabloids

07 Jun 2023

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Prince Harry has taken the unprecedented move, for a royal, to sue Britain's tabloids for unethical practices that he says filled him paranoia and upe...

Your Shortcut to... artificial intelligence

07 Jun 2023

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Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been getting quite a bit of really bad press lately, with experts warning it could ultimately spell the end of the...

Your Shortcut to... the annual whale migration

31 May 2023

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If you live anywhere along the east or west coast of Australia, chances are you might have heard it's whale watching season, when nature's biggest mam...

Your Shortcut to... Erdoğan's re-election in Turkey

30 May 2023

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's newly re-elected president, has made big promises but has a record of cracking down on dissent and diminishing democra...

Your Shortcut to... Ron DeSantis

25 May 2023

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Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, has announced that he wants to become the president of the United States. He’ll go head-to-head with another Florida...

Your Shortcut to... what's happening with the US debt ceiling

23 May 2023

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The US has been in the middle of a crazy political stoush over this thing called the “debt ceiling” for the past few months which has been threate...

Your Shortcut to... the Sudan crisis

17 May 2023

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It's been a horrifying time in the African nation of Sudan with foreign nationals including Aussies being evacuated out of the country. So in this Squ...

Your Shortcut to... Thailand's election

16 May 2023

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The election in Thailand over the weekend was tipped to be extraordinary, and boy, did it deliver... So in this Squiz Shortcut, we dive into the parti...

Your Shortcut to... the 2023 Federal Budget

10 May 2023

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It's Budget week, and it's been hard to miss the news the Albanese Government has delivered our first surplus in 15 years... So in this Squiz Shortcut...

Your Shortcut to... King Charles's coronation

03 May 2023

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King Charles III will be crowned on Saturday alongside his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort. The coronation is a centuries-old ceremony packed with sym...

Your Shortcut to... the gig economy

26 Apr 2023

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The rise of the gig economy has had a huge impact on how we live so it's no wonder it's gotten the attention of pollies, the media and of course, work...

Your Shortcut to... Australia's rental crisis

19 Apr 2023

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For months we’ve been hearing horror stories from the rental market – of landlords jacking up prices by hundreds of dollars, and lines stretching ...

Your Shortcut to... Donald Trump's indictment

12 Apr 2023

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Donald Trump has become the first former US president to face criminal charges after 34 felony charges relating to business reporting fraud were made ...

Ep 1: How Far We’ve Come… The Married Women’s Property Act

05 Apr 2023

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The Squiz team is on a long weekend so we thought we’d pop ‘How Far We’ve Come’ into the Shortcuts feed for any long road trips or lazy mornin...

Ep 2: How Far We've Come... A tale as old as time: WWII and the fight for equal pay

05 Apr 2023

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The Squiz team is on a long weekend so we thought we’d pop ‘How Far We’ve Come’ into the Shortcuts feed for any long road trips or lazy mornin...

Ep 3: How Far We've Come... The lifting of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar

05 Apr 2023

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The Squiz team is on a long weekend so we thought we’d pop ‘How Far We’ve Come’ into the Shortcuts feed for any long road trips or lazy mornin...

Ep 4: How Far We've Come... The introduction of no-fault divorce

05 Apr 2023

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The Squiz team is on a long weekend so we thought we’d pop ‘How Far We’ve Come’ into the Shortcuts feed for any long road trips or lazy mornin...

Ep 5: How Far We've Come... Susan Ryan and The Sex Discrimination Act

05 Apr 2023

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The Squiz team is on a long weekend so we thought we’d pop ‘How Far We’ve Come’ into the Shortcuts feed for any long road trips or lazy mornin...