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'No remorse, no pity': The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So now we know: Erin Patterson will be 82 before she gets the chance to get out of jail; if she gets out at all.This will make her one of Victoria&rsq...
The ‘tradwife’ movement: All flax and linen, or a pipeline to fascism?
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Year 9 debaters in South Australia were given a topic for the third round of their debating competition a few months ago. The topic was whether the ''...
The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the flag-draping: How politics on immigration have led to this point
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political debate was dominated this week by the topic of immigration after anti-immigration rallies in major cities last weekend.Politicians from both...
Yulia Navalnaya’s blunt message about Putin, the president who murdered her husband
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost immediately after Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny was murdered by the Kremlin last year, in an arctic penal colony, Russian president V...
Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like the other 'daring, desperate or deranged' fugitives who came before him?
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The whispering forests and deep valleys of Victoria’s high country have long provided refuge for those on the run. Think of Ned Kelly and ...
March for Australia: Why weren’t neo-Nazis stopped?
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Violent clashes, police with pepper spray and chants of “Heil Australia”. These were the scenes we saw over the weekend, as thousands of A...
When is it genocide? And is it happening in Gaza?
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Venture to a pro-Palestinian rally at one of Australia’s capital cities, and you’ll invariably hear calls to “end the genocide&rdquo...
Like a spy novel: How Iran orchestrated attacks on Australian shores
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Canberra turned into a John le Carre novel, with the stunning revelation from the head of ASIO Mike Burgess, that the state of Iran directed...
Porepunkah police shooting: What is the sovereign citizen movement?
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we record this episode, the Victorian High Country is the scene of an intense hunt for a man accused of shooting and killing two police officers, a...
‘Aimed at breaking social cohesion’: Iran blamed for antisemitic attacks on Australian soil
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many will remember a spate of frightening attacks against Jewish communities in both Sydney and Melbourne last year, including firebombings, vandalism...
First home buyers can afford a mortgage, but not a deposit. So will the new 5% scheme make a difference?
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in your 20s or 30s, or have someone in your life who’s in that age bracket, you know that the struggle to buy a home is real.&nb...
More Australians are using AI now, but is it lying to us?
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI chat bots are fast becoming a part of everyday life with more than half of all Australians using them regularly, although just over a third of thos...
‘Intergenerational bastardry’ in our tax system: Do older Australians have it too good?
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week was an exciting one in Canberra, especially if you’re the kind of person who digs the philosophy of tax and transfer. We are talking, ...
Russia-Ukraine: Whose side is Trump on now?
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine three and a half years ago, both sides have suffered catastrophic losses. More than one milli...
The country writers festival that descended into chaos
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was billed as a “vibrant gathering of readers, writers, and creative thinkers” who would spark “ideas, conversation, and inspirat...
A $90 million fine and a scathing court judgment. Is Qantas damaged beyond repair?
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It may have once boasted one of the most heartwarming advertisement ever to grace our TV screens reminding us that Qantas meant coming home, but ...
The unravelling of a star surgeon, and the journalist who took on the fight
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a decade of dazzling media coverage, Dr Munjed Al Muderis was lauded as a miracle worker to some of the most vulnerable people in our co...
Is there beef between Chalmers and Albanese? And, we talk Palestine, and productivity mixed-messages
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Albanese government announced it would recognise Palestine as a state, a huge foreign policy shift that was greeted with approval by man...
A 'war of deception': Why Netanyahu insists on a Gaza takeover
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two former Israeli prime ministers and now, the chief of staff of the Israeli defence force, have objected to Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial...
Why has Trump sent the military into Washington DC?
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was a scene straight out of the Donald Trump playbook: a rambling press conference where he spoke about oceanfront property in Ukraine, his upcomin...
Australia will recognise Palestine. What does it mean?
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will recognise Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, next month. ...
'You're not imagining it': Inside our 18-month investigation into 'misleading' property price guides
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you've bought a house lately - or tried to - then you'd know the price advertised for properties in the big cities are, more often than not, way be...
The ‘Coachella of Canberra’, A.I is coming for us, and is the government serious about tax reform?
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the pod we are going to delve into what we are calling Canberra’s Coachella - AKA the Productivity Summit, which is happening the w...
How Trump’s sacking of stats chief is another 'slide into autocracy'
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you heard the news that Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday and responded with a shrug, you probably weren&rsqu...
Crypto, frequent flyer points and pets: The new financial battleground for divorce
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that divorce settlements often get ugly. We hear stories about the couples who chainsaw couches in half, such is their disagreement ...
Why an MP, a convicted rapist, is keeping his taxpayer funded salary
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Picture this. A man has been convicted of rape. And as he sits in his prison cell, awaiting a sentence, he continues to be paid his taxpayer funded sa...
Australians are working longer hours, so is it finally time for a four-day work week?
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you feel like you’re working like crazy, but getting nowhere fast, you’re far from alone. It turns out that Australians work many more ...
Palestinian statehood: The UK has moved, so has Canada. What’s Albanese waiting for?
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian and UK prime ministers Mark Carney and Keir Starmer have all called for Palestine to be recognised, one...
Problems, the world has a few...and are journalists one of them?
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the last 54 years, countless writers have lived by the words of the late author Graham Greene who wrote that writers should have a “splinter...
Israel says there is no starvation in Gaza. Trump disagrees
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The release of images of starving children lying listlessly in their mothers’ arms, in the Gaza strip, has pushed a growing number of global lea...
The cancer drug, the faked data and the superstar scientist
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Smyth was one of Australia’s very top cancer scientists. Or, as one former colleague puts it, “the god of immunology." But Smyth was ...
Ozempic: What the evidence says about side-effects
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Obesity affects about a third of Australian adults, while another third are classified as overweight. But the weight loss drug Ozempic has proven to b...
A case of 'burger diplomacy' for Trump, and Barnaby Joyce puts his beef aside to oppose net zero
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces tricky terrain with the government lifting a ban on US beef imports to Australia this week, leaving him open to ...
Trump sues Murdoch over Epstein files, and the ‘surreal turn’ MAGA loyalist Steve Bannon took
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A showdown looms between two of the world's most powerful men, Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch, with the American president suing the media mogul for ...
The Australians poisoned by over-the-counter vitamins
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You may be like half of all Australians who now take a multivitamin, to improve their health. But are they safe? Melbourne dad Dominic Noonan-O&...
The sperm donor loophole that led to 27 half-siblings
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More Australians are turning towards using in-vitro fertilisations to have babies, every year. Often it's done through regulated IVF clinic, but somet...
Evictions rising in East Jerusalem and a Melbourne man’s part in it all
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
East Jerusalem is one of the most contested pieces of land in the Middle East. International law says it is an occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel ...
Inside Politics: ‘Killing season’ is over, so what will Anthony Albanese do with this moment?
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, here we are, a new term of parliament begins next week. There’ll be fresh faces and, hopefully, fresh ideas.So will the government use its...
Why the China trip is a big deal for Albanese - and Xi Jinping
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been in China this week, a picture of warmth as he shook hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping. ...
The fallout when two disgraced men go on rehabilitation tours
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One time high court justice Dyson Heydon and famed neurosurgeon Charlie Teo once held the futures of countless people in their hands.But then came the...
The antisemitism report that’s getting a lot of headlines
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some have hailed it as a dangerous document that could restrict our freedom of speech. Others have celebrated it, saying it will lead to protections t...
Why commercial airline GPS is becoming less reliable
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We know that air flight is - for the most part - extraordinarily safe. On any given day, about 100,000 flights take off and land, safely, across the g...
Inside Politics: Did Anthony Albanese just give his most important speech?
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do the great war time Prime Minister John Curtin, and current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have in common? Well, a little bit, according...
The gunfight and leaked phone call that could topple Thailand’s PM
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us, Cambodia has long been synonymous with tragedy, and the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, which killed between 1.5 and 3 million Cambodian...
Enemies within: shocking allegations of rape in the defence force
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many will remember a powerful 2013 video of the then Australian army chief David Morrison ripping into soldiers who denigrated women, saying there was...