Episodes

  • What can be done to make childcare safer?

    What can be done to make childcare safer?
    Jul 8 2025
    A week after it was revealed that a Melbourne childcare worker had been charged with sexual abuse offences relating to multiple children, scrutiny of the early learning sector has only intensified. Although the case is yet to be tested in the courts, the allegations sparked widespread outrage and intensified pressure on both federal and state governments to act quickly. Senior reporter Kate Lyons tells Reged Ahmad what more can be done to make the sector safer for children.
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    20 mins
  • Trump’s big beautiful betrayal

    Trump’s big beautiful betrayal
    Jul 8 2025
    Ed Pilkington explains the US president’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and what it will mean for millions of poorer Americans who voted for him last November
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    26 mins
  • Mushroom trial: Erin Patterson found guilty

    Mushroom trial: Erin Patterson found guilty
    Jul 7 2025
    A jury has found Erin Patterson guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to murder a fourth with a deadly beef wellington lunch almost two years ago. Justice and courts reporter Nino Bucci speaks to Reged Ahmad about how we got to this verdict and what comes next
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    17 mins
  • Japan’s rice crisis

    Japan’s rice crisis
    Jul 6 2025
    Home-grown rice is a key part of Japanese culture, identity and politics, dating back thousands of years. So much so that any disruption can spark a wave of consumer anger, reaching even the highest echelons of power. But as the country grapples with a shortage of the grain, locals are asking whether it’s finally time to learn to love the imported version. Reged Ahmad speaks to the Guardian’s Japan and Korea correspondent, Justin McCurry, in Osaka.
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    17 mins
  • Back to Back Barries: do Labor voters have buyer’s remorse?

    Back to Back Barries: do Labor voters have buyer’s remorse?
    Jul 4 2025
    Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry take a look at Anthony Albanese’s support of Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran and ask: will the US - Australia relationship send traditional party supporters elsewhere? Also: why it’s time for the Liberals to embrace gender quotas. And, keen to canvas opinion on Chinese influence in the Pacific region, Barrie conducts his own focus groups in the Cook Islands.
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    29 mins
  • Guilty ... and not guilty: understanding the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs verdict

    Guilty ... and not guilty: understanding the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs verdict
    Jul 4 2025
    The rapper faced charges often levied at mafia bosses. Anna Betts explains what the jury heard, and Andrew Lawrence tells Nosheen Iqbal what the verdict means for the music mogul
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    30 mins
  • Newsroom edition: the perils of covering extreme weather during the climate crisis

    Newsroom edition: the perils of covering extreme weather during the climate crisis
    Jul 3 2025
    This week headlines warned of a ‘bomb cyclone’ forming on the Australian east coast. However, the Bureau of Meteorology has stopped short of using that terminology in media commentary and has not officially called this week’s event anything other than a ‘vigorous’ coastal low. But the severe weather system did wreak havoc on some parts of the coastline, causing flooding, damage to properties and flight cancellations.Nour Haydar speaks with the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about why language matters and how crucial it is to refer to the climate crisis when covering extreme weather
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    16 mins
  • Bougainville’s rocky path to independence

    Bougainville’s rocky path to independence
    Jul 2 2025
    In 2019, the people of Bougainville overwhelmingly voted in favour of independence. Once controlled by Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia and Papua New Guinea, some see the reopening of a massive copper and gold mine known as Panguna as the key to the new nation’s success. But it was only three decades ago that Bougainvilleans went to war to shut it down.Nour Haydar speaks with Ben Doherty about the road to independence for Australia’s Pacific neighbour and the risk of repeating mistakes from the past
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    23 mins