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Late-night television's award-winning news program featuring anchors Juju Chang and Byron Pitts. For in-depth reporting on today's major news stories, to features, profiles, Nightline has the last word in live network news.
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Unforgettable true crime mysteries, exclusive newsmaker interviews, hard-hitting investigative reports and in-depth coverage of high profile stories. Now listen twice weekly, with The 20/20 True Crime Vault each Wednesday.
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ABC News Daily is the podcast that helps you understand the issues affecting your world. Every episode, host Samantha Hawley walks through one story with the help of an ABC colleague or expert in under 15 minutes. When you want coverage you can trust, listen to ABC News Daily.
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Download This Show is your weekly guide to the world of media, culture, and technology. From social media to gadgets, streaming services to privacy issues. Each week Marc Fennell and a team of people far smarter than him (his words, not ours) take a fun deep dive into how technology is reshaping our lives.
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"This Week with George Stephanopoulos" is ABC News’ pre-eminent Sunday morning discussion program, featuring newsmaker interviews and panel discussions and debates on a wide range of global issues and commentary, putting into unique perspective the preceding week’s news, and often setting the stage for the week ahead.
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Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia, talking about the food you eat, how it's produced, and what all this means for the Australian economy
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The world is on fire. There's a coup. A former president is being indicted. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian regimes.
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The Wantok Program is 30 minutes of news and current affairs broadcast on Radio Australia twice a day Monday to Friday in Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin, Solomon Islands Pijin and Vanuatu Bislama pidgin languages.
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RN Breakfast daily stories separated out for easy listening. RN Breakfast is the program informed Australians wake up to. Start each day with comprehensive coverage and analysis of national and international events, and hear interviews with the people who matter today—along with those who'll be making news tomorrow.
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AM is Australia's most informative morning current affairs program. With key political interviews and stories about the Australian way of life, AM sets the agenda for the nation’s daily news and current affairs coverage.
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20 years ago the federal treasurer Peter Costello became an 'honorary minister' for procreation you might say. He had just announced the "baby bonus" — a controversial $3,000 lump sum payment to new parents to incentivise Australians to prioritise having children at a time when the country was under pressure to find a way to push up our rapidly fal…
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As the daughter of Aussie rock music royalty, Elly-May Barnes has long known the thrill of performing. From singing backup for her father Jimmy, to eventually taking to the stage as a cabaret performer, her latest work and debut album No Good felt like a natural next step - but it's been a long road to get here. Guest: Elly-May Barnes…
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2024 is the year for dozens of key elections across the world - India's election starts this week - and the US of course later this year. At the same time, there's been a massive proliferation of publicly available artificial intelligence tools, that in the wrong hands could cause electoral mayhem. So how can voters and governments - including here…
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Last weekend's tragic events in Bondi Junction have shone a light on mental illness in the community, and a mental health system that's cracking. Almost a week on there remains many questions, and a the mental health sector is left asking for more help and funding. Guest: Professor Samuel Harvey is the Executive Director and Chief Scientists at the…
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A warning this story may be distressing. There's been widespread shock and a search for answers after a First Nations boy from Western Australia aged just 10 died by suicide while in state care. Suicide has been revealed as the leading cause of death for First Nations children. So, how has a situation like this occurred?And if you need help you can…
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The week in politics has been dominated by the fallout from the two stabbing attacks, with the focus shifting back on the big tech companies.Political Editor for news.com.au Samantha Maiden and ABC Political lead and host of Insiders on ABC TV David Speers join RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics. Guest: David Speers…
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This week we've seen some of the most horrific violent attacks in Australia in recent decades.Two stabbing attacks in Sydney have led to an increase in racism in some communities, leading to concerns about social cohesion. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says there was a "clear framework" that allowed the church stabbing to be declared a terror incid…
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The claim that wombats can run at 40 kilometres an hour, faster than Usain Bolt might just be a furphy. And Dr Karl has built an impressive reputation over the years in science communication, but on social media there's an AI-generated Dr Karl threatening to tear this down - so who made it? Guest: Jacinta Bowler, ABC science reporter Brainteaser (a…
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Health workers in Sydney continue to treat survivors of this week's two major knife attacks, after one of the hardest weeks for frontline workers. Six paramedics were forced to take shelter in the Good Shepherd Church on Monday night when an angry crowd turned on them, NSW Health Minister Ryan Park says the event was "very disappointing" and frontl…
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Australia's national cultural policy is being updated to include streaming services like Netflix. The intention is to compel streaming services to use revenues generated here to make a fixed percentage of its productions not just in Australia but about Australia too. But the uncertainty about the specifics is already having an effect. Guest Matthew…
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Cities in Texas are turning off their lights to help save migratory birds. Every year around two billion birds fly through the state and brightly lit buildings pose a deadly risk. The Lights Out Texas campaign is helping create a safe passage for these birds by getting city skyscrapers to go dark at night. Guest: Dr Andrew Farnsworth, an ornitholog…
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The US has blocked the U.N Security Council vote on a bid by the Palestinian Authority to become a full member state. In order to be successful a council resolution needs at least nine votes in favour and no vetoes by the permanent five members. The move from the US comes despite the Biden administration's pledge to fully support a two-state soluti…
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As the events unfolded at Bondi Junction last Saturday afternoon, an unsuspecting university student was falsely accused on social media of being the killer. It spread on the X platform and by the morning Channel 7 was also wrongly telling its large audience that Benjamin Cohen was to blame. How did the lie take off, who was originally behind it an…
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Two of the most impressive Scottish writers and thinkers are also great friends. Andrew O'Hagan and Professor Karl Miller discuss the power of landscape and history in shaping Scottish imagination and writing, and why Scotland's consistently punched above its weight in these terms. This interview was originally broadcast on 6th September 2012. Gues…
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Author, poet and academic Tony Birch celebrates the success of so many First Nations writers but there is always room for improvement in the publishing industry. From the LNL Archive we hear a conversation with Andrew O'Hagan and Karl Miller recorded in Edinburgh in 2012.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Long before the satirical film American Fiction made it to our screens, writers and publishers have grappled with the idea of the ‘race novel’. And just as the Black American characters in the film confronted race and class expectations, First Nation writers in Australia find themselves at the mercy of similar prejudices. Writer Tony Birch joins Ph…
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A woman has lost the ability to speak and is forced to communicate by blinking. From her hospital bed she tries to blink out a request, but hospital staff refuse to help. Background Briefing can reveal that similar situations are playing out in many public health facilities across Australia, as patients pursue their legal right to die, and healthca…
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A woman has lost the ability to speak and is forced to communicate by blinking. From her hospital bed she tries to blink out a request, but hospital staff refuse to help. Background Briefing can reveal that similar situations are playing out in many public health facilities across Australia, as patients pursue their legal right to die, and healthca…
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The growth of cyber-crime is considered to be the biggest challenge facing Australian businesses. Collectively cyber-attacks cost the economy $42 billion dollars last year, with ransomware the most disruptive type of hack, costing $3 billion. So what is the government doing? And what can organisations do, both to lower their risk of attack, and if …
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In the wake of the Bondi Junction stabbing attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that government "could always do more" to address Australia's mental health crisis. Last month more than 500 members of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists signed an open letter to the federal health minister urging the government to ad…
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