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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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Could bird flu be the next pandemic?
Bird flu is spreading around the world.
Australia’s first human case of this outbreak was reported this month and farms in Victoria have been hit by the virus.
But how concerned should we be about the possibility of a human pandemic?
Featured:
Professor Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity at the Kirby Institute, UNSW -
The woman who tracked down her scammer
As scammers get more sophisticated, many Australians are losing their hard-earned money.
But now, one woman who lost half a million dollars in a fake investment scheme has fought back, tracking down and confronting the scammer, before passing the details on to police.
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Michael Atkin, ABC consumer affairs reporter -
The renters who will never buy
Many young Australians have given up hope of ever buying a home.
So how are political leaders planning to fix the nation’s housing crisis?
Peter Dutton’s proposal is to slash migration to free up housing.
And Labor has a plan to build 1.2 million new homes over the next five years.
But how do they stack up?
Featured:
Ann Chakraborty, Melbourne renter
Gareth Hutchens, ABC business and economics reporter -
Has AI stolen Scarlett Johansson’s voice?
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson said no when OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman asked if she could be the voice for a new version of ChatGPT.
But they went ahead and released a chatbot that the actor thinks sounds “eerily similar” to herself.
As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, how do we protect ourselves from being copied?
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Sharon Goldman, AI reporter at Fortune -
Why Chinese people are the latest boat arrivals
When a boat carrying Chinese men arrived in Western Australia last month it was unusual.
Not only because it’s rare for boats to make it to the mainland but those on board are almost never from China.
So why are Chinese nationals so desperate to get to Australia that they pay people smugglers?
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Wing Kuang, ABC reporter -
The Gina Rinehart portrait battle
It’s a tale of Australia’s richest woman, swimming stars, a renowned Indigenous artist, and a portrait.
Vincent Namatjira’s painting of Gina Rinehart is apparently so unflattering the National Gallery of Australia has been asked to take it down.
Now it’s making news around the world.
Today, host of RN’s The Art Show, Daniel Browning, on how an attempt to censor art backfired.
Featured:
Daniel Browning, host of RN’s The Art Show and ABC editor of Indigenous radio
Customer Reviews
Perfect
Great news/hot topic show. Perfect timing. Covers many of the issues you want information about.
Renters will never buy a home
Thankyou Sam for your work on this podcast although the episode about Ann the renter i found to be somewhat misleading. You continued to repeat that Ann will never be able to buy a home when surely what you meant was that Ann will not be able to buy a home in her desired location. There is so much more to explore with this topic than putting renters into the victim basket.
Disappointing replacement for the signal
Where the signal brought us unique perspectives and deep-dives into niche topics, every episode of abc news daily is a boring let-down. All this podcast can do is parrot whatever moral panic is topical in mainstream media, adding little to no insight or analysis. Not only are they not meaningfully contributing to the discourse, they are actively causing harm, presenting a deceptively right wing perspective to their abc audience.