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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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Would you fall for the ‘elaborate’ new scams?
Don’t you get sick of the constant text messages warning that you haven’t paid a toll, or that you’ve missed a package delivery or have a refund owing?
In many cases they’re clearly fake but there are scams that aren’t so obvious, and Australians have lost billions of dollars to them.
Today, consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin on why more of us are falling for the traps set by criminals and what the big banks should be doing to protect us.
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What Stormy Daniels told the Trump trial
When a porn star took the stand in a New York courtroom, her account of sex with Donald Trump was so detailed and at times graphic, the former US president’s lawyers called for a mistrial.
Trump often kept his eyes closed as Stormy Daniels spoke about an alleged sexual encounter in 2006. He denies they had sex at all.
The criminal trial is all about a hush money payment she says she received before the 2016 election.
Today, Josh Gerstein, the senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, takes us through the evidence.
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The terrorism risk and radicalised teens
There have been two knife attacks within just weeks of each other that are being linked to terrorism.
One was a church in Sydney and the other outside a Bunnings in Perth on the weekend.
Both involved teenage boys. So, what’s going on?
Today, investigative reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop on the radicalisation of vulnerable young people and whether programs to stop it are working.
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Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC investigative reporter
Editor’s note: The WA Education Department has confirmed the incident involving an explosive device in a school toilet happened in 2022, before the boy was put on the countering violent extremism program. -
The case for banning phones for kids
You have to be aged at least 13 to access social media like TikTok, Twitter and Instagram in Australia.
But is that an appropriate age, given the disturbing content available and harm heavy social media use can cause?
Could we just ban smartphones and social media for Australian kids altogether?
Today, we meet a father who has limited his daughter’s phone use and a psychiatrist who’ll explain the problems that smartphones can cause.
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Danny Elachi, The Heads Up Alliance founder
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Can Boeing rebuild trust after safety scares?
Two deadly crashes and a mid-air door blowout have rocked the reputation of Boeing, with questions intensifying about the quality of its planes.
Concerns about the 737 MAX aircraft peaked when a hole opened up on the side of an Alaska Airlines flight in January this year.
Today, Jerry Useem, who’s been investigating Boeing for more than two decades, charts the firm’s departure from in-house manufacturing.
He’s been writing for the Atlantic magazine about how Boeing switched its focus to its stock price and what that meant for the safety of its aircraft.
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When should uni protests be shut down?
At Columbia University in the heart of New York City late one evening this week riot police stormed a university hall.
They entered via a window to arrest students who’d for weeks been camping out at the campus to protest against the war in Gaza.
Now, the pro-Palestinian movement that’s seen more than a thousand students arrested across the US has landed here.
Today, we look at the encampments popping up on campuses across the country and ask how will university leaders allow freedom of speech while ensuring Jewish students and staff feel safe?
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Dr Tim Dean, senior philosopher at the Ethics Centre
Customer Reviews
Perfect
Great news/hot topic show. Perfect timing. Covers many of the issues you want information about.
welcomed
Great podcast one in a sea of American flavour. Good to hear from Australian point of view on world politics, and foreign affairs
Highlights reel
It’s now been a few years, this podcast has had its time to settle in and find its feet, so I’m confident in saying it’s a terrible replacement for the signal. It’s a highlight reel of Four Corners and various trimmings of current affairs, in a bite size format that doesn’t get to the heart of any issue, but skirts around them with inflammatory sound bites. Seems the attempt was to shorten episodes to maximise plays, and it’s achieved a Murdoch-style pump n play. Sam’s overly colonial radio voice, reminiscent of rural matriarch, undercuts the sincerity intended by indigenous regional names. “From the laaaaands of the Guardy-Gool peoples”