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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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Hugh Grant, Murdoch and phone hacking
It must feel like a never-ending battle for Rupert Murdoch.
His British newspaper group is continuing to face legal action more than a decade after the phone hacking scandal came to a head.
Now he’s settled with the actor Hugh Grant who was accusing the Sun newspaper of everything from bugging his car to robbing his home to get stories.
Today, ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry on how Murdoch has paid out many millions of dollars to avoid trial and what it all means for his empire.
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Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ fight with Australia
Australian political leaders are united in their condemnation of Elon Musk.
He’s been described as an arrogant billionaire and a cowboy with no social conscience.
Now, Musk is ready for a legal fight over demands he remove videos of last week’s Sydney church stabbing from his social media platform X.
He says the concepts of free speech and censorship are at the heart of the matter.
Today, host of tech podcast Download this Show, Marc Fennell, on the fight between Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and Elon Musk.
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The pricing trap doubling some power bills
Imagine opening your next electricity bill and it’s double what it usually is.
More Australians are finding themselves in a position where their power bills are rising, not because they’ve changed how much electricity they use, but because they’ve been unwittingly switched to a time of use tariff.
It means they pay more if they use power at peak times.
Today, energy reporter Dan Mercer explains the tariffs and how they’re leading to a greater energy divide.
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Donald Trump and the politics of abortion
He’s on trial for falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, but Donald Trump’s woes haven’t harmed him in the polls yet.
Instead, it’s abortion that’s become one of his most problematic issues as the former president works to get back to the White House.
Some voters are turned off by his pro-life record and so he’s been trying to massage his message. But will it win him votes?
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How a uni student got blamed for Bondi
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 and how can we hold social media giants to account for misinformed and dangerous content?
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Mental health and the Bondi killer
It’s hard to understand how a man could walk into a shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon and start stabbing people.
It’s left so many people demanding answers.
Today, we look at the offender Joel Cauchi’s mental health history and ask whether anything could have been done to stop the attack and save lives.
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Professor Kimberlie Dean, Chair of Forensic Mental Health at UNSW
Customer Reviews
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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”
No news
I want news not a discussion on a topic of the day.