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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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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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Jerry Useem, contributing writer at The Atlantic -
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 -
Why budget airlines keep failing
Most Australians had never flown it and now they may never get a chance.
Bonza has followed so many other airlines and gone into administration, meaning yet again less competition in our aviation market.
Today, the rise and rapid fall of the budget carrier and whether we will one day get a third major airline to drive down airfares across the country.
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Justin Wastnage, adjunct professor in aviation at Griffith University -
Could there be three rate hikes this year?
Inflation pressures were meant to be coming off a bit more by now, but a higher than expected reading has one prominent economist suggesting interest rates could go up three times this year.
So, why is inflation so sticky? And will the Reserve Bank feel compelled to lift rates to further dampen economic activity?
Today, chief business correspondent Ian Verrender explains what’s going wrong.
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Ian Verrender, ABC Chief Business Correspondent -
The violence against women ‘tipping point’
At big rallies on the weekend women and men came together to say enough is enough, that violence against women must end.
Today, the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas on what needs to happen to address one of the nation’s most entrenched problems.
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Patricia Karvelas, host of RN Breakfast, Q+A and the Party Room podcast -
Why more kids are saying no to school
In Australia, an increasing number of children are missing school and part of the problem is what has been called school avoidance or refusal.
But families who are struggling say it’s more accurately called ‘school can’t’ because some students experience a stress response that prevents them from getting to the classroom.
Today, Four Corners’ filmmaker Sascha Ettinger-Epstein shares her insights into the issue and what’s working to get children's education back on track.
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Sascha Ettinger-Epstein, Four Corners’ filmmaker
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”