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Discourse around a portrait of Australia’s richest person has hit a fever pitch this week, after she made a private plea to have it removed from an exhibition. 

The painting of Gina Rinehart, by artist Vincent Namatjira, is hanging in Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia, and it’s sparked a debate about how we look at and consider art. 

Someone who can empathise with Rinehart in this instance is The Briefing’s Antoinette Lattouf who in this episode explains the relationship between art, society and our own vanity. 
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Australians will be heading to the polls to vote in a federal election in 2025, and nuclear power is shaping up to be a key battleground.Labor is pushing ahead with renewables as the key source of green energy for Australia, but the Coalition thinks building reactors is the way to go.

In fact, the Liberals and Nationals have already started polling community sentiment around nuclear energy in electorates where future reactors could be built.Nationals leader David Littleproud explains the Coalition's strategy to Sacha Barbour-Gatt - and why they believe it's the way to get to zero emissions.

Headlines:

One dead after Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence

Australia to ban replica Ozempic drugs

Government rejects claims it should condemn ICC

Forget Melbourne or Sydney, Canberra offers the best quality of life 

 

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Trans men, women, and nonbinary young people are twice as likely to experience homelessness compared to cis-queer men and women. 

Australian research found that one in five young trans people have experienced homelessness and data from the Trans Justice Project saw an increase in anti-trans hate in the year leading up to April 2023 

Activists say we are not doing enough to support the transgender community in their moment of need, Laura Pettigrew from the LiSTNR Newsroom joins Simon Beaton to talk us through details. 

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Sexsomnia is a sleep disorder that causes people to engage in sexual behaviors in their sleep, such as dirty talk, masturbating and even intercourse.

The disorder occurs in the deepest stages of sleep and unsurprisingly it raises many questions around consent. How can consent be maintained when a partner is unconscious? And can sexsomnia be used as a defence in cases of sexual assault?

Aleks Trkulja from the Pleasure Centre and specialist sleep physician Dr David Cunnington joins Helen Smith to explain how common sexsomnia is.

Headlines:

ICC issues arrest warrants for Israel and Hamas leaders 

Julian Assange granted leave to appeal extradition to the US

Sam Kerr trial date set

Sussan Ley calls for Diddy boycott

 

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A new drug has been detected in Australia that can be up to 25 times stronger than fentanyl – which is already stronger than heroin.

Introducing nitazene, an incredibly dangerous synthetic opioid that was linked to over 20 overdoses in western Sydney and was found in Canberra’s pill testing service for the first time over the weekend.

Professor Suzanne Nielsen, the Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre, joins Simon Beaton to explain the dangers of nitazene which could be lacing your party drugs.

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The search for a missing person can capture the attention of the entire nation. 

Currently, we’re waiting to hear the outcome of an appeal of Chris Dawson, who was convicted of killing his wife Lynette Joy Simms in December of 1982, despite her body never being found. So what happens behind the scenes of one of these investigations? And how is someone charged with murder when a body is never located? 

Journalist Tessa Randello from the LiSTNR Newsroom has spoken with former New South Wales Detective Anthony Macklin about this topic. On this episode, she unpacks what she’s found out with Sacha Barbour Gatt. 

Headlines:

Iran’s President missing after helicopter crash

Charges laid in Sydney police stabbing

Sean 'Diddy' Combs admits to DV

700 ‘Kyles’ not enough to break world record

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