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With all the news of late about youth crime, gendered violence, and incarceration rates, we have found ourselves asking - I wonder what Bernie thinks? Bernie Shakeshaft is the 2020 Australian Local Hero of the Year recipient and the founder of Backtrack. It's a community-led organisation for young people who are having a tough time. In this chat, he delves into what helping those kids who need it most means and why it makes a big difference.
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This piece on the ABC looks at the data around youth offender rates and the various solutions being offered. 



This Moree report, written by Adam Harvey in March, paints a picture of what it is like to live with the issue of youth crime on your doorstep. We interviewed Adam Harvey previously on News Club about reporting on conflict zones.

This is the documentary made in 2018 about BackTrack and a recent update to it. You can also watch the trailer here.

This is Bernie featured in the AFR’s Philanthropy edition. If you don’t have time for the doco or our News Club interview, this is an easy way to get across what he has built/is building.  



Find out more about BackTrack here

Host: Kate Watson
Producer: Annelise Taylor

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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was a gallery of the Eta Aquariid meteor shower
Listen to our News Club episode on making and reporting on the Federal Budget
Larissa recommends this viral tomato soup recipe
Kate recommends this episode on HECS from our How Far We've Come series
Listen and/or read our Shortcut on the Nuclear Power debate

Hosts: Kate Watson and Larissa Moore
Producer: Annelise Taylor

With Treasurer Jim Chalmers set to hand down the Federal Budget next week, we thought it would be a good time to dive into the process of how it gets made and how the media reports on it. James Chessell, a Walkley Award-winning journalist and former Managing Director of Publishing at Nine Entertainment, is well-versed in covering budgets. Plus, his former time working as a staffer for Joe Hockey makes him uniquely qualified on the topic. 
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This episode of Politics with Michelle Grattan with economist Chris Richardson. She’s the doyen of political coverage out of Canberra’s Press Gallery, and he’s the go-to guru for anyone looking to make sense of the Budget. Ahead of its release, they set the scene for what’s on the government’s economic plate. 
This piece from 2017 by Dr Denis Muller, a journalism expert from Melbourne Uni, goes into the art of the leak… 
And speaking of leaks, the mother of them all came about in 1980 when then-Ten News political reporter Laurie Oakes got access to the Budget in a dark Canberra car park 2 days ahead of its release… This clip of how it unfolded on air is fun, if only for then Treasurer John Howard’s reaction… 

Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's all about helping you stay on top of the news + we give you some talking points for the week ahead.
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LINKS
This episode of The Daily on the pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University
Listen to the Eurovision entry from Electric Fields here
Larissa recommends this doco that goes behind the scenes for the 2015 Met Gala
Kate recommends this episode of The NYT's new podcast series called The Interview
Listen to our News Club episode on ultra-fast fashion with AFR fashion editor Lauren Sams
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Hosts: Kate Watson and Larissa Moore
Producer: Annelise Taylor

This week on News Club, we talk with Lauren Sams, fashion editor at the Australian Financial Review, about the rise of ultra-fast fashion and how businesses like Temu and Shein manage to offer such cheap clothes. In Australia alone, they are on track to record more than $2 billion in sales this year and they’re fast grabbing a huge chunk of market share both here and overseas. But there are plenty of questions about the ethics of what we’re buying from these sites.
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Two videos from the Wall Street Journal - ‘How Temu’s Explosive Growth Is Disrupting American E-Commerce’ and ‘How Shein Built a $66B Fast-Fashion Empire’ - are less than 10 mins each and very informative. 
A 2022 investigation by Wired, ‘Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise,’ explores the problems facing the company. 
This Money Talks podcast episode by The Economist called ‘Why Amazon should be afraid of Temu’. 
Lauren Sams recommended this book - Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes.

And here is The Devil Wears Prada clip Kate mentions from The Devil Wears Prada
Host: Kate Watson
Producer: Annelise Taylor

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's all about helping you stay on top of the news + we give you some talking points for the week ahead.
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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was about the Aurora Australis
Unmade's article on why the Arj Barker story went viral
Kate recommends ABC's Australian Story on Aiden Dix
Listen to our News Club episode on Ozempic

Hosts: Kate Watson and Claire Kimball
Producer: Annelise Taylor