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For seven months the sex discrimination commissioner and her team have been investigating the culture in Parliament House.

The review has found one in three staffers have experienced some kind of sexual harassment.

Days after declaring our borders open, a new COVID-19 variant has thrown them shut again. And international students, skilled migrants and humanitarian visa holders, won’t be allowed in for at least another fortnight.

Meet the brother-sister duo making sex toys for people with disabilities.

Live guests:
Simon Birmingham, Finance Minister
Vicki Thomson , head of the Group of Eight
Mohammed Samrah, disability sex advocate

Just weeks after we opened our borders to the world - COVID-19 is back with a new variant.

But we don't know how dangerous it is, how much protection our vaccines are going to give us and what’s going to happen to all our travel plans and holiday reunions.

Meet the 23-year-old who got a vasectomy because he was worried about climate change.

Plus, the government wants to introduce new laws that will force social media companies to unmask online trolls, and make them responsible for the abuse people face online.

Live guests:
Dr Larisa Labzin, immunity and molecular bioscience expert from the University of Queensland
Josh Bornstein, lawyer and director at the Australia Institute

It's the Shake Up and we're talking…

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese accusing the PM of lying about his 2019 trip to Hawaii, proposed voter ID laws excluding young Aussies and First Nations people, and announcing relationships on social media.

Join Hack's Avani Dias with former Bachelor contestant and host of the politics podcast 'In the House and In the Senate' Alisha Aitken-Radburn, and influencer Christian Wilkins.

Three years after it was announced, the PM has finally introduced a controversial religious discrimination bill in parliament.

He believes people of faith need more protection under the law, but there are concerns that LGBTQI+ students and teachers could be worse off.

Plus, Yorta Yorta-Gunditjmara singer Isaiah Firebrace has presented his petition for Aboriginal history to be taught in Australian schools at Parliament House.

Live guests:
Keysar Trad, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
Jo Inkpin, Minister of Pitt St Uniting Church Sydney, Anglican priest and trans woman
Steff Fenton, queer Christian and co-pastor at New City Church
Isaiah Firebrace, musician

Food delivery services are making moves to cash in on Canada’s multi-billion dollar recreational weed industry.

Meanwhile… meet the young Aussie who says he got fired from his job after his bosses discovered he used medicinal cannabis

Australia’s listed white supremacist group The Base as a terrorist organisation, making it a criminal offence to be a member.

Plus, new research shows that young women and migrants were worst affected by job losses during the pandemic.

Live guests:
Dr Teresa Nicoletti, lawyer and qualified scientist
Dr Joshua Roose, extremism researcher at Deakin Uni
Julie Reilly OAM, CEO of Australians Investing in Women

It’s the last sitting week of parliament for the year, and things are a bit chaotic with fights over the Religious Discrimination Bill, mandatory vaccinations and a federal anti-corruption commission.

Meanwhile the government also put forward a controversial bill to make it compulsory for people to show IDs when casting a vote. But the requirement risks excluding young Aussies and First Nations people.

There are concerns for one of China’s most popular tennis players, Peng Shuai, after she levelled allegations of sexual assault against a top government official on social-media.

Plus, NASA will launch a mission to deliberately slam into an asteroid, in a bid to test the solar system’s gravitational forces.

Live guests:
Sophie Johnston, National Youth Commissioner
Fergus Ryan, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Dr Brad Tucker, astrophysicist