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It’s the final countdown - the 2024 Paris Olympics’s opening ceremony is this weekend. In today’s deep dive, we guide you through a traditional pre-exam cram session: What you need to know to get up to speed right now so that you deliver a gold medal performance in the hotly contested sport of watching as much of the Olympics as you can.
Listen to our previous episode on winning gold here.
Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Zara SeidlerProducer: Orla Maher
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Description: Australia is in the midst of a ‘baby recession,' according to recent analysis of national birth trends by KPMG. It blamed cost of living pressures for declining births last year, when the country reached its lowest birth rate since 2006. So, what’s going on and does it matter?  ANU demographer Dr. Liz Allen answers our questions in the deep dive.
Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Sam KoslowskiGuest: Dr. Liz AllenProducer: Orla Maher
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As thousands of athletes and millions of spectators descend on Paris, we're now just days away from the Olympics Opening Ceremony. The city has had the better part of a decade to prepare for this moment, but with recent political instability, rising temperatures, security concerns, over-tourism and even E. coli in the Seine... Is Paris ready to host the Olympics?Subscribe to TDA's sport newsletter
Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Zara SeidlerProducer: Orla Maher
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In a historic announcement yesterday morning, U.S. President Joe Biden stepped down from his re-election campaign. Biden said he believed it was “in the best interest” of the Democratic party and the U.S. for him to “stand down”. In today’s deep dive, we’ll explain why Vice President Kamala Harris is the likely candidate, and what’s set to happen next.
Hosts: Lucy Tassell and Zara SeidlerProducer: Orla Maher
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One of the world’s biggest tobacco manufacturers will build a $US600 million nicotine pouch factory. Philip Morris International, which owns the nicotine pouch brand Zyn, said its planned facility will “help meet the growing global demand for smoke-free [nicotine] products”. In today's deep dive, we'll explain the rising popularity in these nicotine pouches, and whether they actually are better than cigarettes.
Hosts: Chloe Christie and Zara SeidlerProducer: Orla Maher
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You’ve likely heard of Project 2025. It is a set of conservative policy recommendations for former President Donald Trump if he becomes the next President.
Trump says he is not directly involved in it, and he has publicly tried to distance himself from it. However, Democrats have consistently attacked Trump’s ties to the plan. President Joe Biden has labelled it “biggest attack on our system of government  that has ever been proposed in the history of this country.” In today's deep dive, we explain everything you need to know about the plan.
Hosts: Billi FitzSimons and Zara SeidlerProducer: Orla Maher
Links to previous shows:An attempted assassination attempt: What we knowThe string of lawsuits against Andrew TateThe criminal allegations facing one of Australia's biggest unionsShould prisoners be allowed to read the news?
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