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News broke last week that a teenager is about to become the world’s first millennial saint.
Carlo Acutis passed away in 2006, but spent his life spreading his faith, coming to be known as the patron saint of the internet for his work creating websites about Catholicism and its saints.
So, how does the Catholic church decide on who gets to be a saint? What’s the criteria, who tests the miracles and what role could coincidence and other factors play?
Sydney priest, Father Anthony Robbie joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to discuss on this episode of The Briefing.
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Late last week, China launched a comprehensive two-day military drill around Taiwan, mimicking a full-scale attack. The drills included dozens of fighter jets carrying live missiles, alongside navy vessels stationed at strategic locations around the island.
The military operations have been viewed as retaliation to Taiwan's newly elected president, Lai Ching-te, who in his recent inauguration speech reinforced the island's independence from China.
So how much has changed in the tensions between Taiwan and China over the last few months? And what does this mean for Australia?
In this episode, Bension Siebert unpacks the situation with Dr Roger Lee Huang, an expert in Southeast Asian politics and international relations at Macquarie University.
Headlines:
Netanyahu describes deadly Rafah strike a “tragic mishap”
Fears death toll in the thousands in PNG landslide
Experts to meet in fast-tracked gender-based violence review
Fly high Bette; world’s longest serving flight attendant dies
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It’s become one of the world’s biggest online shopping marketplaces, churning out more than a million parcels to be flown to customers around the globe every day.
Here in Australia, more than 1.2 million of us shop on Temu every month – and it’s our most downloaded app.
But how did the Chinese start-up skyrocket to global online megastore - selling everything from clothing and household items - less than two years after launching?
Dr Shasha Wang from QUT joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to explain Temu’s unique recipe for success in commerce and its meteoric rise.
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Amid a cost of living crisis, who can resist the invitation to “shop like a billionaire” at bargain-basement prices?
Online juggernaut Temu is Australia’s most popular free app, offering a vast vortex of low-cost merchandise from fashion and homeware to toys and electronics.
But amid the thrilling rush of retail therapy lie some serious questions: Where does this stuff come from? What are conditions like for those at the bottom of the supply chain? And what about the environment?
On this episode of The Briefing Sacha talks to Sarah Rogan, senior labour rights campaigner at Oxfam.
Headlines:
More than 600 feared dead in PNG landslides
WA Premier describes murder of mother and daughter as ‘chilling’
Hamas launches rockets at Tel Aviv for the first time in months
Donald Trump booed at Libertarian convention
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Abbie Chatfield is an Australian media personality, television host, radio presenter and podcaster. She is best known for her appearances in reality television as both a contestant and host, she is also the host of Listnr podcast “its a lot.”
In this episode of The Weekend Briefing Abbie tells Antoinette about the crime of bad change room lights, oversharing, unexpected fans and why she could never go on Farmer Wants a Wife.
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Earlier this week, Sean “Diddy” Combs admitted to physically assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, back in 2016, after brutal footage of the attack started circulating online.
After his fall from grace as one of the most successful and best-selling rap artists, will Diddy be cancelled? Or will we continue to hear his music online and on-air?
Tim Burrowes is the founder of the media and marketing news website, Unmade. In this episode, he speaks with Sacha Barbour Gatt, unpacking when and why companies boycott artists with serious allegations and convictions, and the effectiveness of cancel culture.
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There’s been a huge increase of Functional neurological disorder or FND in teenage girls since the pandemic and the rise of TikTok.
FND occurs when there’s miscommunication between the body and brain and can often look a lot like tourettes, where people suffer from impulsive tics.
Sacha Barbour Gatt is joined by Dr Amanda Maxwell, a clinical psychologist specialising in tics, to unpack why we are seeing a spike in the number of cases of FND.
Headlines:
Details of serious injuries suffered by Singapore Airlines passengers revealed
Chinese military conducts drills around Taiwan
Cassie Ventura, Diddy’s ex, speaks out
Australia’s biggest ever lotto winner nabs $150 million
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AstraZeneca has withdrawn their Covid 19 vaccination after admitting it can cause rare blood clots.
This month marks 50 years since the global rollout of the world’s first major vaccination program – with new research showing vaccines have saved over 154 million lives.
Professor Margie Danchin is a paediatrician at the The Royal Children's Hospital and joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to explain the benefits and the side effects of vaccines.
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Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi and the foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahain have both died during a helicopter crash earlier this week.
What do these untimely deaths mean for the power structure in Iran, and to relations in the middle east? And why are some people happy to see the end of President Ebrahim Raisi’s leadership.
In this episode, Antoinette Lattouf speaks with Middle East politics expert Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh to better understand the situation, and what we can expect to happen next.
Headlines:
Rishi Sunak announces snap UK general election
Norway, Ireland and Spain to recognise Palestinian state
Australian passengers on Singapore Airlines flight hit by turbulence start arriving home
Mattel to make Mary Fowler Barbie
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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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Scott Morrison is the 30th Prime Minister of Australia, lover of chicken curries and author of his new book - Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness
Morrison has had his fair share of controversies over the years - Hawaii, his response to COVID and his many ministries.
In this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, Morrison opens up about his time as PM, repenting his sins and his impact on Australians.
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Social media has gone into meltdown after a video from a US college commencement speech went viral.
The footage shows NFL player and Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker addressing the female graduates in the crowd, telling them that ultimately, their main and most valuable vocation in life is being a wife and mother.
Butker has sparked a storm of criticism, the NFL even coming out to distance itself from his comments.
In the post #MeToo world and amidst a spike in violence against women in Australia, we’re breaking down and debunking Butker’s comments and why they are so dangerous.''
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This week Chat GPT revealed the next steps in the way their AI interacts with humans. Now the interface can recognise emotions and have more nuanced conversations with the user.
Meanwhile Google has revealed its new AI assistant “Astra” and their plans to scrabble back searches previously lost to Chat GPT by integrating more AI into Google search.
But what is the cost of greater humanising of AI? And is it safe? Tech entrepreneur Ashi Bhat joins The Briefing to unpack the AI rat race.
Headlines:
Peter Dutton wants to slash immigration
Company at the centre of major data hack revealed
ANU and Deakin University move to shut down pro-Palestine encampments
Namatjira responds to Rinehart portrait controversy
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Australia is in the grip of a teacher shortage that is a decade in the making.
New research by McCrindle has revealed more than half of educators are considering leaving the profession.
On top of that, teaching is increasingly becoming an aging profession, with 20% of the workforce to reach retirement age over the next decade.
On today’s briefing, we speak with social researcher and demographer, Mark McCrindle, to explore why this is happening and what’s being done to attract more people to study teaching.
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For over half a century, the US and Australia have operated Pine Gap - a joint top-secret spy base at Alice Springs in the heart of outback Australia
Today, concern is mounting that spies at Pine Gap may be eavesdropping on the Middle East and passing critical information on to the Israeli Defence Force.
This would mean Australia is playing a role in the conflict, raising serious questions about the public’s right to know how our land, resources and geographical advantage is being deployed, especially when it makes us a nuclear target for foreign powers.
Today we’re joined by Alice Springs journalist Alexandra Barwick, host of new ABC podcast Spies in the Outback, to assess the evidence and get a local perspective.
Headlines:
Sydney council reverses same sex parent book ban
Slovakia PM shot in assassination attempt
Labor senator breaks ranks to label Israel’s war in Gaza genocide
Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait of her
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