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November 25, 2021 Vaccinated, cured, or dead: Europe's fourth COVID wave
Vaccinated, cured, or dead: those are the three likely paths ahead for Germans, according to the country's Health Minister, as it prepares to plunge into pandemic winter.
Many European countries are currently in the grips of a brutal fourth wave of COVID-19.
It's so bad that Austria has just gone back into lockdown in an attempt to spare the country's already overwhelmed ICUs.
Only two thirds of Europeans have been fully vaccinated so far, and many of those people are at a point now where their immunity is starting to fade.
It's a pattern that's making health officials worried about what the next few months have in store.
Today on the Signal, Europe's backsliding COVID situation. Is it a sign of things to come for Australia?
Featured:
Eva Schernhammer, Professor of Epidemiology, Medical University of Vienna
17 min
November 24, 2021 Scott Morrison's revolting backbench
Religious discrimination, voter ID laws, a federal anti-corruption watchdog: Scott Morrison's end-of-year parliamentary to-do list is long.
So why is a group of the government's own parliamentarians trying to derail it with a fight over state vaccine rules?
Today on The Signal, why backbenchers are revolting, and what it might mean for the Morrison government's re-election.
Featured:
David Speers, Host, ABC TV Insiders
21 min
November 23, 2021 Does Victoria have an illegal logging problem?
The Victorian Government's own logging business, VicForests, is facing new allegations of illegal logging.
In the past it's been found to have been clearing in protected areas -- including the habitat of endangered species.
This time, the allegations are to do with illegally clearing within the Melbourne catchment area in a way that scientists say could threaten the quality of the city's drinking water.
Today on The Signal, a special investigation into allegations of illegal logging by a Government-owned company.
Featured:
Michael Slezak, National Science, Technology and Environment Reporter, ABC
18 min
November 22, 2021 Will Australia's harshest lockdowns protect the NT?
COVID-19 had been largely kept out of the Northern Territory, but in the past few days that changed.
Now, residents in a string of communities are living under some of the harshest lockdowns yet imposed in Australia, as the virus spreads in Katherine and across the outback.
So what went wrong?
Today on The Signal, we're examining how the virus spread in the NT, and asking whether the lockdowns and a reinvigorated vaccination campaign will halt its spread.
Featured:
Jane Bardon, ABC Northern Territory reporter
Deb Aloisi, Binjari Community Aboriginal Corporation
Kevin Rogers, Rockhole resident
Lisa Mumbin, Chairwoman, Wurli Wurlinjang Aboriginal Health Service, Katherine
Jack Green, Garawa elder
Malarndirri McCarthy, NT Labor Senator
Dr Robert Parker, Australian Medical Association NT President
John Paterson, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance chief executive
22 min
November 21, 2021 Imagining a post-coal Australia
The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been talking up the future of the coal industry in the decades to come.
That's despite a COP26 promise to "phase down" coal, and frequent widespread predictions that market forces are already forcing coal into terminal decline.
So who's right?
Today on The Signal, the surprisingly bright future of mining in Australia.
How much more coal are we really going to dig up and sell?
And what other kinds of mining might take its place?
Featured:
Dr Richard Denniss, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute
19 min
November 18, 2021 Can we really count our emissions?
Most of the world's nations struck a major deal on Sunday in Glasgow to do more to bring down their emissions.
But for the deal to be worth the paper it's written on, one key assumption has to be true: that we actually know what our emissions are.
So can we really keep track of our climate-altering emissions?
And if we can't, how much trouble are we in?
Featured:
Dr Philippe Ciais, Researcher and Associate Director, Climate and Environmental Science Laboratory, Pierre Simon Laplace Institute, Paris
19 min
November 17, 2021 How Belarus engineered a migrant crisis
A new migrant crisis is building on the European Union's eastern frontier.
At the border with Poland, thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are camped out in forests and woodlands in Belarus trying to enter.
So how did they get there?
And how does this impasse resolve?
Today on The Signal, how Belarus engineered a migrant crisis, and why.
Featured:
Sara Cincurova, independent journalist, Bratislava, Slovakia
19 min
November 16, 2021 Why are there gallows on Melbourne streets?
You don't see gallows at a protest all that often in Australia, but they've appeared more than once lately in Melbourne.
The scenes are just the most visible part of the backlash to the Victorian Government's new pandemic power bill, which has been described as an attack on democracy by the state opposition.
So what is it about this bill that's inspired so much anger?
Featured:
Josh Taylor, reporter, The Guardian Australia
17 min
November 15, 2021 When will Australian kids be vaccinated?
28 million American children between the ages of 5 and 12 are lining up to get vaccinated against COVID-19, after health authorities there gave Pfizer's jab for kids emergency approval.
In Australia, the health minister Greg Hunt says there'll be a little more of a wait, although he is indicating the first jabs could be administered to children by January.
So what do we know about how COVID-19 affects children?
And can the delay in vaccinating them be justified?
Featured:
Professor Fiona Russell, Paediatrician, infectious diseases epidemiologist and vaccinologist, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute
19 min
November 14, 2021 Did the Glasgow climate summit fail?
After walkouts, tears and last-minute deals, the UN climate summit in Glasgow is over, and all 197 countries have signed up to the final agreement.
So what's in it?
Today on The Signal, we're bringing you the successes and failures of COP26.
Where does the world stand after the most crucial climate meeting to date?
Featured:
Lesley Hughes, Professor of Biology at Macquarie University & Climate Councillor, Climate Council of Australia
20 min

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