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November 11, 2021 Speaking about unspeakable crimes
Australia has undergone a revolution in how we talk about many crimes and disorders.
Despite the new openness, discussing incestuous abuse and the condition it can trigger, dissociative identity disorder, remains largely taboo.
So what, if anything, do we know about its prevalence?
And how do its victims live with the trauma?
Today on The Signal, we're talking with Tracey Shelton from the ABC's Background Briefing about the last unspeakable crime, and how those who've suffered from it find their voice.
Featured:
Tracey Shelton, Reporter, ABC Background Briefing and ABC Asia Pacific newsroom
26 min
November 10, 2021 Have we u-turned on electric vehicles?
After declaring in 2019 that electric vehicles would "end the weekend", the Government has had a change of heart.
It announced a 250 million dollar EV strategy this week, with a focus on funding public and household charging infrastructure.
So will it give EVs the push-start they need? Or is it all talk?
Today on The Signal, Australia's slow motion switch to electric vehicles. What will it take to speed things up?
Featured:
Gail Broadbent, postgraduate researcher on EVs, University of New South Wales
17 min
November 09, 2021 Can Joe Biden actually change America?
Joe Biden has passed a signature bill through Congress, but it's just a warm up for the next one.
The Build Back Better Plan is facing an uphill battle, with members of the President's own party providing some tough opposition.
So will his multi-trillion-dollar plan succeed?
Today on the Signal, can Joe Biden actually change America, and is his plan worth the price tag?
Featured:
Bruce Wolpe, Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre, Sydney
23 min
November 08, 2021 Will we need COVID boosters forever?
More than 80% of the eligible Australian population is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
It's a major milestone, and it comes as the federal government's population-wide booster program gets underway.
So what does the science tell us about why boosters are necessary?
And will we all need more than one?
Today on The Signal, everything we know and don't know about vaccines, boosters and waning immunity.
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Professor Tony Blakely, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
19 min
November 07, 2021 Has Glasgow solved climate change yet?
A week ago we were wondering what the UN climate summit in Glasgow, COP26, might deliver for humanity.
We'd been told many times that the world is not on track to limit warming to less than 2 degrees, and that Glasgow was our best - if not our last - chance to fix that.
At the halfway mark, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg says the talks have already failed.
So is she right?
Today on The Signal, while world leaders have mostly left, negotiations still have a week to run.
So what's the world agreed to so far? And is there still cause for hope in the final week?
Featured:
Dr Matthew England, Professor of Climate Processes, University of New South Wales, Sydney
20 min
November 04, 2021 Is there a case for nuclear power?
A handful of Nationals have pitched nuclear power as a way to lower Australia's emissions.
It's not the first time the idea has come up in Australia — but there's been a ban in place since 1998, and lacklustre public support since nuclear disasters such as Chernobyl.
So is it a good idea now, either environmentally or financially? And would the public support it this time around?
Featured:
Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Science and Environment, Griffith University
21 min
November 03, 2021 Australia's submarine war with France
France's fury with Australia over the decision to scrap a submarine contract isn't cooling.
Less than a week after Scott Morison assured the public the relationship was on the mend, the French President Emmanuel Macron has accused him of lying, while the French Ambassador in Canberra Jean-Pierre Thebault says things are now at an "unprecedented new low".
So is Scott Morrison making things worse?
And as relations with France continue to unravel, what might happen next?
Featured:
David Speers, Host, Insiders, ABC TV
20 min
November 02, 2021 Is Australia's climate record smoke and mirrors?
There's a lot of pressure on the leaders of wealthy countries gathering in Glasgow at the moment to be more ambitious on cutting emissions.
When the focus turns to Australia, the prime minister Scott Morrison has a standard reply: Australia's record on cutting emissions shows that we always keep our promises.
What he doesn't talk about, is how.
Today on The Signal, Australia's true record on climate targets.
How much of it is actually smoke and mirrors?
Featured:
Mikey Slezak, ABC National Environment, Science and Technology Reporter
21 min
November 01, 2021 Fortress Australia drops the drawbridge
After almost 600 days, Australia's borders have finally reopened to millions of citizens, permanent residents and New Zealanders who've been vaccinated.
In that time, the closed international border has dramatically reshaped Australian society, in particular its workforce, which is undersupplied without migrants.
Today on the Signal, 'Fortress Australia' is finally dropping the drawbridge, but how big is the immigration gap we need to fill? And will people still want in?
Featured:
Dr Liz Allen, Demographer, Australian National University, Canberra
18 min
October 31, 2021 What Gladys Berejiklian has to say to ICAC
On Friday, the former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian gave long-awaited evidence at a corruption inquiry, and there's more to come.
The former NSW Premier was questioned publicly about a series of tapped calls with her then partner, Daryl Maguire, who resigned from state parliament in disgrace in 2018, as investigators tried to discover how much she really knew about his conduct.
So what's the damage so far?
Today on The Signal, we bring you the key moments in Gladys Berejiklian's ICAC hearing, and find out all the ways that it could end.
Featured:
Paul Farrell, investigative reporter, ABC 7:30
23 min

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