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August 11, 2021 Where your old clothes end up
Australians typically buy a whole lot more clothes than we need.
Most of us eventually send the excess off to charity, but that's not necessarily its final destination.
Plenty of those clothes wind up in Ghana, where they're creating an ecological catastrophe.
Those that aren't resold end up clogging drainways, riverbeds and the seafloor, or even being burned in enormous pyres that emit noxious smoke.
So why do our clothes end up in Ghana?
And is there anything we can do about it?
Featured:
Linton Besser, Reporter, Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV
Asare Asamoah, Used clothes importer, Accra, Ghana
Emmanuel Ajaab, Used clothes importer, Accra, Ghana
Liz Ricketts, Director, OR Foundation
20 min
August 10, 2021 A wake-up call on climate change
The news on climate change just keeps getting worse.
A new landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says Earth's temperature is likely to sail past its predicted 1.5 degree increase in as little as a decade.
The updated advice is being described as a code red for humanity, as the crucial UN summit in Glasgow this November creeps closer.
Today on The Signal, the alarm is being sounded, louder than ever.
So who's listening, and how will they respond?
Featured:
Emeritus Professor Will Steffen, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra and Councillor, Climate Council
19 min
August 09, 2021 Do we need COVID vaccine boosters?
As if getting hold of your first two jabs wasn't hard enough, now there's talk you'll need a third.
Less than a fifth of the Australian population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but the Government has already signed contracts for tens of millions of booster doses, to top up our immunity as soon as next year.
The thing is, there's no concrete evidence yet about when or even whether we'll definitely need them.
Today on The Signal, we're exploring the incomplete science on COVID vaccine boosters.
Featured:
Professor Peter Collignon, Infectious diseases physician, Microbiologist and Professor of Infectious Diseases, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra
Associate Professor Nick Wood, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney and Lead, NSW Immunisation Specialist Service, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney
18 min
August 08, 2021 Australia's biggest online quiz
Everyone loves an online quiz, but not everyone loves Australia's biggest online quiz — the census.
The chaos of the 2016 poll is still legendary, having suffered the ignominy of being given its own hashtag — censusfail.
So five years on, will census 2021 be a triumph or another disaster?
Featured:
Dr Liz Allen, Demographer, Australian National University
16 min
August 05, 2021 How life might change for the unvaccinated
Life could be about to get a lot harder for unvaccinated people.
Not only because of their potential exposure to the virus, but because they might be barred from full participation in society.
Vaccine passports have already been introduced in a number of countries, and Australia could follow suit soon.
So is that fair, is it legal, and what happens if you don't have one?
Featured:
Associate Professor Maria O'Sullivan, Monash University Law School
22 min
August 04, 2021 Is America going to ban abortion?
America's fight over access to abortion is long, bitter and ugly.
And with a conservative majority now sitting on the US Supreme Court, the rules might be about to change dramatically.
Next month, the US Supreme Court is due to start hearing a case that could validate an effective ban on abortions after 15 weeks in Mississippi, in a case that will have far reaching consequences for the entire county.
So what could it mean for women in Mississippi, and everywhere else in America?
Featured:
Kathryn Diss, ABC North America Correspondent
Dr Colleen McNicholas, Obstetrician-Gynecologist in St Louis, Missouri, US
Robin Utz, Missouri mother
Angela Michael, Retired Missouri nurse
Sam Lee, Director, Campaign Life Missouri
23 min
August 03, 2021 Is Delta worse for young people?
COVID 19 seems to be affecting young people like never before.
Queensland's outbreak is still small next to Sydney's, but the virus is concentrated in schools.
For example on Monday, the state recorded 15 new cases — ten of them were children younger than nine years of age.
Today on The Signal, Australia's current outbreak isn't slowing down, and more children are being diagnosed every day.
So how much worse is Delta for young people?
Featured:
Professor Kristine Macartney, University of Sydney, Paediatrics and infectious diseases specialist, Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance
Hellena Souisa, Journalist, ABC Asia Pacific Newsroom
16 min
August 02, 2021 Why Sky was banned from YouTube
Australia's biggest commercial news channel, Sky, is banned from posting on its YouTube account for seven days.
The temporary block, which YouTube says is a "first strike" against misinformation, is one of the first for a major television network worldwide.
So what's behind it?
And could it be a test case for a new, tougher approach by YouTube to COVID-19 conspiracies and misinformation?
Featured:
Josh Taylor, Technology Reporter, Guardian Australia
20 min
August 01, 2021 What Australia's missing with the far right
The far right in Australia has changed.
But the way Australia tries to manage the threat of violent extremism from that movement seems to be more or less the same as it always has been.
So are we keeping up?
Today on The Signal, what are Norway, New Zealand and the US doing that we're not?
And do we need a rethink of how we deal with far right extremism?
Featured:
Jordan McSwinney, far right researcher & PhD candidate, University of Sydney
Professor Tore Bjørgo, Director, University of Oslo Centre for Extremism Research
20 min
July 29, 2021 Are the Brisbane Olympics a mistake?
Winning always feels good, even if being the only one left in the race does spoil the buzz a bit.
So why was Brisbane the only city in contention to host the 2032 Olympics?
And could it be that the rest of the world knows something Australia doesn't?
Today on The Signal, we're often told that hosting the Olympics brings the host city fortune, fame and decades of bragging rights.
But does the data back that up?
And if it doesn't, what does that mean for the future of the Olympic Games?
Featured:
Professor Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, US, and Author, 'Circus Maximus'
22 min

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ABC News Daily follows developments in the Middle East and the war between Israel and Hamas, with insights into the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu.

The podcast looks at the latest from Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelensky fights to repel the Russian invaders led by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. As China's Xi Jinping contemplates the future of Taiwan, ABC News Daily will sort fact from fiction.

As climate change fuelled by greenhouse gas emissions increases the risk of natural disasters, including fires and floods, ABC News Daily brings you fact-based analysis.

The podcast covers the future of renewable / green power generation, including the use of wind turbines, solar and hydro electric power.

ABC experts including Ian Verrender, Alan Kohler, Laura Tingle, David Speers, and Annabel Crabb join Samantha Hawley to step through big issues and current affairs.