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June 30, 2021 Is this worse than sports rorts?
There was a major story about a Government spending scandal that broke earlier this week — not that you could hear it over the din of COVID coverage, as multiple states and territories introduced lockdowns.
A report from the Australian National Audit Office, released on Monday, shows the Government splashed $660 million on car parks, overwhelmingly located in Liberal seats in the lead up to the last election.
It's sparked comparisons to the 'sports rorts' saga, which maxxed out at $100 million.
So what's the Government's rationale? And will there be any fallout?
Featured:
David Speers, Host, ABC Insiders
17 min
June 29, 2021 Will our vaccines work on Delta?
Australia isn't even halfway vaccinated, and there are already new variants triggering a cascade of restrictions around the country.
Eight cities across four states and territories are currently in lockdown.
Today on The Signal, how well will the vaccines we currently have work against Delta?
And will they stop this kind of national outbreak from happening again?
Featured:
Professor Fiona Russell, Epidemiologist and Paediatrician, University of Melbourne
19 min
June 28, 2021 Is our recycling still going to landfill?
If you've ever put something in the recycling and wondered whether there's a point, this episode is for you.
Three years ago, Australia's recycling system broke down and we learned that a lot of the glass, plastic and paper we set aside was ending up as either pollution or landfill.
Eventually though, the story just went away. The question is: did the crisis?
Today on The Signal, what actually happens to our recycling in 2021? And how much of the blame lies with us?
Featured:
Dr Monique Retamal, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Future, The University of Technology Sydney
17 min
June 27, 2021 Can we get back on top of COVID?
Australia is backsliding in the battle to suppress COVID-19, and the weekend brought more bad news.
Greater Sydney and Darwin are both in lockdown, and there are new restrictions in place in Perth, Queensland, the ACT and regional NSW.
All over Australia, everyone is nervously waiting to see where more cases pop up next.
So how did it all unravel so fast?
Today on The Signal, we ask what we're doing to bring the virus back under control, and whether it will work.
Featured:
Professor Nancy Baxter, Epidemiologist and Head, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
22 min
June 24, 2021 Is delivery riding Australia's deadliest job?
A spate of deaths among food delivery riders last year shone a light on how desperately unsafe that job can be.
Companies promised to do better, but the problem may be bigger than we first thought.
Today on The Signal, the death that UberEats disowned.
Why didn't we know about it until now?
Featured:
Patrick Begley, Reporter, ABC Background Briefing
22 min
June 23, 2021 How scams are getting smarter
Online scams are working better on us than ever before.
Gone are the days when you could smugly delete the odd typo-ridden email and know that your identity and your cash were safe.
In fact some investment scams are so convincing at this point, they're taking in people with a very high level of financial and digital literacy.
Today on The Signal, the new internet grifts — how they work and what to watch out for.
Featured:
Amy Bainbridge, ABC Consumer Affairs Reporter
20 min
June 22, 2021 Do Australian farms rely on exploitation?
Australian farmers are screaming out for workers.
For years, European backpackers have been part of the solution, but now a change to the rules applying to young people coming from the UK has farmers worried.
Last week the Government said its solution was to create a new visa to bring in more workers from South East Asia, with the new permit to be offered to nationals from 10 countries.
So will that work?
Or will it just cause exploitation?
Today on The Signal, why is the Australian agricultural sector so reliant on foreign workers?
And will the Government's proposed changes make things better or worse?
Featured:
Dr Joanna Howe, Associate Dean (Research), Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
21 min
June 21, 2021 A second dose of Barnaby Joyce
After three fairly noisy years on the backbench, Barnaby Joyce is back on top.
He retook control of the National Party, the smaller sibling in the Coalition Government, when he beat the Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack in a leadership spill yesterday.
So what does Barnaby's return mean for how Australia is run?
Today on The Signal it's our second dose of Barnaby.
What it means for both climate change policy and the next election?
Featured:
Patricia Karvelas, Host, ABC News Afternoon Briefing and ABC RN Drive
18 min
June 20, 2021 Can Australia's status quo beat Delta?
NSW authorities hope to crush Sydney's COVID outbreak using masks, social distancing and contact tracing.
It's a plan that's worked well in the past, but is it really a match for the new, highly infectious Delta variant?
And if it isn't, what needs to change?
Today on The Signal, we ask how big a risk Delta might be to Australia's COVID strategy and, if we tried something different, what that would look like.
Featured:
Dr Mary-Louise McLaws, Professor of Epidemiology, Hospital infection and infectious diseases control, University of New South Wales, and Member of World Health Organisation Health Emergencies Program Experts Advisory Panel for Infection Prevention and Control Preparedness, Readiness and Response to COVID-19
20 min
June 17, 2021 Why young women are not their mothers
The attitudes of young Australian women are changing, and fast, on everything from marriage to kids and home ownership.
That's according to one of the biggest surveys that gets done in this country.
Australia Talks, a survey by Vox Pop labs in conjunction with the ABC, spoke to more than 60,000 Australians about what keeps them up at night.
Today on the Signal, we're putting some voices to that data.
So just how different is the future they have planned for themselves?
Featured:
Nina, 29-year-old from Sydney
Jacinta, 26-year-old from Sydney
Mannie, 28-year-old from Melbourne
20 min

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ABC News Daily is the podcast that helps you understand the issues affecting your world. Every episode, host Samantha Hawley walks through one story with the help of an ABC colleague or expert in under 15 minutes. When you want coverage you can trust, listen to ABC News Daily.

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The podcast covers news from America, with analysis of the Donald Trump administration in the White House. His actions, including threats of massive tariffs have big implications for global politics and the economy and US journalists and experts will explain what's at stake.

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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.