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June 16, 2021 Has the public shifted on asylum seekers?
There's one Tamil asylum seeker family that's put the Government in a very uncomfortable position lately.
The Muragappans, known more widely as the Biloela family after the small Queensland town they lived in for years, have been trying to win the right to stay in Australia for almost a decade.
The family has been on Christmas Island since 2018, and that seemed unlikely to change.
But then on Monday of last week, their four-year-old daughter Tharnicaa became so sick that she was rushed to a Perth hospital with her mother Priya.
After immense public pressure, the rest of the family was allowed to follow.
Today on The Signal, we ask why the Biloela family is proving to be such an exception.
Is their case a one-off, or a weather vane for a much bigger shift?
Featured:
David Speers, Host, ABC Insiders
20 min
June 15, 2021 Ben Roberts-Smith v Channel Nine
One of Australia's most decorated soldiers, Ben Roberts-Smith, is suing Channel Nine over allegations of murders committed during his service in Afghanistan, and allegations of bullying and domestic violence.
Ben Roberts-Smith strenuously denies the allegations.
The defamation trial is already in its second week, and with a possible eight more weeks to go it's being billed as one of the biggest in Australian legal history.
So what's come out in court so far?
And what does it all mean for Channel Nine, for Ben Roberts-Smith, and for the Australian Defence Force?
Featured:
Matt Collins QC, Barrister specialising in defamation law
Nick Grimm, Senior Reporter, ABC Audio News and Current Affairs
20 min
June 14, 2021 How iron ore welds China to Australia
Australia's trade war with China is an instructive tale, and at the G7 meeting in Cornwall this week it was again front of mind.
So what are the key lessons that the world is taking from the dispute?
And why, after months of trade fights with China, has one key commodity been so far quarantined?
Today on The Signal, we're teaming up with Matt Bevan, host of the ABC's new podcast China If You're Listening, to find out.
We hear about this year's G7, and about how, despite the trade war, steel still welds China and Australia together.
Subscribe to China If You're Listening here: www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/china-if-youre-listening/
Featured:
Matt Bevan, Host, ABC China If You're Listening
35 min
June 13, 2021 Did we boost vaccine hesitancy?
Mass vaccination is our only way out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
So far though, the take-up of vaccines in Australia has been slow, with those eligible delaying booking appointments, and up to 16% of Australians telling pollsters they don't want the jab at all.
So is the media to blame?
Today on The Signal, we're looking at how Australian journalists have done covering COVID-19.
We ask whether coverage of side-effects and deaths linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine has gone too far, and turn the spotlight on ourselves here at The Signal as well.
Featured:
Dr Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
22 min
June 10, 2021 Why women block and boycott more than men
Women behave a bit differently online to men.
That's according to one of the biggest social surveys that happens in this country, Australia Talks, run by Vox Pop labs in conjunction with the ABC.
So why is that?
Today on The Signal, from organising boycotts and campaigns to withdrawing their support for public figures and products, we take a look at why Australian women are taking action online more often than men
Featured:
Olivia Williams, Indigenous campaigner
Hannah Diviney, writer and disability rights advocate
Sianna Catullo, Indigenous campaigner
21 min
June 09, 2021 Does the AN0M sting show police need more powers?
After three years of uninterrupted eavesdropping on the world's crime networks, a global police operation showed its hand this week.
The Australian Federal Police, along with the FBI and the EU's Europol, finally pulled back the veil on Operation Ironside.
They say it's led to hundreds of arrests and netted literally tonnes of drugs, cash, and guns.
Their methodology has been hailed as ingenious: police accessed an encrypted app called AN0M from the outset, then distributed it to criminals.
But how much damage does a sting like this do?
And do Australian police really need the extra powers they're pitching for?
Featured:
Dr Teagan Westendorf, Strategic Policing and Law Enforcement Analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
20 min
June 08, 2021 Asia's cautionary COVID tale for Australia
Australia loves to see itself as an international COVID success story, and there's a lot of truth to that.
But we used to have more company — Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, just to name a few.
In almost every case, that success has given way to a surge in recent months, as new, highly contagious versions of the virus, like the Delta variant, have spread around the world.
And the parallels with Australia's situation are hard to ignore.
Today on The Signal, it's the cautionary tale for Australia in Asia's latest COVID-19 surge.
Featured:
Mazoe Ford, South East Asia Correspondent, ABC
Professor Nancy Baxter, Epidemiologist, Head of School of Population & Global Health, University of Melbourne
18 min
June 07, 2021 A plague that won't end
Mice are still multiplying in their millions across eastern Australia.
Since September last year, the rodents have been devastating crops, drowning in swimming pools, and now their carcasses are even being coughed up by cod in inland rivers.
So what's driving the outbreak?
And with some drastic measures being considered, will anything bring the plague to an end?
Featured:
Phil Cleal, Forbes resident
Dr Peter Brown, senior research scientist, CSIRO
Anne Cullen, Coonamble farmer
Mick Harris, Narromine agronomist and fisherman
Stu Crawford, Narromine farmer
Additional reporting by Lucy Thackray, ABC Dubbo
19 min
June 06, 2021 What's keeping Melbourne in lockdown
What began as a circuit-breaker lockdown for Melbourne is now in its second week, as contact tracers try to find the source for two new cases that seemed to appear out of nowhere.
All the while, the theoretical end to lockdown on Friday is approaching, with no-one the wiser as to whether or not it'll be delayed.
Today on The Signal, we're asking what it will take for Melbourne's lockdown to lift.
Featured:
Raf Epstein, ABC Radio Melbourne Drive Host
17 min
June 03, 2021 Is it getting harder for young people?
One of the country's biggest surveys shows that most Australians think it's harder for young people to get ahead than it used to be.
So why do people feel that way?
Today on The Signal, we're digging into the trove of information that is the ABC's Australia Talks study.
We hear from young people all over the country, and ask why so many think things are getting worse.
Featured:
Georgia, 23-year-old from Victoria
Mark, 31-year-old from South Australia
Boris, 25-year-old from South Australia
19 min

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