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April 07, 2021 Are we replacing coal power fast enough?
Australia's coal fired power plants are on borrowed time.
The Northern power plant at Port Augusta in South Australia was reduced to rubble in 2017, and Hazelwood in Victoria's LaTrobe Valley went the same way last year.
Next in line is Liddell in New South Wales, slated for decommissioning in 2023.
This month marks the deadline the Federal Government gave the energy industry to make a plan for a world without Liddell and create 1000MW of new power, or it would fund a new gas-fired power station.
So has the industry filled the gap yet?
And what happens the next time a coal-fired power station shuts?
Featured:
Tristan Edis, Director, Green Energy Markets
18 min
April 06, 2021 Floods and COVID: Timor Leste's twin crises
The people of Timor Leste woke up on Sunday morning to an extraordinary situation: large parts of their capital, Dili, were underwater.
On Saturday morning, the skies opened, and the rain didn't stop until Sunday afternoon.
It was so heavy and unrelenting that much of the city's downtown region, including the presidential palace, the national hospital, and thousands of homes, was inundated.
The floods came at the exact moment that the country was scrambling to control a major COVID outbreak.
Today on The Signal, Timor Leste's worst floods since the 1970s, and what it means for their knife edge moment in the pandemic.
Featured:
Raimundos Oki, journalist, Timor Leste
Dr Jeremy Beckett, GP and Director of health NGO Maluk Timor
14 min
April 05, 2021 Solving the never-ending work day
Australians work some of the longest hours in the developed world, and for plenty of people the job doesn't finish when they leave the office.
Now at one workplace in Australia, employees and their union are saying enough is enough.
They've incorporated a 'right to disconnect' into their contracts.
So what does that mean in practice?
And could it work for you?
Featured:
Daniel Ziffer, Reporter, ABC TV The Business
Sergeant Rachel Dunkinson, Victoria Police
Wayne Gatt, Secretary, Police Association of Victoria
Danni Hunter, Victorian Executive Director, Property Council of Australia
Professor Emmanuel Josserand, Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
18 min
April 04, 2021 Meet the Stranded Australians
No home, no flight, dwindling medical supplies and a depleted bank account.
We're following two of the many thousands of Australians currently stranded overseas.
Affordable flights home are still vanishingly rare, with a strict cap on international arrivals, so the quarantine system isn’t overwhelmed.
So what do you do when you’re stuck on the wrong side of the world during a pandemic?
Featured:
Liz & Matt, Australians in London
18 min
April 01, 2021 How to get through family lunch
If you're seeing family this weekend, you could well be girding your loins for some sort of argument around the dinner table.
It's hard to find a family without political or ideological divides, and they're often along a generational lines.
Today on the Signal, we're looking at one family's approach to navigating those disagreements and giving you some practical advice on how to handle your own.
Featured:
Georgie, daughter
Peter, father
Dr Charlotte Keating, clinical psychologist specialising in families
25 min
March 31, 2021 Inside PNG's COVID-19 crisis
Papua New Guinea's COVID-19 crisis is spiralling out of control.
In just three weeks, the country has recorded 3,000 new cases, and clinics and field hospitals are struggling to keep up with demand.
It has the potential to become a full-blown humanitarian crisis.
Today on The Signal, we hear how the situation in PNG became so bad, so fast, and ask whether Australia is doing enough to help.
Featured:
Natalie Whiting, ABC Papua New Guinea Correspondent
Dr Gary Nou, Emergency Physician, Rita Flynn temporary field hospital and Gerehu General Hospital, Port Moresby
Dr Osborne Liko, Health Secretary, Papua New Guinea Ministry of Health
Dr Paki Malumi, Chief Executive, Port Moresby General Hospital
20 min
March 30, 2021 Exposing the Luna Park cover-up
In 1979 at Luna Park in Sydney, the ghost train caught fire.
It killed seven people, and police at the time were quick to blame an electrical fault.
But there were always whispers of something else at play: could it have been arson? If so, who would do such a thing? And did the police investigation at the time and the other subsequent inquiries go deep enough?
Today on The Signal, we sit down with ABC investigative reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna to hear some of the answers.
What have Caro and her colleagues unearthed?
And who was it that made sure this stayed buried for so long?
Featured:
Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Reporter, ABC TV + iView, 'Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire'
23 min
March 29, 2021 Is Australia botching the vaccine rollout?
Six million Australians are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, but as of Monday, fewer than 600,000 have had it.
For many countries, the hold up has been the international supply chain, but that's not the case here.
Today on The Signal, we investigate the slow start to Australia's COVID-19 vaccine program.
Is it time to admit there's a problem? And either way, how do we speed it up?
Featured:
Dr Stephen Duckett, Health Economist & Director, Health Program, The Grattan Institute
Dr Karen Price, President, Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners
Editor's Note: A statement from a spokesperson for Health Minister Greg Hunt was received after this podcast was recorded, a link to a related story has been included within the episode description.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-30/covid-rollout-logistical-effort-to-ramp-up-vaccination/100026116
16 min
March 28, 2021 Is the NDIS changing for the better?
Nearly half a million Australians living with a disability have been put on notice.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme, which they rely on for support, is going to change.
The Federal Government says it's about making the scheme fairer for everyone.
But is that really the full picture?
Today on The Signal, what the Government is planning to do to the NDIS, and what it means for people living with a disability.
Featured:
Nas Campanella, ABC Disability Affairs Reporter
Aaron Carpenter, disability services provider and NDIS participant
21 min
March 25, 2021 Inside a far-right recruitment drive in Australia
Hours of secret recordings obtained by the ABC show that a global neo-Nazi group is recruiting in Australia.
'The Base' has been grooming young men who espouse racist views to join them, and in Perth, it seems to have had some success.
Today on The Signal, we hear the audio of the prospective recruits.
What inspires the extremism of the group?
And should it and others like it be declared terrorist organisations in Australia?
Featured:
Alex Mann, Reporter, ABC Background Briefing
Jason Wilson, US-based Australian journalist
Dr Anne Aly, Labor MP and professor specialising in extremism and counter-terrorism
Dean Smith, former political candidate, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party
19 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 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.

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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.