ABC News Daily

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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 unde... more

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May 27, 2019 Theresa May's out. What's next?
British politics has been fully fledged disaster for ages, but things have really kicked up a notch in the past week.
Theresa May's finally resigned as Prime Minister and there's a conga line of hard Brexiteers, lead by Boris Johnson, ready to take her job.
Meanwhile, the EU Parliamentary elections have proved yet again that voters all over Europe are abandoning the centre.
So who's going to take over from Theresa May, and can they do any better than she did delivering Brexit to the UK voters demanding it?
And why are voters all over Europe, including in the UK fleeing to the political extremes?
Featuring:
Professor Simon Tormey, Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
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14min
May 26, 2019 Are we flirting with a recession?
Analysts are warning that the economy could be about to tank, but how seriously should you take that warning?
Inflation, household debt, wage growth and bunch of other important weather vanes are all looking pretty stormy.
Housing prices are sliding, and some people could end up with mortgages bigger than the value of their property.
Add to that the fact that the official interest rate is at a record low of 1.5%, and all the signs say its about to plumb new depths.
So what's gone wrong? And are we really headed for a recession?
As explained to two podcasts hosts without economics majors.
Featured:
Ian Verrender, ABC Business Editor
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16min
May 23, 2019 Who is Albo, really?
Anthony Albanese is almost certainly about to become Australia's new opposition leader, now all the other contenders for Labor's top job have dropped out.
But what do we actually know about him?
He's been in politics for more than 20 years, but his story starts a lot earlier than that.
So what’s Albo really like?
We know he's from Labor's left faction, but exactly how far left is he?
And what's his pitch to run the country?
Featured:
Karen Middleton, Chief Political Correspondent, The Saturday Paper, author of 'Albanese: Telling It Straight'
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15min
May 22, 2019 Quitting white supremacy
In today's episode, you’ll meet an Australian couple who spent years bragging about being white supremacists.
They met and fell in love in an online Neo-Nazi community, and were in communication with some of the world's most prominent racists.
When their white supremacist views were uncovered in a leaked online chat, and they were confronted by an ABC reporter, they claimed they were reformed.
But how do they explain their views in the first place?
And when you've been down that path, how do you convince people you've really changed back?
Featured:
Elise Worthington, ABC investigative reporter
Justin & Lisa Beulah, former white supremacists
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16min
May 21, 2019 What killed Bill?
Reinventing yourself is standard practice after the kind of shocking defeat that Labor suffered on the weekend.
It's less clear what the party plans to turn itself into, apart from something more electable.
Step one is switching leaders, but can any of the contenders succeed where Bill Shorten failed?
What was wrong with Bill Shorten and his policies, anyway?
And can the Labor Party replace both of those things without suffering a crippling identity crisis in the process?
Featured:
Ian Kortlang, political consultant
Dr Stephen Mills, political science lecturer at The University of Sydney, former speechwriter for Bob Hawke
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17min
May 20, 2019 Could the US ban abortion?
Conservatives are on the brink of a huge win in America's decades-long abortion rights war.
Bolder and bolder laws restricting abortion rights have been passed by many states, including Alabama, which last week banned abortion outright, even in cases of rape and incest.
Some of those laws, including Alabama's, are designed to be challenged in the hopes they'll rise to the Supreme Court, where a conservative majority could overturn Roe v Wade.
So far the tactic has been working out, and national abortion rights in the US are on the line.
So how's it going to play out?
Featured:
Dr Prudence Flowers, US history and abortion law expert, Flinders University
Chas Licciardello, host of the ABC’s Planet America
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17min
May 19, 2019 Make polling great again
Call it a miracle or a nasty shock, but almost no-one saw the election result coming.
So how did the polls fail to predict the Coalition's victory?
It's just the latest in a string of polling failures globally, including the failure to predict Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US Presidential election, and the outcome of the Brexit vote.
But Australian polls, at least at a federal level, had been relatively reliable. Until now.
So what's changed? Can the problem be fixed? And what are the consequences if it can't?
Featured:
Annabel Crabb, ABC political journalist
Dr Kevin Bonham, independent polling analyst
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16min
May 16, 2019 You let who in?
It's the day before the election, and it's emerged that Australia secretly agreed to take in two accused murderers as part of its 2016 US refugee swap deal.
US news site Politico has revealed that two Rwandan men, accused of bludgeoning American tourists to death in Uganda in 1999, were resettled in Australia in November.
It's difficult to explain for a Government that's staked a large part of its reputation on a hardline refugee policy.
So could it lose the Coalition seats in the election? And what else don’t we know about the deal?
Featured:
Josh Gerstein, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter, Politico
Andrew Probyn, ABC Political Editor
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18min
May 15, 2019 Why first home buyers can't win
The major parties say they want to help first home buyers, but what are they actually doing about it?
The Coalition has announced a plan to help first home buyers into the property market by lowering the minimum deposit from 20% to 5%.
Labor matched their promise pretty much straight away, which means no matter who wins the election, it’s probably happening.
But will it work?
Successive governments have failed to make a dent in the problem of housing affordability. So what are they doing wrong? And is the problem even fixable?
Featured:
Brendan Coates, Fellow, Grattan Institute
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15min
May 14, 2019 Can you fix a paedophile?
A shockingly high proportion of the adult population experiences some level of sexual attraction to children.
So if we're serious about preventing abuse, why aren't there more treatment programs?
In Australia, paedophiles who want help not to offend against children have very few places to turn.
But a program in Germany called The Dunkelfeld Project has treated thousands of men.
So does it actually work?
Featured:
Dr Kelly Richards, Criminologist, Queensland University of Technology
Maximilian von Heyden, spokesman, The Dunkelfeld Project
'Max Webber', anonymous celibate paedophile
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19min

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The podcast currently has 1,805 episodes available.