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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April 14, 2019 Australia's ISIS orphans
The three orphaned children of Australian Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf are stuck in a Syrian refugee camp.
Collectively they’ve survived the rise and the fall of ISIS, illness, war wounds, the death of both parents, a treacherous trip to a notorious refugee camp, and terrible conditions inside it.
They’ve told the ABC’s Four Corners they want to come home, and the Federal Government has so far refused to help them out of the camp.
Today’s episode follows their grandmother Karen Nettleton’s increasingly desperate attempts to get them out of Syria and back on Australian soil.
Featured:
ABC investigative reporter, Dylan Welch
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18min
April 11, 2019 Requiem for a Parliament
The federal election has been called, and the 45th parliament is officially over.
But how will it be remembered?
Today's episode of The Signal is a look back at the last three years of government - the highs, the lows, the achievements and the crises.
We'll remind of you of some things you've almost definitely forgotten, including some that the Government would probably prefer you did.
Featured:
Patricia Karvelas, host, RN Drive & co-host, The Party Room
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20min
April 10, 2019 Not without my ute: the bizarre battle over electric cars
The Federal Government has a message for you - Bill Shorten is coming for your ute.
It's the latest in the deeply weird and increasingly feral debate over electric cars at the moment.
So where's the truth in all this?
How far behind other countries is Australia in its electric car uptake, and what's holding it back?
What exactly have both the parties promised to do about it?
And are utes really a threatened species?
Featured:
Henry Belot, ABC Political Reporter
Gail Broadbent, PHD candidate, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales
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16min
April 09, 2019 Catching a catfish
It's one of the weirdest and most tragic catfishing cases we've ever come across.
A fake celebrity profile was the bait, before the relationships escalated into ugly and abusive behaviour with devastating consequences.
We look at the cases of two women who were catfished by the same person over years, threatened, stalked and even comforted at times by a fake cast of friends and enemies online.
So who would do this to someone and why?
Today's episode of The Signal is a close look at the psychology of catfishing.
Featured:
James Oaten, ABC reporter
Professor James Ogloff, forensic psychologist, Swinburne University
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19min
April 08, 2019 Meet the biggest big brother in the world
As far as government databases go, they don't get any bigger than this: the Indian Government's 'Aadhaar' system contains the biometric details of more than one billion people.
It's hugely controversial, and the problems are mounting, with thousands of data breaches and reports Aadhaar is to blame for deaths from starvation.
So what's going on with the world's largest national ID system?
And are there lessons for us in Australia?
Featured:
Reetika Khera, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and author, "Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data Meets Big Brother"
Troy Hunt, security researcher
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14min
April 07, 2019 Tripping as treatment
For decades, governments all over the world have given psychedelics like LSD a bad wrap, making it difficult for scientists to study how they work.
But in the last few years that’s been slowly changing, and this month the first psychedelic medical trial in Australia gets underway in Melbourne.
So what do we know about how psychedelics affect the brain?
And could they one day be prescribed by your doctor to treat depression or anxiety?
Featured:
Martin Williams, postdoctoral researcher, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
David Nutt, Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London
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15min
April 04, 2019 When touchy feely gets creepy
Former US Vice President Joe Biden has been out sort-of apologising this week, after four women came forward to complain about his creepy kisses and hugs.
Several of the incidents were caught on camera, and seem to fit with a reputation Joe Biden has had for years for being weirdly tactile with women.
So will any of this affect his widely discussed plans to run for President?
And does Joe Biden's age work as a partial defence for his actions?
Featured:
Chas Licciardello, co-host, Planet America, ABC News
Sophie Halliday Zadeh, body language specialist
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15min
April 03, 2019 Is Antarctica up for grabs?
A lot of powerful countries, including China, are eyeing off Antarctica, and it could be about to get a lot more crowded.
The Chinese Government has bases inside Australia's claim, and the only system for policing what happens there is expensive and underutilised.
So with the Australian Government nominally in charge of nearly half of the continent's landmass, have we been asleep at the wheel?
And as the world's climate warms and superpowers flex their muscles, is Antarctica's status as a peaceful frontier about to change?
Featured:
Jackson Gothe-Snape, ABC reporter
Professor Tim Stephens, Australia Research Council Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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13min
April 02, 2019 Budget 2019: the important bits
If you take the Treasurer at his word, the long-promised, long-delayed budget surplus is just around the corner, and Australia can afford major tax cuts too.
So how did Josh Frydenberg make his sums add up?
What's in the budget for you?
And how realistic is that surplus forecast anyway?
Featured:
Ian Verrender, ABC Business Editor
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16min
April 01, 2019 Why Newstart is stuck
The dole has been going backwards in real terms for years, and there are estimates half the people living on it now are below the poverty line.
So with the Government bringing forward major tax cuts in its budget tonight, why can't it find the cash to help out the unemployed?
And if there is a good argument for raising Newstart, why isn't anyone doing it?
Featured:
Tom Studans, Newstart recipient
Nicki Hutley, Partner, Deloitte Access Economics
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17min

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The podcast currently has 1,806 episodes available.