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June 25, 2020 What COVID-19 is doing to Brazil
The poorest Brazilians are coming up with grassroots answers to COVID-19, even as the spread of the virus accelerates.
There are thousands of news cases and hundreds of deaths on a daily basis in Brazil, and the crisis is not yet thought to be at its peak.
At the same time, the Brazilian Government, led by the populist conservative firebrand President Jair Bolsonaro, is in crisis.
So where does that leave Brazilians in the meantime, and will the nation emerge with its democracy intact?
17 min
June 24, 2020 Australia's incredible shrinking media
It's a bleak time in the Australian media industry.
On top of the looming loss of 250 staff at the ABC, already this year nearly 100 newspapers have gone out of print circulation, and the all important ad revenue is drying up for TV stations, commercial radio, and capital city newspapers too.
So is it terminal?
Today on The Signal we assess the long-term damage being done to Australian journalism, and ask how things became this bad, and whether there's anything that could turn it around.
Featured:
Jonathan Holmes, Former presenter, Media Watch, ABC TV
18 min
June 23, 2020 Is sexual harassment preventable?
Sexual harassment allegations against the former High Court Justice Dyson Heydon have revived the conversation about victimisation in the workplace.
Dyson Heydon denies any wrongdoing.
But the allegations aren't the first to be heard in Australia, and they won't be the last.
So is there a way to prevent sexual harassment from happening, rather than just responding when it does?
Featured:
Dr Kcasey McLoughlin, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle
15 min
June 22, 2020 Is it possible to ‘unrelax’?
Relaxing COVID-19 restrictions is the easy part, but reversing them might be harder.
The daily number of new COVID-19 cases in Victoria has been climbing for a couple of weeks.
It's not a second wave yet, but it could still turn into one.
Today on The Signal, we ask what it'll take to stop that from happening.
And now that Australians have begun to relax, is it possible to undo that?
Featured:
Tony Blakely, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Melbourne
Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Queensland
18 min
June 21, 2020 Doing the maths on an arts degree
University could be about to get a lot more expensive, depending on what you want to study.
From next year, under a government proposal, it would cost 113% more to go to uni for an Arts degree, and 28% more to study law or commerce, while the cost of studying agriculture, maths, nursing, teaching and languages would fall significantly.
So what's the rationale behind the change?
And if it goes through, will it change enrolment trends?
Today on The Signal we ask why the Government has decided that certain subjects are more worthy of funding than others, and what it might mean for you.
Featured:
Conor Duffy, ABC Education and Parenting Reporter
David Speers, Host, Insiders, ABC TV
16 min
June 18, 2020 Billing sexual abuse victims
Law firms of all sizes have swooped in for a cut of the national redress scheme, by billing survivors of child sexual abuse for a cut of their payment.
Some who've made successful claims have been charged thousands for a legal service that the government offers for free.
Not all of them have known what they were getting themselves into.
Today on The Signal, we take a closer look at the methods of those law firms with Jeremy Story Carter, who's been investigating the story for the ABC's Background Briefing.
18 min
June 17, 2020 Could China and India go to war?
Decades had passed in a disputed sliver of the Himalayas between China and India without a death.
Until Monday.
20 Indian troops and possibly some Chinese ones too, although Beijing won’t say, were killed in a brutal confrontation.
So why now?
And could the two nuclear powers go to war?
16 min
June 16, 2020 Labor's big Victorian meltdown
Labor's alleged Victorian branch-stacking crisis keeps expanding.
There are reports that as much as a quarter of the state's membership might have signed up under questionable circumstances.
In the days following those allegations, the Victorian Government has lost three ministers, all of whom deny any wrongdoing.
Now, Federal Labor has stepped in, appointing administrators to the state branch until next year and seizing control of preselections.
So how could it have happened, and what sort of fallout might be yet to come?
16 min
June 15, 2020 Why China is executing an Australian
Australian Karm Gilespie dropped off the radar back in 2013.
As it turns out, he's spent the last six and a half years in a Chinese prison on drug charges.
On Friday news broke he'd been handed a death sentence.
The Government has been reluctant to link his case to the deeply fractured diplomatic relationship between the two countries, but the timing has given rise to speculation that the case is being used as a tool by the Chinese Government.
So is China trying to send Australia a message, and what could it be?
16 min
June 14, 2020 What we know about Australian slavery
Slavery didn't just happen in the US and Britain.
In Australia, the practice is rarely described in those terms, or at all, but a number of Australian industries relied on tens of thousands of slaves over the course of more than a century.
That history is right now getting its best airing in a long time.
It's been brought about by the Prime Minister Scott Morrison remarking that there was no slavery in Australia.
It's a comment he's since clarified, and apologised for.
Today, we're taking a closer look at a little known chapter of Australia's history that's rarely spoken about.
Featured:
Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
17 min

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