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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
17 min
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
16 min
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
18 min
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
15 min
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
19 min
May 13, 2019 Is NewsCorp on the ropes?
It's not exactly news to say the Rupert Murdoch's media empire has a conservative tilt, but lately it's faced some pushback.
Just last week the Labor leader Bill Shorten called out the Daily Telegraph over what he saw as an unfair attack on his mother, and his honesty in telling her story.
Politicians, members of the public, and even some of NewsCorp's own journalists got in line behind him, to say they thought it was over the top.
So how big a deal is that?
Could this be a sign that NewsCorp's power is starting to fade? Or is it just a blip?
Featured:
Richard Cooke, contributing editor, The Monthly
Dr Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne, and former Fairfax Journalist
17 min
May 12, 2019 The truth about paedophilia
It’s scary to learn, but sexual attraction to children is a lot more common than most people realise.
Not everyone with that problem will meet with the clinical definition for paedophilia, but the attraction is there nevertheless.
So what separates a would-be abuser from an abuser?
Today’s episode is part one of a two part special where we speak to three men who say they’ve never offended but struggle with the attraction they feel towards children.
We also ask an expert about exactly how common attraction to children is, and what it is that makes people more likely to act on it.
Featured:
Dr Kelly Richards, Criminologist, Queensland University of Technology
Anonymous celibate paedophiles
25 min
May 09, 2019 The Clive Palmer you don't know
On the off chance you hadn’t noticed, Clive Palmer is trying to make a political comeback.
He's a man with a long and strange CV and today's episode includes all the things about him you’ve either forgotten or maybe never knew to begin with.
How does someone live that many lives in public? And why is he so desperate to be a politician?
Featured:
Sean Parnell, author of The Clive Palmer Story
Paul Karp, political reporter, Guardian Australia
19 min
May 08, 2019 Are we due for a super flu?
Flu season is here, and it's a bad one.
A 15-year-old boy with no pre-existing medical conditions has died from the flu in South Australia, and there have already been about 40,000 confirmed cases.
Even so, this year's flu is only a minor mutation on previous years. It's the major mutations that worry scientists.
So given it's been a while since the last one, are we due?
And more importantly, are we ready?
Featured:
Professor Bill Rawlinson, Senior Medical Virologist, NSW Health Pathology
13 min
May 07, 2019 Not all women are created equal
Olympic Champion, runner Caster Semenya isn't allowed to compete at a professional level anymore because of how high her testosterone levels are.
She has a medical condition known as hyperandrogenism, and it's more common than you think.
In fact, experts say it’s possible to have it, and go through life oblivious to the fact.
So what causes it, and what are the effects, good and bad?
We unpack the deeply misunderstood condition of hyperandrogenism, in all its glory.
Featured:
Professor Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
14 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.

From interest rates, real estate and the housing crisis, to scams and US politics, ABC News Daily brings you facts and analysis you need to understand the biggest news stories.

The podcast covers news from America, with analysis of the Donald Trump administration in the White House. His actions, including threats of massive tariffs have big implications for global politics and the economy and US journalists and experts will explain what's at stake.

As Australians battle a cost-of-living crisis, ABC News Daily looks at the causes of inflation, rising rental costs, house prices, insurance costs and the price of groceries. Key experts in business and finance join Samantha Hawley, explaining the state of the economy, the unemployment rate and the jobs market.

Whether you rent, own an investment house or apartment, or are repaying a mortgage, ABC News Daily offers unique insights and analysis. When there are big moves from the Reserve Bank (RBA) on interest rates, or reactions in the ASX or the Australian dollar, guest experts, including economists, explain why.

Look into ABC News Daily's archive to find episodes on electric vehicles (EVs), artificial intelligence (AI), politics, the big banks, supermarkets, Tesla, Elon Musk, education, schools, teachers and crime.

Watch for episodes about federal politics and the leadership of Labor's Anthony Albanese. We look at policy areas that matter for voters, including education, health, housing and immigration and assess the proposals from the federal opposition.

ABC News Daily follows developments in the Middle East and the war between Israel and Hamas, with insights into the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu.

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.

The podcast covers the future of renewable / green power generation, including the use of wind turbines, solar and hydro electric power.

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.