Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Melbourne's lockdown extended again, with tighter restrictions and a 9pm to 5am curfew introduced. The city of 5 million souls has been in lockdown for longer than anywhere else in the country, with devastating effects on people's lives, livelihoods and kids' education. We examine the demographics of Australians who've died from covid, plus overseas warnings of super variants emerging in the unvaccinated 3rd world.

Piers chews the fat with beekeeper activist Simon Mulvany. We talk disrupted travel plans, state border closures, vaccine passports, lost freedoms, economic fallout, mental health and lockdown fatigue.

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. While Europe enjoys summer holidays, Australia's biggest cities are under wraps, with lockdowns extended as case numbers rise sharply in Sydney and remain stubbornly high for greater Melbourne. We discuss the limits of what lockdowns can achieve, vaccine certificates and how Oxford researchers are questioning the very notion of herd immunity.

We could be entering a new and dangerous phase of the pandemic, with delta and other super contagious variants threatening populations around the world. Piers discusses what can be done to stem the tide: high tech and low tech options and the limits to what lockdowns can achieve.

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Delta puts younger people at risk, as Doherty modelling shows 20-40 year olds most important to vaccinate. China's delta outbreak. French protests. Vaccine hesitancy and digital certificates.

Bee keeper activist Simon Mulvany explains why agribusiness multinational Bayer will stop selling Roundup for residential use in the US in 2023.

Michael Simonetti, founder and CEO of Melbourne agency AndMine, talks about his past (very busy) 18 months. He discusses how to tap into group creativity on a collaborative whiteboard, even when working remotely. He explains Zoom etiquette and how his staff have become tighter, having learned about each other's home lives via web cams. He also covers security, cyber crime and going viral on TikTok.

Piers chats with online digital marketing expert Michael Simonetti about how demand for his company's services has exploded over the past 18 months. He reckons the fundamentals of marketing haven't changed, but have actually become more important than ever before.

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. The politics of covid: Federal Opposition on the attack over Australia's squandered victory over covid; vaccine availability and supply issues. Delta variant spreads to Victoria. Mixing and matching vaccine doses. UK set to end covid restrictions from 17th July, while infections increase sharply.

Is Australia's response to the pandemic becoming, as Labour politician Bill Shorten put it, a "sh*t show"? Even though the country mass produces its own Astra Zeneca vaccines, there are vaccine shortages. International borders remain closed to enter or leave, the delta variant is on the loose causing repeated damaging lockdowns and crucially the level of vaccination in the population is stubbornly low.