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04.18.2024
Newsroom edition: From Bruce Lehrmann to violence in Sydney, what happens when the media gets it wrong?
This week the devastating killings at Bondi junction, the attack at Wakeley and the long-awaited judgment in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial dominated the headlines. Sensitive, traumatic and often violent images flooded people’s feeds. Bridie Jabour speaks to editor-in-chief Lenore...
04.17.2024
Sydney church stabbing: how an alleged attack reignited tensions
At about 7pm on Monday night, a teenager wearing a black hoodie walked up to a bishop conducting a service in an Orthodox church in western Sydney and allegedly stabbed him repeatedly. Police have labelled it an act of terrorism,...
04.16.2024
Is the Middle East on the brink?
After Iran launched an attack on Israel, is the region heading for all-out war? Emma Graham-Harrison reports
04.15.2024
The Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial verdict
Bruce Lehrmann has lost his defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, bringing to an end a sprawling legal saga which has gripped the nation. In a live oral summary that took two and a half hours, Justice Michael...
04.14.2024
How the Bondi Junction stabbing attack unfolded
Seven people have died in a stabbing attack at Sydney shopping centre Bondi Junction Westfield, including the perpetrator, Joel Cauchi. Police said he suffered from mental health problems. NSW state correspondent Tamsin Rose tells Nour Haydar what happened on Saturday...
04.11.2024
Newsroom edition: Labor’s changing rhetoric on Palestine
This week, the foreign minister, Penny Wong, spoke about finding a pathway to peace in the Middle East, calling for a two-state solution and the recognition of Palestine as a state. In response, Australia’s opposition leader, Peter Dutton, attacked Wong,...
04.10.2024
How Centrepay plunged vulnerable Australians into debt
A Guardian investigation has revealed that a debit scheme – originally designed to help people on welfare to pay bills and expenses – is exposing people to financial harm. Now advocates say urgent action is needed to protect the most...
04.09.2024
What is Reddit really worth?
The popular social media site has never made a profit and relies on an army of unpaid moderators to keep order. So what difference will a stock market listing make? Alex Hern reports You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
04.08.2024
Navigating the science of treating menopause
While conversations about menopause have changed and matured, the question of when and how to treat perimenopausal symptoms remains confusing. Science journalist Bianca Nogrady tells Jane Lee why there are still so many unknowns about when and how to treat...
04.05.2024
Sex, drugs and credit cards: new allegations heard at Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against Ten
Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson reopened on Thursday, with former Channel Seven producer Taylor Auerbach giving new evidence. Guardian Australia media correspondent Amanda Meade tells Gabrielle Jackson what the fresh evidence could mean for one...
04.04.2024
Israel divided: Netanyahu’s coalition crisis
A cabinet split over military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews and large street protests demanding the release of hostages are threatening the prime minister’s grip on power. Bethan McKernan reports from Jerusalem You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport How to...
04.03.2024
Bake for Gaza: Inside the kitchen supporting Palestinian arrivals
More than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the last six months – the majority women and children. For the Arab diaspora in Australia the rising death toll and looming famine has cast a dark...
04.02.2024
Labor’s big deportation miscalculation
The attempt to rush through new legislation designed to give the government extra powers to deport individuals from Australia has been rejected by the Senate. Chief political correspondent Paul Karp tells Jane Lee why Labor’s deportation bill is so controversial...
04.01.2024
The rise and fall of Vice Media
Vice Media is laying off hundreds of workers and no longer publishing journalism on its website. Sirin Kale and Sam Wolfson discuss their time at the company You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
03.31.2024
The science behind your sense of intuition
Cognitive neuroscientist professor Joel Pearson tells Jane Lee when to trust your gut (and when not to) You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
03.28.2024
Who screwed millennials? Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism
In Guardian Australia’s new series Who screwed millennials, co-host Matilda Boseley spoke to Yanis Varoufakis about how the Australian housing market entrenches inequality. In this bonus episode, we hear more from Varoufakis on the state of the economy, how young...
03.27.2024
Can millennials unscrew themselves? Part 5
There are no easy answers to undoing all the problems driving intergenerational inequality but hope is not lost. Young Australians are increasingly politically influential, making up 43% of voters at the last federal election. Jane Lee and Matilda Boseley call...
03.26.2024
Who screwed millennials out of a secure job? Part 4
Why is the best way to get a pay rise to get a new job? Millennials have entered the workforce at a time when work is precarious: a third of Australia’s workforce are employed as casuals, freelancers or on short-term...
03.25.2024
Who screwed millennials out of affordable education? Part 3
How did a system that was meant to make access to university more equitable end up burdening students with the very $100,000 degrees John Howard promised Australia would never have? Jane Lee and Matilda Boseley talk to the Labor-appointed architect...
03.24.2024
Who screwed millennials out of affordable housing? Part 2
How did the government set fire to the Australian housing market? Jane Lee and Matilda Boseley look at how the threat of a communist uprising, a benign sounding tax review and one prime minister’s admiration for two world leaders changed...
03.24.2024
Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1
With rising house prices, a decade of wage stagnation and ballooning student debt, young people in Australia are living through what author Jill Filipovic describes as ‘a series of broken promises’. In episode one of this new series from Guardian...
03.21.2024
Newsroom edition: the struggle to get big money out of politics
Is there a right way to fix political donations? At the last federal election Labor promised to tackle the controversial issue, but this week the crossbench came up with their own proposal. Jane Lee speaks with editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and...
03.20.2024
Karen Middleton on the state of Australian politics
Guardian Australia’s new political editor, Karen Middleton, tells Nour Haydar how she got hooked on politics You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
03.19.2024
Black Box episode three: repocalypse now
When Eugenia Kuyda created Replika, the AI companion app, she had no idea it would be downloaded millions of times all around the world. The results were more powerful than she could ever have predicted. But so was the backlash
03.18.2024
Could Australia go nuclear?
Nuclear power is shaping up as a major issue leading into the next federal election. The Coalition wants Australia to lift its ban on nuclear power, with leader Peter Dutton saying his plan would involve building as many as six...
03.17.2024
The princess and the pictures
In this episode of Today in Focus, an edited family photo of the Princess of Wales with her children on Mother’s Day has fuelled an intensifying swirl of conspiracy theories surrounding the royal couple
03.15.2024
Introducing: Who screwed millennials?
Australian millennials are the first generation to be worse off than their parents, and things are only heading in the same direction for Gen Z. In this deeply-researched yet tongue-in-cheek five-part podcast series, Full Story co-host Jane Lee and social...
03.14.2024
Newsroom edition: the future of Australia’s alliance with the US
This week, fresh speculation has erupted over Australia’s plan for nuclear powered submarines — and whether it will ever happen. Has the government made a strategic mistake in the region by tying itself so closely to the US? What could...
03.13.2024
The presidential rematch no one wants
The US presidential election will be a rematch between two well known, yet deeply unpopular candidates. Joe Biden has won the Democratic nomination but the 81-year-old is the oldest president to ever seek re-election. And his opponent, Republican Donald Trump,...
03.12.2024
The fight to make EVs more affordable
Last month the government unveiled its plan for a vehicle-efficiency standard to incentivise carmakers to supply more low- and zero-emission cars. Climate and environment editor Adam Morton tells Nour Haydar about the plan to make electric vehicles more affordable –...
03.11.2024
The hunt for ClothOff: the deepfake porn app
For the past six months, Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal...
03.10.2024
In the witness box: former police officer Zachary Rolfe testifies
After months of delays and disruptions, former Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe testified at the inquest into Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker’s death. In 2022 Rolfe was found not guilty of murdering the 19-year-old, who he shot three times during...
03.07.2024
Newsroom edition: the Liberal party’s policy problem
A deficit of Liberal party policy has been exposed in the wake of Labor’s win in the Dunkley byelection last week. Labor and the Greens are both on the front foot with their own policies on housing, tax, and energy....
03.06.2024
Ten years on: the disappearance of MH370
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 departed Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2014, bound for Beijing with 12 crew and 227 passengers on board – including seven Australians. About 40 minutes later it disappeared from the radar and its fate remains...
03.05.2024
Black Box episode one: The connectionists
This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works....
03.04.2024
Can we fix our Universities?
A once-in-a-generation expert review warns that not enough Australians are receiving a higher education. To fix this, their report proposes a new, needs-based funding model so students from disadvantaged backgrounds are better supported at university. But not everyone thinks it’s...
03.03.2024
Have they found a cure for the tiredness epidemic?
There’s a lot of attention right now on nootropics, or brain boosters. The marketing is telling us these over-the-counter supplements will keep us awake and alert, and even improve the way our brains perform. But should we believe the hype?...
02.29.2024
Newsroom edition: can Peter Dutton win the next election?
Polling this week suggests that the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, is gaining voter approval despite the popularity of Labor’s changes to the stage-three tax cuts. So how much can we rely on polls as predictors of future governments at this...
02.28.2024
The alleged double murder of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
The alleged double murder of a young couple has left many in Sydney’s queer community hurting and angry. Reporters Catie McLeod and Jordyn Beazley speak to Nour Haydar about the ongoing investigation and the fractured relationship between police and the...
02.27.2024
Will shaming employers close the gender pay gap?
This week the gender pay gaps at thousands of Australia’s largest employers were made public for the first time. And the data paints a stark picture, with some of the country’s most recognisable companies posting gender pay gaps of 30-40%...
02.26.2024
The high-stakes political fight for Dunkley
This weekend voters in the Victorian electorate of Dunkley will head to the polls in a crucial federal byelection that will become the first test of how the community views the performance of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton in a...
02.25.2024
‘Genocide isn’t a crime that grows old’: a special Guardian Australia/Four Corners investigation
Thirty years after one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, Guardian reporter Ben Doherty travels to Rwanda to investigate claims by Rwandan authorities that two men they believe are living in Australia allegedly participated in genocide. Doherty speaks...
02.22.2024
Newsroom edition: the political resistance to clean energy
As Australia’s average temperature increases by 1.5C and extreme weather events become more severe, the public has made its feelings clear. Most Australians want to transition to clean energy. But in this country, the climate wars never die. The Coalition,...
02.21.2024
More boats, more votes: why Dutton is manifesting a crisis
Chief political correspondent Paul Karp tells Nour Haydar how the arrival of an asylum seeker boat has reignited a war of words about Operation Sovereign Borders You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
02.20.2024
The shocking death and extraordinary life of Alexei Navalny
The opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner was Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic. What does his death in a Siberian prison tell us about Russia today? Andrew Roth reports
02.19.2024
Why police are accused of radicalising an autistic teenager
When a lonely and impressionable teenager became fixated on Islamic State, police began an operation that ended up further radicalising him. At just 14, the boy was then charged with terrorism offences. Courts and justice reporter Nino Bucci tells Patrick...
02.18.2024
Is Joe Biden too old to be president?
The US president’s age is increasingly becoming a political liability – even though Donald Trump is just four years younger. David Smith reports
02.15.2024
Newsroom edition: Barnaby Joyce and the politics of privacy
Last week, Barnaby Joyce was filmed lying on a Canberra footpath, swearing profanities into his phone. He blamed the incident on the interaction between alcohol and prescription medication. Some critics called for his resignation, others called for the former deputy...
02.14.2024
Why Peter Dutton doesn’t want the right to disconnect
Last week parliament passed a new law giving workers more power to push back against unreasonable out-of-hours requests from their employers. The Albanese government says this is needed to protect workers’ rights in the digital age. But the Dutton-led Coalition...
02.13.2024
Dog résumés? The lengths we’re going to for a rental property
What happens when you can’t find a rental in your budget and you own a dog? Caitlin Cassidy recounts her horror story looking for a home with a pet, and Cait Kelly speaks to Gabrielle Jackson about what’s driving the...

What's Full Story about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Full Story episodes:

Newsroom edition: From Bruce Lehrmann to violence in Sydney, what happens when the media gets it wrong?

Sydney church stabbing: how an alleged attack reignited tensions

Is the Middle East on the brink?

The Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial verdict

How the Bondi Junction stabbing attack unfolded

Newsroom edition: Labor’s changing rhetoric on Palestine

How Centrepay plunged vulnerable Australians into debt

What is Reddit really worth?

Navigating the science of treating menopause

Sex, drugs and credit cards: new allegations heard at Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against Ten

Israel divided: Netanyahu’s coalition crisis

Bake for Gaza: Inside the kitchen supporting Palestinian arrivals

Labor’s big deportation miscalculation

The rise and fall of Vice Media

The science behind your sense of intuition

Who screwed millennials? Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism

Can millennials unscrew themselves? Part 5

Who screwed millennials out of a secure job? Part 4

Who screwed millennials out of affordable education? Part 3

Who screwed millennials out of affordable housing? Part 2

Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1

Newsroom edition: the struggle to get big money out of politics

Karen Middleton on the state of Australian politics

Black Box episode three: repocalypse now

Could Australia go nuclear?

The princess and the pictures

Introducing: Who screwed millennials?

Newsroom edition: the future of Australia’s alliance with the US

The presidential rematch no one wants

The fight to make EVs more affordable

The hunt for ClothOff: the deepfake porn app

In the witness box: former police officer Zachary Rolfe testifies

Newsroom edition: the Liberal party’s policy problem

Ten years on: the disappearance of MH370

Black Box episode one: The connectionists

Can we fix our Universities?

Have they found a cure for the tiredness epidemic?

Newsroom edition: can Peter Dutton win the next election?

The alleged double murder of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

Will shaming employers close the gender pay gap?

The high-stakes political fight for Dunkley

‘Genocide isn’t a crime that grows old’: a special Guardian Australia/Four Corners investigation

Newsroom edition: the political resistance to clean energy

More boats, more votes: why Dutton is manifesting a crisis

The shocking death and extraordinary life of Alexei Navalny

Why police are accused of radicalising an autistic teenager

Is Joe Biden too old to be president?

Newsroom edition: Barnaby Joyce and the politics of privacy

Why Peter Dutton doesn’t want the right to disconnect

Dog résumés? The lengths we’re going to for a rental property