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Opposition leader Anthony Albanese accusing the PM of lying about his 2019 trip to Hawaii, proposed voter ID laws excluding young Aussies and First Nations people, and announcing relationships on social media.

Join Hack's Avani Dias with former Bachelor contestant and host of the politics podcast 'In the House and In the Senate' Alisha Aitken-Radburn, and influencer Christian Wilkins.

Three years after it was announced, the PM has finally introduced a controversial religious discrimination bill in parliament.

He believes people of faith need more protection under the law, but there are concerns that LGBTQI+ students and teachers could be worse off.

Plus, Yorta Yorta-Gunditjmara singer Isaiah Firebrace has presented his petition for Aboriginal history to be taught in Australian schools at Parliament House.

Live guests:Keysar Trad, Australian Federation of Islamic CouncilsJo Inkpin, Minister of Pitt St Uniting Church Sydney, Anglican priest and trans womanSteff Fenton, queer Christian and co-pastor at New City ChurchIsaiah Firebrace, musician

Food delivery services are making moves to cash in on Canada’s multi-billion dollar recreational weed industry.

Meanwhile… meet the young Aussie who says he got fired from his job after his bosses discovered he used medicinal cannabis

Australia’s listed white supremacist group The Base as a terrorist organisation, making it a criminal offence to be a member.

Plus, new research shows that young women and migrants were worst affected by job losses during the pandemic.

Live guests:Dr Teresa Nicoletti, lawyer and qualified scientist Dr Joshua Roose, extremism researcher at Deakin UniJulie Reilly OAM, CEO of Australians Investing in Women

It’s the last sitting week of parliament for the year, and things are a bit chaotic with fights over the Religious Discrimination Bill, mandatory vaccinations and a federal anti-corruption commission.

Meanwhile the government also put forward a controversial bill to make it compulsory for people to show IDs when casting a vote. But the requirement risks excluding young Aussies and First Nations people.

There are concerns for one of China’s most popular tennis players, Peng Shuai, after she levelled allegations of sexual assault against a top government official on social-media.

Plus, NASA will launch a mission to deliberately slam into an asteroid, in a bid to test the solar system’s gravitational forces.

Live guests:Sophie Johnston, National Youth CommissionerFergus Ryan, Australian Strategic Policy InstituteDr Brad Tucker, astrophysicist

Sick of all the side-effects from taking the birth control pill, a German inventor has created a new form of contraception for men that uses ultrasound to temporarily immobilise sperm.

Protestors are marching across a town in America’s midwest after teenager Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of killing two Black Lives Matter activists last year.

Plus, a remake of The Cure’s iconic song ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ is shining a light on men’s mental health and encouraging blokes to reach out for help and check in on their mates.

Live guests:Jamal Hakim, Marie Stopes AustraliaTavis Grant, bishop and black rights activistSimon Lee, advertising executive

It's the Shake Up and we're talking…

Young Aussies working harder for less money during the pandemic, how our names can influence where we end up in life and whether voice notes can establish chemistry on dating apps.

Join Hack's Avani Dias with podcast host Emily Vernem and musician Joyride.

You know those first few weeks and months of a really painful breakup? When you can’t eat, sleep or stop crying?

Imagine if in those moments you had a voice in your ear whispering ‘I love you’ and telling you how special you are. Except those words aren’t coming from your ex, but from a stranger on the internet.

When the pandemic kicked off and heaps of Australians lost work, the federal and state governments made an unusual commitment to protect renters from being evicted. But now almost all of those protections are gone.

Plus, Australia’s top cyber spy agency and the federal opposition have called for more action to tackle dodgy texts and scam robocalls.

Live guests:Dr Mac Shine, neuroscientist at the Brain and Mind Institute at USYDBrendan Coates, housing expert from the Grattan InstituteCassandra Cross, Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre

Community members have long warned that overcrowding, misinformation and a lack of communication in Aboriginal languages means those communities are left vulnerable in the pandemic.

Now the Northern Territory has recorded 19 cases, and they’re all young Aboriginal people. How did we get here?

A survey has revealed Aussies have done eight weeks of unpaid work on average during the pandemic - and young people are the worst off.

Plus, the copyright battle over popstar Taylor Swift’s music has heated up after she re-recorded and released her iconic album ‘Red’.

Live guests:Malarndirri McCarthy, Garrwa-Yanyuwa woman and NT Labor Senator Dan Nahum, researcher from the Australia Institute Dr Kylie Pappalardo, copyright lawyer

Splendour in the Grass is the country's biggest music festival, but over the last few years more young people have spoken up about the disturbing ways they were stripsearched by NSW Police at the event.

In most cases, no drugs were found. Now they’re taking the cops to court.

Meet the young Aussie who's created an environmentally friendly and cheap sanitary pad out of bananas.

Plus, have you ever thought about the science behind your name? Research shows it could impact our job opportunities and social circles.

Live guests:Dr Vicki Sentas, senior lecturer at UNSW’s School of Law, Society & CriminologyMursal Azadzoi, student and creator of the Nana Pad

Hinge has become the first dating app to introduce voice prompts and memos, to help you figure out if you have chemistry or ‘The Ick’.

Plus, the biggest climate change meeting in the last decade has ended with a global pact to phase ‘down’ coal, instead of phasing it out altogether.

Live guests:Dr Cate Madill, speech pathologist and researcher at Sydney Uni’s Voice Research LabTim Buckley, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis