Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia, plus a look at the challenges we face today. This time around we are diving into the big education moments, starting with the birth of free, compulsory, and secular education.
A special thanks to our podcast partner on this series, NGS Super. Find out more about them here.
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How Far We've Come: The tale of free and compulsory schooling

Hosted by the OG Squiz team, Kate Watson and Claire Kimball, News Club is the place to go for conversations about the news.
Our News Club podcast is out each Tuesday. It's dedicated to one news topic, sort of like a book club for news. We do the heavy lifting with our Club Picks on what to read/watch/listen to and get your thoughts on the topic.  
And on Saturday, The Weekly Wrap drops. It is like the weekend newspaper in audio form. We take you through the big news stories from the week that was, what's coming up, and the stuff we're recommending.

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Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's all about helping you stay on top of the news + we give you some talking points for the week ahead.
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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was a link to Horseshoe jeans
Claire recommends watching The Holdovers
Kate recommends this episode of Conversations with Troy Cassar-Daley
Listen to our News Club episode with BackTrack founder Bernie Shakeshaft. And you can listen to our episode with James Chessell about making and reporting on the Federal Budget here.

Hosts: Kate Watson and Claire Kimball
Producer: Annelise Taylor

Weekly Wrap: Unpacking the Budget, a global wrap on protests, and happy b'day to us...

With all the news of late about youth crime, gendered violence, and incarceration rates, we have found ourselves asking - I wonder what Bernie thinks? Bernie Shakeshaft is the 2020 Australian Local Hero of the Year recipient and the founder of Backtrack. It's a community-led organisation for young people who are having a tough time. In this chat, he delves into what helping those kids who need it most means and why it makes a big difference.
Club Picks:

This piece on the ABC looks at the data around youth offender rates and the various solutions being offered. 



This Moree report, written by Adam Harvey in March, paints a picture of what it is like to live with the issue of youth crime on your doorstep. We interviewed Adam Harvey previously on News Club about reporting on conflict zones.

This is the documentary made in 2018 about BackTrack and a recent update to it. You can also watch the trailer here.

This is Bernie featured in the AFR’s Philanthropy edition. If you don’t have time for the doco or our News Club interview, this is an easy way to get across what he has built/is building.  



Find out more about BackTrack here

Host: Kate Watson
Producer: Annelise Taylor

BackTrack's Bernie Shakeshaft on more kids, more towns, more empathy in Aus

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LINKS
The most clicked link in Squiz Today was a gallery of the Eta Aquariid meteor shower
Listen to our News Club episode on making and reporting on the Federal Budget 
Larissa recommends this viral tomato soup recipe 
Kate recommends this episode on HECS from our How Far We've Come series
Listen and/or read our Shortcut on the Nuclear Power debate

Hosts: Kate Watson and Larissa Moore
Producer: Annelise Taylor

Weekly Wrap: The Meh-Gala, Aussie brothers murdered in Mexico, and what to expect in the Federal Budget

With Treasurer Jim Chalmers set to hand down the Federal Budget next week, we thought it would be a good time to dive into the process of how it gets made and how the media reports on it. James Chessell, a Walkley Award-winning journalist and former Managing Director of Publishing at Nine Entertainment, is well-versed in covering budgets. Plus, his former time working as a staffer for Joe Hockey makes him uniquely qualified on the topic. 
Club Picks: 
This episode of Politics with Michelle Grattan with economist Chris Richardson. She’s the doyen of political coverage out of Canberra’s Press Gallery, and he’s the go-to guru for anyone looking to make sense of the Budget. Ahead of its release, they set the scene for what’s on the government’s economic plate. 
This piece from 2017 by Dr Denis Muller, a journalism expert from Melbourne Uni, goes into the art of the leak… 
And speaking of leaks, the mother of them all came about in 1980 when then-Ten News political reporter Laurie Oakes got access to the Budget in a dark Canberra car park 2 days ahead of its release… This clip of how it unfolded on air is fun, if only for then Treasurer John Howard’s reaction…

Making and reporting on the Federal Budget with former Managing Director of Nine Publishing James Chessell

Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's all about helping you stay on top of the news + we give you some talking points for the week ahead.
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LINKS
This episode of The Daily on the pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University
Listen to the Eurovision entry from Electric Fields here
Larissa recommends this doco that goes behind the scenes for the 2015 Met Gala
Kate recommends this episode of The NYT's new podcast series called The Interview
Listen to our News Club episode on ultra-fast fashion with AFR fashion editor Lauren Sams
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Producer: Annelise Taylor

How Far We've Come: The tale of free and compulsory schooling

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