Radio National Breakfast

Content generated by AI tools has become known as AI Slop - and it's flooding social media platforms.

Now a new study has found more than 20% of the videos that YouTube's algorithm shows to new users are "AI slop."

• Guest: Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at UNSW's AI Institute
• Producer: Kate Uebergang

Varroa mite is a tiny parasitic pest that attacks honey bees, weakens entire colonies, and can cause hives to collapse if it's left unmanaged.

The spread of Varroa is forcing beekeepers to rethink how they manage hives and raising broader concerns about food production, pollination, and biosecurity.

• Guest: Kim Prendergast, bee scientist and ecological entomologist 
• Producer: Jess Lukjanow

Award winning author and Human Rights advocate Thomas Mayo shares his summer reading list with Barbara Miller.

Currently Reading

• The Hiding Place by Kate Mildenhall

Summer List

• Seeker and the Sage by Brigid Delaney
• The Eagle and the Crow by JM Field
• A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern
• Limberlost by Robbie Arnott

Childhood Favourite

• Choose your own adventure books
• Bram Stoker's Dracula

A giant of STEM, and a visionary who leaves behind a unfathomable loss that's how Professor Emma Johnston is being remembered, after her death at the age of 52.

Emma Johnston had a distinguished career in marine ecology, which saw her made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2018. She later became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.

• Guest: Kylie Walker, family friend and former colleague of Professor Johnston

The Prime Minister has been labelled a coward by the family member of a Bondi attack victim for his refusal to call a federal Royal Commission into the massacre.

17 families of those killed or injured at Bondi beach have released a joint statement saying they "demand answers and solutions" which can only be delivered through a royal commission.

• Guest: Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton
• Producer: Jess Lukjanow

Before the Bondi Beach terrorist attack... Christchurch in New Zealand faced its own reckoning on racial and religious hatred in the wake of the 2019 murders of 51 people inside two mosques by Australian Brenton Tarrant.

A royal commission spent 18 months hearing evidence on gun control, security intelligence, counter-terrorism and social cohesion with chair Sir William Young calling his recommendations "the building blocks for a safer and more cohesive New Zealand".

So did the process make New Zealanders safer?

• Guest: Raf Manji, former Christchurch City councillor
• Producer: Jason Whittaker

Many competitors in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race are still making their way down Tasmania's east coast... after more than a quarter of this year's fleet retired following punishing conditions at sea.

First Light, the first all-women crew to contest the race in seven years, has been battling those conditions, and skipper Elizabeth Tucker says her crew is pushing hard to beat southerly winds expected this afternoon.

• Guest: Elizabeth Tucker, Skipper of the First Light
• Producer: Jess Lukjanow

Coverage and analysis of national and international events.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has released terms of reference for a review into the Bondi Beach terror attack to probe the actions of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

But the government continues to sidestep calls for a full Commonwealth royal commission with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke yesterday arguing it could do more harm than good.

• Guest: James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Finance
• Producer: Jason Whittaker

Myanmar is preparing for the next phase of a military-run election in mid-January, after early voting showed signs of low turnout amid the ongoing civil war. 

The military junta says the election process will restore political stability, but the United Nations and Western governments say the vote is not free or fair, given major opposition parties were excluded.

• Guest: Tun Aung Shwe, representative of Myanmar's exiled National Unity Government, in Australia
• Producer: Anne Barker