RN Drive - Separate stories podcast

This year is shaping up to be a bumper summer for cicadas with the emergence of one species in particular - the Green Grocer. 

As the reporting season winds up Australia’s Big Four banks released their annual financial results and climate reports, detailing their exposure to fossil fuels to help limit global warming to one-point-five degrees Celsius.

“Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few”

Buried beneath mountains of ash, the final moments of the citizens of Pompeii reveal intimate glimpses of horror and humanity.

So your social media feed is now a dump for conspiracy theories, fake news and assumptions…and it’s up to you to figure out what’s true and what’s not. 

The Donald Trump effect on climate will no doubt be a key topic of conversation amongst world leaders, if not officially, then on the sidelines of COP29 in Azerbaijan today, a major international climate conference.

"We know that student debt can't be fixed, because student debt shouldn't exist. All student debt should be wiped."  

That's according to the Federal Greens as they put forward a $70 billion dollar plan over the next decade to wipe the student debts of three million Australians altogether.

As glamorous as being in a band may look, it can be a job, just like any other. Franz Nicolay’s new book ‘Band People’ takes a look at the practicalities of being a working musician. 

41,000 people live in situations that amount to modern slavery in Australia.

That's according to the international human rights group, Walk Free.

Former federal Labor minister Chris Evans has worked extensively with Walk Free and has just been named Australia's first national anti-slavery commissioner. 

A study by University of Queensland has found that gambling and alcohol ads are being served up many times in a short period to people at high risk of gambling or alcohol-related harms.