How will you retire well? How much money will you need to maintain your standard of living once you’re not working, particularly in your last 20-30 years of life? With help from our guest Professor Andrew Podger from the Australian National University (ANU), you’ll learn when to throw money into superannuation (and when to supercharge your efforts); what you’ll need to spend through each stage of retirement and what your super fund should be doing to help you better understand your finances in those twilight years.  

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The Callaghan Report Retirement Income Review

MoneySmart

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With travel bans and canned plans, negotiating travel in the time of COVID is proving tricky. We’ll talk to experts about where the industry is at now,  learn what’s happened to those dependant on the industry for their career, and explain why tourism is so stuck negotiating the present it’s almost impossible for those in it to plan for the future.

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Australian Institute for Business and Economics University of Queensland

Camplify

David Suzuki Foundation

Let’s see if the predictions made in 2020 stack up in 2021.

What's involved in forecasting the Federal Budget, COVID-19 daily case numbers, or Australia's electricity needs? 

Join expert Professor Rob Hyndman as he explains the art of prediction. This episode also features guests Jehan Ratnatunga (Who Gives A Crap) and leading economist Stephen Koukoulas.  

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Who Gives A Crap

What's the pandemic forecast? Australian Research Council

Forecasting: Principles and Practice (3rd Ed) Rob J Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos

The Kouk Stephen Koukoulas

Whatevs, just chillax – slang is here to stay. Slang expert Professor Kate Burridge explains how slang evolves and why it sticks around, and you’ll meet three linguists who are working hard to revitalise some of our ‘sleeping’ Indigenous languages.

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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages is the peak body for Aboriginal Languages revitalization in the state of Victoria, leaders in the field of Language Revitalization, Resources Development, Research, and the archival, development, Aboriginal Language Library and Aboriginal languages digital information.

Toxic masculinity and rape culture are in the headlines again. And women are furious. So how can we reset masculine norms?

Are you or your team clocking long hours at work? Or often twiddling your thumbs? Turns out Goldilocks was right: the balance needs to be just right. In this episode, Professor Andrew Neal discusses how bosses effectively (and ineffectively) manage workloads and what the risks are when they get it wrong. 

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A new approach to mental workload measurement in air traffic control Hartel, C. E., Neal, A., Halford, G. S. and Hartel, G. F.

Have you ever used humour in a potentially inappropriate situation? Did it help? Humour does more than provide a giggle or two. It's an energiser, an icebreaker and a team builder. In this episode, Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu, Dr David Cheng and the 2020 cartoonist of the year Cathy Wilcox explain its purpose and provide some laughs along the way too. 

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Examining the energising effects of humour: The Influence of humour on persistence behaviour David Cheng & Lu Wang

Judges, Judging and Humour Jessica Milner Davis & Sharyn Roach Anleu (Eds)

Cathy Wilcox, cartoonist

Sarah Cooper, TikTok

Do you have an image you just can't get out of your mind? Something from the news or a current event? Did it impact how you thought about that issue - maybe for decades? According to Professor Roland Bleiker (and at least one Ethiopian taxi driver) visual politics is a real thing, and it's twisting our perceptions every day.

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The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees Roland Bleiker, David Campbell, Emma Hutchison & Xzarina Nicholson

World Press Photo Foundation

Scott Morrison heckled by residents in bushfire-ravaged town ABC News