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Headlines: All the latest from New Years Eve celebrations across the country. 

Best of Deep Dive: Run clubs are still trending – they have been called the new dating app, the millennial quarter life crisis, and the cozzie livs gym membership.

So if you’ve found yourself lacing up or have signed up for the next fun run in your city - what’s the best way to start running and do it safely?

In this episode of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re listening back to Helen Smith’s chat with World Champion sprinter Katie Williams, who gives her advice on how to hit your running goals without causing an injury.

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Headlines: Sydney set to have more than a million people watching NYE fireworks, heavy rain in Queensland has state emergency services on edge, and the Aussies take seven wickets in the final session to beat India in the fourth test.

Best of Deep Dive: Celebrity endorsements seem to be losing their potency when it comes to elections. Despite support from Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga, presidential hopeful Kamala Harris could not find the votes to give her the top job in the recent US election.

Does that reflect a gap in the election market about to be filled by social media and influencers?

Konrad Benjamin doesn't love the term influencer – but he’s the host and creator behind Punters Politics, a YouTube channel that aims to help “navigate the divisive world of Australian politics on a quest to make it simple for the every day punter”.

In this episode of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re listening back to Bension Siebert’s chat with Konrad where they unpack the power of the influencer, and whether they can sway the vote when Australia heads to the polls in 2025.

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Headlines: Jeju Air CEO accepts blame for crash killing 179, Labor's grip on power is looking shaky, and India will need to pull off the highest run chase in more than a century to win the 4th test today.

Best of Deep Dive: Over the next decade in Australia, $5 trillion is expected to move down the generations, with around $2.3 trillion to be given to the children of Boomers, $1 trillion to their grandkids, and $1.7 trillion to charities.

The bank of mum and dad is somewhere between the 5th and 9th biggest lender according to the Productivity Commission.

In this episode of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re listening back to Sacha Barbour Gatt’s chat with Compare the Market’s Economic Director David Koch to find out what impact this will have on the economy.

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In this best of episode of the Weekend Briefing Antoinette Lattouf is joined by former Prime Minister Scott Morrison. 

Scott Morrison is the 30th Prime Minister of Australia, lover of chicken curries and author of his new book - Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

Morrison has had his fair share of controversies over the years - Hawaii, his response to COVID and his many ministries.

In this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, Morrison opens up about his time as PM, repenting his sins and his impact on Australians.

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Headlines: Two Sydney to Hobart yacht sailors killed, Victorian bushfire update, total fire ban declared in Sydney, and Virat Kohli avoids suspension.

Best of Deep Dive: Would you take MDMA to help your mental health?

As part of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re revisiting our exclusive chat with *Kate, a patient who has undertaken MDMA-assisted therapy to treat her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

So what actually happens to you when you take what is usually known as a party drug during a therapy session?

This chat was part of our two-part series on MDMA-assisted therapy in October, 2024.

• Part 1: An Australian clinic is ‘transforming’ lives with MDMA-assisted therapy
• Part 2: How MDMA freed Kate from PTSD

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There are many ways in Australia to have children if you can’t physically procreate. You can foster or look into adoption - or you can find a surrogate.    

In Australia, it’s illegal to pay someone to carry a child for you – but nothing is stopping you from paying someone overseas. However, surrogacy isn't without contention or is an easy road.    

Luke and Scott O’Halloran, otherwise known as Luke and Sassy Scott, are brothers with a massive public profile, with their podcast and TikTok presence amassing a plethora of fans here and overseas.  

Last year Scott and his partner Marcus decided to become parents via international surrogacy.  
 
As part of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re revisiting Bension Siebert’s chat with the comedy-duo where we found out just how complex international surrogacy in Australia is.

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You might be celebrating Brat Summer, or singing along to the light-sounding-but-heavy-meaning words of Chappell Roan – or maybe you’re just sipping that Espresso with Sabrina Carpenter. 

Either way, the charts don’t lie - a new intense and complex female-made and focused pop sound is having a renaissance.  

So what’s the key ingredient for being a female pop star in 2024 and why is it working for some but not for others?  
 
As part of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re revisiting Sacha Barbour Gatt’s chat with Nic Kelly, host of The Hot Hits on the Hit Network and LiSTNR to unpack it all. 

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Headlines: Christmas is on hold for Victorian firefighters ready to protect the state, Joe Biden pardons death row prisoners, NRMA issues Christmas road safety warning, and Australia's most famous crocodile has passed away at 90 years old.

Best of Deep Dive: Is it possible that there’s a serial killer wreaking havoc along the NSW coast?

That’s the question raised by Jeremy Buckingham, Legalise Cannabis Party MP and member of NSW legislative council earlier in the year.

In an impassioned address to parliament at the end of October, the MP made the case for the state to take a serious look at 67 missing or murdered women along the NSW north coast between 1977 and 2009.

As part of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re revisiting Sacha Barbour Gatt’s chat with Jeremy earlier in the year where he unpacked his claims and laid out why he chose to raise the issue before Parliament.

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Headlines: Christmas tree light warnings, Victorian bushfire update, airfare charter of rights proposed, and Aussie researchers create injection to reverse blindness.

Deep dive best of: Amid a cost of living crisis, who can resist the invitation to “shop like a billionaire” at bargain-basement prices?

Online juggernaut Temu is Australia’s most popular free app, offering a vast vortex of low-cost merchandise from fashion and homeware to toys and electronics.

But amid the thrilling rush of retail therapy lie some serious questions: Where does this stuff come from and what are conditions like for those at the bottom of the supply chain?

As part of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re revisiting Sacha Barbour Gatt’s chat with senior labour rights campaigner at Oxfam, Sarah Rogan to find out more.

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Richard Baker is one of Australia’s best investigative journalists, who has spent decades chasing stories.

The Walkley award winning journo is the host of LiSTNR's Secrets We Keep: Pray Harder, which explores a secretive religious group in Geelong where every aspect of members’ lives are tightly controlled by their hardline pastor.

In this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, Richard explains why he doesn't have any social media, what life is like as an investigative journalist, and how dangerous it is for whistle blowers in Australia.

Weekend List

• TO TRY: Vouchers with your private health insurance
• TO WATCH: Hair Theory by Emma Chamberlain on YouTube
• TO READ: BBC article 'Being a starlet was difficult': How Shirley Temple saved a Hollywood studio from bankruptcy
• TO WATCH: Bad Sisters on Netflix

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