Mariam Dabboussy was married in 2011 and she and her husband went on a holiday in 2015.  Her husband took her into Syria and joined the ISIS fight to establish a caliphate.  He was killed just before their second child was born.  Mariam was subsequently married off twice more.

 

Her father, Kamalle Dabboussy joins us to tell his daughter’s story – and to talk about trying to bring his daughter and now three grandchildren home. 

 

It’s a heartbreaking story of the plight of a young Australian family – and a failure of government leaving helpless women and children to suffer in a camp in northern Syria, desperate to come home, even if they have to face the consequences for their actions.

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• NSW cases likely to hit 100

• New vaccine ad campaign begins as deaths increase

• Government confirms all ADF troops out of Afghanistan

• Richard Branson goes to space

• England prepares for historic final

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A big episode for a big name! Dannii Minogue is one of the country's golden girls, with Australians growing up with her on Young Talent Time before she cracked the international market as a pop success; and now as a mum, podcaster and fashion designer, while gracing our screens as a television show judge.

 

Amidst her astronomical fame has been turmoil, from relentless paparazzi snapping her every move to being caught in the 2011 UK phone hacking scandal and being robbed of important personal moments. 

 

Jamila Rizvi sat down with Dannii to discuss her life as she blossomed into fame and how that now impacts her son Ethan, landing a record deal as a teenager, the devastating phone scandal, and her new LiSTNR show, The 90s with Dannii Minogue. 

 

THE WEEKEND LIST with Tait McGregor: 

• Watch: The OC (Stan)
• Watch: Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (Netflix)
• Read: The Success Experiment by Lillian Ahenkan

 

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Covid 19 has made avoiding plastics a lot harder; cafes stopped taking keep cups, there was an increase in food and grocery deliveries - all wrapped in plastic and use of disposal PPE gear spiked … for obvious reasons.  

 

On today’s Briefing - are we losing the fight on plastics? We’re joined by Kate Noble,  World Wildlife Fund Australia’s No Plastics in Nature Policy Manager to discuss if we’re doing enough in the fight to reduce plastics and their impact on the environment.

 

In the last few years each state and territory has progressed at a different pace.... bringing in bans on items like straws and plastic cutlery.   Are we doing enough?  

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• NSW leaders split on virus strategy as police crack down on Sydney

• No fans at Tokyo Olympics after fourth state of emergency

• Ash Barty through to Wimbledon finals

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In today’s briefing - the vaping problem in schools. Teachers and parents are extremely worried that school students are illegally dealing vapes... and that more and more students are taking it up. 

 

There are reports that increasingly younger students, even primary students, are taking it up.  Rudy and Maya, year 12 students give us their first-hand experience.  We’re also joined by Craig Petersen, President of NSW Secondary Principals' Council; and drug and alcohol educator Paul Dillon.

 

Students are vaping inside the classroom... and it's spreading from the city to country schools.  Australia has relatively strict vaping laws, many say too strict because they restrict access to people that could use nicotine vapes as a way of quitting smoking.   So what’s the answer here?  Are our laws too lenient, or are vapes the answer to reducing our reliance on nicotine…?

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• Sydney lockdown extended as big business invited to join vaccine rollout

• State of emergency in Haiti after President assassinated

• Trump to sue Facebook, Twitter and Google

• US wins right to appeal Assange decision

• Historic first for Olympic flag bearers

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In 2019, Bridie Jabour wrote a piece for the Guardian about the malaise of millennials.  She found herself and her friends talking about the painful, protracted end of their adolescence. 

 

They're looking at their lives and thinking: 'Is this it? Have I chosen the right place to live, the right job, the right partner? Am I, perhaps, not as special as I thought?'

 

The article went viral and Bridie decided the time had come to write a book about her generation - those much-maligned millennials.   After all, this generation is coming of age in a unique set of social and economic circumstances, including precarious work, delayed baby-making, rising singledom, a heating planet, loss of religion, increased unstable housing and, now, a pandemic. Today’s Briefing is all about Millennial malaise.

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• Lockdown extension expected as Sydneysiders await confirmation

• Under-40s could get mRNA jabs by September

• Reserve Bank to ease back on easy money

• Barty through to semi after All-Australian Wimbledon showdown

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Joanna, a Briefing listener, wrote to us via Instagram to ask us to do a story on the discovery of First Nation’s children in Canada.  Hundreds of bodies have been found in unmarked graves.

 

We’re joined by Kerry Benjoe - a journalist from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and a former residential school student; and Fiona Cornforth, CEO of The Healing Foundation.  Kerry tells us first-hand what it was like in the schools, and Fiona tells us if there are parallels with Australia and our Stolen Generation.

 

Sadly, there are many parallels.  This is a very important story, particularly given it’s NAIDOC Week.

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• Inquiries won’t change parliament - Julia Banks

• $50,000 fines and suspensions for NRL partygoers

• Gaming inspectors stopped from investigating Crown

• Thousands of Afghan troops flee Taliban as visa concerns grow

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In the last two weeks dozens of people from Afghanistan have been evacuated to Australia because the war is ending - many had worked as interpreters for Australian troops. 

 

Harry Moffitt worked alongside these local interpreters in the theatre of war.  He says we’re not getting enough of them out... and we’re not getting them out fast enough. Glenn Kolomeitz works with the government to help the interpreters and their families with the paperwork and admin.

 

Today’s briefing... the race to save these Aghan interpreters from the Taliban who are taking more and more territory as international troops leave.

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• Family angry after Covid returns to aged care in Sydney

• Government uncertain on vaccine threshold and Pfizer for under 40s

• Bad weather hampers rescues following Japan mudslide

• US authorities prepare to demolish collapsed condo ahead of tropical storm

• 45 dead in Philippines Air Force plane crash

 

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Michael Clarke has been called Australia’s controversial cricket captain. This kid from the western suburbs, with his blonde tipped hair, famous girlfriends and love of fast cars, took the conservative cricketing world by surprise. But it was what he achieved on the field that captured the country’s attention and inspired another generation of wannabe cricket stars.

Jamila Rizvi talks to the cricket-captain-turned-commentator-and-radio-host about life as a professional athlete, retiring from the pitch and life as a father.

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• Watch: Morning Wars (Apple TV+)
• Cook: Andy Baraghani’s I-Can’t Believe-It’s-Vegetarian-Ramen (Bon Appetit)
• Listen (podcast): Soft Voice (QCODE)
• Watch: A Suitable Boy (Netflix)

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In this Briefing we’re going to take you into the world of Britney Spears - from where it all began to now - where she’s fighting to free herself from a 13-year conservatorship that she says is abusive. 

 

Last week in a 23-minute statement she told a US judge that under the conservatorship she had been drugged, forced to perform against her will and made to continue using birth control despite wanting to have children. Spencer Kornhaber from The Atlantic joins us to talk through exactly what conservatorship is, and what Britney’s future holds.

 

Last week’s hearing was the first time the star has spoken publicly about the conservatorship.   So what is this American legal arrangement called a conservatorship... and should Britney be freed of it?

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• Leaders to discuss how to end lockdowns as federal-state stoush continues 

• Judge denies Britney conservatorship plea

• Government refuses to reveal if last Australians have left Afghanistan

• Trump Organisation chief surrenders to police

• Harry and William unveil Diana statue in London

 

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Many Australians are addicted to their phones.  We spend countless hours staring at our devices. A recent Monash University study found 43.3 per cent of respondents spent over three hours a day on their phone! The same study measured nomophobia (no mobile phone phobia) finding 99.2% of users have some fear of being without their phone.

Jenni Gritters is a US-based journalist who ditched her smartphone for a dumb phone.  EFTM.com's Trevor Long is also the Today Show’s tech expert who takes us through strategies to get us off our phones.

Do you check your phone first thing each day? A Deloitte study found 80% of us do.  In this Briefing, how do you get this technology under control?”

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

• Bill Cosby to walk free after conviction overturned

• Medical authorities accuse politicians of mangling vaccine message

• Fears of new Sydney Covid cluster

• UN warns trillions of dollars damage to tourism from pandemic

• French police arrest sign woman at centre of Tour de France crash

 

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