Tanning represents your skin cells in trauma. That's the message this year’s joint Australian of the Year, Professor Georgina Long, wants you to know. She’s a cancer doctor and was part of a medical breakthrough that transformed the way we treat melanoma. In today’s deep dive, we chat to the Prof Long about her work in the melanoma field, as well as how her medical breakthrough is now being used to treat her best friend and co-Australian of the Year recipient, Professor Richard Scolyer.

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Hosts: Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler 
Guest: Professor Georgina Long
Audio Producer: Emmeline Peterson

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Today, the Butterfly Foundation released a new report on the prevalence of eating disorders in Australia. It found that eating disorders are on the rise in Australia, particularly amongst young people. On today's podcast, we break down what these new findings mean, and what the reason behind the rise is.

Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Billi FitzSimons
Guest: Dr. Jim Hungerford, CEO of the Butterfly Foundation
Audio producer: Emmeline Peterson

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Yesterday, Australia’s biggest employers’ were forced to publicly reveal their gender pay gap. Some of the companies with the biggest gaps may surprise you. Today on the podcast, we'll explain exactly what a gender pay gap is, which companies had the biggest pay gaps, and what it all means.

Listen to What we know about the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

Hosts: Billi FitzSimons and Zara Seidler
Audio producer: Emmeline Peterson

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Last Friday, a NSW Police officer was charged with the murder of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. Although they have charged police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, who was the former partner of Baird, police have said he is not cooperating with the search for the bodies. In today’s podcast, we’ll talk through what we know happened, how the community is responding, and all the things police are still trying to piece together about this alleged double murder.

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Hosts: Sam Koslowski and Zara Seidler
Audio producer: Emmeline Peterson

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Question Time - there’s huge interest in this hour of debate that happens every day at 2pm during parliamentary sitting weeks. According to the Parliamentary Education Office, it's aim is to hold the government to account. So - does it achieve this? Or is it just an excuse for politicians to yell at each other? Today on the podcast, we answer all the questions you might have about Question Time, and speak to some people who are in the room when it happens.

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Hosts: Zara Seidler and Billi FitzSimons
Guests: Zali Steggall and Dr Andrew Charlton
Audio Producer: Emmeline Peterson

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This week, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is back in the news because his final appeal to avoid extradition from the UK to the U.S. is currently underway. Assange is facing 18 charges in the U.S. relating to the leaking of thousands of confidential government documents. If found guilty, he faces penalties of up to 175 years behind bars. Today on the podcast, we break down exactly why this decision is so important.

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Hosts: Zara Seidler and Emma Gillespie
Audio Producer: Emmeline Peterson

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According to the latest HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) report, young Australians are more likely to experience loneliness and psychological distress than any other age group. For twenty years, HILDA has been interviewing the same network of 17,000 Australians, every year, to compile results that give us comprehensive insight into the lives of Australians. To help us understand more about what is causing this loneliness epidemic, we speak to one of the experts behind the data on today's podcast.

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Hosts: Zara Seidler and Emma Gillespie
Guest: Professor Roger Wilkins, Co-Director of the HILDA Survey Project and Deputy Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Audio Producer: Emmeline Peterson

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There is a push to curb alcohol consumption in Parliament House after two recent incidents involving parliamentarians and alcohol. Earlier this month, a video went viral of Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce lying on the ground in the middle of a Canberra street. This week, Nationals Senator Perin Davey admitted she had two drinks before a Senate Estimates hearing, where she could be heard slurring her words. In today’s deep dive, we’re discussing the rules around drinking in Parliament, the push for breath testing and what happens next.

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Hosts: Zara Seidler and Billi FitzSimons
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Over the weekend, Alexei Navalny, the most vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison. Navalny was in jail serving multiple sentences for crimes he claimed were "fabricated” at the time of his death. Since the news of his death broke, many western leaders have been quick to blame the Russian Government for his death. On today's podcast, we deep dive on exactly who Alexei Navalny was, why his death is seen as suspicious by so many, and how world leaders are reacting to the news.

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Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Billi FitzSimons
Audio Producer: Emmeline Peterson

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It would have been hard to miss it over the weekend - the Australian leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tours kicked off in Melbourne on Friday night. But we have one question: Why exactly is the singer so popular? We explore the phenomenon of Taylor Swift in today's deep dive.

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Hosts: Zara Seidler and Billi FitzSimons
Guest: Kate Pattison, fan studies PhD candidate at RMIT in Melbourne
Audio Producer: Emmeline Peterson

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