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How do people in China see the rest of the world’s response to COVID-19?

And What’s on With Frock Hudson, your weekend entertainment guide.

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Toby Halligan sits down to talk to academic, thought leader and writer Dennis Altman about COVID-19. We also cover where he thinks Australia is heading at the moment.

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It’s International Anti-Street Harassment Week – we’re joined by Natasha from It’s Not A Compliment, a group dedicated to eliminating street harassment.

And data shows that Australians are struggling with benzodiazepine addiction and use. We talk to experts about what’s happening.

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Today, we speak to Ronnie Scott about his new book The Adversary out today. And we also speak to Sanjaya Kuruppu from Uni SA about how to give wisely to charities in times of crisis.

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Today, we speak to Damon Salesa about how the 1918 Influenza Pandemic hit Samoa harder than nearly anywhere else on earth and how the community there has been responding to diseases since. And we talk to Patrick Stokes from Deakin University about how self-isolation is changing the way we communicate.

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In this episode of The Informer Daily we look back at some of our past interviews.

Aaron Potts speaks to best-selling author Jasper Fforde as they speak about speculative fiction, geek culture, the state of play in the UK, Brexit and the Royals.

For more information on Jasper, check out his website. And there’s even a section on the Fforde Ffiesta.

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In this special episode of The Informer Daily we recount past interviews, as Executive Producer Arion Potts and Nicholas Kameniar Sandery speak to writer and podcast host DeRay McKesson about police violence, how to have hope in hard times, white privilege and his new book On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope.

DeRay was in Melbourne in 2019 for the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.

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