Australia’s national resilience has taken a big tumble over the past year - impacted by COVID-19 and the legacy of bushfires and drought - but there are early signs of recovery and optimism in the national psyche.

Tod Johnston chats with Jurie Rossouw, CEO of Driven, a research and technology organisation focused on understanding and building human resilience, to find out more about the findings of this study.

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Researchers from The University of Western Australia have used satellite imagery to find ways to avoid the worst-possible temperature increases in South East Asian countries due to deforestation, Tod Johnston chats with Associate Professor Sally Thompson to find out more.

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One of the 2021 WA Innovator of the Year winners - VitalTrace won the Wesfarmers Wellbeing Platinum Award for their novel device for monitoring babies during childbirth.

Tod Johnston catches up with Dr. Arjun Kaushik, Co-Founder and CEO of VitalTrace to find out about their breakthrough technology.

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The Perth International Jazz Festival that kicks off this Friday with a free event at the State Theatre Centre Courtyard.

The festival features over 50 jazzy act across the weekend (both free and ticketed) in city and Northbridge venues including Cathedral Square, The Rechabite, Hyde Park, Forrest Place, Northbridge Piazza, WA Museum, Shadow Wine Bar, The Ellington and more. There’s even a couple of interstate acts coming in from Adelaide and Bruny Island - Tasmania!

Dr Mace Francis, Festival Director of Perth International Jazz Festival caught up with Tod Johnston to tell him all about it.

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With COVID-19 boosters expected to be rolled out in Australia next week Tod Johnston chats with Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam from the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences at Monash University Malaysia about Covid-19 booster shots.

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Australia will reopen to another group of tourists later this month as it slowly begins to remove its COVID-19 restrictions.

Fully vaccinated Singaporeans will be allowed to visit Australia from November 21.

It will be the first time tourists from the Asian country have been allowed to come to Australia since March, 2020.

Singaporean Student Qingru Kiu chats to Tod Johnston about what this means for students that have been locked out of Australia since the pandemic begun.

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French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s interactions at the G20 in Rome are making headlines this morning in Australia, Dr Romain Fathi, Historian at Flinders University and the Centre d’Historie de Sciences Po in France joins Tod Johnston to explain what exactly is going on.

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Ground-breaking research from The University of Western Australia has discovered the potential to create a bone substitute from silver-lipped pearl oysters in Broome.

Co-inventor Professor Minghao Zheng, from UWA’s Medical School and Perron Institute chats to Tod Johnston about their work.

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Two community-led initiatives are springing to life in Wooroloo, offering residents access to resilience building activities as they continue to recover from the recent bushfire, Mundaring Shire President James Martin joins Tod Johnston to tell us all about it.

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Simmon Sardelic dispells some real estate myths with Tod Johnston.

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