The soaring price of petrol is up-ending young Austalians' lives, many cancelling plans and, as we hear today, even quitting their jobs. Fuel should drop by 26.3 cents a litre after the government halved the fuel excise but will that provide the relief people need?

And 7 months after killing 2 polices officers and vanishing into bushland, Dezi Freeman has been shot and killed in a stand off with police in north-east Victoria. Where has he been and how did police find him? 

Listen now: 

01:00 - What is the government doing about petrol prices?

17:00 - How Dezi Freeman was found and killed

Guests: 

• Tim Wilson, Shadow Treasurer
• Dr Vince Hurley, former police officer and criminologist, Macquarie University

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