Getting a tic (a brief motor movement or vocalisation) is actually super common but the use of a certain social media platform is starting to create them faster and in larger numbers in groups not usually affected.

Today we look at the impact of a platform like TikTok on vulnerable minds and how a certain genre within the platform's users leads to those who already suffer from tics to be triggered.

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Host: Claire Murphy

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Haze Elford - Haze has Tourettes Syndrome and uses her experience to volunteer with the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, she is also a regular TikTok user.

Professor Russell Dale - Clinical Director of the Kids Neuroscience Centre and a paediatric neurologist based at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.

*Kyra - Mum of a young boy who developed tics

*Name changed for privacy

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Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily. 

The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well.

Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each morning. 

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Some get it worse then others, some find it impossible to ever shake but ask anyone you work with and they'll probably tell you at some stage in their lives they've felt the effects of imposter syndrome.

So why is it, even when we are fully qualified to do a job or perform a task, we feel like any moment someone will call us out as fakes?

Today we look at imposter syndrome, why we get it, how we handle it and what we can do to get over it.

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Elisabeth Shaw: CEO of Relationships Australia NSW, Clinical and Counselling Psychologist

Jessie Stephens - Author and co-host of Mamamia Outloud podcast

Some of the audio has been voiced by actors

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Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily. 

The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well.

Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each morning. 

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What would you do if you found out you had a terminal illness?

Would you be able to wrap up your life admin on your own? Would you be able to handle friends and family? Would you be able to juggle all that with medical appointments and treatment? And what happens to your story after you're gone?

Meet Helen and Judy. Helen is a Death Doula and her life's work is helping those who know the end is near, and even those who didn't know, through those final stages with respect and care that is shown for those coming into the world, while Judy is an end of life biographer who collects the stories of those leaving the world in order for those who are left behind the know them for a lifetime after.

We also catch up with a couple who know the end isn't far for one of them, to find out how these women help them get through the toughest times.

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Helen Callanan - Founder, Managing Director and lead educator at Preparing the Way

*Simon & *Nicole - Thank you for letting us into your private world

Judy Hubbard - Eastern Palliative Care Volunteer Biographer

*Names have been changed for privacy

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Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily. 

The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well.

Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each morning. 

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Parents across Australia were terrified after watching the Todd Sampson documentary Mirror Mirror where he looked a website called Omegle, a place where sexual predators are easily linked to young children.

But while many are even more scared of allowing children to play online, the show left us with little resources as to how to deal with it and how you keep on top of all the ways in which predators can find their young victims online.

Today we look at how you actually help young Aussies handle the dangers of sites like Omegle while at the same time knowing their curiosity will more than likely lead them straight there.

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Kirra Pendergast - CEO of Safe on Social Media

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Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily. 

The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well.

Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each morning. 

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Host: Emma Gillespie

Audio Producer: Thom Lion

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We’re now 8 months into a war in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin had reportedly expected to take just a few days, when his troops invaded back in February.

Now, a bridge - a source of pride for the Russian president - has been hit. In retaliation, missiles rained down on civilians and infrastructure as the war spirals more and more out of control. 

Today, we get the low down on Russia’s tactics as they continue to fight what seems to be a losing battle and where we can possibly go from here. 

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Host: Claire Murphy

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John Blaxland - Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in Canberra 

Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Liv Proud

Audio Producer: Thom Lion

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Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily. 

The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well.

Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each morning. 

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Host: Emma Gillespie

Audio Producer: Thom Lion

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