The West Live Podcast

These days there are a bunch of period dramas and comedies on TV that play pretty loose and fast with history.

Bridgerton… The Great… Dickinson… the list goes on.

And no one really seems to have a problem with the inaccuracies, or the fact the casts are far more diverse than you would’ve actually found at the time when these shows were set.

Just don’t try and get a show like that off the ground in Tunisia.

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A draft deal to cut global fossil fuel production is “grossly insufficient” and “incoherent” and will not stop the world from facing dangerous climate breakdown, according to delegates at the UN’s Cop28 summit.

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Google has released its ‘most searched’ list for 2023

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A second US official has expressed concern over Israel’s reported use of white phosphorus in military operations in Lebanon.

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Ukraine's counter-offensive hopes did not come true, top security official Oleksiy Danilov has conceded.

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On today's show, new workplace laws that will have a huge impact on Aussie businesses from tomorrow and we preview the first Test.

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Last year, the Federal Government passed the Respect at Work Act and as of Tuesday, this new workplace legislation comes into effect and it brings with it some important changes.

To explain is lawyer and founder and director of EEO Specialists, Franca Sala Tenna. 

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Queensland leader Annastacia Palaszczuk — the last of the COVID Premiers — has revealed she is stepping down after nine years in the role.

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Interest repayments have surged past the National Disability Insurance Scheme as the fastest-growing spending pressure on the Federal Budget.

The mid-year Budget update, to be released on Wednesday, will show the pain of rising interests rate on households is also being felt on the Government’s bottom line.

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A shark barrier installed at Bicton Baths in the wake of two high-profile river maulings, with 55 metres of reinforced netting to run the length of the jetty, opens today.

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