This episode features some of the best conversations of 2023, we’ll be back daily from January 29, 2024.
Over the past year we took a break from the top news stories to look at moments in pop culture that have had a big impact.
In this episode we interrogate the cultural juggernaut that was the Barbie movie, and then allegations against Russell Brand.
Featured:
Wenlei Ma, TV and film critic
Dani de Placido, senior contributor at Forbes magazine
What contact sport is doing to our brains
The delivery riders at risk for your dinner
Alan Joyce’s rush for the emergency exit
How we’re surviving the interest rate squeeze
Will Australia follow Biden’s China tech ban?
Annabel Crabb on the Spanish kiss scandal
We have a referendum date. Now what?
How Qantas turned taxpayer dollars into profits
Do we have the world’s toughest rental market?
How China and the US are driving down our dollar
If You're Listening - Why is Russia meddling in West Africa?
Did Putin just kill Prigozhin?
Big supermarket profits and your grocery bills
Why more kids are refusing to go to school
The latest idea to fix the rental crisis
Inside the AFL’s ‘culture of silence’
If You're Listening - How microchip-maker TSMC became the world's most important company
If the law can’t stop Trump, who can?
Lingering questions in the mushroom mystery
Is a Matildas’ win big enough for a day off?
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