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We recently ran a survey on attitudes towards January 26.

The overwhelming majority of respondents told us the public holiday should be changed or abolished.

So, in the spirit of talking less and lis…

An estimated 46 people have been killed and hundreds have been arrested as protests in Peru continue.

Access to Machu Picchu has been closed and locals are experiencing rising food prices due to road…

The Departments of Education in both NSW and QLD have said they will stop students from accessing ChatGPT at school.

This is the latest in a wave of reforms as education institutions grapple with how…

All eyes were glued to the TV in the TDA newsroom last week as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her shock resignation.

But while internationally she’s being remembered for her empa…

Australia is home to almost 200,000 pokies, almost half of which are in NSW.

As a state election looms, the question of how to best address problem gambling is shaping up to be a point of contention.

The UK government has announced it will block a Scottish law designed to make it easier for people to legally change their gender.

This has been met with anger from transgender rights activists, as w…

More classified official documents have been retrieved from Joe Biden’s private home.

Republicans have been quick to draw parallels between Biden’s possession of these sensitive files, and the files …

Authorities in China have reported nearly 60,000 COVID related deaths in the last month.

This comes as the World Health Organisation expressed concern about information out of the country up until no…

Caroline Kennedy is the current U.S. Ambassador to Australia and also the daughter of former U.S. President John F Kennedy. 

She spent part of her childhood in the White House and has gone on to have…

Today we're throwing back to when Chris Hemsworth said he would take time off after discovering he has a genetic pre-disposition to Alzheimer's disease.

This prompted a conversation between Sam and Z…

Are vapes really bad for you? It's the question everyone wants an answer to.

In a deep dive last April, we brought you the most recent information we had at the time.

Today we're throwing back to tha…

Back in March 2022, Sam had just returned from a trip to the Great Barrier Reef, but he wasn't the only one visiting around that time.

The UN had just sent a delegation to assess the health of the re…

Manal al-Sharif is one of the women’s rights activists who helped to start the right to drive campaign in 2011. She saw the injustice of women not being able to drive in Saudi Arabia, and got behind …

In today's episode of the summer series, we're throwing back to the most listened to episode of the podcast from 2022.

The assassination of Shinzo Abe came as a shock to the world. In our deep dive, …

Could psychadelics help treat anxiety? In a world first, researchers in Melbourne are investigating whether psilocybin, the naturally occurring compound in magic mushrooms, will be effective in treat…

Why your energy bill is going up - this was one of our most listened to episodes of last year, and we think that says a lot in itself. We published this episode in early June, around the time that so…

This episode of the summer series, we're throwing back to May 2022 when a mass shooting event in Uvalde Texas saw 21 people killed; 19 students and two teachers.

In our deep dive we tried to explain …

In August, we brought you a story about the national teacher shortage. Education ministers from around the country were meeting in Canberra to talk about how to address the issue. In today's episode …

We're well and truly into the music festival season. While a national conversation continues about amnesty bins at festivals, in the meantime, a testing clinic has been operating where you can test d…

To wrap up Mirror week of our Summer Series, here's a special behind the scenes chat with Billi FitzSimons, TDA Editor, host and co-producer of The Mirror. Sam and Billi discuss what the project mean…