It's the Shake Up and we're talking…
Australia’s boycott of China’s Winter Olympics, moving to the regions to wipe your HECS-HELP debt and Finland’s Prime Minister apologising for clubbing till 4am.
Join Hack's Avani Dias with podcaster Marty Smiley and The Feed’s Vic Zerbst.
Nachrichten
Hack Folgen
Hack brings you the stories that matter to young people. Every weekday host Dave Marchese and the triple j Hack team cover the latest news, politics and culture from all around Australia.
Folgen von Hack
249 Folgen
-
Folge vom 10.12.2021The Shakeup: Boycotting the Olympics, wiping uni debt and clubbing with PMs
-
Folge vom 09.12.2021Another death in custodyAt least 500 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples have died in custody since a royal commission into the issue 30 years ago. Ten days ago another young person died at a prison in NSW. Hack speaks exclusively to his family and looks into why First Nations people continue to die in our justice system. It's been a few weeks since we first heard about the new COVID-19 variant and scientists still don’t know much about it. So will Omicron ruin our hot vax summer? Plus, Australian farmers are going viral on TikTok for their dangerous antics. Live guests: Eddie Cubillo, Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrente man, and criminal justice system researcher Dr Steph Davis, Deputy Chief Medical Officer
-
Folge vom 08.12.2021Can TikTok memes influence an election?As the federal election looms next year, a new cohort of politically-engaged young people are turning Tiktok’s signature trends into some serious (and not so serious) Auspol content. But what if the posts you’ve been seeing were paid for by the political parties themselves? Australia has joined the US in staging a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year because of human rights abuses in China. Plus, would you move to the bush to work, if it meant all of your uni debt was wiped? Live guests: Andrew Hughes, political advertising researcher at Australian National University Zali Steggall, Independent Federal MP, and former Olympian Kate, junior doctor from Albury Dr Dan Wilson, Rural Doctors Association
-
Folge vom 07.12.2021Why petrol is so expensiveAt the beginning of the pandemic, fuel was the cheapest it’s been in 20 years. Now it’s close to $2 a litre. And it's got to do with the world coming out of lockdown. A new report has found Australia’s rising value of inheritances and gifts is reinforcing the wealth gap. Plus, the National Disability Insurance Scheme is meant to give Australians living with disability money, care and support, but there's been a 20 per cent increase in people making complaints because their individual funding plans have been cut back. Live guests: David Byrne, associate professor of economics at The University of Melbourne Lisa Gropp, Productivity Commissioner Julie Charlton, Children and Young People with Disability Australia Youth Council