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Nov 17, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Adam Hegarty |Anne Worthington
Even if they don't believe it. "We don't feel strong, we really don't," Mat said. "We have very tough days. Very tough. We are broken, and I will tell you, we are hanging on at best."It's only been two months since their 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte O'Brien, took her own life. Yet somehow, in the pits of grief, Mat and Kelly summoned the determination to get in their car, drive to Canberra and compel the Prime Minister to ban social media for kids under 16.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Nick McKenzie |Marta Pascual Juanola |Anne Worthington
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On a sunny Friday afternoon in May, as prominent Sydney sheikh Ibrahim Dadoun led protesters through Sydney University’s quadrangle chanting free Palestine slogans, a diligent encampment regular filmed with his mobile phone. Hours later, the vision compiled by Al-Aksha Bhuiyan was edited and distributed online via a slick campaign platform, Stand For Palestine.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Nick McKenzie |Marta Pascual Juanola |Anne Worthington
By Nick McKenzie, Marta Pascual Juanola and Anne Worthington June 16, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian members of a radical Islamist organisation recently banned as a terrorist group in the UK have infiltrated the mainstream pro-Palestinian movement, using front groups to spread their radical ideology and holding multiple events at the Sydney University encampment.
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May 26, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Adam Hegarty |Anne Worthington
That's the chilling evidence from famed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who's spent years crunching the data. In his first Australian interview since the release of his groundbreaking research, the New York-based professor and author of The Anxious Generation has told 60 Minutes it's time to act and reverse the damage. "We lost the play-based childhood and we got a phone-based childhood," he said.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Anne Worthington |Carrington Clarke
Calle Florida is a long shopping strip in downtown Buenos Aires lined with opulent 20th-century buildings – echoes of the Argentinian capital's gilded age. But today it's the sound of black-market money exchangers shouting "cambio, cambio" ("exchange, exchange") echoing off the stone facades. Here desperate locals swap out ever-growing wads of pesos for US dollars, even though the so-called "blue dollar" exchange is done at just half the official rate.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Hagar Cohen |Anne Worthington |Leila Shunnar |David Lawford |Isabella Tropiano |Ali Russell | +1 more
Alice Brennan: Hi there, Alice Brennan here, and welcome to Background Briefing. I want to take you back a couple of months. It's the 9th September 2018. The strawberry season in Queensland is in full swing. Farmers all over that state are busily harvesting their fruit and sending it by the truckload to supermarkets all over the country. They're cheap, and plentiful. And Australians are loving it. But suddenly...
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Olivia Rousset |Anne Worthington |Leila Shunnar |David Lawford |David Lewis |Ali Russell | +1 more
A transcript for this program will be made available the Tuesday after broadcast. The federal government says it's been "quietly" removing children from Nauru "in accordance with our policies", but lawyers in Australia tell a different story. They've been fighting the Department of Home Affairs in the Federal Court to secure the evacuation of sick kids on the island.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Sarah Dingle |Anne Worthington |David Lawford |Leila Shunnar |Ali Russell |Alice Brennan
Alice Brennan: Hi there, I’m Alice Brennan and welcome to Background Briefing. It’s the biggest day of your life. You’re in a beautiful outfit, you’re so excited you probably haven’t eaten, and all your friends and family are waiting for you to step outside. It’s your wedding day and this is the beginning of the rest of your life with your new spouse. Sarah Dingle: If you’re getting married in India, it might not just be one wedding day it might be a three, five or even a seven-day event.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Anne Worthington |Leila Shunnar |Jen Parsonage |David Lewis |Ali Russell | +1 more
Alice Brennan: Hi there, I’m Alice Brennan and welcome to Background Briefing. It’s 2007 and Mathew Kennedy is going on a date. He’s invited a girl he likes to the movies to see Ghost Rider with Nicholas Cage. They get to the cinema early and they sit down next to each other. The trailers haven’t started so it’s really quiet. Until…(Beeping sound.)Mathew slinks into his chair he’s so embarrassed. He knows his date, Raquel, is looking at him. And he can see it in her face.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Alex Mann |Anne Worthington |Leila Shunnar |Jen Parsonage |David Lewis |Ali Russell | +1 more
Alice Brennan: Hi there, Alice Brennan here and this is Background Briefing. In part one of our collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Background Briefing reporters Mario Christodoulou and Alex Mann, along with a team of journalists from across the world looked at what happens when something goes wrong with a medical device. And by medical device we’re talking pacemakers, joint implants, breast implants and even devices like defibrillators.
