Connie Agius

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Benjamin Sveen |Connie Agius |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Tim Jenkins | +2 more

ALICE BRENNAN: Hi there, Alice Brennan here, welcome to Background Briefing. This week we are setting sail on the high seas. RONBERT BIBAT: We are start now scraping the dust. Chipping the rust. Until after chipping we sweeping up, after sweeping we mop. ALICE BRENNAN: Men in blue overalls and white hard hats look like mini-figures swallowed by a giant mechanical beast. Ridged red walls of steel tower around them - 17 metres high. RONBERT BIBAT: Yes.

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Connie Agius |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Martin Peralta |Tim Roxburgh | +1 more

ALICE BRENNAN: Hello there, this is Background Briefing, I'm Alice Brennan. This episode, we are playing games. And just a little warning before we begin today, with gaming comes some trash talk. And with trash talk comes some good words but also some very very bad words. Two teams of gamers are sitting in a darkened arena in Shanghai. Their keyboards emit a soft red glow.

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Benjamin Sveen |Connie Agius |Geoff Thompson |Leila Shunnar |Simon Branthwaite | +3 more

ALICE BRENNAN: Hey there welcome to Background Briefing, I'm Alice Brennan. Well, today on the show we're going to talk about RULES.... OH COME ON... we all LOVE rules... Some of us love following them... And Some of us love BREAKING THEM. What if I told you that while you live your life FOLLOWING the rules, paying your rent, paying your tax, paying your car rego, driving the speed limit... there is this WHOLE world operating ALMOST in parallel...

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Benjamin Sveen |Connie Agius |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Tim Jenkins | +2 more

ALICE BRENNAN: If you still think of psychedelics as a relic from the 1960s... hallucinations, peace-loving drop outs, psychedelia, swirly-whirlies on your screen and all that.. you need to get up to date. These days people musing about the usefulness of psychedelics are just as likely to be scientists and psychologists. Psychedelics are back, and they're wearing a lab coat. Our reporter Geoff Thompson is with me.

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Benjamin Sveen |Connie Agius |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Tim Jenkins | +2 more

ALICE BRENNAN: Hello Alice Brennan here with the very first background briefing for 2021- welcome back. We're so happy to be here and we have a huge season planned for you over the next couple of months so be sure to tune in every single week for Australia's best investigations. Subscribe to us on your favourite podcast app - don't forget!Ok for our first show of the year we've decided to alter your mind. Just a little bit. Just kidding. If you think of psychedelics as a relic from the 1960s...