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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Brendan King |Jess O'Callaghan |Leila Shunnar |David Lawford |Russell Stapelton | +1 more
Alice Brennan: I'm Alice Brennan. This is Background Briefing. This week, can you imagine losing it all? You've worked your entire life to save up your nest egg. You've invested safely with an institution that you trust. Only to wake up one day to find it's all gone. Worse still, it's gone and there's bugger all you can do about it. Mario Christodoulou's investigation this week takes you to that grim place. Mario Christodoulou: This is a story about Macquarie Bank.
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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 | Sarah Dingle |Emma James |Ali Russell |Leila Shunnar |David Lawford |Alice Brennan
Alice Brennan: Hi there, Alice Brennan here, welcome to Background Briefing. And before I even start the intro this week, I want to send out a very, very strong warning to you all. This week’s show is intense. We deal with suicide extensively. We go into more detail than usual because we’ve decided it’s in the public interest, and it’s possibly pretty distressing. So if you think that might upset you, just give us a rest for the week. We’ll be back next week with more investigative journalism for you.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Emma James |Leila Shunnar |David Lawford |Ali Russell |Alice Brennan
Alice Brennan: Hey there, Alice Brennan here and this is Background Briefing. A couple of months ago reporter Mario Christodoulou wandered over to my desk and told me he'd stumbled across an incredible finance scandal; an $8 billion financial advisory business run by this senior guy in the financial planning world, Peter Daly. Now this fund was managing more than $20 million worth of investors' money; everyday people from all over Australia had staked their retirements on it.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Hagar Cohen |Jess O'Callaghan |Leila Shunnar |Russell Stapleton |David Lawford |Alice Brennan
Hagar Cohen: I wanted to play something to you. Alice Brennan: This is Background Briefing. Have you ever felt extreme pain? Can you imagine your legs being ripped off in a car accident…A few weeks ago 74-year-old Barbara Cook was laying in bed and she heard Background Briefing on the radio. …the fentanyl is not workingThat episode included a description of ambos switching out fentanyl for saline, and consequently giving patients no pain relief when they most needed it.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Steve Cannane |Alexandra Fisher |Leila Shunnar |David Lawford |David Lewis |Ali Russell
Alice Brennan: Hi there, Alice Brennan here and you're listening to Background Briefing. This week on the show, the Bird and the Businessman. You hear that? That’s the sound of a rare bird called the Eastern Curlew. It has long legs and an incredibly long curved bill. And it also has this haunting cry. Every spring, this bird makes an epic journey. It flies from as far away as Russia to land right here in Australia – that’s more than 10,000 kilometres.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Mario Christodoulou |Jess O'Callaghan |David Lewis |Leila Shunnar |Judy Rapley |David Lawford | +1 more
Alice Brennan: Hi there, I'm Alice Brennan and this is Background Briefing. Roden Woodhams: Right now we're standing in front of the safety section of the workshop. I'm picking up the coverall which covers you from ankle to throat with a hood on it. You don't want to get covered in asbestos dust. A worker would be wearing one of these coveralls, he would be wearing a set of these completely disposable gloves…Alice Brennan: These are the tools of the trade.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Alex Mann |David Lewis |Sarah Dingle |Emma James |Leila Shunnar |David Lawford | +3 more
Alice Brennan: Hi there I'm Alice Brennan and you're listening to Background Briefing. This week, Burning Down the House. In an extraordinary week in politics, we bring you an extraordinary episode of the show. After being ousted by his party and stepping down as the country's PM, on Wednesday Malcolm Turnbull wrote a letter to his constituents in Wentworth:"I don't want to dwell on recent shocking and shameful events", he wrote.
