Julia Baird

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Julia Baird |Jeremy Fernandez

News out of Gaza has gone from bad to worse with acute food shortages and growing concern of a famine. So are attitudes from Israel's Western allies starting to change? And will a change in attitude lead to concrete action? And last week we were talking about poison pen letters and we've heard lots of great stories. We go through our favourites. Plus a little treat from our Sydney live show.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Julia Baird |Jeremy Fernandez

Joe Biden is back in the news with a cancer diagnosis, but there’s also a new book out looking at his alleged cognitive decline. So what do you need to disclose and why, if you are in public office. And in Australia the Coalition is consciously uncoupling, so Jules and Jez take a look at the messy split.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Julia Baird

Pope Leo XIV began his first speech with one word: "Peace."Yet even that was viewed as a provocation by ideologues who had already dismissed him as the "woke pope". It's an odd slur to cast on a person who has just said that perhaps racism isn't such a great thing, that we should love each other, that we should refrain from demonising the stateless. But this is the position Pope Leo has found himself in.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Julia Baird

Journalist, broadcaster, historian and author May 16, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. “Don’t you ever want to, like, disappear?” I asked my 18-year-old daughter this week. She looked at me, puzzled: “What do you mean?”“Like drop off the map, not be tracked, have no one know where you are.” I was thinking of my own backpacking days, full of narrow escapes and all kinds of peril but so free.

3 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Julia Baird

Young people often understand the technology better than we do – how to deny access once you have broken up with someone; freeze or pause your location; hide away for a bit. (This, of course, can be a red flag in a relationship – is your partner cheating or just out of Wi-Fi range?)Related ArticleThe most important thing to teach kids is how to identify when affection – “Where are you? Did you get home OK? Are you hurt?” – turns to creeping control – “Where are you now?