Weekly Wrap: Israel-Oz tensions, skibidi in the dictionary, and your survey responses
It's been a rough week for the Australia-Israel relationship… Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is furious about the Albanese Government's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood, and took aim at our PM this week. We also cover where we've landed with Russia-Ukraine after a week of talks about ending the war. And we’ll get you across the key takeaways from the Economic Reform Roundtable, along with Cambridge Dictionary’s Gen Alpha update. In what's coming up, there are a couple of big court dates for both Erin Patterson and Brittany Higgins, and Qantas will release its full-year profit after this week’s record IR fine.
Links
Claire’s recommendation - Ten classic potato dishes ranked from worst to best from Good Food
Jodie’s recommendation - The Family Next Door on ABC iView
The Squiz audience survey report
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Hosts: Claire Kimball & Jodie Speers
Producer & Editor: Ryan Pemberton
Researcher: Nicoletta Hay
Chapters
00:00 - Israel-Australia relations
04:40 - Russia-Ukraine
08:21 - Economic Reform Roundtable
11:58 - Cambridge Dictionary's Gen Alpha update
15:14 - What's coming up in the week ahead
21:56 - Squiz Recommends
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The Big Threat: War Footing
Bryce visits Estonia and Finland where he discovers a shared border with Russia has made universal media literacy not just a nice to have, but existential. Interviewing the Estonian education minister, Kristina Kallas and Finnish government officials - he learns that digital literacy is now a priority at all levels of government - including the Ministries of Defence.
Links:
EU DisinfoLab’s Doppelganger
EU Digital Services Act
Estonia Women’s Voluntary Defence Organisation
Estonian Defence League
US Embassy - Estonia - Small Grants Program
Faktisk website
Faktisk media literacy arm, Tenk
NORDIS: The Nordic Hub for Digital and Information Disorder
Finland’s National Audio Visual Institute
Articles:
EU Prepares Major Penalties against Elon Musk’s X - New York Times
Fakitsk: Norway’s media literacy program - BBC
Finnish newspaper hides news reports in online game - The Guardian
This podcast has been made possible by the Winston Churchill Trust Australia
See Newshounds by Squiz Kids for information about our media literacy program for primary school children.
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Host: Bryce Corbett
Producer & Editor: Ryan Pemberton
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Weekly Wrap: An economic round-up, recognising Palestine, and Taylor Swift’s Showgirl era
It's a big week for economic news - the Reserve Bank cut interest rates, and next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable has been a big talking point. Westpac CEO Anthony Miller also made waves with his unrelenting work schedule… Then we bundle up 2 big international stories - the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, and the response to Australia’s move to recognise Palestinian statehood. And Taylor Swift has new tunes coming in October - we get into how that was announced. In what's coming up, there’s an infrastructure conference to clock (no, really…) and an exciting air race across the outback.
Links
Acquired’s podcast episode on Google - Claire’s recommendation
Honestly podcast interview with Amanda Knox - Jodie’s recommendation
ABC TV’s 7.30 interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee
Taylor Swift’s podcast appearance on New Heights
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Also in our News Club show - the first 3 episodes of our new series ‘The Big Threat’ that looks at how other democracies are equipping their populations to recognise and resist mis- and disinformation, and what Australia can learn from them.
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Hosts: Claire Kimball & Jodie Speers
Producer & Editor: Ryan Pemberton
Researcher: Nicoletta Hay
Chapters
00:00 - Economic round-up
09:38 - Two big international stories
14:03 - What the mushroom murder trial jury wasn't told
18:50 - Taylor Swift's Showgirl era
21:37 - What's coming up in the week ahead
26:40 - Squiz Recommends
29:17 - Squiz Press
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The Big Threat: Fightback
Still in New York, Bryce meets with the News Literacy Project’s Darragh Worland, and compares media literacy education notes with the Poynter Institute’s Brittani Kollar. And against a backdrop of government cuts to public broadcasting and media companies buckling to political pressure, he sits down with Michelle Lipkin who’s built a nationwide community of digital literacy educators, inspired by her own painful experience as a victim of one of the worst terrorist attacks the world has ever seen.
Links:
News Literacy Project
News Literacy in America Report
Poynter Institute - Media Wise
National Association of Media Literacy Educators (NAMLE)
Reuters Institute - Digital News Report
Alan Miller: on founding the News Literacy Project
Articles:
Michelle Lipkin and Pan Am 103 - PBS
Paramount, SkyDance deal - CBS
Paramount, CBS, Stephen Colbert + the SkyDance deal - The Guardian
SkyDance pledges to end DEI at CBS and ‘root out bias’ - CNN
Louisiana mandates Ten Commandments in every classroom - BBC
This podcast has been made possible by the Winston Churchill Trust Australia
See Newshounds by Squiz Kids for information about our media literacy program for primary school children.
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Host: Bryce Corbett
Producer & Editor: Ryan Pemberton
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Weekly Wrap: Regulating AI, Tassie's political turmoil, and a vigilante parrot
This week, the Productivity Commission released an interim report that's thrown fuel on the fire of the debate around AI and copyright law. We'll get into what's being proposed and why it's got creatives and media companies up in arms. We also cover off where a Putin-Trump meeting is up to, Tassie's new (and maybe temporary) government, and Tourism Australia's new ad campaign. In what's coming up, the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, the Reserve Bank considers interest rates, and Beijing hosts the world's first World Humanoid Robot Games.
Links
Claire’s favourite internet bird - Auggie the Quaker parrot
Claire's recipe recommendation - minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs from SMH Good Food
Jodie’s book recommendation - Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell
Want more News Club in your life? We've got you…
Also in our News Club show - the first 2 episodes of our new series ‘The Big Threat’ that looks at how other democracies are equipping their populations to recognise and resist mis- and disinformation, and what Australia can learn from them.
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Hosts: Claire Kimball & Jodie Speers
Producer & Editor: Ryan Pemberton
Researcher: Nicoletta Hay
Chapters
00:00 - Regulations for AI
09:38 - Potential Putin-Trump meeting
14:01 - Ongoing turmoil in Tassie politics
16:52 - Tourism Australia's new campaign
26:35 - Squiz Recommends
28:54 - Squiz Press
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