The Briefing

Thursday Headlines:
Labor to unveil migration plan today
More details emerge about Bali double murder suicide
More than 100,000 displaced as Yemen conflict intensifies
Anthropic signs agreement for the country’s biggest data centre
Kim Kardashian awarded €1 in damages for Paris robbery
Deep Dive: A far-right party just came closer to running a German state than any has since the Nazi era.
It's not a one-off. The same movement now sits in or beside government across Europe and it’s reaching Australia too, with a known neo-Nazi group fighting the government in the High Court for its right to exist.
In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou is joined by far-right researcher Kaz Ross to unpack how much ground the far-right is gaining worldwide, what's driving the surge, and what it all means for us here in Australia.
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Wednesday Headlines:
Pauline Hanson apologises for comments about Indigenous Australians, PM's mum
Gov accused of wanting to protect AI companies over Australians
Ed Sheeran responds to Macklemore backlash
One of Sydney’s biggest councils bans smart glasses at local swimming pools
Karl Stefanovic and podcast partner in Supreme Court
Deep Dive: There have been renewed and urgent warnings this week from not only former staff, but also the big tech bosses themselves about the existential threat AI poses to humanity.
We've been warned by the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic and Grok that an urgent slowdown is needed in the advancement of this tech, with fears it could result in the extinction of the human race, possibly as soon as 2030.
While most have taken them at their word, some experts are a little more skeptical, and others think it's downright fantasy.
In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt is joined by Professor Emily M. Bender, the Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Washington to offer an alternative view to the narrative that AI is going to kill us all.
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Tuesday Headlines:
One Nation's migration fight
Pauline Hanson slammed for racist comments
Indonesian police investigating death of Australian man and children in Bali as suspected murder-suicide
Donald Trump claims there’s a 'sick conspiracy' against AI, that’s helping China
Rates of Gonorrhea and syphilis up by more than 50% in Australia
HYROX issues apology over Australian woman pooing during comp
Deep Dive: Rising sea levels are no longer a looming threat in the distant future, they're here right now and Australia is especially at risk.
We know the physical impacts of this; accelerated coastal erosion, property damage and loss as well as the destruction of natural barriers like mangroves and wetlands. But there's also a dollar amount we can expect to fork out too.
In an Australian first, the Climate Council has crunched the numbers, with a conservative estimate that we'll need to find an extra $855 billion by 2100 to cover the costs of rising sea levels.
In this episode of The Briefing, Adjunct Professor Andrew Watkins from Monash University and the Climate Council joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to talk about the threat, who pays the bill and whether Australia is pulling its weight when it comes to climate change.
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Monday Headlines:
Pressure mounts, again, on Pauline Hanson to apologise
Albo's approval slides as comms minister flags concessions to digital duty of care laws
Australian woman identified after falling to her death from a poplar beach near Bali
South Australia records first bird flu case in a sea lion
New screen time limits for NSW public school students
Celine Dion makes an emotional return to the stage in Paris
Deep Dive: Clips from a new documentary about Silicon Valley start-up founder turned convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes have gone viral after a secret screening at the Telluride Film Festival.
Directors of You Can See Everything Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim stayed with Holmes in the days leading up to the start of her 10-year prison stint in 2023.
In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt is joined by culture critic for Triple J's The Slop, Michael Sun, to talk about the extraordinary story of Holmes and why we're so obsessed with it.
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Spring brings with it some pretty wonderful things; blooming flowers, warmer weather and longer days. But it also means another thing that can strike fear into the heart of nearly every Australian – magpie swooping season.
From August to October, the black and white birds are nesting, which means they’re feeling extra protective and have been known to fly at humans as they pass by their babies.
In this episode of The Briefing, we're revisiting Sacha Barbour Gatt's chat with bird expert Sean Dooley to break down the facts and myths around these fabulous animals this swooping season.

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