The Briefing

Tuesday Headlines:
Iran and Israel promise to halt strikes
35 people dead after 7.8 earthquake strikes the Philippines
PM condemns ‘ditch the witch’ campaign against Victorian premier as Hanson tells her to ‘suck it up’
Every Australian generation thinks things are worse than they were ten years ago
Couple donates $40 million to Fight MND at this year’s Big Freeze
Deep Dive: Every time there is a major sporting event, be it State of Origin or the AFL grand final, we hear how they coincide with an increase in domestic violence reports.
It’s a trend that advocates call “predictable and preventable” with calls growing for changes to liqour laws to help combat the scourge.
In this episode of The Briefing, survivor, advocate and investigative journlaist Jess Hill sits down with Sacha Barbour Gatt to discuss how simple regulatory changes could be a gamechanger when it comes to the prevention of DV.
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James Valentine passed away in April, voluntarily. The beloved ABC radio presenter and musician had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and chose voluntary assisted dying so he could have a say over how he lived his last moments.
Valentine cared about moments. In a moving eulogy at Valentine’s public memorial, his son, Roy Valentine, said that his dad always asked the question: “How do you want to live?” James Valentine lived with joy, curiosity, and openness, and wanted everyone else to be able to do the same.
Today, James Valentine is being officially honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia. In this episode of The Briefing, Natarsha Belling is joined by Roy Valentine to talk about his father’s legacy.
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Monday Headlines:
Former Australian of the year Professor Richard Scolyer dies aged 59
More than 900 Aussies on the Kings Birthday honours list
Newspoll has One Nation ahead of Labor for the first time
Oscar Piastri misses podium at Monaco Grand Prix
Deep Dive: June 8 marks the UN’s World Oceans Day, a chance to raise global awareness of the critical role our seas play in the health and wellbeing of the planet.
While a lot of our focus and knowledge of the ocean is on the parts we can see, there are teams of scientists and researchers who are probing the deep sea, around three quarters of which remains unmapped and unexplored.
In today’s deep dive, Sacha Barbour Gatt is joined by the CSIRO’s Dr Will White to discuss the deep sea, the recent discovery of new species off the coast of Australia and why it matters.
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As most states (sorry, WA and QLD) gear up to celebrate the King's Birthday public holiday tomorrow, some might be asking the question Aussies have been asking themselves for decades;
Why are we still living life under the British monarchy?
In this bonus episiode of The Briefing, we hear from a republican and a monarchist about their arguments to either leave or stay.
This episode was first published in October 2024 as King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Australia for a royal tour.
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Antoinette Lattouf is no stranger to The Briefing. Long before she became the centre of one of Australia’s most closely watched media controversies, she was sitting in the host’s chair herself.
Since then, the journalist, author and co-founder of ETTE Media has endured a very public battle with the ABC after being taken off air over a social media post about Gaza - a dismissal later found by the Fair Work Commission to be unlawful.
In this chat with Sacha Barbour Gatt, Antoinette reflects on the fallout from that experience, the lessons behind her new book Women Who Win, and why women who challenge the status quo are so often punished for it.
Weekend list with Helen Smith
Listener Karli TO WATCH: Widows Bay on Apple TV

TO WATCH: The Sheep Detectives in cinemas
TO TRY: Digital photo frame

TO WATCH: The Real Housewives of Rhode Island on Hayu

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