The Briefing

Monday Headlines:
Former Australian of the year Professor Richard Scolyer dies aged 59
More than 900 Aussies on the Kings Birthday honours list
News Poll 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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Headlines:
One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce backtracks over kicking permanent residents out of their homes
ASIC is formally investigating KPMG
Thermos King Food Jar recalled after causing vision loss in the US
China’s about to put a 55% tariff on Aussie beef
Prince Andrew appears with a massive face bruise
Deep Dive:
Aussies love to talk about property prices, and the focus this week has been on new data showing declines in some house prices. But how significant are the downturns in Sydney and Melbourne, and what kind of properties are still hitting record highs?
In this episode of The Briefing Natarsha Belling is joined by My Bui, economist at AMP, to talk about whether Australia is actually in a property correction, and what it could mean for your finances.
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Friday Headlines:
Labor facing uphill battle to get CGT and NDIS legislation passed
Government calls for investigation into sexual assault allegations of Australian flotilla members
Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire
Bondi hero charged with assault
Content creator fired over viral Indigenous skit
Deep Dive: A robot recently beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes, another walked the Met Gala red carpet, while one major world religion is ordaining them as monks.
Humanoid robots are turning up in spaces we once thought were exclusively ours - and that's not an accident. It's the latest move in a multibillion-dollar effort to make machines feel familiar, relatable and, ultimately, welcome.
In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou traces the 60-year playbook behind our relationship with machines - from a 1960s MIT chatbot to a breathing AI in your pocket – to explain how we arrived at a moment where robots are beginning to move from our screens and showrooms into our streets.

Further listening from headlines:
'I heard the screams': Inside Israeli detention
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