The Briefing

Friday Headlines:
US completes ‘heavy wave’ of strikes against Iran
Australian family beg for government help as son faces death penalty in Syria
Labor housing plan already 100,000 homes behind schedule
UEFA agrees to boycott FIFA competitions over controversial World Cup sell-off plans
Revealed: Neil the Seal's damage and care bill
Deep Dive: A new push is starting for access to Voluntary Assisted Dying to be expanded to telehealth services, in a move that advocates say would directly benefit people living in the regions or who are too sick to travel.
Labor this week endorsed a change in law that'd lift a ban on the practice, but the Prime Minister doesn't agree, saying allowing it would threaten the strict safeguards in place to ensure VAD is only accessed by people who genuinely want and need it.
In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt is joined by Go Gentle spokesperson Andrew Denton to discuss why there's a debate on this issue and what's next in the fight to allow VAD via telehealth.
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Thursday Headlines:
Pause in fighting between US and Iran over as Trump threatens to ‘beat the f****** shit out of Iran’
SA police call off search for missing 3-month-old boy
Bird flu has first local transmission
Rate hike unlikely after inflation numbers lower than expected
OpenAI's rogue agent also hacked other companies
Deep Dive: Australia's no stranger to famous faces trading their day jobs for politics. Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett, broadcaster Derryn Hinch, Olympians Nova Peris and Zali Steggall, as well as former journalists Zoe Daniel and Maxine McKew.
But only one of them has unseated a sitting Prime Minister.
Hannah Ferguson is looking to become the second.
In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou is joined by Ferguson to unpack her independent tilt at Anthony Albanese in his seat of Grayndler - why she won't be joining forces with the Greens or Teals, and some of the policy platforms and values at the heart of her campaign.
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Wednesday Headlines:
One Nation support plateaus in new poll
Search for missing baby boy in South Australia continues today
Human casualties confirmed after magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Japan
Ben Carroll calls for Royal Commission as Opposition criticises his integrity
3.6 million people track Qantas flight to France
Deep Dive: Jacinta Allan has stepped down from the Victorian Labor leadership after less than three years in the role.
With an election just four months away, how does her decision affect the party's chances of winning? And can Labor get back on top in Victoria?
In this episode of The Briefing, Channel 7's Political Editor, Mark Riley joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to explain.
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What does it really take to run Australia’s most iconic airline, and oversee one of the biggest public backlashes in corporate history?
Alan Joyce has written a tell-all memoir, pulling back the curtain on his high-stakes leadership, political access, Chairman's Lounge secrets, and the personal cost of being one of Australia's first openly gay CEOs.
In this episode of The Briefing, the former Qantas boss sits down for an unvarnished chat about his fifteen years at the helm, his new book Riding the Jet Stream, and whether he regrets any of the calls that have defined his legacy.
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Tuesday Headlines:
Vic Labor leadership spill could happen today
Hanson considering High Court after losing Faruqi appeal
Wildfires burn across France and Spain
Australia eyes its first new refinery in 60 years
AusAlert test hailed a 'success', but Queensland won't use it
Deep Dive: For over a century, Qantas built a reputation as Australia’s most trusted airline ... until COVID forced a desperate survival strategy that triggered the biggest reputational crisis in its history.
Former CEO Alan Joyce was the man at the helm during those three years, overseeing brutal layoffs, emergency repatriations and a response that saved the company from impending bankruptcy.
But that also came with severe public backlash that defined his final years at the helm.
In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt sits down with Joyce to discuss his new memoir Riding the Jet Stream and his own reflections on what it took to save the Flying Kangaroo, and whether he regrets any of it.
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