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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was a gallery of the Eta Aquariid meteor shower

Listen to our News Club episode on making and reporting on the Federal Budget

Larissa recommends this viral tomato soup recipe

Kate recommends this episode on HECS from our How Far We've Come series

Listen and/or read our Shortcut on the Nuclear Power debate

Hosts: Kate Watson and Larissa Moore

Producer: Annelise Taylor

With Treasurer Jim Chalmers set to hand down the Federal Budget next week, we thought it would be a good time to dive into the process of how it gets made and how the media reports on it. James Chessell, a Walkley Award-winning journalist and former Managing Director of Publishing at Nine Entertainment, is well-versed in covering budgets. Plus, his former time working as a staffer for Joe Hockey makes him uniquely qualified on the topic. 

Club Picks:

This episode of Politics with Michelle Grattan with economist Chris Richardson. She’s the doyen of political coverage out of Canberra’s Press Gallery, and he’s the go-to guru for anyone looking to make sense of the Budget. Ahead of its release, they set the scene for what’s on the government’s economic plate. 

This piece from 2017 by Dr Denis Muller, a journalism expert from Melbourne Uni, goes into the art of the leak… 

And speaking of leaks, the mother of them all came about in 1980 when then-Ten News political reporter Laurie Oakes got access to the Budget in a dark Canberra car park 2 days ahead of its release… This clip of how it unfolded on air is fun, if only for then Treasurer John Howard’s reaction… 

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This episode of The Daily on the pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University

Listen to the Eurovision entry from Electric Fields here

Larissa recommends this doco that goes behind the scenes for the 2015 Met Gala

Kate recommends this episode of The NYT's new podcast series called The Interview

Listen to our News Club episode on ultra-fast fashion with AFR fashion editor Lauren Sams

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Hosts: Kate Watson and Larissa Moore

Producer: Annelise Taylor

This week on News Club, we talk with Lauren Sams, fashion editor at the Australian Financial Review, about the rise of ultra-fast fashion and how businesses like Temu and Shein manage to offer such cheap clothes. In Australia alone, they are on track to record more than $2 billion in sales this year and they’re fast grabbing a huge chunk of market share both here and overseas. But there are plenty of questions about the ethics of what we’re buying from these sites.

Club Picks:

Two videos from the Wall Street Journal - ‘How Temu’s Explosive Growth Is Disrupting American E-Commerce’ and ‘How Shein Built a $66B Fast-Fashion Empire’ - are less than 10 mins each and very informative. 

A 2022 investigation by Wired, ‘Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise,’ explores the problems facing the company. 

This Money Talks podcast episode by The Economist called ‘Why Amazon should be afraid of Temu’. 

Lauren Sams recommended this book - Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes.

And here is The Devil Wears Prada clip Kate mentions from The Devil Wears Prada

Host: Kate Watson

Producer: Annelise Taylor

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's all about helping you stay on top of the news + we give you some talking points for the week ahead.

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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was about the Aurora Australis

Unmade's article on why the Arj Barker story went viral

Kate recommends ABC's Australian Story on Aiden Dix

Listen to our News Club episode on Ozempic

Hosts: Kate Watson and Claire Kimball

Producer: Annelise Taylor

Ozempic, designed for type-2 diabetes treatment, has garnered widespread attention for its potential to aid weight loss in obese individuals. In Australia, where obesity affects 30% of the population, it has sparked significant interest and Novo Nordisk, the company behind it, has seen its share price surge by almost 500% in 5 years. While there are other similar drugs on the market, Ozempic is the OG. Which is why we are delving into it for News Club...

Club Picks:

This podcast on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters program includes an interview with podcaster Claire Murphy. S

The invention of these drugs has had - and will continue to have - economic impacts. This episode of The Economist’s Money Talks podcast goes through that, and the industry that’s booming off the back of them. 

You can’t go far in this discussion without mentioning Oprah Winfrey… The US multi-media legend has had a decades-long struggle with her weight. She’s even made a show about it - Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution - a clip is here. 

Hosts: Claire Kimball & Kate Watson

Producer: Annelise Taylor

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire Kimball and Kate Watson, it's s all about helping you stay on top of the news + we give you some talking points for the week ahead.

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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was about the floods in Dubai

Listen to our News Club ep with Adam Harvey on a reporter's perspective on the Israel-Hamas war

Check out our Shortcut on Iran and Israel

Claire's recommendation is this Vegemite butter recipe

Hosts: Kate Watson & Claire Kimball

Producer: Annelise Taylor

Adam Harvey is a reporter with ABC TV’s 7.30 and their former Middle East correspondent. We sat down with him to talk about his experience working in the Middle East, what it was like when he returned to Israel late last year, and how journalists get their information. Plus, we ask whether he would ever have thought the events of 7 October were possible and if he is surprised by Israel’s response.

Club Picks:

This article that was written by Adam himself. He talks about it in the podcast because it was published 24 hours after the 7 October attack.

He also discusses CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, one of the only reporters who has been able to enter Gaza without an escort. Here is a piece she produced after doing so. 

Adam recommends this podcast by Yonit Levi of Israel’s Channel 12 News and Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian - 2 prominent journalists - called Unholy: Two Jews on The News.

Finally, Adam pointed us in the direction of 3 books called ‘Jerusalem’ as background to a city he and so many others love:

• Simon Montefiore’s biography Jerusalem*
• Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collin’s O! Jerusalem*, which covers the events surrounding the creation of the state
• And Ottolengi’s famous Jerusalem cookbook*

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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was about these 2 unlikely friends

Listen to our News Club ep on The business of Bluey

The Daily's podcast episode on Arizona and Trump's abortion dilemma

Kate recommends this episode of The Fin podcast with Lauren Sams

Claire recommends Season 2 of Loot and Not Dead Yet

Hosts: Kate Watson & Claire Kimball

Producer: Annelise Taylor

Bluey is one of the most-streamed TV shows in the world. But whilst Bluey is owned and produced by Ludo Studios - an Aussie outfit based in Brisbane - the commercial rights are owned by the BBC. It’s all a bit interesting, so this week, News Club will be about the juggernaut that is Bluey. 

Club Picks:

An interview in The Independent with the creator of Bluey, Joe Brumm.

A piece in the Financial Review from a few years ago which goes through how the ABC missed out on the commercial rights to Bluey. 

A recent piece by Bloomberg that throws up the possibility Bluey won’t continue forever. You can listen to the transcript of that for free here. 

And ahead of the Bluey ‘movie’ on Sunday, an interview in the Weekend Australian with Melinda Zanetti aka Chilli.

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The most clicked link in Squiz Today was about this Gucci wallet in Big W

The Daily's podcast episode on Israel's airstrike on the World Central Kitchen

Claire recommends The Rest is History's 2-part podcast episode on Captain Cook

Kate recommends watching Oppenheimer on Netflix

Read Kate's op-ed in Mumbrella here

Hosts: Kate Watson & Claire Kimball

Producer: Annelise Taylor