Rn Drive - Separate Stories Podcast

Several sports are wrestling with how to best include trans athletes, the world swimming body FINA decided this week, that it’s best done by creating an 'open category' for transgender women.  Following the move, the International Rugby League has banned transgender women from playing - as it seeks more research to establish a formal transgender inclusion policy.

Israel is returning to the polls for the fifth time in three years. That's equivalent to an election every seven months. So what's happening in Israeli politics?

New South Wales has finally begun its long-touted stamp duty reform and it's something the other states will be watching with great interest. In the budget today, the Perrottet Government has offered some first home buyers the choice of ditching stamp duty altogether and paying an annual land tax instead.

Australian Energy Market Operator says the suspension of the wholesale energy market could be lifted before the end of the week, after it met with industry and agreed to a set of guidelines.

Verdi's La Traviata invites you to indulge in the opulence and glamour of the Parisian salon. Violetta is a free-spirited courtesan who throws lavish parties with the finest champagne but amidst the glitz and glamour a tragic love story unfolds as our effervescent host relinquishes her only chance at love. In the Drawing Room, Constantine Costi, the opera's revival director, talks about how he's making sparks fly in his new interpretation of this well-known opera classic.

It may look like the French legislative election results paves the way for President Emmanuel Macron’s centre-right party to govern for a second term despite losing its absolute majority. But while the Government will work to form a new alliance to achieve a majority, parties to the far-left and far-right have made the biggest gains.

Carbon counter is your daily news in a decarbonizing economy and climate change which includes the mood lifting for clean energy investors, the US backing hydrogen, and how the Pilbara could help power Asia.

Just imagine wishing for lung cancer, because it’s better than the alternative of the incurable disease you’ve been handed, just for doing your job. Dozens of underground workers are now demanding the government introduce regulations to protect half a million Australians exposed to silica dust.

Where people used to "call" on each other in the home and had chaperones, Australian dating evolved into something that was much more public between the 1940s and 1960s.

Frontline workers are leaving the child protection sector in droves because of lack of support and feeling defeated by the volume and nature of cases. Liana Buchanan, Victoria's Principal Commissioner for Children and Young People, says that it is a common problem and that the system is 'not fit for purpose'.

The consumer watchdog has been tasked with sniffing out any price gouging in the energy sector, as the government’s new draft energy plan could see taxpayer’s dollars used to pay coal and gas generators.

Return to Seoul follows a young French-Korean woman as she travels to her country of birth on a holiday. She swears she isn’t there to connect to her biological family, but, once in the country, she can’t help but reach out. This isn’t the tale of a joyous reunion though, it’s complicated, messy, and prickly, just like real life. In the Drawing Room, the film’s creator, Davy Chou, talks about the real experience that inspired the script, and the complicated questions of belonging that lie at its heart.

Palaeontologists have tracked down the world's oldest belly button, but who or what did it belong to? Plus does our understanding of how our planet rotates need to be updated?

This week we ask the tough questions on channelling Bob Hawke, alternative uses for forklifts and Hollywood celebrity sightings. Comedians, podcasters and writers Paul Verhoeven and Tegan Higginbotham face off in this instalment of Let's Get Quizzical to see who knows more about the news, politics and popular culture that unfolded this week.

In a week which saw the failure of the energy market amid fears of supply shortfalls and east coast blackouts, how will the government steer through this crisis to a brighter, greener future? Greg Sheridan and Amy Remeikis also discuss the minimum wage rise, Australia's defence policy and the legacy of the Scott Morrison government. Will he be a tough act to follow or has Anthony Albanese got the goods to charm our international friends?

There were lots of new faces at today's national cabinet meeting as well as a fresh resolve to tackle the health reforms much needed across Australia. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also confirmed at today's meeting that the Commonwealth will extend its 50-50 hospital funding agreement with the states and territories through to the end of the year.

When faith and power collide, is it possible to avoid compromising your beliefs? Tarik Saleh's new film, Boy from Heaven, was inspired by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but takes audiences to al-Azhar University in Cairo, where the death of the Grand Imam could change the power dynamics of the country. In the Drawing Room he talks about the importance of truth in fiction and why he loves a country that doesn't love him back.

“Babushka Z” is the Kremlin’s latest tool to rustle up support to reform the soviet union with posters, songs and even statues of the headscarf-wearing heroine spreading like wildfire.  But who is this woman, and why does she find herself at the heart of Putin’s propaganda machine?

The life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people is eight years. Matildas' Goalkeeper Lydia Williams is working with the Closing the Gap Foundation to encourage more indigenous students into health care.

Picture this, you've taken a nice, well deserved break in sunny Byron Bay or the cosy Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. But the thing is, if you're staying in an Airbnb house, that home has most likely been taken out of the rental market for locals. Brisbane City Council is now putting pressure on home owners who use short-stay accommodation websites like Airbnb and Stayz.