There’s an expectation for single people to spend heaps of time, money and effort on celebrating couples, but what do single people get?
Collecting data about diverse communities is super important to fighting COVID-19 and a successful vaccination rollout, but Australia's strategy for doing it is patchy.
Plus, an Indigenous superhero helps spread COVID-safety messages in language.
Live guests:
Tim Soutphommasane, Professor of Practice in Sociology and Political Theory at the University of Sydney and Race Discrimination Commissioner
Fiona Bennett, Relationships Australia WA

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Folge vom 08.07.2021Do single people always draw the short straw?
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Folge vom 07.07.2021Why our laws still allow Indigenous sacred sites to be destroyedMore than a year after the Juukan Gorge disaster, why is it still legal for companies to damage and destroy Indigenous sacred sites that date back tens of thousands of years? The fastest woman in America has had her Olympics dreams crushed after she tested positive for marijuana, and was disqualified from Tokyo. Plus, Australia’s vaccine rollout is under the microscope again after more than 160 students from an elite Sydney private school got the Pfizer jab, even though most of them weren’t eligible. Live guests: Jamie Lowe, a Gunditjmara Djabwurrung man and CEO of the National Native Title Council Tracey Holmes, ABC sports reporter Professor Nigel McMillan, infectious diseases expert from Griffith University
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Folge vom 06.07.2021Will we be renting for life?As young Aussies grapple with the realisation that we could be lifelong renters, a report has tried to find out what needs to change to make rental life less shit. In an explosive new book, former Liberal MP Julia Banks has detailed extraordinary allegations of sexual harassment and bullying during her time in federal politics. Plus, for tens of thousands of years, Indigenous people living in the south east of Australia used to wear possum skin cloaks to keep warm and dry. Now the tradition is coming back. Live guests: Stela Todorovic, federal political reporter with 10 News First and host of the Women of the House podcast Brendan Coates, economic policy program director at the Grattan Institute Dr Carol McGregor, Wathaurung woman, artist and researcher
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Folge vom 05.07.2021Heal our land, heal our peopleNAIDOC has been celebrating the culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for over 60 years. But it wasn’t always a celebration. Australia Post has announced it will acknowledge traditional place names in their packaging. Plus, a massive fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is being blamed on a gas leak from an underwater pipeline. Live guests: Shannan Dodson, Yawuru woman and co-chair of NAIDOC Week Rachael McPhail, Gomeroi woman and campaigner Tina Soliman Hunter, geologist and professor of Energy and Resources Law at Macquarie University