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We've all seen the news footage of empty shelves in Australian supermarkets, stripped of popular brands of baby formula to feed the insatiable demand of the Chinese market. What's happening in China that has created this demand for our brands? Why do Chinese Mums need to look outside their own country to feed their children? SBS Asian Correspondent Katrina Yu and Beijing based Mum Celine, tell us...

It seems almost unthinkable that a young person in Australia today can still be told that being gay is disgusting or perverted, that being attracted to someone of the same sex means there's something wrong with you or that you're possessed by some unholy demon. That's what happened to Chris Csabs. He, along with Dr Timothy Jones, the author of the report into gay conversion therapy in Australia, e...

Does the Australian Liberal Party have a women problem?   We keep hearing how there's not enough of them, they they're far outnumbered by their male counterparts but why? And why do so many talented Liberal women seem to be leaving the party right now? ABC's Political writer and commentator Annabel Crabb takes us through the Liberal philosophy of merit over quotas and the treatment of arguabl...

This episode of The Quicky contains graphic details of child sexual abuse.  If this brings up any issues for you, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Cardinal George Pell was convicted last year of sexually abusing two choirboys in 1996.  The jury found Pell guilty of sexual penetration of a child under 16, as well as four counts of committing an indecent act with, or in the presence,...

You might have been hearing a lot about ISIS brides lately, more specifically, those who realised they made a bad choice and now want to come home. The problem is, some of those women have had their citizenship revoked rendering them stateless and either in a prison or living in refugee camps with their young children. But why did these woman join ISIS in the first place? And do we even have the l...

Are the Oscars rigged? From the moment a movie is even conceived, the machine to win it an Oscar begins to grind its gears. The amount of money that it takes to take home one of those shiny gold statues will make your head spin. Hollywood correspondent Gayl Murphy and Film Data Analyst Stephen Follows break down where the dollars flow on the road to Oscar glory.   CREDITS Host/Producer: Clair...

If you follow Aussie radio host Fifi Box on Instagram you’re probably already across the fact she’s expecting her second baby. But did you know she’s doing it with the help of an anonymous sperm donor? In today’s show we speak with Hayley Hendrix, the author of Desperately Seeking Semen. She found herself single in her late 30’s and that pesky biological clock was get...

In 2012, 24-year-old Nicole Fitzsimons was holidaying in Thailand when she was fatally injured in a motorbike accident. Sadly this isn't an isolated event, with the latest statistics from the Department of Foreign Affairs showing that on average an Australian dies every one and a half days in Thailand.   Would you know what to do if your loved one died on a holiday?  In today's epis...

Blake Garvey, Michael Cox, Paulini, Davina Rankin - do those names mean anything to you? What if we said ‘Most hated Bachelor or all time’, the ‘Turkey slap incident’, ‘Fat Shamed by Dicko’ or MAFS cheating txt scandal’. These are the real people behind the reality TV shows, the people who have to return home to a forever altered real life. Clare Verrall w...

Of the 3.2 million Australians currently living below the poverty line, 52% of those are women and young girls. Some of those young girls are experiencing what is now referred to as ‘period poverty’. In today’s episode of The Quicky, we’ll be discussing period poverty with Rochelle Courtenay from Share The Dignity. We’ll also be speaking with 17-year-old Rachel, who b...

In this episode of The Quicky, we unravel the story of missing Dubai Princess, Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum. In March 2018 Princess Latifa, the 33 year old daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed, attempted to escape her oppressive life after years of torture, imprisonment, and lack of basic human rights. Unfortunately Latifah’s escape didn’t go to plan and she was recapture...

Do you find the news cycle overwhelming? Depressing? Confusing? Boring? Endless? Are you sick of feeling like you’ve turned up to a conversation 10 minutes late because there’s so much assumed knowledge? We hear you. We are you. The Quicky is Mamamia's daily podcast that gets you up to speed on the top stories, then deep dives on one topic you want to know more about. It’s a show...