Covered

This week on Covered, we go inside the courtroom where Bachelor star Sam Wood was refused bail on domestic violence charges. We unpack the allegations, the family-man brand built around his marriage and the commercial fallout that’s reportedly cost him tens of millions. Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has scored a rare win, with the High Court ruling the warrants police used to search his...

This week on Covered, the RBA has hiked the cash rate to a 15-year high, we unpack what a fourth rate rise this year means for your mortgage and who's really to blame. Then, two suspected terror attacks on two separate continents in the past week. Passengers are being hailed as heroes after storming the cockpit of a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv. In the UK, five men arrested near an air base used by...

This week on Covered: What will Australia actually look like in 40 years? We unpack the predictions for 2066, from a baby bust and rapidly ageing population to migration, AI, housing and whether we’ll really be better off. Then, Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer spills some serious royal tea, claiming King Charles was “giddy” after Diana died in a new bombshell book. Plus, Grand Final weekend...

This week on Covered: Labor finally reveals its migration overhaul, slashing student visa loopholes, cracking down on overstayers, and taking aim at Working Holiday visas. But does it go far enough, and how does it stack up against the Coalition, One Nation and the Greens? Then, a doomsday week for AI: a 27-year-old ex-OpenAI and Anthropic staffer quits and warns AI could kill us all within a deca...

This week on Covered: One Nation boots journalists from the ABC and The Guardian out of a Melbourne press conference, and we ask whether it's a deliberate stunt or something more troubling given the party's growing push in Victoria. The government unveils My Feed, My Way, new laws letting you opt out of the algorithm entirely, part of a broader crackdown giving platforms real legal duties to prote...

This week on Covered: the Lindsay Clancy trial ends in a mistrial after a deadlocked jury and seven days of deliberation, leaving prosecutors deciding whether to retry her, offer a plea deal, or walk away entirely. Australian house prices are falling, and we dig into whether Labor's own tax changes are behind it. And John Galliano pulls out of his own Met Gala exhibition, after backlash over his h...

This week on Covered, we're across the devastating Nepal-Tibet glacier flood that's left more than 390 dead and nearly 1,500 missing, including dozens of Australians caught up in a pilgrimage tour to Mount Kailash. Then we pay tribute to Dolly Parton, the Queen of Country Music, who died at 80 after quietly fighting cancer behind the scenes for months. And we unpack the stoush at Brisbane's St Joh...

This week on Covered, Geelong's secret concussion waiver scandal has blown up into a leadership crisis, with AFL chair Craig Drummond now facing calls to resign over the deal he signed off on as club president. Then to the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts, where harrowing testimony about her three children's deaths is forcing a national reckoning on postpartum psychosis and how the jus...

This week on Covered, Alan Jones stands trial, and the evidence from his first accuser, Complainant J, has dominated the week, alleging Jones started grooming him with money and gifts as a teenage athlete before assaulting him in a car. Then to Ceuta, where 60,000 people crossed the Moroccan border into Spain in days, a story branded a migration crisis that might actually be Morocco settling a sco...

This week on Covered, Jacinta Allan is out as Victorian Premier after her own colleagues turned on her, we get into the Big Build corruption at the centre of it, the Dan Andrews hangover she never escaped, and what a chaotic three-way election in November now looks like. Then Australia's new AusAlert emergency warning system underwent its first nationwide test, and we break down how it actually wo...

This week on Covered, Pauline Hanson faces backlash for calling domestic violence "a two way street," then doubles down backing mass deportation as part of a Channel Seven Spotlight special, while Barnaby Joyce separately melts down at his dog defending her on ABC. We dig into the patchwork of laws around AI deepfakes after a Queensland man was charged over allegedly superimposing women's faces on...

This week on Covered, Australia's childcare system is under fire again after a Sydney worker was charged with 329 offences allegedly committed across 62 centres, with 136 victims identified so far. Cricket Australia found itself at the centre of a media storm over reports it would scrap the anthem at the Australia Day Big Bash final, and we get into how the whole thing turned out to be a storm in...

This week on Covered, Pauline Hanson takes her monocultural pitch to the country at the National Press Club, her biggest speech in thirty years and a clear play to be taken seriously as a leader. We ask the question her critics keep laughing off, could she actually be Prime Minister. Then to the spate of shark attacks along the NSW coast, brought into focus by the recent mauling at Coogee, and the...

This week on Covered, Labor tried to fundraise off the threat of One Nation and it backfired spectacularly, handing Pauline Hanson a million dollar war chest and the slogan Fire the Liar. We get into the spin war that swallowed Australian politics, right down to the billboard truck targeting Jacinta Allan that dragged ditch the witch back into the conversation. Then to the FIFA World Cup, where Tr...

This week on Covered, the ABC is facing accusations of hypocrisy after making Grace Tame the face of a new podcast about autism, with the appointment dividing ranks inside the national broadcaster itself. Then harrowing bodycam footage of 18-year-old Henry Nowak dying handcuffed in a UK street has triggered riots and a reckoning about race and policing that has the country asking who police actual...

This week on Covered, the teal independents are in talks to form a political party but there's a real divide over whether a party and genuine independence can actually coexist. An Australian family is fighting to bring controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo back to Australia after he was banned from operating here, and we break down why his case is so divisive. And the Enhanced Games wrapped in La...

This week on Covered, the budget backlash explodes into a full-blown revolt as small business owners flood social media with AI-generated memes and the opposition seizes on the chaos. Rugby league is rocked by the devastating news that South Sydney star Jai Arrow has been diagnosed with MND at just 30. And a mass shooting at a California mosque carried out by two teenagers inspired by Christchurch...

This week on Covered, the budget of broken promises lands and we unpack who really wins and loses. Angus Taylor fires back with welfare for Australians only, as the Liberal Party fights for survival against One Nation. And five Australians are stranded after a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a disease riddled cruise ship leaves three people dead.

This week on Covered, Australia's so-called ISIS brides touch down in Sydney and Melbourne after more than a decade away, and the AFP was waiting. We unpack the arrests, the children, and why the political fallout for the Albanese government is only just beginning. Then, crocodile wrangler and Netflix star Matt Wright is denied early prison release, meaning he will miss the birth of his third chil...

The Bondi interim report is out and the biggest takeaway is confronting - authorities say there was likely nothing that could have been done to prevent the attack. We unpack what the recommendations actually say and why that conclusion is raising eyebrows. There’s also been a third alleged assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump. We get into the man reportedly at the centre of it includ...

Carlton footballer Elijah Hollands has been admitted to hospital and the club has a lot of questions to answer. WorkSafe Victoria is now investigating whether Carlton met its duty of care after Hollands was left on the field against Collingwood in a state that stopped the nation. Rebel Wilson is in court being sued by the lead actress of her own film, and the details are wild. Plus the federal bud...

Australia's fuel crisis just got a whole lot worse after a fire ripped through one of the country's only two remaining oil refineries. We debunk some of the biggest myths around Australia's fuel supply and how the PM's fortnight in a hardhat across Asia has actually paid off. Then to Hungary where voters have toppled strongman Viktor Orban in a landslide that's raising a bigger question - is the g...

It's been a week! Australia's most decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war crime murder. We break down the charges, the public arrest that's divided the country, and why the way it was carried out is raising just as many questions as the allegations themselves. Then, Today Show host Savannah Guthrie returned to breakfast te...

It's been a week! The PM gave a national address on the fuel crisis and somehow left the country more rattled than before he started talking. We unpack why it's been called everything from a flop to a waste of airtime and what it tells us about how this government is handling the crisis. Then, after 216 days on the run, Australia's most wanted man Dezi Freeman has been killed in a police shootout...

It’s been a week! Talk of fuel shortages and potential restrictions, influencers furious over new rules for the federal budget lock-up, more than 1,000 ABC staff walking off the job, and Emma Lawrence making history in the NRL commentary box. We break down what’s actually going on, what’s driving it, and why each of these moments matters.