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The Quicky news update for Thursday, May 30th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in th...

On Sunday night, families living in a makeshift tent city in the Tel Al-Sultan neighbourhood in the southern Gaza city of Rafah were settling in for the night when airstrikes hit, burning their camps to the ground, killing dozens of civilians.  This was supposed to be a safe zone for people already displaced by the ongoing conflict in Gaza.  In this episode of The Quicky, we take you to the street...

The Quicky news update for Wednesday, May 29th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in t...

Did you know that fashion used to be in a cycle? Every few decades, something that went through the stages of a fashion trend would return to the front of the pack.  But that rotation is broken! Now, it's everything everywhere all at once. And we might be destroying the planet to keep it up!  In this episode of The Quicky, we speak to style queen and Mamamia's own Leigh Campbell to find out why fi...

The Quicky news update for Tuesday, May 28th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want to try our new exercise app? Click here to start a seven day...

Weight loss injections have been changing the lives of many people who have struggled with obesity and its related health issues. But while people are losing weight, there's a trend of women gaining something else.  Our guest, Dr Kevin Gendreau, an obesity medicine physician based in Boston is claiming more and more women who are using weight loss injections are falling pregnant.  In this episode...

The Quicky news update for Monday, May 27th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in the...

Now More Than Ever. That's the theme for this year's National Reconciliation Week.  But what does that mean, especially as we mark the first National Reconciliation Week since Australia voted against a Voice To Parliament and constitutional recognition for Australia First Nations people? We asked South Australia's Young Australian Of The Year Tiahni Adamson to find out more.  To find Reconciliatio...

The Quicky news update for Friday, May 24th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in the...

While Millennials and Boomers have been fighting, and Gen X have been largely ignored, Generation Alpha have snuck up behind us all, and we’re a little shook. Sometimes it might feel like they’re speaking a different language, but Gen A are simply a product of the world they were born into. That doesn’t make it any less confusing… luckily Ashley Fell has done the research so you don’t have to. Sub...

The Quicky news update for Thursday, May 23rd 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in th...

"I wish you could experience it so you would really understand" Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has often been summed up as a person being extremely tidy, or having a quirk where they repeat the same action multiple times. But for people living with the anxiety disorder, it can be crippling. On today's episode of The Quicky we hear from someone with lived experience of OCD and also an expert to help...

The Quicky news update for Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in t...

You’d be forgiven for thinking Harry & Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, were back in the royal fold, given their recent tour of Nigeria. But alas, they’re still out of favour with the current working royals. But wasn’t this hybrid working model of royal-but-not-fully-royal life what the Sussex's suggested to the Queen back when they were trying to move out of the family fold? Have they...

The Quicky news update for Tuesday, May 21st 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in the...

Warning: Please note this episode discusses domestic violence and an assault. If that is triggering for you, please take care when listening.  A video was recently leaked to US news service CNN of a man in a towel assaulting his girlfriend in a hotel hallway in 2016.  That man is Sean Combs, aka P.Diddy, now known as just Diddy. And the woman he was assaulting was his girlfriend at the time, RnB s...

The Quicky news update for Monday, May 20th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in the...

We've heard a lot about ankle monitors to attempt to curb our growing domestic violence levels in Australia lately, but how would that work? Is personal 24/7 monitoring the answer to our pleas for better protection for women?  In this episode of The Quicky, we find out exactly how ankle monitors work and if they are our solution to Australia's dire domestic violence crisis.  Subscribe to Mamamia G...

The Quicky news update for Friday, May 17th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in the...

Why are we wired to be so attracted to sales? Buy one get one free, 50% off, clearance! Whatever the sale, we, as humans, flock to them!  How can we curb that hit of dopamine we get when we land a great discount or sale.  In this episode of The Quicky, we speak to the experts to find out why sometimes we can't resist that sale, even when we know we need to conserve our cash flow.  Subscribe to Mam...

The Quicky news update for Monday, May 13th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in the...

It's budget week! On Tuesday night Jim Chalmers handed down his third budget and we found out exactly how the Labor government is planning on spending Aussie money this next financial year.  Labelled 'a win for women', this budget had a strong focus on issues like women's health and changes to paid parental leave.  In this episode of The Quicky, we break down the winners and losers from Federal Bu...

The Quicky news update for Wednesday, May 15th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in t...

Over a third of our life is spent working, which means we spend a lot of time with our colleagues. But do you know what makes you a good, bad or down right annoying colleague?  Do you break the headphone rule or bring in stinky lunches to the shared kitchens? Or are you the one everyone wants to get coffee with and brings all the goss?  In this episode of The Quicky we find out exactly what workpl...

The Quicky news update for Tuesday, May 14th 2024 The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Click here  to take the latest Mamamia survey and you’ll go in the...