The Quicky

The Lady Vanishes Podcast has kept us on the edge of our seat for the past 5 years as it investigated the case of missing Australian woman Marion Barter.  Five years later, that podcast has come to an end. But are we any closer to knowing the truth about what really happened to Marion?  In this episode of The Quicky, we speak to the executive producer of The Lady Vanishes, about the decades worth...

The Quicky evening news update for Tuesday, March 19th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open....

You've heard all the stories about how you're supposed to treat your technology right? Like not charging your phone overnight, or near your body. That Siri and Alexa are always listening and tracking us. Or that you dump your phone in rice when it's wet.  So what exactly is the truth?  In this episode of The Quicky, we speak with our resident tech expert, Trevor Long, to find out the fact from fic...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday, March 18th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

They're the puppet masters of our favourite reality TV shows. From the moment a celeb is recruited or a person is plucked from obscurity to star in the latest cooking, dating or survival show, Reality TV producers are back there, pulling the strings, recruiting the biggest personalities and making sure each and every episode will be packed full of drama and scandal. So why do they do it? What war...

The Quicky evening news update for Friday, March 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

Sam Kerr. We know her. We love her. But our love was called into question this week, when it was revealed that in January last year, after our star Matilda had been out celebrating, a drunken taxi ride in Twickenham ended with her throwing up and allegedly arguing with the cabbie over the fare.  Police were then called where Kerr reportedly got into an altercation with a white police officer, alle...

The Quicky evening news update for Thursday, March 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open...

Growing out a fringe, recovering from a BBL, even accusations that she might be Banksy? These were just some of the conspiracies clouding the Royals last month after Princess Kate was not seen following a planned abdomen surgery for a serious but undisclosed health condition.  And earlier this week, hoping to put an end to the conspiracy theories, a photo of Princess Kate and her three kids on Mot...

The Quicky evening news update for Wednesday, March 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://ope...

10,000 steps a day, 2 litres of water and 8 hours of sleep every night. These are just some of the long standing health mantras we're told to live by.  So is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? And just how many steps do we  actually need to take to keep our health in check?  In this episode of The Quicky, we speak to Dr Brad McKay to discover the fact from fiction when it comes t...

The Quicky evening news update for Tuesday, March 12th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open....

Some of Australia's elite all boys schools have been making headlines again - one for all the wrong reasons. Following an exposé revealing female teachers at a Sydney school felt unsafe and marginalised by the toxic behaviours of both students and other teachers.  This follows from numerous other reports in recent years, including 2022 when a separate Sydney school expelled six students after a br...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday, March 11th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

Imagine picking up the phone and realising that your Dad is an ASIO spy? That happened to Julian Schiller when he was just 12 years old. Since then he has had to navigate the minefield of secrets that envelops ASIO employees due to the nature of their work, to tell the story of how his Dad's job took him from relatively mundane tasks to life threatening situations every day. With our politicians e...

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses child sexual abuse. Please take care when listening.  1 in 4 Australians have experienced child sexual abuse, according to the Australian Child Maltreatment Study. Experts have said that the experience can have life-long impacts across all aspects of a victims life, including their health, education, employment and relationships.  In this episode of The Quic...

The Quicky evening news update for Friday, March 8th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.sp...

It's been 10 years since Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 flight MH370 with 227 passengers - including seven Australians, and 12 crew took off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing and never came back.  Approximately 40 minutes into the flight, the plane disappeared from the radar and was never found. Its fate remains unknown.  In this episode of The Quicky, we take a look at if we're any closer to fi...

The Quicky evening news update for Thursday, March 7th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open....

After new data was made available exposing the gender pay gaps across Australian industries, it made many women wonder, if the men up the corporate ladder are getting paid so much more, could the men beside me also be getting a higher salary? In this episode of The Quicky we take a look at which businesses are still behind when it comes to the gender pay gap, what is being done to change that now...

The Quicky evening news update for Wednesday, March 6th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open...

What is going on with The Royals? A surgery following King Charles enlarged prostate, William's sudden leave, and until yesterday we hadn't seen a glimpse of Princess Kate in public for months, after undergoing a planned abdominal surgery for a serious but undisclosed health condition.  The internet blew up with conspiracies of what might've really  happened to Kate, everything from BBL's to bangs...

The Quicky evening news update for Tuesday, March 5th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

Last year when the popularity of weight loss drugs surged, it lead to a worldwide shortage, that is still going on today. In a bid to assist with those shortages, some compounding pharmacists mass-produced their own versions of popular weight-loss drugs. Earlier this week the TGA, which regulates medicines in Australia, proposed a change which would effectively ban compounded injectable weight los...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday March 4th 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...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.spo...