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The Quicky news update for Friday, June 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, 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...

What's the bin situation at your place? 3 bins? 4 bins? Red, blue, yellow, purple, brown, green? We have the whole rainbow of bins that are assigned different waste items.  But is sorting all that garbage actually making a difference to our landfill? In this episode of The Quicky we take a look at the do's and don'ts of what can be put in each bin and does that actually impact whether it goes to b...

The Quicky news update for Thursday, June 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, 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...

In Australia the current age to sign up to social media platforms is 13 years old, but research suggests that is too young and that social media is actually rewiring kids brains to become more anxious, contributing to an epidemic of mental illness.  In this episode of The Quicky, we discuss the 36 Month Movement with it's spokesperson and co-founder Nova's Michael 'Wippa' Whipfli about why he want...

The Quicky news update for Wednesday, June 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, 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...

Content Warning: In this episode, we do discuss domestic violence in detail. Please take care when listening.  The rate of men killing women in Australia is alarmingly high, with now one woman being violently murdered every four days. Three women were allegedly murdered in the space of 48 hours this past week.  One thing that pops up time and time again is how women can better protect themselves a...

The Quicky news update for Tuesday, June 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, 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...

On May 21, Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 was flying 211 passengers when it hit some unexpected turbulence. Many passengers suffered head and spinal injuries, and sadly one passed away after it's believed his heart gave out.  But what happened? What is turbulence? Can pilots avoid it? Is it deadly?  In this episode of The Quicky, we take a look at the report explaining exactly what happened to fl...

The Quicky news update for Monday, June 3rd 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...

On Friday morning Australia woke to the news that Donald Trump, former President of The United States of America, was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. But what does this mean for his upcoming Presidential campaign? And what will happen to him now? Is he likely to spend any time behind bars? In this episode of The Quicky, we take you through exactly what Trump has been foun...

The Quicky news update for Friday, May 31st 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: Bridgerton spoilers ahead.  Dear Esteemed Listeners, Lady Whistledown here, bringing you the latest intrigue and delight from the Bridgerton universe. You shall find no mere recitation of events here. Nay, dear readers, Aynsley Broom offers insights and predictions that will leave you both delighted and enlightened. From the subtle nods to seasons past to the significance of every decaden...

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...