The Quicky

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...

Dupes! We love them. They save us money. We feel so clever when we find them.  From makeup to clothing, shoes and even water bottles, companies seem to be getting away with mimicking popular products. But how do they manage it? And what does it mean for the original creators?  In this episode of The Quicky we look at dupe culture and the impacts and legalities around them.  To read Alix's article...

The Quicky evening news update for Friday March 1st 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...

Charlotte the stingray is an internet sensation. Why you ask? Because she's currently pregnant and despite researchers attempts, no one knows how!  Charlotte has been in a tank in North Carolina, with no male sting rays in sight. So is this a case of sisters doing it for themselves? Or has some kind of cross breeding happened with Moe and Larry, two male white spot bamboo sharks that occupy the sa...

The Quicky evening news update for Thursday February 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...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://op...

When a patient at a fertility clinic wandered into an Alabama cryogenic embryo storage room in 2020, they caused a chain of events that has left the US state's IVF sector reeling.  Several embryos were destroyed when the patient dropped them. Three couples brought lawsuits against the clinic; which lead to the question: Is a frozen embryo considered a child under Alabama state law? Well, the Supre...

The Quicky evening news update for Wednesday February 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...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://o...

The spotlight is back on the culture of Australian Police again, after a year of gay-hate crime inquiry revelations, racism from a Northern Territory Police inquiry and just this month, the death of two men, allegedly at the hands of a NSW policeman.  Following on from the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, the Sydney Mardi Gras board have rescinded the invitation for Police to march in this y...

The Quicky evening news update for Tuesday February 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...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...

Mark Ray Haydon, an accomplice in the infamous Snowtown 'Bodies In The Barrels' crime, has been granted parole after 25 years behind bars.  In this episode of The Quicky, we sit down with host of Mamamia's True Crime Conversations , Gemma Bath to remember the victims as we take a look back at this heinous crime that still, to this day, gathers public interest.  To hear Mamamia's True Crime Convers...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday February 26th 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...