The Quicky

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

Tracey Grimshaw, Carrie Bickmore, Leigh Sales… a list of incredibly accomplished women who have decided they want to take a break from their TV roles. While they have given slightly different reasons for their stepping away from the cameras, the sentiment behind them leaving their high profile roles is one mirrored in businesses across the country right now. Today we look at our work life balance...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

An alarming number of young women, trans and non binary people are reporting that the instance of being choked during sex is on the rise. There are many reasons people believe this sex act is becoming more common, but the issue is, not enough understand the motivations behind it, or the shocking consequences. Today we look at sexual strangulation, why it’s on the rise and why men need to know it’s...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

Last week, the findings and recommendations from an inquiry into the culture of the Queensland police force were handed down. Is this type of cultural toxicity more rampant in the Queensland police, or is this something the force is struggling with all across Australia? And why do those personality types find their way into a job that clearly requires them to have a handle on these things? Today w...

Did you know women's sport receives less than 10% of all sports media coverage in Australia?  The team at Mamamia aren't okay with this statistic. So we've created our FIRST EVER all-female, all-sports podcast Here If You Need.   Here If You Need is hosted by Olympic Swimmer, Cate Campbell & sports commentator, Hayley Willis . Tune in every Thursday for the podcast where women in sport come fi...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

For most of us, the job title pet detective has only one reference - Ace Ventura. But while Jim Carrey turned the profession into a comedic routine, there are actual real life pet detectives out there who will help track down your furry family member should they go missing. Today we discover the techniques they use to find your fur baby and what it takes to become a pet detective for real. Subscri...

The new LiSTNR podcast, The Children in the Pictures, is a documentary covering how one raid on a child exploitation content creator in Canada, would lead to the arrest of a man who ran one of the biggest dark web sites for those images from right here in Australia. Today we find out how detectives from Argos, the specialist unit investigating online child exploitation, infiltrated a paedophile ri...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

Recently, a headline started to do the rounds proclaiming that "heroin chic" was back. For those who weren’t around in the mid 90s, the term may not be a familiar one, but for those who were influenced by its muses and promoters, it came with a healthy dose of body image issues. Today we look at why this body shape ideal - dressed up as a fashion trend - is back in the news and whether the women o...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

It’s now been more than two months since the women of Iran ripped their headscarves from their faces and threw them into the fire, demanding justice for 22 year old Mahsa Amini who was arrested by morality police and allegedly beaten to death for wearing her hijab too loosely.  More than 15,000 protesters have been arrested, and with the country’s lawmakers calling for harsh penalties, what will b...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

It may sound like Déjà vu, but Covid’s back for a fourth wave. And as much as we’d all love to stick our fingers in our ears and close our eyes, the reality is, cases across Australia are on the rise. While figures are still 85% below the previous peak of late July, average daily cases last week were 47% higher than the week before. The spike has led to Queensland raising its alert level from ambe...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

Guess who’s back.. back again? No it’s not Slim Shady, it’s former US President, Donald Trump. Up until now, it had been a rumour, then a whisper, that has now turned into a full on shout as Trump announced this week that he'll be running for the presidency again in 2024. Today we find out the likelihood that Trump will actually make it back into the White House and what these midterm results tell...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

The scams are ramping up as we head into the busy Christmas New Year period with parcel phishing, dodgy toll payment portals and compromised business emails making it very difficult to know what is a real link, what is a real communication and what isn’t a scam trying to fleece us for our money. Today, we take a look at some of the biggest scams doing the rounds right now and how - especially in t...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

Prior to 2020, Pete Evans was a judge on the popular Aussie TV reality cooking show, My Kitchen Rules. He was just another celebrity chef, not that different to the rest of the foodie loving kitchen tyrants, or so we thought. By the end of 2020, Evans was banned from social media platforms, dropped by management and sponsors and was even fined tens of thousands of dollars. Today, we find out what...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday our journalist will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...

South Australia has recently come on board with enacting laws outlawing a sly and dangerous form of sexual assault that blurs the lines of consent. Stealthing, or the nonconsensual removal of a condom during intercourse is now outlawed across several Australian states and territories but when we shared the latest news on this on social media, the comments section voiced a fear that many shared… ho...

Welcome to The Quicky, getting you up to speed daily.  The Quicky drops an episode every morning with a deep dive and the news headlines, and we’ll be bringing you the afternoon news as well. Every weekday Emma Gillespie will be in your ears telling you the headlines you need to know, to make your commute home that little easier. And yes, Claire Murphy will still be getting you up to speed each mo...