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More and more Australian women are being locked up for even the most minor offences, often before they have gone to trial, and if you're a woman of colour or other minority, your chances of ending up behind bars are even higher. The Quicky speaks to two experts to find out why past trauma, abuse and violence are strong indicators that a woman may find herself on the wrong side of the law, and why...

TikTok has proven to be the number one app for surviving lockdown, as more than a billion people worldwide have signed up to watch and create viral videos of dance sequences, cute animals, and a never ending series of #challenges. But with increasingly younger children keen to access the social media content to keep up with their friends, many parents feel conflicted about how young is too young,...

You may have been hearing the term 'Critical Race Theory' or CRT a lot over the past week, and like many other people be wondering what it is and why it matters if our children know about it. Ironically, those opposed to it claim it is racist, even though it is an academic study of how systemic racism disproportionately affects different groups in society. The Quicky speaks to an expert in race re...

After 13 years of being controlled almost entirely by her father, Britney Spears has finally revealed the hell in which she has been living, levelling allegations of serious abuse and even forced contraception against her dad, Jamie Spears. So will the more than 20 minutes of testimony from the star finally help bring to an end to what was always intended to be a temporary control over her finance...

In spite of a global pandemic, Australian property prices continue to rise and rise, which means younger people are increasingly left out of the dream of owning their own house.  Year after year, it's predicted the bubble will burst. Year after year, it doesn't.  The Quicky investigates what the future looks like for those who aren't on the property ladder yet. What can possibly change t...

Since The Government changed its regulations on the AstraZeneca vaccine, there's been talk around Australians 'vaccine shopping'.  Is this true? And, do Australians have the right to choose which vaccine they'd prefer to have? Dr Brad McKay takes The Quicky through the latest science on the vaccines, and what he's seeing in his surgery.  CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Acting...

He's back. Barnaby Joyce.  It's been over three years since Barnaby Joyce lost his place as Deputy PM and National Party Leader, after it was revealed he was having a child with his staffer, Vikki Campion.  The couple have since had another child, and the MP has been angling to get back at the top job of his party in backroom discussions for some time.  How has he managed to come ba...

Boyd Cordner is only 29. That's a young age to retire from the only job you've ever had, the job you love. Boyd was the captain of the Sydney City Roosters Rugby League team when he retired last week - terrified of what another knock to the head might do to his future.  There's an increasing body of evidence that says knocks to the head while playing sport have some really frightening long te...

According to leaked videos and screenshots, over the last year if you wanted to date Ben Affleck, Matthew Perry or Zac Efron, you're best to be on dating app Raya.  Yet, Raya, known as the 'celebrity dating app' is notoriously hard and secretive about how it selects the people who get to match on it.  The Quicky looks into how the app started, how it selects its members, and who its sele...

For three years now, Australia has been fascinated with the fate of the Murrugappan family.  The family of four had been living quietly in Biloela, Central QLD, when they were taken into detention in Melbourne, then on to Christmas Island.  When the baby of the family, Tharni, had to be flown to Perth from Christmas Island ill, the whole of Australia has held its breath to see what's nex...

It's Pride Month around the world, a time to remember where the LGBTIQA+ community has come from and where they are headed.  At The Quicky, we thought we'd look at the ever changing terminology for the community. It's something that is constantly evolving, as language changes and representation increases.  Links:  The Equality Project LGBTIQ+ Health Australia The Rainbow Network Aus...

With no end in sight to Australia's closed international borders, the emotional toll of being separated from loved ones is starting to have a very severe impact on the nearly 1 in 3 Aussies who were born overseas. For millions of us, countless missed birthdays, weddings, funerals and other milestones is taking a real mental and sometimes even physical toll on our wellbeing, and that's not to menti...

Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet Diana Mountbatten Windsor is just one week old, but already there are hopes that Queen Elizabeth's great-granddaughter could help to mend the relationship between Prince William and his brother. But how will little Lili fit into the Royal family, and will she receive a title? The Quicky speaks to Mamamia's Royal Correspondent to find out how titles are bestowed...

You may have noticed that news outlets have started referring to the more common strains of COVID-19 by letters of the Greek alphabet, such as Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma. The World Health Organisation believes this will help to eliminate prejudice and discrimination against the places where each variant originated, but many argue it also makes it harder to stay on top of the latest developments....

Last month the bodies of at least 215 children were found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, where First Nations children were taken after being forcibly removed from their families in an effort to eradicate their culture entirely. Despite the obvious cruelty and abuse committed against an estimated 150,000 children and their families in these church-run, government-funded...

Chrissy Teigen has had to do a lot of apologising lately, after decade-old tweets and messages emerged showing she verbally abused a number of young celebrities, including Courtney Stodden, Lindsay Lohan and Avril Lavigne. Could this really be an example of 'toxic femininity', and what does that term even mean? The Quicky speaks to two feminists about whether toxic femininity really exists, or if...

We're being told that Melbourne's latest COVID-19 outbreak wouldn't have been so bad if more people had been vaccinated, but even if you are technically eligible, trying to actually get a jab can be very difficult. Making matters worse is the fact that every state and territory has its own systems and processes, and there is very little information publicly available about how many vaccines we hav...

Japanese tennis champion Naomi Osaka sparked controversy over her decision not speak to media at the French Open, before withdrawing from the competition altogether. Her reasoning that it is detrimental to her mental health saw many of her peers lash out and say she should just get on with her job, but what happens to those of us with more normal roles, who cannot afford to walk away from our resp...

As Prince Harry continues to speak out publicly about his personal life, the often strained relationship with his father Prince Charles keeps coming up as a key reason why he acted out and felt isolated as a young man.  No doubt this was one of many complicated factors having lived his entire life in the public eye, but what about for the rest of us who live more ordinary lives and have fraug...

It is National Reconciliation Week 2021, and the theme this year is More than a word. Reconciliation takes action . A significant part of that includes acknowledging the damage done to the First Nations people who are part of the Stolen Generations - those who were forcibly removed, as children, from their families and communities and placed into institutional care or with non-Indigenous foster fa...

Recently a number tech celebrities and artists have been making headlines for selling NFTs for hundreds of thousands, and sometimes even millions of dollars - but few of us actually understand what they are. The Quicky speaks to an expert in Non-Fungible Tokens - aka NFTs - to find how they work, who has the right to sell them, and what exactly the buyer can expect to receive. Subscribe to The Qui...

DNA testing is becoming increasingly popular, with more and more of us sending off a saliva sample to learn about our ancestry and health conditions. But despite the number of slick advertising campaigns used by many online companies, there is a dark side to this industry as you can never be certain where your DNA will end up. The Quicky speaks to two experts in bio-ethics, and one of Mamamia's ow...

We know that domestic and family violence is serious problem in Australia as everyday new and shocking statistics make the headlines, but what we hear less about are the many good people who work tirelessly to help victims escape, survive and thrive. The Quicky speaks to three domestic and family violence frontline workers to find out exactly what it's like to work face-to-face with survivors and...

In many countries, people cannot wait to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but in Australia headlines suggest many of us are reluctant to roll up our sleeve - but is that true, and if so, why? The Quicky speaks to a GP and an expert epidemiologist to debunk some of the myths circulating on social media, and discuss why we definitely should not be scared of being immunised. Subscribe to The Quicky a...

While the whole world is focused on defeating COVID-19, it seems Aussies have become complacent when it comes to protecting ourselves against other diseases, which has led to a series of recent Syphilis outbreaks in Melbourne. But this isn't the only sexually transmitted infection that is on the rise in both our cities and regional areas. The Quicky speaks to two experts, and a mother who only fou...