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News Club
News Club
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Hosted by the OG Squiz team, Kate Watson and Claire Kimball, News Club is the place to go for conversations about the news. Our... more

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Episodes

AFR fashion editor Lauren Sams on faster, faster, faster fashion

This week on News Club, we talk with Lauren Sams, fashion editor at the Australian Financial Review, about the rise... more

29 Apr 2024 · 30 minutes
Weekly Wrap: Musk v eSafety, the US TikTok ban, and a viral baby story

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

26 Apr 2024 · 22 minutes
The weighty issue of Ozempic

Ozempic, designed for type-2 diabetes treatment, has garnered widespread attention for its potential to aid weight loss in obese individuals.... more

23 Apr 2024 · 24 minutes
Weekly Wrap: 2 knife attacks in Sydney, Lehrmann loses his case, and a buttery recommendation

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

19 Apr 2024 · 25 minutes
Adam Harvey: A foreign correspondent's perspective on the Israel-Gaza war

Adam Harvey is a reporter with ABC TV’s 7.30 and their former Middle East correspondent. We sat down with him... more

15 Apr 2024 · 30 minutes
Weekly Wrap: Wong floats 2-state solution, Trump's abortion issue, and an unfortunate bird update...

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram Links: The most clicked link in Squiz Today... more

12 Apr 2024 · 27 minutes
The business of Bluey

Bluey is one of the most-streamed TV shows in the world. But whilst Bluey is owned and produced by Ludo... more

09 Apr 2024 · 23 minutes
Weekly Wrap: Lehrmann case hears new evidence, Alice has a curfew, and a Bluey kind of movie

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram Links: The most clicked link in Squiz Today... more

05 Apr 2024 · 25 minutes
Interview: Bryce Corbett on teaching the next generation to be media literate

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram Bryce Corbett is the director of Squiz Kids.... more

01 Apr 2024 · 29 minutes
The high cost of hosting big sporting events

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram. If you have 2 minutes, we'd... more

26 Mar 2024 · 22 minutes
Weekly Wrap: When sports and politics collide, the latest on Donald Trump, and a very big yeehaw

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram If you have 2 minutes, we'd love... more

22 Mar 2024 · 28 minutes
Interview: ITV's Lizzie Robinson from inside a royal newsroom

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram If you have 2 minutes, we'd love... more

21 Mar 2024 · 21 minutes
The Royals and that photo that won't go away...

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram We ummed about this week’s News Club... more

19 Mar 2024 · 20 minutes
Weekly Wrap: State elections, the US TikTok ban, and where's Kate...

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram If you have 2 minutes, we'd love... more

15 Mar 2024 · 23 minutes
Interview: Tim Duggan on Meta and news

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram If you have 2 minutes, we'd love... more

15 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
Meta's beef with news

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram Meta, the mega US company that owns... more

12 Mar 2024 · 23 minutes
Weekly Wrap: Sam Kerr faces court, tweaks to paid parental leave, and 7 years of The Squiz

Support The Squiz by sharing our newsletters and podcasts with your friends. Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and... more

08 Mar 2024 · 27 minutes
Interview: Jamila Rizvi on the gender pay gap

Support News Club by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram Jamila Rizvi is the Deputy Managing... more

08 Mar 2024 · 24 minutes
Perspectives on the gender pay gap

Last week the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) published data from all private sector companies in Australia that employ over... more

05 Mar 2024 · 23 minutes
Weekly Wrap: A private look at the gender pay gap, viva las NRL, and is Kate Middleton ok...

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

01 Mar 2024 · 23 minutes
Supermarkets...price gouging or good business?

It’s the BBQ stopper of our time - how much things cost at the supermarket. Throw in six enquiries, headlines... more

27 Feb 2024 · 24 minutes
Interview: Georgie Tunny on Taylor Swift

There isn’t much bigger news so far in 2024 than Taylor Swift. And there isn’t a much bigger fan than... more

22 Feb 2024 · 19 minutes
Is Julian Assange a criminal or journalist?

For more News Club content, follow us on Instagram and sign up to our News Club newsletter. Club Picks: This article... more

20 Feb 2024 · 20 minutes
Weekly Wrap: Albanese proposes, Kanas triumphs, and VIC in the dark

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

16 Feb 2024 · 21 minutes
Is Joe Biden too old to be president?

For more News Club content, follow us on Instagram and sign up to our News Club newsletter. News Club recommendations: Politico... more

13 Feb 2024 · 17 minutes
Weekly Wrap: A royal diagnosis, the right to disconnect, and our Grammy's roundup

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

09 Feb 2024 · 24 minutes
News Club: The backstory to The Squiz...

Drumroll....We're launching News Club! Before the first episode drops next week, Kate and Claire take a look back at how... more

06 Feb 2024 · 17 minutes
Weekly Wrap: Swifties tackle AI deepfakes, changes to tax cuts, and a Sydney shark attack...

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

02 Feb 2024 · 25 minutes
Weekly Wrap is back...

29 Jan 2024 · 1 minute
The Year Ahead with Abbey Gelmi and Georgie Tunny

In our final Year Ahead ep for 2024, Claire and Kate talk with sports journalist Abbey Gelmi and The Project... more

24 Jan 2024 · 21 minutes
The Year Ahead with Helen McCabe

Today, Claire and Kate talk with Helen McCabe, the former editor of Australian Women's Weekly and founder of Future Women.... more

17 Jan 2024 · 22 minutes
We're working on something...

15 Jan 2024 · 1 minute
The Year Ahead with fashion editor Lauren Sams

We're talking with our friends in the news about what stuck with them in 2023 and their predictions for 2024,... more

10 Jan 2024 · 24 minutes
The Year Ahead with Sammy J

We're talking with our friends in the news about what stuck with them in 2023 and their predictions for 2024,... more

03 Jan 2024 · 25 minutes
Weekly Wrap: Our 2023 news wrap, floods and fires in Oz, and a news-y gift exchange

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

22 Dec 2023 · 25 minutes
Weekly Wrap: The UN resolution, QLD loses their premier, and what we googled in 2023

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

15 Dec 2023 · 22 minutes
Weekly Wrap: A big wrap of Aussie politics, airstrikes in Gaza, and Taylor Swift named 2023 Person of the Year

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

08 Dec 2023 · 24 minutes
Shortcuts has a new home...

Looking for your weekly explainer? It's got a new home over on The Squiz Today podcast feed. Just search 'Squiz... more

04 Dec 2023 · 1 minute
Weekly Wrap: Bruce Lehrmann v. Network Ten, Aussie journos pen a letter, and a tunnelling hero

Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of... more

01 Dec 2023 · 26 minutes
Weekly Wrap Nov 25, 2023: The ceasefire in Israel-Gaza, Open AI's rollercoaster week, and Jeff Bezos's cowboy hat

25 November 2023: Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the... more

30 Nov 2023 · 28 minutes
Weekly Wrap, Nov 18, 2023: Navigating antisemitism and Islamophobia, David Cameron's surprise return to UK politics, and the Robbie William doco

18 November, 2023 - Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by... more

30 Nov 2023 · 26 minutes
Weekly Wrap Nov 11, 2023: Optus outage stops the nation, Maxwell's record innings, and Albanese's China visit.

11 November, 2023: Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news and what’s coming up. Hosted by the... more

30 Nov 2023 · 25 minutes
Weekly Wrap Nov 4, 2023: Vale Matthew Perry, the Israel-Hamas propaganda war, and Albanese's visit to China

November 4, 2023: Weekly Wrap is a look at the week in news, and what’s coming up. Hosted by the... more

30 Nov 2023 · 24 minutes
Your Shortcut to... what's going down at COP28

World leaders will be gathering in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations conference on climate change. It's the biggest... more

27 Nov 2023 · 15 minutes
How Far We've Come: Giving a Gonski...

Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia,... more

25 Nov 2023 · 14 minutes
How Far We've Come: Put your pencils down... It's NAPLAN

Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia,... more

22 Nov 2023 · 13 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Sam Altman and OpenAI

Internal troubles at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, have led to its high profile CEO Sam Altman being sacked – followed... more

20 Nov 2023 · 14 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the business of Taylor Swift (Part 2)

In our last Squiz Shortcut, we talked about the road Taylor Swift has taken to the top. In Part 2,... more

14 Nov 2023 · 14 minutes
How Far We've Come: The HECS chronicles

Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia,... more

11 Nov 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the business of Taylor Swift (Part 1)

Taylor Swift is a pop icon… Not only has her new music been lauded by the critics, she’s on a... more

06 Nov 2023 · 15 minutes
How Far We've Come: The tale of free and compulsory schooling

Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia,... more

04 Nov 2023 · 12 minutes
How Far We've Come: Learning and earning with TAFE

Welcome to season 2 of How Far We've Come, our short series on the big moments that have shaped Australia,... more

04 Nov 2023 · 13 minutes
TRAILER: News Club

Hosted by the OG Squiz team, Kate Watson and Claire Kimball, News Club is the place to go for conversations about... more

31 Oct 2023 · 1 minute
Your Shortcut to... Lebanon and Hezbollah

As the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza continues to unfold, one major question is whether Israel’s northern neighbour... more

30 Oct 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial, accused of one of the biggest frauds in American history. In this episode we look... more

23 Oct 2023 · 11 minutes
Weekly Wrap, 21 October: The fallout in Israel-Gaza, unpacking the Voice referendum results, and some top linen tips...

Introducing the Weekly Wrap - the week in news, and what’s coming up. Hosted by the OG team of Claire... more

20 Oct 2023 · 25 minutes
A quick hello from us...

We'd be over the moon if you could complete our survey. You can fill it out here.

19 Oct 2023 · 1 minute
Your Shortcut to... the Voice results

The votes are in, and so is the analysis. In this Squiz Shortcut, we break down the geography of the... more

18 Oct 2023 · 13 minutes
ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

Want opinion-free, agenda-free information on the Voice and the Referendum? We've got you covered with our resource centre here. If... more

11 Oct 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Israel at War

Hamas militants launched a huge attack against the state of Israel in the latest in a long history of conflicts... more

10 Oct 2023 · 12 minutes
ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

Want opinion-free, agenda-free information on the Voice and the Referendum? We've got you covered with our resource centre here. If... more

04 Oct 2023 · 13 minutes
Your Shortcut to... New Zealand's Election

New Zealand is heading to a general election on the 14th of October, in a vote that’s predicted to see... more

03 Oct 2023 · 11 minutes
ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

In this episode we cover questions about the wording of the proposal, how other nations have done constitutional recognition, and... more

27 Sep 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Rupert Murdoch's empire

Rupert Murdoch has named his successor: his eldest son Lachlan Murdoch. The announcement comes as Rupert gets set to step... more

25 Sep 2023 · 16 minutes
ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

In this episode we cover the issue of campaign funding, who will represent the Voice, and how to postal vote... more

20 Sep 2023 · 11 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Noel Pearson

The referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament into Australia’s constitution is coming at us rather quickly, so in... more

19 Sep 2023 · 14 minutes
ASK THE SQUIZ: Answering your questions about the Voice

In this episode we cover the issue of legal challenges, existing Indigenous bodies, and get into the nuts and bolts... more

13 Sep 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the earthquake in Morocco

A powerful earthquake hit Morocco over the weekend, with the death toll quickly climbing over 2,000. As the search and... more

11 Sep 2023 · 10 minutes
ASK THE SQUIZ (Voice Referendum) - Ep1

In this episode we cover questions about improving Indigenous outcomes, how risky is constitutional change, and the ticks and crosses... more

06 Sep 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... India's G20 Summit

The G20 is meeting this weekend in New Delhi, India, and its a big opportunity for international leaders. So in... more

05 Sep 2023 · 10 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the Voice referendum

The date is finally locked in - we now know Australians will be voting on 14 October to decide if... more

30 Aug 2023 · 15 minutes
Your Shortcut to... picking US presidential candidates

The next US presidential election is more than a year away, but the race to find the candidate from the... more

29 Aug 2023 · 11 minutes
Your Shortcut to... women's sport funding

Over the past month, the Matildas have not just brought the country together with their incredible performances - they've also... more

23 Aug 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the BRICS summit in South Africa

Some powerful nations are holding a summit this week – and no, it’s not the G20, the Quad or APEC…... more

21 Aug 2023 · 9 minutes
Your Shortcut to... political conferences

Over the next few days you're going to be hearing a lot about the Australian Labor Party's national conference –... more

16 Aug 2023 · 13 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the Matildas

The Matildas have had a best-ever World Cup performance, progressing through to the final 4. So we thought now would... more

15 Aug 2023 · 10 minutes
Your Shortcut to... reporting season

It's the most wonderful time of the year if you're a shareholder of a publicly listed company... Following the end... more

09 Aug 2023 · 13 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Trump's Election Indictment

Donald Trump has been charged with serious offences related to a plot to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost... more

08 Aug 2023 · 10 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Wally Lewis and concussions in sport

One of Australia's greatest-ever rugby league players, Wally Lewis, is the latest sports star to speak out about a diagnosis... more

02 Aug 2023 · 11 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the downfall of China's Foreign Minister

China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, disappeared from public view in June, and after a month of speculation reports surfaced that... more

01 Aug 2023 · 9 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the future of the Commonwealth Games

It's been just over a week since Victoria pulled the pin on hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games - and the... more

26 Jul 2023 · 11 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Hollywood's strikes

So many of the TV shows and movies we love come out of America, but a writers' and actors' strike... more

25 Jul 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... China's economic slowdown

We've been hearing a drip-feed of worrying economic data coming out of China, and we heard this week that their... more

19 Jul 2023 · 8 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

It's nearly kick-off time for the biggest women's sporting event ever held in Australia, and our own Matildas will be... more

18 Jul 2023 · 12 minutes
Your Shortcut to... NATO and Ukraine's relationship

This week NATO held a summit of its leaders, with big consequences for the war in Ukraine. So in this... more

12 Jul 2023 · 13 minutes
Your Shortcut to... the Robodebt report

Robodebt has been in the news all week, after the Royal Commission dropped its final report into the illegal debt... more

11 Jul 2023 · 11 minutes
Your Shortcut to... shrinking populations

We’ve heard a lot about overpopulation but for some countries including Japan and South Korea, the issue is not too... more

05 Jul 2023 · 14 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Israel's latest strike on Palestinian militants

At the start of this week, Israel launched its most intense airstrikes on the occupied West Bank in nearly two... more

04 Jul 2023 · 9 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Wagner's mutiny in Russia and what it means for Ukraine

All the crazy events in Russia over the past week have left the world wondering what it all means. So... more

28 Jun 2023 · 15 minutes
Your Shortcut to... Yevgeny Prigozhin

The recent turmoil in Russia centers on one man: Yevgeny Prigozhin. With all the talk of private armies and the... more

27 Jun 2023 · 8 minutes
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Your Shortcut to... Israel's latest strike on Palestinian militants
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At the start of this week, Israel launched its most intense airstrikes on the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades and... more