Parliament kills religious bill… for now - a podcast by triple j

from 2022-02-10T17:30

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After a marathon all-night debate, the religious discrimination bill did pass the House of Representatives - but not as the Coalition wanted.

That’s because a group of the Prime Minister’s own MPs went rogue to demand religious schools can't discriminate against or expel trans students. So what happens next?

Foreign spies are using dating apps like Tinder to recruit Australians who've got access to government secrets.

With the climate changing and governments around the world desperate to figure out cleaner ways of producing electricity, we've heard a lot about alternative energy sources like solar and wind. Now scientists say they’ve had a major breakthrough with nuclear fusion.

Live guests:
Peter Khalil, Labor MP
Jeremy Wiggins, Transcend Australia
Dr Josh Roose, counter-terrorism and extremism expert from Deakin University
Matthew Hole, physicist and mathematician at the Australian National University

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