Squiz Shortcuts gives you the context to the news, big personalities and historical events that need some explaining. Squiz Shortcuts is a short-form podcast and written explainer on topics that can have a lot of assumed knowledge.
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As the world braces for the impact of COVID-19, we’re going to take a look back at some of the big infectious disease outbreaks of the past. Where they started, their devastating mortality rate, and how they were eventually contained.
6 April 2020
Dame Mary Gilmore, Mary Reibey, Edith Cowan, and Dame Nellie Melba are four notable Australian women whose significant achievements are honoured through their inclusion on our currency. So let’s get to know them – who they were, what they achieved, and their legacies.
8 March 2020
Who can become US President , how the parties elect their candidates, the all-important numbers; and what to watch out for in the 2020 election.
3 March 2020
How the Australian education system works, where Australia ranks relative to the rest of the world, and the debate about how to lift our game.
26 February 2020
The Rohingya and the Uyghur are two predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities. The UN considers them to be victims of human rights abuses. Here we explain who they are, as well as why and how they’re being persecuted.
18 February 2020
The background to the bloke to our Prime Minister, and the bloke who wants to be.
10 February 2020
What coronavirus actually is, where it came from, the broader implications, and how we stop the spread….
4 February 2020
What the date marks, how it evolved, the argument for and against moving it, and what our leaders think…
23 January 2020
What is a ‘senior royal’, how are the Royal Family funded and what it all means for Harry and Meghan…
22 January 2020
It’s the Chinese tech company that’s been banned from rolling out 5G networks here in Australia…
13 January 2020
It’s defined the Australia summer of 2019/2020…
9 January 2020
We’ve wrapped up the biggest stories from each month in 2019, and pulled out the most clicked items in the Squiz Today email. You’re welcome…
31 December 2019
This is all things Brexit since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister….
13 December 2019
How has online shopping changed the face of retailing? And what are the major shopping events that now landmarks on the shopping calendar?
28 November 2019
How Islamic State came to be, the power it had at its peak, and the push to defeat it.
18 November 2019
Who are these worlds leaders we hear about all the time…
12 November 2019
The background to one of the most commonly used phrases in news…
28 October 2019
West Papua is seeing an uprising that has led to deadly riots and mass arrests…
20 October 2019
The context behind the fallout of the US withdrawal from northeastern Syria…
16 October 2019
Turns out there’s a history of people messing with time…
2 October 2019
Understand why the relationship between the US and Iran is so significant for the world…
25 September 2019
It has more twists and turns than a good soapie, but far fewer good looking people…
4 September 2019
It’s been in the news every day for the past few months, here’s the context…
27 August 2019