Squiz Shortcuts - The backstory to the big news stories
Interested in the news but sometimes find there's a whole lot of assumed knowledge? We hear you. Squiz Shortcuts is a weekly explainer on news topics, historical events, big personalities, and complex situations.
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Squiz Shortcuts
The backstory to the big news stories
Each Shortcut gives you the context to a big news topic - whether that's the situation in Afghanistan, China, the Census, Elon Musk, and so many more.
Omicron
We look at what’s different about the Omicron variant, what a variant even is, what it means for the current crop of vaccines, and vaccination inequality around the world.
Read More...China’s cultural crackdown
We cover the rise of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his authority over the Chinese Communist Party and the country, the CCP’s history of cultural crackdowns and what’s happening now, and a few high-profile disappearances.
Read More...Inflation
We’ll look at inflation and what drives it, what happens when it’s too low or too high, and how inflation is playing out now and into next year’s federal election campaign.
Read More...Remembrance Day
We give you a quick guide to WWI and how it ended, how its commemoration was observed after the war, and what it means today.
Read More...What’s going down at COP26
We’ll take you through Australia’s climate change policy, what other nations’ agendas are, and the 2 new pledges countries have made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Read More...The what’s what of summits
There’s lots of talk about summits of late, so we’ve handpicked a few of the big meetings of world leaders that Australia is involved with each year to give context around each.
Read More...The Japanese Imperial Family’s woman problem
We take you through how Japan’s imperial family works, their public life in Japan, and the background to the wedding that has brought the Japanese royal family back to the fore.
Read More...Anti-corruption commissions
We explain anti-corruption commissions and why they exist, the ongoing debate on why or why not there should be a federal ICAC, and what happened with Gladys Berejiklian.
Read More...A gripping podcast, a couple of action-packed shows, and the perfect snacky dinner for binging them…
If you’re a true crime fan gripped by the alleged ‘mushroom murders’ you can find out more details ahead of the trial in the new podcast The Mushroom Cook which delves into the history of Erin Patterson – the woman at the centre of the deadly lunch in rural Victoria.
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