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On June 3 2017 Sara Zelenak and Kirsty Boden were killed by terrorists on London Bridge.

One slip, one decision and just 18 minutes were the difference between life and death for the two Australian women who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The inquest into that night is unfolding in the UK, today we find out exactly what happened to Sara and Kirsty...

We headed to the polls this weekend just gone and decided that we're happy with the Liberal National Coalition.

But what you didn't see, as we devoured our democracy sausages and ticked boxes, was the team of people standing by should the government lose.

Today, we're speaking with an MP who says wheelie bins and shredders are on hand ready to destroy everything if a government gets kicked out...

It has been ruled that Olympic champion athlete Caster Semenya will have to take medication in order to continue competing in the women's category for her sport.

But what does it mean to be a woman? It's a lot more than just whether you have a vagina. Today we discover the wonderfully complex story of people who are intersex and the wide world of variations within it...

When Belle Gibson went to court this week, we heard a bizarre recount of how the cancer con woman has no money but still manages to go on overseas treks, buy expensive clothing and send her son to private school.

She still owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for failing to hand over money to charity but has yet to pay a cent back.

Today we speak to a reporter who takes us through what went down when Belle Gibson took to the stand...

This week actress Alyssa Milano called for women in the US to go on a sex strike saying until women get their body autonomy back, it's too dangerous to risk pregnancy.

She's protesting anti abortion legislation that was signed into law in the state of Georgia which makes terminations illegal is there's a fetal heartbeat...

James Charles is one of youtube's most influential beauty vloggers, he's made millions out of showing people how to apply makeup online... but something went down recently that has seen him set the unenviable record of losing the most followers in 24 hours.

Today we find out what happened and why the drama isn't an unusual occurrence in the world of beauty youtubers...

Is there someone in your social media feed that you follow purely because you can't stand them?

It's called hate following, and today we're diving into why we take so much pleasure in irritating ourselves with their behaviour and why we invest so much emotion into a person we don't even like...

Britney Spears hasn't been in control of her own affairs in over a decade now and there's no end in sight for the conservatorship that controls her career, her finances and her personal life.

Today we take a closer look at the agreement that has left one of the world's biggest pop stars in a lifetime lockdown...

Who do I vote for?

It's a question many of you have been asking of The Quicky Team so today we're breaking down the major parties and some more notable smaller ones so that you can head to the polls on May 18 as informed as you can be!

CREDITS

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Elle Beattie

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

Thanks to our special guests ABC journalist Alison...

Did you know that women wearing a seat belt who are involved in a car accident, are 47% more likely to be seriously injured than a man involved in the same collision? That's due to the fact that seatbelts are designed to fit the average body shape of men, not women. 

In today's episode we'll be speaking with engineer Kat Ely to hear about some of these potentially deadly design flaws that are making life far more dangerous for women...