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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 16 days 18 hours 4 minutes
episode 350: Lockdown 2.0: What's Happening To Your Brain And Mental Health?
With Melbourne in its second lockdown, there's no guarantee other states won't follow suit.
What does it mean for our brains and our mental health to be going back into isolation? What can we do to make sure our anxiety doesn't get out of control?
The Quicky finds out.
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episode 351: Will We Ever Find Peter Falconio?
It's been 19 years since backpacker Peter Falconio went missing while travelling through the Northern Territory with his girlfriend Joanne Lees. His body has never been found.
Bradley John Murdoch is in jail, found guilty of his murder. Books have been written, hundreds of articles published and a miniseries made. Channel 7 recently screened a new documentary about the case, claiming to have new information and it was a big ratings winner...
episode 352: How Does Contact Tracing COVID19 Actually Work?
Contact tracing is a big job in Australia, and it's getting bigger the more cases of COVID19 that are diagnosed.
How does it actually work? How does the government find out everyone who's been in contact with an infected person? Is it a perfect system? And how about the COVIDSafe App, is it making a difference?
The Quicky investigates.
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episode 352: "It's Luscious": What Life Is Like Inside A Polyamorous Relationship
Polyamory, or ethical non-monogamy, has been on the rise in Australia for many years... until Covid19.
What exactly is it? How do you negotiate the terms of a non-traditional relationship? How are members of the polyamory community able to see multiple partners during lockdown?
The Quicky finds out.
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episode 353: No More 'Lazy' Retail: What Will Shopping Look Like In A Post-COVID World?
A walk down your main street, or a stroll around the shopping mall and you'll see it: shopfronts are shutting. Not everywhere, but here and there.
What is the future of the trip to the shops in a world after COVID19?
With many businesses migrating online, is 'going to the shops' going to become a thing of the past?
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episode 354: Why Do Millions Of Fans Still Want To #FreeBritney?
Even before the umbrella incident of 2007, Britney Spears was a controversial pop star. Her every move - including her virginity - was hotly gossiped about.
Since 2008, she's been living under a 'conservatorship' - for the most part, her decisions and finances being controlled by her father. That looks like it might be changing...
episode 355: Why Are There Ten Year Olds In Australian Jails?
What were you doing when you were 10? How would you have coped being in custody?
Australia's Attorneys General met yesterday to discuss an important issue: should the age of criminal responsibility be raised from 10 to 14?
They decided to leave things as is.
The Quicky finds out why people are so passionate about raising the age.
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episode 356: Pubs, Gyms, Lounge-rooms: Where Are You Most At Risk From COVID?
Why is it okay to sit on a plane for three hours to cross the country, but you can't sit in a theatre for ninety minutes and watch a show?
Why didn't we see a spread of COVID19 after the #BlackLivesMatter marches, but one of NSW's biggest clusters comes from a medium sized pub in the Western Suburbs?
The Quicky investigates why some places are riskier than others when it comes to the spread of coronavirus through the community...
episode 358: Chaos, Uncertainty, Comradery: What Life Is Like In The US Right Now
Turning on the news each night, you'd be forgiven for thinking things were getting more and more chaotic and divided.
The Quicky thought we'd go to the source and chat with three women living in different parts of America to see what life is like day to day living in a country ravaged with COVID19 and months away from an election.
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episode 359: Six Anti-Mask Myths: BUSTED
Does it feel like your entire week's social media feed has been taken up with people fighting for their 'right' not to wear a mask?
Where does this come from?
It's essential we wear masks in certain places now, and Dr Brad McKay is here to tell us why and bust some of the insane myths going around about masks right now.
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