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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 16 days 18 hours 4 minutes
episode 360: Abuse, Body-Shaming and Secrets: Inside Gymnastics In Australia
It's one of sport's great shames, and it's finally coming out.
After the screening of the Netflix documentary Athlete A, and the NPR podcast Believed telling the stories of wide abuse of young women in gymnastics culture, Australian gymnasts are starting to speak out.
It seems, the abuse culture inside the sport isn't just restricted to the USA. It's international.
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episode 361: Antibodies, Stigma & Health Problems: Life After COVID19
What is life like after a COVID19 diagnosis?
The Quicky investigates the health implications and social implications in this episode, as the pandemic takes hold of Victoria.
We'll meet someone in NYC who's being called upon each week to donate blood with 'COVID19 antibodies', and another who's just returning to work after having the illness in March.
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episode 362: What's It Like To Be Doing Year 12 In A Pandemic Year?
For most students, thirteen years of school builds up to the climax of Year 12. Year 12 is seen, rightly or wrongly, as the school year that decides your future: whether you'll go to university, what kind of career you'll have, where the next part of your life is headed.
What happens, then, when there's a global pandemic in the year you're doing your final exams?
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episode 363: Stories From Inside Melbourne's Stage Four Lockdown
Melbourne is in Stage Four Lockdown. It's the second time the city has had to shut themselves away.
How does it feel this time? Is it different to the first time?
The Quicky listeners share with us their experiences.
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episode 364: Can Ellen Degeneres Survive Being Cancelled?
For years, rumours have dogged Ellen Degeneres: that she's not the jolly, kind person she appears to be on her eponymous show.
Now, accusations of workplace bullying and racism behind the scenes of her show have been emerging.
Ellen has long been a pioneer in the television industry: the first woman to publicly come out as gay in prime time television.
Can she survive this latest controversy?
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episode 365: Could Lisa Cunningham Be The First Aussie Executed In the US?
South Australian born and raised Lisa Cunningham is the first Australian woman who's at risk of the death penalty in the USA.
In 2017, her stepdaughter Sanaa died, and since then, Lisa and her husband Germayne have been in custody charged with her murder.
The Quicky's Claire Murphy delves into this complicated case, after having conversations with Lisa herself.
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episode 366: Keep Cups & Disposable Masks: How Zero Wasters Cope With COVID19
It's rare to go down the street now without seeing a mask tossed as litter on the footpath.
And, when was the last time you used a recyclable coffee cup at the cafe?
THE QUICKY looks into what COVID19 means for the environmental Zero Waste movement, which, until the virus, was gaining real traction.
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episode 367: Sweden, China & The UK: Who's Handling The Second Wave Best?
Leaders around the world have employed different strategies in fighting COVID19.
None more controversially than Sweden, a country that never went into lockdown. And the UK, who never closed their borders and finds the government facing blunder after blunder.
As for China... we haven't heard much about how the virus is going there lately...
episode 368: After The Blast: How Lebanon's History Led To Disaster
The pictures reverberated around the world: an explosion, caught in real time, on the docks of Beirut.
For the people of Lebanon, it was a dangerously familiar time, after many years of living with conflict.
Today, The Quicky looks at why this explosion has led the country to the brink once again.
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episode 369: Kamala Harris: The VP Elect Who's Everything Joe Biden Is Not
Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his VP running mate for the 2020 US Presidential election..
Who is Kamala Harris? What is her background? Does this mean she'll be not only the first female Vice President, but eventually the first female President?
The Quicky looks into the past and the future of this fascinating woman.
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