The Quicky

The Government has announced that into the future the cost of an arts and humanities degree is going to be one of the most expensive.  What does this mean about who gets to study arts degrees and what kind of thinkers will we have in our society in the future?  Also, The Quicky asks, what kind of a life does an arts degree prepare you for?  Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Peter FitzSimons, author and columnist at Sydney Morning Herald; Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Once upon a time, Megan Fox was the Hollywood starlet of the moment. Devastatingly beautiful and sexy, she was the perfect bombshell for the action movies she appeared in.  Then, after being labelled by media and the film industry as 'difficult' and 'untalented' and 'slutty', she vanished from our screens - but not before telling us why, except we weren't listening.  In 2020, we look at her struggle through a different lens, and ask whether Megan Fox is owed a huge apology.  Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Dr Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How much do you know about your pelvic floor? Do you know what it is? Where it sits in your body? What might damage it? Whether kegels actually help?  Today we're looking at the part of the body we don't look at enough.  Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests: Taryn Watson, Women's Health Physiotherapist, Fit Right Perth.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/ Taryn Watson, Women's Health PhysiotherapistBecome a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's really felt like life's been getting back to normal the past few weeks, hasn't it? Almost like COVID19 is something that happened overseas, not really to us here in Australia. More people are going back to the office. Cafes are crowded again. Train stations are busy.  Then, Victoria recorded a heap of new cases over the weekend and the Premier, Daniel Andrews, wound back freedoms instantly.  Are we seeing the beginning of the second wave? Have we been too comfortable?  Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Dr Brad McKay, GP.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcaBecome a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

German Police have announced they have evidence Madeleine McCann is dead. They won't reveal what that evidence is, but it has something to do with a 43 year old convicted sex offender.  Robbyn Swan has been covering this story since the three year old went missing in Portugal in 2007 and she's joining The Quicky to share what she knows.  CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Robbyn Swan, journalist and author of Looking for Madeleine. CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adem Somyurek is a name most of us didn't know until Sunday when 60 Minutes broke the story of the Labor Powerbroker's alleged branch stacking, and possible voter fraud. The story has rocked the Australian Labor Party to its foundations, but it's not the first time our parliamentary system has been scandalised by the practise.  So what exactly is branch stacking? And, why does it matter to our political process?  CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Karen Middleton, Chief Political Correspondent, The Saturday Paper and author of ALBANESE.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our dogs... for those of us who've been working at home they've been our best little buds over the last few months.  But what's going to happen to them now we're back at work and they're being left alone for big stretches of time again? Some dogs are new arrivals to their forever home, some are still just puppies and some rescues may have some issues but all may experience some issues with their humans no longer being there 24/7.  What can we do to ease their anxiety?  CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Debi Coleman, Dog Behaviour Consultant  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did you know an Australian, Karm Gilespie, has been sitting in a Chinese jail since 2013? And this week, was sentenced to death for drug trafficking?  Yep, we only just found out too.  What's the story? And what is Karm's fate going to look like while relations between China and Australia are so chilly?  CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Gemma Bath, Mamamia News Reporter; Professor Don Rothwell, Australian National University.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week the Prime Minister was slammed for denying the history of slavery in Australia. He's since apologised for this, but his interview asks the question: how many Australians know about the history of slavery in Australia? It hasn't, until now, been part of our national conversation.  The Quicky investigates.  Link: Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate  Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests: Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has always stood up for things she believes in - both publicly and financially.  Over the past few years she's upset LGBTI+ fans and their allies by some strong views on trans women occupying women's spaces.  The Quicky looks into what this means, and how it's affecting trans fans who've grown up reading her books and finding safe spaces within them.  Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri  Guests:  Dr Lauren Rosewarne, Academic and Broadcaster; Kate Doak, Journalist and Trans Woman.  CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.