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7am Special Series
Housing
Ange McCormack delves into Australia's housing crisis. This special series investigates the decision-makers, the effect on a generation destined for rental living, and who profits from record prices.
Part 1
April 15, 2024
The Great Housing Disaster: Who’s to blame?
This episode uncovers who broke the housing market, and introduces one of the few people who saw what was coming and tried to warn us.
Part 2
April 16, 2024
The Great Housing Disaster: The renters resistance
In this episode of 7am’s five-part special series on the housing crisis, we meet the people who are trying to make it better: the people who are mobilising, taking matters into their own hands and fighting back.
Part 3
April 17, 2024
The Great Housing Disaster: Who gets a say?
In this episode of 7am’s five-part special series on the housing crisis, we find out who gets a say when it comes to housing, and why that can get in the way of building the homes Australia needs.
Part 4
April 18, 2024
The Great Housing Disaster: How to fix it
In this episode of 7am’s five-part series, we explore four of these possible solutions to the crisis. You will hear from finance expert Alan Kohler, Greens spokesperson for housing Max Chandler Mather, housing advocate Maiy Azize and former deputy lord mayor of Sydney and author, Jess Scully.
Part 5
April 19, 2024
The Great Housing Disaster: The minister for housing
In this final episode of 7am’s five-part series, we dive into what the government is doing and whether there is more that could be done.
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7am
7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper.
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7am
June 21, 2024
Will Australia get behind Dutton's nuclear campaign?
Columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on why a policy that may never work can still be a political weapon.
7am
June 20, 2024
Peter Greste on the latest blow against whistleblowers
Macquarie University professor of journalism and whistleblower advocate Peter Greste on why the government talks big on open democracy, but hasn’t acted to fix the system.
7am
June 19, 2024
Making childcare universal: Will it be an election secret weapon?
CEO of The Parenthood Georgie Dent on the problems at the core of this broken system and the Centre for Policy Development’s Katherine Oborne on one way to fix it.
7am
June 18, 2024
Peter Costello's decade at Nine: Is this the end of his public life?
National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on Peter Costello’s reign at Nine and the enemies he made along the way.
7am
June 17, 2024
Home Affairs: Boats, borders and dysfunction
Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Barlow on the inner workings of the super department.
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Read This
A weekly show about the books we love and the stories behind them. Hear the best writers from Australia and around the world talk about their lives and their work.
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Read This
June 20, 2024
Don’t Call Paul Lynch’s Book a Political Novel
This week we return to the Melbourne Writers’ Festival to hear a conversation between Michael and Booker Prize-winning author Paul Lynch. They discuss how Paul became a writer, and why he doesn’t think Prophet Song is a political novel.
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June 13, 2024
Leslie Jamison’s Search History
Michael sits down with Leslie Jamison to discuss her new memoir, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story and what it means to be many things – a teacher, an artist, a lover and a mother.
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June 6, 2024
What Is Wrong with Viet Thanh Nguyen?
Michael sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen for a conversation about his latest book, A Man with Two Faces.
Read This
May 30, 2024
All Bruce Pascoe Needs Is a Biro
Bruce Pascoe joins Michael for a discussion about his new novel Imperial Harvest and shares why he still believes we need the messiness of democracy.
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May 23, 2024
Miranda July Wrote the Book She Couldn’t Find
Michael discuss her new novel, All Fours, which explores desire, intimacy, dance, and an often overlooked part of the ageing process.
Rupert: The Last Mogul Special Series
Rupert: The last mogul
A podcast series about the life and legacy of the media’s most powerful man, Rupert Murdoch.
Part 1
October 25, 2023
Trailer: Rupert: The last mogul
Coming November 1: A podcast series about the life and legacy of the media’s most powerful man, Rupert Murdoch
Part 2
November 1, 2023
Two blasted young reds
A young Rupert inherits a small newspaper in 1950s Adelaide.
Part 3
November 8, 2023
The kingmaker and his king
Rupert's struggle to step out of his father’s shadow drives him to launch the first national broadsheet.
Part 4
November 14, 2023
My dear Prime Minister
Rupert will pull off his most daring piece of business, and arguably the most cruel.
Part 5
November 22, 2023
Attack, attack, attack
As Rupert makes his home in America, Paddy takes a closer look at two of his most consequential relationships.
Part 6
November 29, 2023
Next in line
Paddy investigates the fraught relationship between Rupert and his two potential heirs.
Part 7
December 6, 2023
There’s only one Rupert
In this series finale, Paddy investigates Rupert’s relationship with Donald Trump and his ongoing impact on democracies around the world.
7am Special Series
Inside Robodebt with Rick Morton
As the Robo-debt Royal Commission revealed its findings, award-winning journalist Rick Morton investigated how our own government turned an illegal scheme against Australians – and how it became one of the greatest scandals in Australian history.
Part 1
July 10, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Shorten interview
We speak with the minister who will have to implement many of the recommendations and pursue many of the findings in this royal commission – Bill Shorten – about what this report means, and if the machinery of government can truly be fixed.
Part 2
July 11, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Whistleblower
We speak to Centrelink worker-turned-whistleblower Colleen Taylor about what really happened when robo-debt was first rolled out.
Part 3
July 12, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Social Engineering of Shame
We speak to one of them, senior lecturer in administrative law at La Trobe University, Darren O'Donovan, about how people outside the system built the very first working model of how public service embraced robo-debt.
Part 4
July 13, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Minister’s Adviser
We speak to one of the people whose job was to create this alternate reality: Rachelle Miller, the former media adviser to human services minister Alan Tudge.
Part 5
July 14, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Mother
One woman, Jenny Miller, never gave up on finding the truth about what happened to her son.
7am Special Series
Everybody Knows
A five-part investigative series examining the rise and fall of the MeToo movement in Australia, and what it will take for things to finally change. Hosted by Ruby Jones, the presenter of Australia's most popular daily news podcast, 7am.
Part 1
September 1, 2021
Everybody Knows: The company
Ruby asks why Me Too stories are still so hard to tell in Australia - and why there is so much fear about speaking out and naming names.
Part 2
September 8, 2021
Episode two: Five days in November
In episode two of Everybody Knows, Ruby Jones goes back to the beginning of MeToo in Australia in 2017. Why did the movement seem to run out of momentum here so quickly?
Part 3
September 14, 2021
Episode three: A broken system
In this episode, Ruby Jones speaks to some of the best known lawyers on either side of the Me Too movement in order to help her investigation.
7am Special Series
Climate change will kill you
In this new series, journalist Paddy Manning investigates the link between climate change and human health, and tells the stories of those who have become some of the first casualties of the climate crisis.
Part 1
January 5, 2021
Climate change will kill you, part one: heat
From bushfires and heat, to floods, and the increasing severity of disease, Australians are already feeling the impacts of a warming planet.
Part 2
January 12, 2021
Climate change will kill you, part two: flood
In 2011 the Queensland town of Grantham was inundated with rain, causing flash flooding. It had a devastating impact on the town’s residents. But events like this are predicted to become more common.
Part 3
January 19, 2021
Climate change will kill you, part three: sickness
From thunderstorm asthma to the increasing prevalence of infectious disease, a warming planet is already making us more sick.
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  3. Search the name of the podcast you want to find (e.g. 7am) and tap the search button on the keyboard. You will then be shown a grid of search results.
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  5. Choose an episode to play by tapping on it or subscribe to the podcast to have it appear in your library and automatically download the latest episodes.
For more information refer to Apple support.
HOW TO LISTEN — Android Devices
  1. Download and install the Google Podcasts app from the Google Play Store.
  2. Open the ‘Google Podcasts’ app and use the search box to search the name of the podcast you want to find (e.g. 7am).
  3. Tap on the podcast you want from the search results and this will take you to the homepage with a list of available episodes.
  4. Choose an episode to play by tapping on it or subscribe to the podcast to have it appear at the top of the app. A new section of the app will then notify you of new podcast episodes when you are subscribed.
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