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It started as a bunch of mummy bloggers on the internet trading tips on everything from breastfeeding to toddler tantrums.
Now the world of child and family influencers has become a billion-dollar business where kids equal content and absolutely nothing is off limits.
Today, Fortesa Latifi, author of the new book “Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online” offers a rare look inside the belly of the beast from some of the kids who have come out the other side.

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Guest: Author and journalist, Fortesa Latifi
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It’s a controversial proposal – immigration based on blatant discrimination.
Opposition leader Angus Taylor has laid out the beginnings of the Liberal Party’s hard line migration policy in a provocative speech in Canberra.
Some of his proposals had echoes of Donald Trump, others of John Howard – as he made a play for One Nation’s growing pool of lapsed Liberal voters.
So what does it all mean? And will his bold move on migration pay off at the polls?
Today, press gallery journalist Karen Middleton on the Liberal Party’s controversial new migration policy.

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Guest: Press gallery journalist, Karen Middleton
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Israel has passed a new law allowing for the execution of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.
The law passed through the country’s parliament despite opposition from Israeli and international human rights groups, as well as the governments of the UK, Germany, France and Italy.
Israel’s national doctors’ union has refused to carry out lethal injections, meaning those sentenced under the law would face death by hanging.
The government says the law will deter future Palestinian attacks. Some right-wing Israeli politicians wore noose-shaped pins in parliament as it was debated.
Today, Israeli journalist Amira Hass, who lives in the West Bank and writes for Haaretz, on capital punishment, settler violence and the expansion of settlements in Palestine.

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Guest: Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories, Amira Hass
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More than a decade after he retired from AFL, John Barnes collapsed without warning and began having seizures.
The former Essendon and Geelong ruckman says years of head knocks left him with epilepsy, memory problems, and a life he barely recognised.
Now, as a growing class action takes on the AFL over concussion, Barnes is speaking about the damage he says the game caused – and the accountability he still wants.

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Guest: Former AFL ruckman, John Barnes
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In September of 2012, Australian soldiers descended on the rural village of Darwan in Afghanistan, killing four men.
That raid and the events of that day were central to the defamation action brought by Ben Roberts-Smith. The court eventually found it was substantially true that he had committed war crimes – including kicking Ali Jan, an Afghan villager, off a cliff and ordering his execution.
Ben Roberts-Smith maintains his innocence, and the allegations have never been proven to a criminal standard.
But now, that’s about to be tested.
This week, Roberts-Smith was arrested and charged with five counts of war crime murder. One of those charges relates to the Darwan raid, making the killing of Ali Jan central to the criminal case ahead.
Ali Jan’s family are still waiting for justice and want to testify. But the agency leading Australia’s war crimes investigations is still refusing to take witness statements directly from Afghanistan.
Today, freelance journalist Michelle Dimasi, who travelled to Afghanistan to meet Ali Jan’s family, on what justice might still look like for them.
This episode first aired in November 2023.

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Guest: Freelance journalist covering Afghanistan and the Middle East, Michelle Dimasi
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