Insight asks – what is attention, and how can it impact your life? How do you know if your attention span is normal? And what makes some people better at paying attention than others?

Insight asks – what is attention, and how can it impact your life? How do you know if your attention span is normal? And what makes some people better at paying attention than others?

A growing number of Australians are going hungry. CEO of Foodbank, Australia’s largest hunger relief organisation, Brianna Casey says 3.6 million Australians have been food insecure in the last 12 months – including one in five children. And it’s not always the people you might think would be struggling to put food on the table. Insight asks – who’s going hungry in Australia, and why?

Around 11 million Australians have one of eight major chronic conditions – that’s almost half the population. Conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and mental illness can develop in many ways but lack of physical activity is a primary risk factor. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has called chronic disease “the biggest health challenge that Australia faces” but is that message motivating us to make lifestyle changes and exercise more? In part two of...

Insight teams up with Dr Michael Mosley and some of Australia’s leading exercise experts to dissect the most common messages around exercise and ask how do you know what’s best for you?

Insight talks to users, former users, doctors and lawyers about who is using steroids, why they use and how that use is managed in Australia.

Following a series of reports of suicides amongst junior doctors, Insight speaks to young doctors, nurses and medical students about the stresses they face, and why mental health is a real problem in this field.

Insight explores the debate about the complexities and contradictions of technology’s role in the classroom.

Can changing our gut bacteria change us? Dr Michael Mosley returns to Insight for a discussion with fellow experts and ordinary Australians about how the gut can play an integral role in our overall physical and mental health. We discover that improving the wellbeing of this unglamorous organ can have profound effects – whether you have existing gut issues or not.

Last year, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged the NSW Government to approve the Narrabri Gas Project. But local opinion about the project is divided. More than 23,000 submissions were received by the NSW Department of Planning, making it the most protested project in the history of the department. With a looming domestic gas shortage on the horizon and the region awaiting to hear whether the project gets given the green light by the NSW Government, a special edition of Insight travels to...

Insight cuts through the confusion to ask how patients, surgeons and other specialists can make a joint decision about when to operate – or not.

From the high ranks of bikie gangs to serious drug felonies on the streets of Cabramatta, how do you turn your life around when violence and crime are the norm? How do you break free from a cycle of crime, violence or disadvantage?

In this episode of Insight, students and teachers of Sir Joseph Banks High share stories of strength and reveal what it took to turn their school around.

This week Insight looks at open relationships and finds out how they work and if they can last.

For this week’s Insight guests, however, it’s a difficult reality. How do you deal with unintentionally ending someone’s life?

For this week’s Insight guests, however, it’s a difficult reality. How do you deal with unintentionally ending someone’s life?

What is it like to witness a serious crime or traumatic event? And how reliable are eyewitnesses?

In this two-part Insight special, we hear from people that have witnessed serious crimes and the impact it has had on them.

Insight explores the stories of five women who speak about discovering their partners’ other lives, and how they dealt with that deception.

What happens after reuniting with someone, following a long period of separation?

In the second part of Insight's special on women in prison, Jenny Brockie talks to the inmates about how they became involved in a crime, and life after their sentences expire. With an estimated 85 percent of women prisoners bearing responsibility of dependent children, we hear about how th ewomen's families are affected by their being behind bars. They also talk candidly about the relationships they have on the outside, and those that start when they come into prison. (An SBS Production) CC

Jenny Brockie and Insight gain exclusive access into an Australian maximum security women's prison to meet the women inside and hear their stories. Incarceration rates for women have increased 60 percent in the last decade, at a rate faster than that for men, and many women released from prison are returning to the system. In this special edition of Insight, Jenny Brockie conducts one-on-one interviews with women prisoners and officers for exceptionally frank accounts of prison life, and for...

With international dating sites reporting growing subscriptions each year – along with the rising number of couples meeting and marrying through them – Insight asks: Why do people look for a partner overseas? What happens when they find one? And how do they make it work?

This week on Insight, we explore the trend of the older parenthood. How old is too old to have a child? Is it really better late than never? Hosted by award-winning journalist Jenny Brockie. (An SBS Production) CC