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Ziggy Ramo is a Wik man, powerful storyteller and rapper - but it took him fives years to release his first album because the world wasn't ready to embrace his art and perspective.

Soon after the Black Lives Matter movement Ziggy set his words into the world releasing his music and he’s now written a book – his memoir – Human?

In this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, Ziggy explains how racism in Australia continues to dehumanise groups of people and what lead him to rap.

Ziggy will be appearing speaking throughout the Melbourne Writers Festival and on May 10th Jan Fran will be joining Ziggy live. Event details here

WEEKEND LIST


TO READ - Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan
TO EAT- Pasta salad by Emily English on TikTok
TO WATCH - Baby Reindeer on Netflix
TO LISTEN - I Forgot to Tell You Something podcast
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Smut used to be the kind of genre you’d find hidden away in the back corner of bookstores.

But not anymore. Now, smut series are being featured on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and a quick search of #spicybook or #smut on TikTok will find hundreds of thousands of videos.

But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its issues.

In this episode of The Briefing, Bension Siebert speaks with Esmé Louise James, author of “Kinky History”, to find out about the history of smut, discuss problematic characters, and get her personal smutty recommendations.
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Since the Matildas world cup frenzy we’ve seen a rise in soccer participation numbers – not just for young girls – but also boys and older women too.

The A League Women season will come to a close tomorrow with Melbourne City taking on Sydney FC in what will hopefully be a record-breaking crowd.

On today’s briefing, we chat to Moya Dodd, lawyer, sports administrator and former Matilda, to find out if these numbers are sustainable.

Headlines:

Police dismantle UCLA pro-Palestine encampment as Biden speaks out 

New ad campaign to show misogynistic social media feeds Aussie kids are seeing

Australia’s housing crisis not going anywhere

Sex scenes decline by 40% in Hollywood flicks

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Snus is a small tobacco sachet placed between your gum and upper lip. But now there’s a new form of ‘snussing’, with products that take out the tobacco and replace it with flavours like cool mint, espresso, or bellini, and leave in the nicotine. 

Advertised on TikTok as an alternative to vaping, following a federal crackdown on non-prescription vapes, are these products just another sneaky way to keep the tobacco industry alive?

In this episode, Sacha Barbour Gatt speaks with Associate Professor Becky Freeman, from the School of Public Health at Sydney University, to learn more about nicotine pouches and their growing popularity in Australia.
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A movement is growing around the world protesting Israel’s offensive against Palestine in the Middle East. This time it feels different.

More than 100 students at Columbia University in New York were arrested last month when the college called in police to break up their protest, an encampment in the university’s quadrangle. Riot police were called in yesterday to remove students from a campus building.

The arrests at Columbia marked a defining moment in the global protest – and similar protest encampments are springing up on campuses across the globe.

In this episode of The Briefing, LiSTNR reporter Helen Smith visits an encampment at Sydney University to find out how and why the students have decided to join the global campaign.  

Headlines:

What’s come out of yesterday’s National Cabinet meeting on domestic violence?

US Uni protests escalate into violence

New AI chatbot launching on our iPhones 

 

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Experiments on driverless - or autonomous - cars began 100 years ago, but only in the last twenty years have they become a genuine reality. Elon Musk's Telsa announced last month it was launching an autonomous taxi.

How do they work? How safe are they? And how long will it be before we're all expected to share the road with autonomous vehicles?

In this episode of The Briefing, we're joined by James Ward from Drive.com.au to discuss the latest developments in autonomous vehicles.
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