News Club
The Squiz
300 episodes
News Club is the place to go for conversations about the news. Agenda-free and hosted by friends - Claire Kimball and Kate Watson - we are here for you - making it easy to keep across the big issues and get ahead of what's coming up.
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The attack on Helen Haines and France’s week of riots
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. First, the attack on independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta electorate office on Monday. We look at who Helen Haines is,…
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A grumpy week in politics, and the last leap second
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. It’s been a week of policy battles in parliament - the ATO delaying the credit card ban, changes to family trusts that have small…
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How the Firmus float fell apart, and a bail hearing for Sam Wood
Note: this episode discusses domestic violence. If you need support, 1800RESPECT is on 1800 737 732. And Lifeline is 13 11 14. This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Anna Pykett. We’re…
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What happened on the Dubai to Tel Aviv flight, and the inflation debate
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Eliza Harvey. We’re starting with the FlyDubai flight that nearly didn’t make it to Tel Aviv. The co-pilot stabbed the captain in what appears to…
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What we know about the OpenAI Medicare hack
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. We’re starting with the OpenAI agent that gained unauthorised access to a Medicare service portal. We’ll get into what we know so far…
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How scared should we be about AI? And the collapse of Cue
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Kate Watson and Eliza Harvey. We're starting with the AI warnings that dominated the week. A researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic quit, saying both companies…
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A wild week for One Nation, and a new world map
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Anna Pykett, stepping in from the Squiz Today team. One Nation has had a bit of a wild week - questions over the party's finances, a state leader…
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The push to switch off the algorithm, and the Lindsay Clancy trial
We're starting with the algorithm. Chanel Contos, founder of Teach Us Consent, used a National Press Club address this week to go after the way social media platforms funnel boys toward misogynistic content. She asked…
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The Nepal disaster, Meta’s big settlement, and Dolly Parton’s legacy
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. We're starting in Nepal, where an avalanche near the border with Tibet triggered a catastrophic flood down a valley popular with…
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The Sydney Swans allegations, and a cancer vaccine breakthrough
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. We're starting with the Sydney Swans and sexual assault allegations. We’ll walk you through the chain of events, and the responses to…
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The housing downturn, Trump’s plane switch, melons and smelters
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Eliza Harvey. We’re starting this week with the housing market, which, after all, is our national pastime. This week saw some heavyweights give us…
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Understanding the Russia-Ukraine drone strikes
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. We thought it was time to get you caught up on what’s going on with the Russia-Ukraine war, including the drone strikes making…
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Explaining the construction corruption scandal in Victoria
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Kate Watson and Eliza Harvey. Victoria has a new Premier, and will hold a royal commission into the construction industry, so we’ll bring you up to date on all the…
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Who is Andy Burnham? The 'King of the North' now UK Prime Minister
Fill out The Squiz 2026 Survey - Thank you! This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Andrew Williams and Kate Watson. The UK has a new Prime Minister this week, we’ll help you get across who Andy Burnham…
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Messi's World Cup reunion 19 years in the making, and Albanese's new AI rules for data centres
Fill out The Squiz 2026 Survey - Thank you! This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. This week, we’re talking about the World Cup final, and the stories around the edges of…
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China’s missile test, what caused the Telstra outage, and Binface vs Farage
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Andrew Williams and Eliza Harvey. This week, we’re talking about China’s ballistic missile test that was widely condemned by Pacific nation leaders, what caused the…
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What's up with home prices? An Empire climb, and a celebration of independence
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. This week, we’re talking house prices and what’s happening with them, new gambling advertising laws, a romantic climb up the Empire…
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Who is Tommy Robinson? 'Act swiftly' warning on AI, and Taylor Swift’s alleged wedding
This week, the big meaty, chunky story we’ll get our teeth into is that of Karl Stefanovic’s departure from Nine, and his podcast with a guy called Tommy Robinson. If you haven't heard of Tommy Robinson, we’ll get you…
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22 hours in the air, the US-Iran deal, a political stunt and our Socceroos
This is the week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. Just a note to say that the podcast is now back on video, for those on Spotify, and YouTube. And we’re working on getting video on…
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Media literacy for SA, yay! One Nation’s popularity, SpaceX and Toy Story 5
It’s your week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. A big announcement out of South Australia for us. Quite a few strands to pull out on the rise of One Nation. We also give a few updates…
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AI and the stock market, second hand subs? And a personal story about MND
It’s your week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Eliza Harvey. We’re starting this week with a couple of big market moves with Anthropic and SpaceX moving towards listing as public companies. Sounds…
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Where US-Iran negotiations are at, and what the Pope said about AI
It’s your week in news and what’s coming up with Claire Kimball and Kate Watson. This week, the Pope’s comments on artificial intelligence, what's up with US-Iran negotiations, and are the Teals plotting a new…
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Weekly Wrap: Unpacking the budget reactions (and 47% memes)
You may have seen those 47% memes going around, taking aim at Labor's tax changes - we’ll unpack what those are about, as well as the rest of the budget debate from this week. We’ve also got the story of the activists…
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Weekly Wrap: Understanding the budget tax reform debate
This week, we’ll help you understand the political debate around the budget tax reforms, plus a few tidbits you might not have heard about. Then, we feel obligated to get you across the significance of the result in…
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Weekly Wrap: Why the ‘ISIS brides’ case is being called legally unprecedented
A group of Australian women known as the 'ISIS brides' and their children have returned to Australia from Syria this week. We'll explain the background to that, and why legal experts are calling their legal case…
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Weekly Wrap: Grief and unrest in Alice Springs, and Queen Camilla's brooch diplomacy
This week, we’re starting with the abduction and death of the 5yo girl we now know as Kumanjayi Little Baby - it’s a tough one, but there are plenty of consequences to understand. We’ll also take you through some big…
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Weekly Wrap: The NDIS overhaul, and the gas tax debate
Today we explain the government changes to the NDIS - something that impacts a lot of Australians. Plus, why the debate about taxing gas companies was all over the news this week. And there’s been a couple of notable…
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Weekly Wrap: The Geelong oil refinery fire, and Trump vs the pope
One of our two oil refineries caught fire this week, because of course, we didn't have enough issues with fuel supply. We'll take you through that, plus the latest in the Iran war - Israel and Lebanon have a ceasefire…
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Weekly Wrap: The fragile US-Iran ceasefire, and the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith
This week, we're starting with the imminent return to Earth for the Artemis 2 crew. Then we're helping you make sense of the US-Iran negotiations — how Israel and Lebanon factor in, and where Australia sits in all of…
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Our PM For a Day meets the real PM
This is a special episode of Squiz Kids that we wanted to share with you. Throughout the month of March - The Squiz Kids team has been asking primary school aged listeners if you were Prime Minister for a day, what…
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Weekly Wrap: The fuel crisis, and are US-Iran ceasefire talks actually happening?
What’s happening with the fuel crisis is our focus for today. Lots of ideas being suggested about how our government is going to respond - working from home, fuel rationing. We’re all wondering when and how this war is…
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Weekly Wrap: How is the war in the Middle East impacting Australia?
For the past few weeks we’ve been helping you out with a global view on the war between the US, Israel and Iran. We’ll get into what’s taken place there in the past week, but we’re also zooming in to the impacts on…
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Weekly Wrap: The big themes this week from the war in the Middle East
We’re getting you across some of the big themes from the war in the Middle East this week, including the Iranian women’s football team being granted asylum, and the surging price of oil. Also, the National Party has a…
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Weekly Wrap: What’s going on in Iran?
This week, we help you make sense of what is happening in the Middle East, the Canadian Prime Minister’s visit to Australia, One Nation’s wild polling, and the Kyle and Jackie O split-up. Links If you’re wanting to…
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The Squiz Quiz w/ Alex Williams and Brandon McClelland from They Might Become Giants
On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Alex Williams and Brandon McClelland from the podcast, They Might Become Giants. Can you best our in-studio…
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Weekly Wrap: What we’d do if we were PM and is AI coming for our jobs?
What would your kid do if they were Prime Minister for a day? Apply here: https://www.squizkids.com.au/pm-for-a-day/ Links The Changes To UK Passports. Claire’s recommendation: An excerpt from Bob Carr's upcoming…
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The Squiz Quiz w/ Georgie Trickett from Sport-ish
On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with returning guest Georgie Trickett from Sportish Here's a quick scoring guide if you're playing along at home:…
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Weekly Wrap: Aliens, AI, Andrew and what did Pauline Hanson say?
Help us by filling out our survey here! SPONSORED: For more information on the disability transport and access trial, check out the full report here. Links Kate’s recommendation:…
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The Squiz Quiz w/ The Bookshelf Podcast
On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh from The Bookshelf Podcast. Can you best our in-studio guests? Here's a quick…
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Weekly Wrap: Understanding Israeli President Herzog’s visit, and who is Nancy Guthrie?
Getting you across Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is our priority this week. It’s been a challenging one for lots of people, so we’ve tried our best to make sense of it and get you across the facts…
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The Squiz Quiz w/ Fashion Critical and Lauren Sams
On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Fashion Critical, self-described as ‘the internet’s most amusing and 100% correct fashion critic’, and Lauren…
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Weekly Wrap: Unpacking the latest Epstein files, and a lifesaving swim
The US Department of Justice released over 3 million documents in the latest batch of Epstein files. Despite feeling a bit intimidated by digging into it all, we decided we couldn’t look past it, so we’ve done our best…
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Squiz Shortcuts: Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein headache
This is a Shortcut we made in July 2025 about the backlash towards Trump over the Epstein files. Given the final documents were released this week, we thought it'd be good to resurface it for you here. US President…
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The Squiz Quiz w/ Glen James and Rachelle Kroon from money money money
On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Glen James and Rachelle Kroon from the money money money podcast. Can you best our in-studio guests? Here's a…
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Weekly Wrap: Trump threatens Iran, and a Heated Rivalry
Kate Watson is back! This week, there's a lot going on in Trump's world - threats towards Iran, the release of the Melania documentary, and the administration's shifting position on ICE in Minnesota - we'll try to make…
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The Squiz Quiz: Scorchers, split-ups, and sea creatures
On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Squiz Founder Claire Kimball and… Kate Watson is back from parental leave for her triumphant (perhaps) return…
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The Year Ahead in Entertainment and Sport w/ Andrew Williams
For our look ahead at the year in entertainment and sport, we’re going in-house to chat with Andrew Williams, Squiz News Director and host of Squiz Today. Andrew takes us through the stories that stuck with him in…
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Weekly Wrap: The Coalition split (again), and the Beckham family drama
It was a massive week in federal politics as the Coalition partnership officially split. Following a fallout over hate crimes legislation and frontbench resignations, Nationals leader David Littleproud called it quits…
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The Squiz Quiz: ARMY, an ambassador, and a $1m Aussie Open amateur
On this episode of the Squiz Quiz, we're testing your knowledge of everything that happened this week with Squiz Founder Claire Kimball and Squiz Shortcuts host Larissa Moore. Can you best our in-studio guests? Here's…
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The Year Ahead in Fashion w/ Lauren Sams
In this episode, we’re chatting with Lauren Sams, fashion editor at the Australian Financial Review and Deputy Editor of AFR Magazine. Lauren takes us through the biggest fashion stories for 2025, then she gets out her…
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