
Tiny houses are "absolutely part of the solution" to the housing crisis...so why are there relatively few of them in Australia? Get the big picture on on the final episode of The Kicker, Season 2.
Nov 2, 2021
15 min

Host Faith Macale chats with reporter Emile Pavlich about how beauty brands have capitalised on the self-care mentality, without any discussion about the realities of mental health.
Oct 25, 2021
12 min

A growing number of businesses overseas are offering egg-freezing as an employee benefit - but the implications and responsibilities are hazy. In today's The Kicker episode, Celie Hay and Matt Harvey unpack the egg-freezing process, and determine the likelihood of a similar benefit being offered in Australia.
Oct 18, 2021
15 min

A lack of inclusive questions in the 2021 census left LBGTQ+ people feeling excluded. It begged the question, how much does our country really value the queer community? To dive deeper, we took at look at sex education. How can all young Aussies feel included in the classroom?
Oct 10, 2021
18 min

How are young people coping with the mental and physical impacts of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic? Join us on this week's episode of The Kicker as we investigate this emerging conversation further, with the added insight of four young people from Melbourne, Canberra and Perth.
Oct 3, 2021
12 min

The Victorian government announced it will decriminalise the sex industry in the next two years. But why does Victoria's only sex worker peer organisation argue that there are problems with the government proposal? Find out more on Episode 2 of The Kicker.
Sep 26, 2021
15 min

Growing calls for Victoria's Sex Offender Registry to be made public has led to an inquiry into how information on the register is managed. Who is for, is who is against, making the register public? Find out on the first episode of The Kicker: Season 2.
Sep 19, 2021
18 min

The exciting trailer for the hotly anticipated second season of The Kicker.
Sep 16, 2021
1 min

In a year where many have spent half their waking life staring at their own face in a Zoom call, it's only fitting that the final episode of our first season is about the omnipresent video conferencing platform. A trend named "Zoombombing" is being perpetrated by people all over the world, whether by radio hosts or would-be corporate spies or frustrated teenage boys. Reporters Patrick Hargreaves and Dom Hennequin speak to those on the frontlines of Zoombombing - the brave teachers holding classes online - and how the trend is strangely a small, if disturbing, reflection of pre-pandemic life.
Nov 8, 2020
20 min

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Tynong North and Frankston murders. Still to this day, the case remains unsolved. Despite a long-running investigation by the country's top detectives and a massive reward offered by Victoria Police, the identity of Australia's third-worst serial killer is unknown. In this episode, reporters Jake Pike and Charisa Bossinakis delve into the murders of the six women, speaking to the people whose lives are still touched by the ripples of their deaths. They also speak with Walkley-winning journalist John Silvester, an original reporter on the case.
Nov 1, 2020
13 min
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