RN Breakfast - Separate stories podcast Folgen

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has defended her party sidelining the Australian flag and describing her role in parliament as an infiltrator of a colonial project. She says we need to reconcile as a nation but it will require hard-work and truth telling and that we must ensure we have a flag that represents everybody and not colonialism.

Biologists are reporting on bacterium that seems to break all the rules, in fact it's gigantic five thousand times bigger than most other bacteria.

An explosive parliamentary report has lifted the lid on rampant sexual assault and harassment in WA's resources sector, putting pressure on the State Government to act. It's found female FIFO workers "frequently have to deal with sexual harassment and sexual assault", with many incidents ignored or overlooked by employers and the regulator blind to the problem.