Covered

This week on Covered, the Reserve Bank has hiked the cash rate again, pushing it to an 18-year high, just as Australia’s oldest department store collapses. Then, Donald Trump has been dealt a crushing blow in the US midterms, losing control of Congress to the Democrats. Plus, a coroner has found injecting peptides triggered the death of Aussie actor Richard Norton, we're breaking down why these unregulated products are still just a few clicks and a parcel away.

This week on Covered, we look at what’s behind the riots in France and the protests spreading across Europe, from crippling debt to a generation that feels locked out of the future. Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner says biological males who induce lactation should get the same breastfeeding protections as mothers, and we ask how laws written for women came to be read this way. And Meghan Markle is heading to Australia to co-host Junior MasterChef, but her return has been overshadowed by police investigating disturbing allegations against her father.

This week on Covered, we go inside the courtroom where Bachelor star Sam Wood was refused bail on domestic violence charges. We unpack the allegations, the family-man brand built around his marriage and the commercial fallout that’s reportedly cost him tens of millions. Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has scored a rare win, with the High Court ruling the warrants police used to search his homes were unlawful, but it’s a long way from clearing his name. Then Donald Trump has replaced Karoline Leavitt with Katie Zacharia, a self-described MAGA devotee hired straight out of his own media company, just weeks out from the midterms.

This week on Covered, the RBA has hiked the cash rate to a 15-year high, we unpack what a fourth rate rise this year means for your mortgage and who's really to blame. Then, two suspected terror attacks on two separate continents in the past week. Passengers are being hailed as heroes after storming the cockpit of a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv. In the UK, five men arrested near an air base used by the US military were released on bail the next day, and Britain's Prime Minister now says Iran played a part. And finally, Christa Pike survived two lethal injections in Tennessee, reigniting the debate over the death penalty and why Australia abolished it.

This week on Covered: What will Australia actually look like in 40 years? We unpack the predictions for 2066, from a baby bust and rapidly ageing population to migration, AI, housing and whether we’ll really be better off. Then, Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer spills some serious royal tea, claiming King Charles was “giddy” after Diana died in a new bombshell book. Plus, Grand Final weekend is already delivering chaos. Lachie Neale is IN as the Brisbane Lions chase a historic three-peat, Kylie Minogue takes over the MCG, and over at the NRL, Tones and I is out. There’s no headline act and Peter V’landys suddenly says maybe they don’t need one anyway.