Natalie Kyriacou is the environmentalist saving the planet one snake clit and fish STD at a time.

Before she turned 30, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her contributions to wildlife conservation and education. Creating World of the Wild, a app that’s been dubbed the environmentalist’s Angry Birds.

In this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, Natalie explain how she went from stealing from family members to raise money for climate to publishing Nature’s Last Dance.

Weekend list with Helen Smith

• TO WATCH: Real Housewives of London on Hayu
• TO TRY: Lay flat on the floor
• TO DO: Always get a second opinion
• TO WATCH: The Handmaid's Tale season 5 onwards

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The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates in the Australia, with employees twice as likely to die compared to other male workers. An often-toxic workplace environment and poor mental health are major contributing factors with experts calling for urgent action.

In this episode of The Briefing, Natarsha Belling is joined by Health and Wellbeing expert Tony LaMontagne to explain how we can turn around the deadly trend and the important message for both employees and bosses in the workplace.

Headlines: New major childcare changes announced, Ultra Violette has pulled one of its most popular products from shelves, and Erik Menendez has been denied parole.

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Friday Headlines: Australia post is suspending transit shipping to the US, Trump had a multi-million-dollar win overnight, Three-day productivity summit wrapped late yesterday, Anthony Albanese’s reputation is “forever tarnished” according to Benjamin Netanyahu, Federal government will today push for a national register of childcare workers, and a Freaky Friday story to end the week.

Deep Dive: Australians are getting married less, divorcing less and having fewer children than ever before, with the rate of marriage more than halving since 1971.

The way people are getting married is also changing, with less traditional ceremonies, religious weddings taking a slide line, millennials and gen z now dominating the scene and social media influencing how much we spend.

In this episode of The Briefing, Helen Smith chats with Jye Marshall, a wedding expert and fashion design lecturer at Swinburne University, to explain the origins of a white wedding dress and how cost of living is changing the way we wed.

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