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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Homophobia in the AFL is back in the spotlight, with star Crows forward Izak Rankine banned for four games for using a homophobic slur against a Collingwood opponent. But Rankine could still play in the AFL grand final if the Adelaide Crows make it. But Rankine is the sixth AFL player to be suspended for a homophobic remark aimed at an opponent in the past 16 months alone, so do bans even work?

In this episode of The Briefing, Natarsha Belling is joined by behavioural scientist Erik Denison from Monash University's Faculty of Arts, who argues that bans don’t work and there are serious cultural issues in Australian sporting codes that need urgent action.

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Thursday Headlines: A former SAS soldier will be the first in Australia to ever face trial for a war crime, pedestrian deaths are up by almost 50 per cent, Monash IVF is under pressure to publicly release a review into two separate IVF bungles, the larger the house the less people living in it, and a year one teacher has gone viral for an informative private parts song.

Deep Dive: Amazon have just launched ‘their own version of Temu’ in a bid to compete with the ultra-low-cost marketplace called Amazon Haul.

From mid 2023 to 2024 Temu reached nearly 4 million Australian shoppers and Shein reached about 2 million, with experts predicting that number could be great in 2025.

In this episode of The Briefing, Helen Smith is joined by Dr. Bo Pang associate director of consumer innovation at Swinburne University to explain the ethical and regulatory concerns within the ultra-low-cost marketplace and how Haul is different from the Amazon we know.

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In a bombshell announcement, the Federal Health Minister has announced a major overhaul of the troubled NDIS. Mark Butler claims the NDIS was not fit for large numbers of children with autism and developmental delays, promising the changes will ensure the scheme is sustainable. But will those who need the support the most be unfairly targeted?

In this episode of The Briefing, Natarsha Belling is joined by expert Professor Adam Guastella who warns the government needs to crack down on alleged dodgy providers who are exploiting a broken system.

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Wednesday Headlines: Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case returns to court, Anthony Albanese has been called a “weak politician" by the Israeli PM, majority of land in NSW sold to developers instead of used as public housing, seven in 10 Australian’s who've signed up to the NDIS in the past year have autism, and a UK woman tries to take her annoying 20 and 30yo colleagues to court for socialising and wasting time.

Deep Dive: Australian’s are divided over whether property owners should have the right to use lethal force during a home invasion.

While some argue we already have strong enough protections, tens of thousands of Queenslanders and Victorian’s are pushing to legislate Castle Law, to give home owner’s the right to use any force necessary if confronted with an intruder.

In this episode of The Briefing, Tara Cassidy speaks with Castle Law advocate, Katter’s Australian Party leader Robbie Katter and Nick Dore of Fisher Dore lawyers about both sides of the contentious debate.

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There were numerous promises made during today’s historic peace talks between the Ukrainian and US presidents regarding Russia, with key European leaders standing by. President Donald Trump claims he’s negotiated talks between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, with both wanted lasting peace. But many are now asking at what cost?

In this episode of The Briefing Natarsha Belling is joined by international conflict expert Dr Jessica Genauer, who is concerned about what conditions Russia wants in any breakthrough, and what’s next if Putin wins this latest war.

Headlines: A 38-year-old mother is facing a number of child sex charges, the data of 280,000 Australians has been compromised, and a woman dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” has agreed to plead guilty to supplying the drugs that killed Friends star Matthew Perry.

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