Deep Dive

An in-depth examination of Australia’s housing crisis, exploring public housing tenure, welfare dependency, social housing shortages, private rental assistance, bureaucratic barriers and the growing gap between...

Challenges the idea that Sydney is divided into permanent ethnic ghettos, showing how birthplace-based statistics can exaggerate segregation and overlook the movement and integration of migrant descendants across...

Examines how migrant businesses, community networks, and economic necessity created places such as Chinatown, Little Italy, and Cabramatta, and how these areas evolved from immigrant settlement zones into cultural and...

Explores why immigrants often cluster together in cities, focusing on community support, cultural identity, economic opportunity, and the role ethnic enclaves play in helping newcomers establish themselves.

How Australian politicians turn public politics into political theatre—and how grandstanding can transform attention, outrage, and perceived persecution into political capital. This explores symbolic gestures, dramatic...

Why morality can become a competition for status rather than a genuine effort to do good. This explores moral grandstanding, unwitting self-promotion, piling on, ramping up, trumping up, conformity, outrage exhaustion...

The hidden psychology behind our need to appear morally good. Drawing on research into moral superiority, the “magic fallacy,” confabulation, conformity, and grandstanding, this explores how moral language can become a...

Why simply displaying diversity isn't the same as creating inclusion—and why attempts to address structural inequality can provoke intense resistance. This explores cosmetic diversity, psychological reactance...

Why public debate has become a performance of moral status rather than a genuine exchange of ideas. This explores moral grandstanding, prestige, dominance, self-deception, and the psychological forces that turn outrage...

This deep dive examines an inner-west council’s decision, the backlash from residents, the debate over multiculturalism and Indigenous recognition, and the deeper questions of political power, assimilation, consultation...

A council's gateway project has become the centre of a fierce community controversy after black tape was used to cover the words “Always Was, Always Will Be Wanngal Country.” This deep dive explores the political...

Australia’s unemployment rate may be sitting around 4.4%–4.5% , but that headline number tells only a fraction of the story. In this deep dive, we examine the growing disconnect between official economic statistics and...

Australia’s unemployment rate may look healthy at 4.5% , but beneath the headline numbers, the labour market is telling a very different story. In this deep dive, we examine quiet cutting, disappearing hours, rising...

This is our final episode. Thank you for being with us this whole season. We will be on a break for a bit, but we'll try to do an episode or two on holidays. See you in Season 5!

You see the road, the signs and the parking space — but how much of the road are you actually seeing? In NSW, some of the most important driving rules aren't obvious at all. They’re encoded in yellow lines, invisible...