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The Squiz is your shortcut to the news. Published each weekday at 6.00am, our daily news podcast is designed to fit into your morning routine – perfect for the commute, the gym or over a cof...

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Squiz Shortcuts: What is El Niño?

You might’ve seen headlines about a super El Niño developing over the past few months. Scientists say it’s going to be a record-breaker in t...

11:50Oct 6, 2026

Squiz Shortcuts: The SpaceX journey

SpaceX has gone from a scrappy rocket startup to the biggest launch provider on the planet, a telco giant, an AI player, and the record hold...

12:55Oct 1, 2026

Squiz Shortcuts: What’s an AI agent?

We’ve been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence over the past few weeks, including multiple incidents where OpenAI agents took it upo...

12:30Sep 29, 2026

Interest rates are expected to rise today

Tuesday 29 September: Interest rates are likely to rise today, Greens leader Larissa Waters has resigned, moths are invading the East Coast,...

11:47Sep 28, 2026

Squiz Shortcuts: Who was the Unabomber?

A new film about Ted Kaczynski, an American man who went from a teenage maths genius to a serial bomber, is about to be released on Netflix....

15:11Sep 24, 2026

The PM and Trump meet during a tense time

Thursday 24 September: Albanese and Trump meet at the UN, a new war has broken out in Ethiopia, vale to Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson,...

10:52Sep 23, 2026

Trump and Xi get ready to meet

Wednesday 23 September: Xi and Trump are set to meet, petrol prices are on the rise, Vale to Aussie illustrator Terry Denton, and voting is...

9:50Sep 22, 2026

Squiz Shortcuts: The productivity problem

Treasury has just released a document that looks ahead to what Australia might be like in 2066. It’s created a bunch of different news stori...

14:39Sep 22, 2026

The PM is talking us up at the UN

Tuesday 22 September: The PM talks up Australia at the UN, a high-profile murder case begins in Sydney, a record night at the Brownlow Medal...

11:39Sep 21, 2026

What Australia might be like in 40 years

Monday 21 September: What Australia might be like in 2066, the US and Greenland reach a deal, the AFL has a contender for its best game ever...

12:15Sep 20, 2026

Squiz Shortcuts: The Snowtown murders

One of Australia's most notorious murder cases - known as the Snowtown murders, or the 'bodies in barrels' case - is back in the news with t...

14:00Sep 17, 2026