Welcome to Covered, a podcast that helps you figure out what’s going on in the news and how you feel about it. Here to guide you through the biggest stories of the week, are your hosts journalists Jodi Lee and Annie Pullar.
France Riots Explained, Australia's Breastfeeding Rights Row and Meghan Markle’s Dad Investigated
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.
11 Oct 2026
Sam Wood Denied Bail, Former Prince Andrew’s Court Win and Who Is Trump’s Press Pick Katie Zacharia?
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.
2 Oct 2026
RBA Hikes Cash Rate to 15-Year High, Iran and the UK Terror Scare & Christa Pike's Failed Execution
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.
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