Jul 14, 2022 | It's the hardest thing in the world for a man to do. To admit he's scared - that he needs help. All the more reason to admire the courage of the men in this story - among them, footballer Mat Rogers, who lost his father Steve to depression earlier this year. And the Rogers family isn't alone. One in four Australians will suffer from depression - five Australian men take their own lives every day. Five suicides a day. But there is good news. Scientists now say they've isolated the gene that actually causes depression. And there's a bold new prevention programme aimed where it can do the most good - at the most vulnerable, our teenage kids.
July 3, 2022 At its closest point the distance between Australia and the Solomon Islands is just under two thousand kilometres. Being so near is why Canberra is so worried about the deals the small Pacific nation is signing with China. It means the once inconceivable idea of a Chinese military base being built right on our doorstep has become a very real possibility. And now there’s another potential threat that must be considered - Beijing is also cosying up to Papua New Guinea, a country of immense strategic significance. As Tom Steinfort reports, at its closest point PNG is less than five kilometres from us.
It's a revolution. You won't see it on the news. It's quiet, it's happening in the suburbs, but it's still a significant social upheaval. Now, more women are out working and more are in high-powered, highly-paid jobs. So, more and more men find they have to adapt too. To give up all they've been brought up to believe in. To forget ambition, career and their traditional role as bread winner. Dad's been left holding the baby, literally. He's the new male, the man many women want. But how does this new domestic creature cope when the wife holds the purse strings, and he's the one in the apron?
Thanks to CSI and the other cop shows, DNA tests are no longer a mystery. Gone is the suspicion, now they're just another weapon in TV's war on crime. But it might be a different story if that weapon was turned on us, and that's not impossible. It's happening to Australian families every day. DNA testing, especially paternity testing is a booming business - fired up by suspicious husbands determined to prove that the child they're raising is actually theirs. And as you might imagine, that's opened up a whole new domestic battlefield with new charges of betrayal and revenge.
How's this for a diet; fat? Okay. Red meat; not a problem. Cheese and cakes; you can eat them to your heart's content. And it gets even better. Fancy a glass or two of wine to wash it down? Go ahead, it's good for you. It's fun and it works - in fact, it's why French women don't get fat. Of course, this dream diet has been around for centuries. It's known as the French Paradox and it defies all logic. How come they thrive on all that rich food and wine AND have lower rates of obesity and heart disease than we do. Well, being French, you can bet style has something to do with it.
This is no surprise. We have known about the French paradox for years. But this is a very good and informative short documentary on the pleasures of life in France and the health benefits from the French way of life and ways of eating and drinking. These are pleasures that we in the Anglosphere are increasingly denied; and when one defies the zeitgeist and indulges in such pleasures, there are plenty of boring and often ignorant people around, killjoys who think they know it all, who try and send one on a guilt trip for the indulgences. Fie on them all!
Little wonder that the vocabulary items and expressions used in English to describe these pleasures are borrowed from the French language. Expressions such as savoir vivre and joie de vivre come immediately to mind. Of course there are others.
These expressions can be translated into English; but when translated, they become rather meaningless.
France is a wonderful country and the French are a wonderful people; further, the French know how to live life to the fullest. They could teach us Brits, Americans and Australians a thing or two about how we should live. To use my own recent quote–Nowadays, people recognise the dangers in everything, but recognise the pleasures in nothing.–sums up attitudes to life in the Anglosphere. Now, in order to know how to live, we must look to France and the French.
It's the oldest saying in the book: What goes up must come down. In the volatile world of cryptocurrency, that's proving to be a brutal truth. Crypto's market value has halved since its peak late last year, haemorrhaging an eye watering $2.2 trillion. And it's not just crypto geeks whose dreams have been shattered, but also ordinary mum and dad investors sucked in by the hype the currency had gone mainstream. However, while many millionaires have become overnight paupers, cryptocurrency's true believers say don't worry, the good times will return. The question is: Who's brave enough to believe them?
Anthony Albanese is negotiating his first steps in Australia’s toughest job, but as our 31st prime minister, he and his new government face enormous challenges. Albo says he’ll make the country better for everyone, but considering two-thirds of the electorate didn’t vote for him or the ALP, it’s going to be a tough task. Federal politics never ceases to surprise, but last night’s result was extraordinary. On 60 Minutes, Sarah Abo speaks to Nine Political Editor Chris Uhlmann for his take on this historic election.
Anyone who’s toiled away on one, practically 24/7 job, for 70 years without complaint, surely deserves a hearty pat on the back. But in the lead up to her platinum jubilee, what Queen Elizabeth doesn’t deserve is what she’s getting: members of her own family stealing her limelight. Her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan can’t seem to stop sharing with the world how disgruntled they are, while her son Andrew - the less said about him, the better. It guarantees celebration of the Queen’s milestone will be unforgettable, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
When Russian dictator Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he arrogantly expected to conquer it easily. He was wrong. Despite being badly outnumbered and completely outgunned, Ukrainian soldiers have shown extraordinary fight. And leading the resistance has been their President Volodymyr Zelensky. His transformation from former actor and comedian to hero of the free world is inspirational. As one observer put it, he's Charlie Chaplin morphed into Winston Churchill. Now he wants to talk to Australia, and he's invited us into his secret inner sanctum to explain the horror show that is this ongoing war.
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Mar 30, 2022 • As President, Trump was the disruptor in chief in the Oval Office; he made his own rules and he left America, the world, and even his own staff shaking their heads in disbelief.
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Apr 11, 2022 • On the border with Ukraine, war games have added urgency as the threat of a Russian invasion is dangerously close. Nine News correspondent Mark Burrows was granted exclusive access to the front lines by Major General Jaroslaw Gromadzinsk and Commander Colonel Peter Halys.
Six weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s armed forces have distinguished themselves not by their skill but by their savagery. The dictator’s soldiers have committed horrific war crimes against hundreds, and more likely thousands of innocent civilians. But while he watches Ukrainians suffer, Putin is also planning his next moves. And it’s here his weapons of choice are secrecy and surprise. Across Ukraine’s western border, the people of Poland fear they’re the next to be targeted. But as Nine News correspondent Mark Burrows reports, if the Russian leader thinks the Poles are unprepared for battle, he should think again.
Sep 15, 2019 • These days in Australia, and other western countries, isn’t it a given that we make our own choices about our sexuality? Not only that, but whatever those decisions, isn’t it guaranteed that they will be respected and supported? Surprisingly the answer is often no. Some fundamentalist churches still actively preach that homosexuality is a sin, and they think a bizarre mix of prayer and threat is the way to fix it. As Sarah Abo reports in a special 60 MINUTES investigation, a form of gay conversion therapy continues to be practised on mainly young Australians who have been deemed “broken” by church ministers and counsellors. But shamefully, far from doing God’s work, these people are causing lifelong damage.
Like for all brides, Stella Moris' wedding was unforgettable. But it was a wedding/ceremony like no other. Her husband is Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which meant the happy couple swapped vows in England's toughest maximum-security jail, Belmarsh Prison. As their two infant sons watched on, Stella and Julian promised to try to lead as normal a life as possible - a bittersweet commitment given the groom is facing extradition to the US, and the prospect of 175 more years in jail if convicted of espionage.
Mar 27, 2022 • Federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie has long campaigned for Julian Assange's release, and is demanding the Australian government step in to save him from the UK's brutal Belmarsh Prison.
Mar 13, 2022 • In times of war, you need to strike where it hurts. So as Vladimir Putin continues to bombard Ukraine, the west has decided his Achilles heel is his hip pocket. Crippling economic sanctions have been imposed not just on Russia, but critically also the inner circle of multi-billionaire oligarchs who supposedly protect Putin's power. Their superyachts and mansions around the world have been seized, and their bank accounts frozen. It's a tactic that appears to be working, with the President's pals now doing the unthinkable and turning on him.
For the best part of a century, Russia was a soulless, godless place. The communists made quite sure of that. With the Revolution came a grim determination to stamp out religion. Under Lenin, and particularly Stalin, Christians were enemies of the state, churches were destroyed, priests and nuns jailed, often murdered. Even church bells and religious music were banned. How times have changed. In the new Russia, there's been a Christian revival, a kind of resurrection. The Orthodox Church is back in business, and its missionaries are out in force, spreading the word.
Miles Taylor, former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration, tells 60 Minutes why he believes so many Americans have been swept up in the former president's election lies.
