Queer and looking for love: The forgotten victims of dating app violence

When Sarah matched with a woman on the American-founded dating app Hinge in May 2022, things turned bad quickly. For the next 4-months, she will try and escape a both physical and emotional relationship.  Subscribe to 7NEWS Spectrum More 7NEWS podcasts

Heroes and Heartbreak: Australia's Deadly Green Wattle Creek Bushfire

When an unstable tree strikes a NSW RFS fire truck with five volunteers, only three escape. 

The Dark Side of Australia's Migration System

When Irish backpacker Laura left her farmwork after a month of sexual harassment in 2018, she believed it was the end of her nightmare. However, years later she would discover that she was not the only one. This podcast tells the story of how three backpackers experienced inappropriate behaviour …

Lies, manipulation and blind faith: My life inside Australia's Nameless Sect

In 1990, when Elizabeth Coleman was 16 years old she discovered that the nameless sect she had been born into did not go all the way back to Jesus as they claimed. As a result her life was turned upside down and she struggled with doubt and shame up until and a bit after she left in 1993. This is…

Taken For Ransom in Somalia

In 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped in Somalia by an Islamist insurgent group while reporting on the country's refugee crisis. The pair were held hostage for 460 days and released in November 2009. This episode follows a passion…

A Phantom Hitchhiker on Australia's Coast

Content warning: this episode discuss material related to sexual assault. What if it's not the past haunting us, but the present? For decades, hair-raising rumours of a tormented soul haunting Wilfred Barrett Drive in New South Wales have put the Central Coast on the map. In this episode, we t…

The search for Australia's bigfoot

Since the early days of European arrival, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people have claimed to have seen a two-metre tall, hairy, ape-like figure stalking the Australian bush, right across the country. So what is this mythical creature we know as the yowie? Join us as we look at the legend and me…