This weeks episode includes the 2026 Census is happening on the 11th of August, with Australians being asked to provide information that will help shape communities, a milestone moment for the LGBTQ+ Australian community as the Census includes sexual orientation and questions about gender identity for the first time and a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake has struck western Colombia, killing at least 111 people and leaving thousands of homes affected.

This weeks episode includes the 2026 Census is happening on the 11th of August, with Australians being asked to provide information that will help shape communities, a milestone moment for the LGBTQ+ Australian community as the Census includes sexual orientation and questions about gender identity for the first time and a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake has struck western Colombia, killing at least 111 people and leaving thousands of homes affected.

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The Wire 11 August 2026

Thirty two percent of First Nations people have personally experienced racism, hostility or negative treatment on January 26th, according to a nationally representative YouGov poll.

Commissioned by Australian social enterprise Clothing the Gaps and Future Super, the poll is a part of a wider campaign calling on the government to move the Survival Day public holiday from its fixed date of January 26th.

This comes amid the three-month-long federal Inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Thirty two percent of First Nations people have personally experienced racism, hostility or negative treatment on January 26th, according to a nationally representative YouGov poll.
Commissioned by Australian social enterprise Clothing the Gaps and Future Super, the poll is a part of a wider campaign calling on the government to move the Survival Day public holiday from its fixed date of January 26th.
This comes amid the three-month-long federal Inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Poll asks: is January 26th the most racist day in the calendar? 

The Wire - 13 August 2026

It has been a turbulent decade in Britain since voting to leave the EU, there has been a leadership revolving door that recently saw the latest casualty when Keir Starmer stepped down only two years after he was elected In a decisive landslide. 

Yet things have not gone well for UK Labor with support splintering in various political dimensions and the reins have shifted to former Manchester major Andy Burnham.

Stephen Hill asked Adelaide University Emeritus Professor Clem McIntyre what is driving the discontent in British politics. 

It has been a turbulent decade in Britain since voting to leave the EU, there has been a leadership revolving door that recently saw the latest casualty when Keir Starmer stepped down only two years after he was elected In a decisive landslide.&nbsp;
Yet things have not gone well for UK Labor with support splintering in various political dimensions and the reins have shifted to former Manchester major Andy Burnham.
Stephen Hill asked Adelaide University Emeritus Professor Clem McIntyre what is driving the discontent in British politics.&nbsp;

The Wire 11 August 2026

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