Podcast appearances and mentions of Tracey Spicer

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Today, we're stepping into one of the most urgent conversations in tech right now: bias in artificial intelligence.Tracey Spicer AM is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, author, and longtime activist for gender equity. In this episode, she unpacks the unseen biases coded into the technologies we use every day—and what happens when we leave them unchecked. Drawing on years of research for her latest book Man-Made, Tracey explores the ethical challenges and opportunities in AI development, and why we all have a role to play in shaping more equitable outcomes.In this episode, Tracey shares:How gender, race, age, and ability bias are embedded into AI systemsThe real-world impacts of biased tech—from hiring software to image generatorsWhy ‘human in the loop' systems are critical for ethical AIHow organisations can audit their data, clean up algorithms, and lead responsiblyHost: Jenelle McMaster, Deputy CEO and People & Culture Leader at EYGuest: Tracey Spicer AM, journalist, author, and AI ethics advocate

Dying well We’re all going to die, but how we acknowledge death and dying is a very personal experience. Award-winning journalist and author Tracey Spicer and anthropologist Dr Hannah Gould explore etiquette, rites and traditions to find out what makes a ‘good death’. About the episode – brought to you by Australian Seniors. Join James Valentine for the sixth season of Life’s Booming: Dying to Know, our most unflinching yet. We’ll have the conversations that are hardest to have, ask the questions that are easy to ignore, and hear stories that will make you think differently about the one thing we’re all guaranteed to experience: Death. Featuring interviews with famous faces as well as experts in the space, we uncover what they know about what we can expect. There are hard truths, surprising discoveries, tears and even laughs. Nothing about death is off the table. Tracey Spicer AM is a Walkley award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. And she's an ambassador for Dying With Dignity. A vocal campaigner and advocate for voluntary assisted dying (VAD), Tracey penned a letter to her mother following her painful death in 1999. Dr Hannah Gould is an anthropologist who works in the areas of death, religion and material culture. She recently appeared on SBS documentary: Ray Martin: The Last Goodbye. Hannah’s research spans new traditions and technologies of Buddhist death rites, the lifecycle of religious materials, and modern lifestyle movements. If you have any thoughts or questions and want to share your story to Life’s Booming, send us a voice note – lifesbooming@seniors.com.au Watch Life’s Booming on YouTube Listen to Life's Booming on Apple Podcasts Listen to Life's Booming on Spotify For more information visit seniors.com.au/podcast Produced by Medium Rare Content Agency, in conjunction with Ampel Disclaimer: Please be advised that this episode contains discussions about death, which may be triggering or upsetting for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. If you are struggling with the loss of a loved one, please know that you are not alone and there are resources available. For additional support please contact Lifeline on 131 114 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. TRANSCRIPT: James: We're all going to die. Happens to all of us. But how we acknowledge death and dying is of course a very personal experience. With our guest and our expert, we're going to explore the etiquette, the rites and traditions seen in Australia and around the world. Someone who knows a lot about the rites and traditions of death is Dr Hannah Gould, an anthropologist who works in the areas of death, religion and material culture. We're also going to be joined by Tracey Spicer, she’s a Walkley award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. And she's an ambassador for Dying With Dignity. Tracey and Hannah, welcome. Thank you so much. Tracey: Hello. James: Thank you for coming. Hannah Gould. Hello. Thank you for coming. Hannah: Thank you. James: Fantastic. Let's talk death! Tracey: Why not? There'll be lots of fun. James: Do you laugh in the face of death? Hannah: What else can you do? I mean, look, you know. Lots of sadness, lots of joy, every single emotion is reasonable, surely. I mean, it's like the question, the ultimate question of philosophy, of history, of every discipline. Every response is valid. Not always useful, or helpful. James: Yeah. Yeah. Hannah: But valid. Tracey: Well, it's a universal topic of conversation and that's why I've always loved dark humour. Because you do have to laugh, otherwise what do you do? James: I also think it's, it is the ultimate joke that we are all going to die, but we live like we're not going to. We live every day as though it's just not going to happen at all. Tracey: Especially in Western society, I think other cultures have got it right and we're in such deep denial about it. It's detrimental to all of us. James: Yeah. Now this is your area of expertise really, is that do other cultures have it right? Hannah: Everyone does it differently. Right or wrong is kind of a difficult thing to judge. I think certainly there's a big thing called, like, the denial of death thesis, right. And, and people like Ernest Becker, a lot of different philosophers and anthropologists and cultural, you know, analysis have looked at Western culture and gone, Oh my gosh, we are so invested in denying death, right. And whether that's through denying death by religions that say you're going to live forever, like, you know, don't worry, it's not the end. You'll pop off to heaven or whatever it is. Or through, you know, great heroic myths. Yes, you'll die, but the nation will remember you forever. So, you know, you won't really die. You'll be a martyr. Or contemporary, you know. Yes, you'll die, but have you seen how great the shopping is? You know, we can just ignore, we can deny death by being on Instagram and, you know, consuming, right, so, I think Western culture in particular, the way we've organised our society, allows us to not think about death. James: And we've organised death to be somewhere else, usually now. To be in a hospital, to be in palliative care somewhere. And they may be good, but they're not, they're not in the cottage, are they? They're not next to, not in the bedroom. Hannah: Not in the bedroom. So, we know that, say, 70% of Australians wish to die at home. Only about 15% do. And that is a rate that is lower than all these other countries we like to compare ourselves. So Australians are more institutionalised in their death than places like Ireland, like New Zealand, the United States of America, even Canada. We tend, more than other countries, to die in institutions – aged care, hospitals, and hospices. James: Yeah, right, right. The other way in which we deny death is, or the other way in which other cultures have a different attitude to death, will be that it'll either be more accepting – we are all going to die, will be part of their every day – or they may have a notion of reincarnation and coming back, which means that that's a very different attitude to death, really, than a, than a heaven and a hell. Hannah: Yeah, it's not necessarily an end so much. I think that's kind of quite common in, say, you know, Buddhist or Hindu or other kind of dharmic religions, particularly Asian religions. And then, obviously, there's a lot of Asian religion that's part of Australian society, so that's also quite present in Australia. But we can also have a kind of more secular idea about that. You know, a lot of these, a lot of my mum's generation in particular, have kind of a green environmental kind of reincarnation model where she will say, well, I don't particularly believe in heaven, but I do believe I'm going to become compost. Food for worms, you know, I'll come back as a tree or a flower or a tomato plant, you know, and that's, that's a kind of reincarnation of like reintegration into the natural environment, as it were. So there are some kind of myths or stories we can tell ourselves that perhaps help us think about death more positively. James: I've got a, a friend of mine who'd be into her 80s has said, oh, funeral? Just put me up the top paddock, let the crows have a go. Tracey: Yeah. My dad wants to be buried in a cardboard box, and I think that's a wonderful idea. James: We all say that, don't we? That's a really common one as well. I hear that a lot on the radio. People will go, mate, just, I don't care, put me out with the, on the hard rubbish day. Hannah: In the paddock, whatever it is… James: …the paddock, that’s the same sort of thing I said. You know, like, do we really want that, do you think? Hannah: Oh, do we really want that? I do think Aussies are pretty pragmatic about death. I do think we have a certain streak in us that's kind of like, you know what, it's all a bit much fuss, it's all too much. You kind of even get these people who therefore say, don't have a funeral. You know, I really don't want to have a funeral. Please don't even, you know, no fuss. That can be kind of sad sometimes because I think it's some people kind of not acknowledging how many people love them and miss them. James: Yeah. Hannah: Um, but maybe it's also a bit of an Aussie humour, dry humour, that, that black humour again of kind of, you know, trying to laugh in the face of death. Why not? Tracey: I would agree, but then we all get sucked in when we're in the funeral home, and they show you the cardboard box, and then they show you the glossy one that's 10 or 20 thousand dollars, and you think, did I really love that person that much, or should I do it? So it all feeds into what you were talking about before, that consumerism and overcommercialisation. James: Well, I also think sometimes, I would think it's about weddings. Weddings and funerals, well, who's it actually for? Tracey: Yeah, yeah. Well it's a punctuation mark, isn't it? I'm a lifelong atheist, but Tracey: I do enjoy, it sounds terrible, going to those kind of ceremonies, whether it's a funeral or a wedding, because it's important to celebrate or commemorate these changes, these huge changes. James: I love the sharing of stories at a funeral. People start talking. Tracey: Well, you learn so much about someone's life that you may not have known. And also often they're rich for that dark humour. I'll never forget my grandmother's funeral, who I was incredibly close to. And my father's new girlfriend loved my grandmother. She was so distraught she tried to throw herself into the hole in the ground on top when she was throwing the dirt in and I thought, well, that's intense. James: That's good. Tracey: That's, I've never seen that before. That's a first. Hannah: Oh, I've seen that before. Tracey: Have you?! Hannah: I will say that, you know, when you attend enough funerals or attend enough cremations for professional reasons, um, as it were, you kind of see everything, every range of human emotions. Like, we, we kind of think, you know, all funerals are all happy families. A lot of unhappy families, a lot of punch ups at funerals, lots of, uh, mistresses coming out of the woodwork at funerals, conversions, religious, you know, more and more people have recorded messages from beyond the grave that they play at their funeral, or, uh, they've decided that we're having a dance party, or we're having some sort of festivity or an event. I mean, you can do anything these days with a funeral. James: Do you go to a lot, just to observe? Hannah: Yeah, I do my research. So I, I research in death and dying and I, I work at a crematorium and I attend funerals and I hang around with other people in the death care sector. James: Yeah. Hannah: And you do see everything. James: Why do you want to… Tracey: …What got you interested in this? It's your job and I'm just fascinated by it… James: …We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll both do it. I think you've done this sort of thing! So, yeah. Well then, then, why do you want to be around death? Hannah: Oh. I mean, personal and professional. Professional, I'm an anthropologist, and anthropologists want to know what brings us together, what makes us all human, but then also why we do it so differently. And there is nothing else. It is the question, right, it is the one thing we all experience, and yet we've all decided to do it in completely different ways, and completely different ways throughout history. And then, personally, my dad died, and I thought, gosh, what on earth is going on? I suddenly was given the catalogue, of funeral, of coffins, right. James: And you were young. Hannah: I was 22, 23 when my dad died. An age that was perfectly old and mature at the time, I thought. But looking back, obviously, it was incredibly young. But yeah, I suddenly got handed this catalogue of, of kind of coffins, and they all had these really naff names, like, you know, these rich mahoganies, and like, it was like paint colours. Someone had, someone somewhere had decided, these were the options, right, that you were, that this is what was going to represent my dad. And I just felt this massive disconnect and I thought, ‘Hang on, I've got to work out what's going on there.’ So now I spend my life in death, as it were. James: Yeah. I suppose, most of us would think being around death would be a very gloomy kind of thing to be, or way to spend your day. Hannah: It can be very gloomy. But oh my gosh, the gallows humour that those boys in the crem – the crematorium – tell, uh, you know. James: Is there a joke you can share? Hannah: Ooh. Um. Not a lot of them are safe for work or anywhere. James: Tracey, you were going to jump in and ask something there before. What were you going to ask? You know, fellow professional interviewer. Tracey: I really see a connection with you being 22 when your father died and I was 32 when my mother died. Hannah: Mm. Tracey: Even at 32 I felt like I wasn't ready for it. James: Right, no. Tracey: And especially because it happened so quickly. Mum was the linchpin for the family, you know, smart and funny and she could do anything. She was one of those early super women kind of role models. And then all of a sudden at the age of 51 she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer with seven months to live and she lived seven months almost to the day. And it was blood and guts and gore. She was in agonising pain. My sister and I were injecting her with medication every day. We wanted her to die in the home. Tracey: But it got to the stage where we had to bring her to palliative care, and that's when we started having the conversations about voluntary assisted dying, because, um, Mum and Dad had always said, put me down like a dog. And again, it's one of those things that you think it's going to be easy at the time, but it's not. We talked to the doctor. The doctor said, I don't want to end up in jail. And my sister sat there with the morphine button. She pressed it so often she had a bruise on her thumb. James: Hmm, right Tracey: …we said, surely you can just increase the morphine, because Mum was having breakthrough pain. So everything was fine until she'd scream once an hour, and there was no way they could cap that. So it's cruel, right? It's cruel. I, I don't think there's any way they would have done it. We tried to have those conversations. James: …Yeah… Tracey: Which is why one night, because we were sleeping in a chair next to her overnight just to hold her hand when she was in pain, I picked up the pillow and I did try to put it over her face because I thought, what kind of daughter am I, to let her suffer? And then I stopped at the last minute and then I felt really ashamed of, you know, what a coward I am. Hannah: No, I was going to say the opposite. What an incredibly brave act to, to have so much love and compassion for this person and so much respect, what you knew her wishes would be, that you were willing to do that, you know, for, not – for her, not to her, for her, right? That's extraordinary. Tracey: It's lovely of you to say. James: Did she know what you were doing? Tracey: Oh no, she was out of it for about the previous two weeks, actually. In and out of it. And then she died in the next 24 hours anyway. So she was very, very close. And she'd had that kind of burst, you know, had that almost honeymoon period a couple of days beforehand where you think, Well, she seems like she's getting better and we've read about that, so we expected she was close. Hannah: …Yep, the final, the final burst… Tracey: Yeah. Is there a name for that? Hannah: You know, I don't know what it's called, but you know, that is when usually the palliative care doctors, the hospice workers will call up the family and say, guess what? They're up and about, they're talking, they're eating all of a sudden, and that's genuinely usually a sign that it's not going to be long. James: Wow, isn't that interesting. Hannah: It's the final burst of energy. One of the interesting things about the rise of voluntary assisted dying, of euthanasia, to speak more broadly in Australia, is it reflects this kind of cultural shift that we have about the importance of choice and control towards the end of our lives and how increasingly like that is becoming an important part of what we think about as a good death, right. Like I want to be able to control where I die and who I die with and when and the pain and suffering, right? And that hasn't always been the case, right, you know throughout history there's been periods of that. There's been periods of, ‘Leave it to God.’ Or there's also been periods of, ‘Yes, I must prepare. I have to write my final last note or poetry’, or whatever it is. But that's increasingly becoming important particularly for, we see within the baby boomer generation that they really want to, you know, have some sort of choice, and emphasis on choice. James: Well, I mean, I wonder whether a lot of it is a reaction to, um, the, the medical control over the end of our lives is so extreme that we can be kept alive for so long. And so, it's, it's, it's a reaction to that medical control, isn't it? To want to say, well, surely I can, we can, we can have both, can't we? You can either keep me alive or I don't want to be kept alive. Could you let me go? Hannah: It's one of the great paradoxes, they talk about this paradox of contemporary death and contemporary medicine, is that all of our interventions have increased, right. The medicalisation of death has meant that not only do we have pain control, but we can keep people alive for longer. You know, we have better medicines, drugs, palliative medicine is massively advanced. And yet, if we ask people, the quality of death and dying has not increased. James: Right… Hannah: …And if we look globally, more access to medicine doesn't necessarily correlate with a higher quality of death and dying. There's some correlation, like, do you actually have the drugs? Can you access, access them? But when it gets to kind of over a certain hurdle, just because you're dying in Australia versus dying in a country with no resources doesn't mean you're going to die better. James: What do you, what's a quality of death? How are we measuring that? What do you mean by that? Hannah: There's lots of things you can do to measure it and people try. So one of them is, you know, to ask, ask the family, to ask the dying person, to also ask the physician, did you think this was a good death? You know, how do we assess it? Because it's not just up to the dying person as well. Of course, it's also up to the family, right – How did you experience that death, that dying? It's a difficult thing to measure, right, because for some people death is never gonna be… You know, the words good death, bad death are kind of controversial now because it's like, oh my God, I have to try at everything else, do I also have to live up to a good death? Like, we can't make it good. Can we make it better? James: Yeah. What is a good death, Tracey? Tracey: I think this really intersects with, uh, competition. Everything's become a competition. And also quality of ageing. Hannah: Yes, yes… Tracey: …Because my darling dad, who's 84 and still hanging on after smoking and drinking himself almost to death when he was in his 50s – it's a miracle he's still alive. He has very close to zero quality of life. He's a lovely man, we love spending time with him, but he can barely walk. You know, where's the quality of life? So I've just written a book about artificial intelligence recently, so it worries me, that medtech space, that we're getting people to live longer, but there's no quality of life and also no quality of death. Hannah: There's this phenomenon we actually call, in scholarship, we call it prolonged dwindling. Tracey: Oh, which is so true, I love that. Hannah: What a term! But it's, it's… James: …Sounds like the worst Enya album ever… Tracey: …And it never ends… Hannah: …But yeah, it's, it's, there's exactly this thing, right. So it used to be, if you look at like the kind of time, it used to be that you'd either have a sudden illness, fall off a horse, through a sword, war, back in the day, and you, and then you would die, or you would have a, you know, a serious major illness, like a cancer or a heart attack, and then pretty soon after, you'd die, right? What we have now, what we tend to have now, is these kind of timelines towards the end of life of, you know, multiple hospitalisations, in and out of hospital, or you have something like Alzheimer's, right, where you have a very, very, very slow and long cognitive decline, potentially with very high care needs, so you're in hospital, you're in care for 20, 30 years, right? Which is unheard of previously, that you would need this level. So how we die is changing, and it's a completely different timeline. James: Yeah. Does… Tracey, let's just return to this moment when you started to perhaps really think about death. You know, you're confronting your mother's suffering, and you think about, you know, taking control of that, about doing something. Was that an impulse? Was it something that grew over time? Tracey: It was knowing my mother's character as being very forthright, and she was always in control, to speak to control. She would have liked me to try to control the situation. It was also, obviously, that you never want to see a loved one in suffering. But it taught all of us in the family a couple of important lessons. Dad’s now got an advance care directive that’s 28 pages long, so we know exactly what's going to happen. My husband and I still haven't done that, but we do talk to our kids who are aged 18 and 20 about this kind of stuff. I think part of that is my husband's a camera operator, I've been a long-time journalist, so in newsrooms, a very dark sense of humour, similar to the crematoriums, so we talk about death and dying an awful lot at home, but I think it's important to have those conversations and to prepare for a good enough death as much as you can. Tracey: I mean, what does a good enough death mean to you? Have you thought about that yourself? James: Yeah, well I have. I've had some, you know, health issues, had a cancer last year, and so that sort of thing, you know, you do start to confront it and think about it. I'm the fall asleep in the bed, you know, go to bed one night, don't wake up. Tracey: The classic. James: That's the classic. Give me the classic. I'm happy with the classic. Hannah: …Hopefully after you've just finished penning your magnum opus, surrounded by friends and family. James: The end, you know. For me to be onstage, I've just finished a searing saxophone solo, and everyone's just ‘Amazing! Unbelievable!’ Down you go. Something like I mean, sudden, seems to be, just immediate. Immediate and sudden, no suffering. Hannah: Well, that's the thing. Hannah: People always ask me, you know, do you fear death, are you afraid of death? And frankly, after studying it for this long, no, not at all. And I think in an odd way, there is some kind of horrific privilege of having at least one of your parents die young because all of a sudden, you do start thinking about all these things and you learn to live with death, even if you don't like it a lot of the time. I don't fear death, I do fear the prolonged dwindling. Right, like that, the kind of ageing poorly without support in a way that I can't make the controls, and and you know, can't make decisions. That's much more scary to me than death. Death is kind of a great mystery. James: Your interaction with your mother, Tracey, led you to looking at voluntary assisted dying. What did people say about it? What was the general, when you first started to talk about it, when you first started to campaign for it, what would people say? Tracey: What I noticed was a disconnect, that people in the community overwhelmingly supported this because they’d seen loved ones die. But in our parliaments, I saw there a lot of people, a higher percentage than the normal population, are quite religious in our parliaments. Hannah: …Completely unrepresentative... Tracey: …Unrepresentative. And so a lot of organised religions are pushing back against it and therefore there wasn't an appetite for change because of that. I think it took these wonderful lobby groups to get the politicians to listen and for them to realise that there was a groundswell of support. And also, of course, with the examples in the Netherlands and Oregon and Canada who have quite different laws to us. But very successful laws. You rarely see people, I think it's 99.9% successful – only a tiny amount of people who are abusing the legislation, tiny, tiny – but the rest of it, everyone overwhelmingly aligns with it. So it's done in a very ethical and proper kind of way. James: So do you feel as though when you first started talking about it, really, most people were on board? It wasn't something, it wasn't one of those things where we're really trying to, we had to convince people. Tracey: No, that's right, except for people who were particularly religious. Because, let's face it, everyone, pretty much, unless you're quite young, has had a loved one die, so this is something that affected everyone. James: Yeah. I suppose I was wondering. Like someone, some friend, the other day, you know, how have you been, blah, blah, blah. And he went, ‘oh, I had a weird thing yesterday, like, my uncle died’. And I went, ‘oh, that's sad’. And he said, ‘no, no, it was voluntary, he did the voluntary assisted death. He died yesterday afternoon at two o'clock’, you know. I went, ‘oh, wow, you know, you're there?’ ‘Yeah, we're all there, and, you know, it was great, we had a lovely morning with him. We had dinner the night before, and then it just all took place.’ I said, wow, how amazing. And what I was really struck by was what a normal conversation this was. It was a bit like saying, ‘we went to holiday in Queensland’. You know, like it was sort of, he wasn't describing some outlandish thing, you know, it was suddenly this thing, suddenly voluntary assisted dying was just part of the fabric of our, of our lives. You know, do you feel that that's happened in Australia? Tracey: I do feel it's become more normalised, to your point, over the last 20 years. But there's still a lot of academic debate about at what, at what point should you be able to do it. At the moment in Australia, it's overwhelmingly someone with a terminal illness. And it's done by themselves or their doctor, their practitioner. But there are people who want to bring it in for people who are elderly and, and suffering and don't want to live any longer, to support them there. So we're seeing, I guess, a fragmentation of the discussion and the arguments. And I'll be interested to see which way that goes down the track. There's a lot of debate about people, to your point earlier with Alzheimer's, people who have dementia. Hannah: Sensory pleasures. Like, people being able to taste and smell and touch and hug become really important at the end of life. Tracey: Oh, that reminds me of someone I know who did have a good death, who was my grandfather, Mum's father. He lived until 94, and I cared for him towards the end of his life. Our kids were little then, they were probably 7 and 8. And he had that burst, and they said, come on in, he'll die in the next couple of days. We brought in oysters, we brought in red wine. I brought in the kids because I think it was important for them to see that, and he had a good death within the next 24 hours. So it is possible. I think it's rare, but it's possible. James: Yeah, if you know what's happening. A lot of your speciality, Hannah, is in Buddhism. What do Buddhists make of voluntary assisted dying? Hannah: Well, I will say that Buddhism is a religion with over 500 million people in it. So it's kind of like asking, what are the Christians? James: …Right. Right. Hannah: …or what are the Western people think about voluntary assisted dying? So, a range of views. James: Range of views. Hannah: Really huge range of views. James: I suppose I was just wondering whether there was anything in the Buddhist canon as such or the Buddhist, you know, view that just went, no, let life take its course. That, you know, you must experience suffering, so therefore you must experience all life. Hannah: Well, suffering is pretty important to Buddhism, right? And suffering well, and learning to suffer well, is really important. So there are some Buddhists who would oppose voluntary assisted dying because there's a prohibition against killing, right? But most people in Buddhism will, say, weigh that prohibition against killing against, kind of, the experience of suffering, right, and lessening people's suffering. So certainly there are some Buddhists who would say, no, you know, we need to experience suffering and learn how to experience the suffering at the end of life. And that can be quite instructive. It's also why some Buddhists may, uh, deny pain medication and even, you know, deny anything that kind of clogs their mind, because they want to be conscious at the end of life. They want to experience it all, you know, see where their consciousness goes to the next reincarnation. But there's also a, you know, a massive Buddhist movement that has always kind of seen humanity on quite a similar level to animals, right, that we are all beings of this world, and therefore in the same way that we would, you know, have compassion for the suffering of a pet and, you know, euthanase a pet that's going through unavoidable suffering, with many Buddhists who would therefore support the euthanasia of a human being that's going through suffering, right, in the same way. Because humans are not particularly special, right, we're just another being in this world and we'd want to show the same compassion for both of those. James: Yeah, yeah. Hannah: Huge range of views. James: Yeah. Tracey, you said, you said you're an atheist. Does that mean, you know, once the final curtain falls, that's it? Tracey: Well, I'm one of those very open-minded atheists, James, who, if I am diagnosed with something, I fully am open to the opportunity of religion if I end up needing it at that time. And I imagine a lot of people do that. And if, if I do decide to do that, I would choose Buddhism. Hannah: There's actually a fascinating piece of research that just came out, Professor Manning, a religious studies scholar, and she looked at older atheists and what they think about the end of life. Because we tend to think, well, religious people have beliefs, but we don't really study atheists’ beliefs, right, we just think they all think nothing. But she actually found that there was kind of three different kind of world views or narratives that came out, that can be summarised as: lights out, recycling, or mystery. James: I'm all three. I'm all three. Hannah: So the first one is this idea, it's kind of like – death is like anesthesia, you just, that's it. You're at the end, you know, there's nothing, and it's often very biomedical, right. It's like sleep, but you don't dream, so it's more like anesthesia. You know, we've all, maybe all experienced that, and that's what these people believe, that that will be the end. The second one is recycling. So this is the food for worms idea, right, that yes, I will die, but my, you know… Carl Sagan: ‘We are all made of stardust’, right, we'll go back into the universe and one day I will be an oak tree or a, you know, something, quite, you know, a beautiful idea, which I, you know, I think I subscribe to that, I quite like that. And then the third one that they described around atheists was just mystery. That, for a certain group of people, who knows? And we can't ask anyone. And so that it was, it was almost kind of curiosity and excitement towards the end of life. So there are, yeah, you know, this is quite a great mystery, it's a great adventure, right, that we should all go on. James: Yeah, fantastic. We didn't talk much about, I suppose, the emotion we might feel around death at various points. You know, like, I've observed lots of conversations on the radio where my parents' generation, ‘stiff upper lip’... Hannah: …Stoicism… James: …‘How's she doing? Oh, very well.’ Which means she wasn't feeling anything at all. There's been no, you know, like, that's sort of how you're meant to feel. We now tend to be very emotional about death, you know, like it's, like it's part of our funeral rites, I suppose, to release that, to make sure we all howl. Hannah: Yeah, we have this kind of catharsis model of the funeral, right, which is this idea that, you know, you kind of, even if you might not want to, you go to the funeral and you cry it all out with other people and you have this communal experience of grief. And somehow that is helpful, if not entirely necessary for our long-term grief. But, you know, there's many cultures around the world where wailing is a big tradition, right, so that, you know, women physically throwing themselves at the coffin, howling, collectively crying. You know, it might be an extended period of wearing a certain colour, wearing black, you know, gathering together. Those kind of rituals can also be a way for people to process grief and emotion. You think of, particularly like, you know, in the Jewish tradition of sitting shiva, right, that after someone dies, you immediately gather, right, and there's an extended period of everyone sitting together and dedicated to experiencing grief together. That's quite different to our kind of one-day funeral a week or two after the person's died, and we all go back to our home. Hannah: And it kind of depends on, like, what kind of level of social ties that your cultural society engages in the funeral, right. Do you have a very small private funeral where it's only the immediate family who are the ones that are supposed to be grieving? Or is it everyone you knew in that society, and you have a responsibility to go and be there because you're part of a much larger social fabric, right. And that can be quite different – it can be a 300 or 400-person funeral. You know, one of the largest social groups in Australia is South Asian, Indian, Hindu migration, right? Often extremely large funerals, 300, 400 people in some cases, right, because there's a different expectation about who are the mourners, who is the congregation, who are the people that gather together and stand against death, as it were. Tracey: Another big difference seems to me, and I'd love to hear more about you on this, is the cultures that sit with the body for three days, or have the open coffin for viewing… James: …the body stays at home… Tracey: …of the body, or the body stays at home. Because my sister and I sat with Mum's body for as long as we were legally and practically allowed to in the hospital, which was hours and hours and hours. And when we told a lot of our Western friends, they said what an awful thing to do. But it was really lovely because it cemented the idea that she was actually gone. We told her stories. My sister and I laughed. We cried. It was actually incredibly therapeutic. Hannah: Yeah, and this is one of the difficulties, is people feel, because they have a lot of… People don't have a lot of information, right, so if you're lucky, very lucky, then you'll organise maybe one or two funerals during your whole life, right, and probably there'll be those for your parents, right. And you just don't have a lot of information because we don't talk about it. So you don't know what you're allowed to do. But you know, in all states and territories across Australia, you are allowed to be with that body for an extended period of time. You're allowed to bring that body home. You know, you can actively resist pressures from the hospital and the hospice and everyone else to get you out the door. You can say, no, I would like to be with this body for a bit longer. And as you say, there is also technologies that can allow you to bring the body into the home. I mean, the reason we call them funeral parlours is the front parlour of the house. That is the room where we used to display the body and be with the body and that still occurs in many cultures around the world. You know, it's difficult; it can be difficult. It's not always the right decision, you know, you have to think about your particular circumstances, but it is possible. James: Yeah. Well, thank you so much. Any final words? Tracey: Only that I think we should all choose our own funeral soundtrack. I've been doing that with a girlfriend lately. James: …What's she gone with? Tracey: …Because, you know… well, I've gone with Edith Piaf. Hannah:…Ah, classic… Tracey: …‘No Regrets’, of course. Absolute classic. And my friend is still choosing from five. But I think, otherwise someone else gets a choice, and they might choose something terrible. James: Yes, no, I think that's very important, get your, get your, get your funeral songs sorted out… Hannah: Catering, funeral songs… James: …the whole soundtrack, the catering you'd be concerned about, you want everyone to have something… Hannah: … delicious. James: …any special cheeses or wines you want? Hannah: French. Yeah, this is what we did for my dad as well. It was like red wine, good French cheese, baguettes, you know. If you're going to grieve, if you're going to cry, you need some sustenance to support you. Tracey: Comfort food. Hannah: Comfort food, exactly. James: Yeah, very nice. Tracey: Before we let you go, what's your funeral song? James: Do you mean, what do I want people to hear as the coffin's going out or something like that? I don't know if I've made that choice yet. I don't know. Hannah: Hard rock? Tracey: Jazz? Hannah: Pop? James: No, it'll be something jazz, I guess, or something in that tradition. It's probably none of the Frank songs. Tracey: Something majestic, though. James: So yeah, ‘Zadok the Priest’, Handel… Hannah: …Oh, I like that. Old school. James: …Something huge! I haven't decided. Yeah, it's, it's but you're right. Like everything, do it, put some effort into it, you know, and have all that stuff ready for your children, for those that are going to have to do it, a little folder somewhere. Tracey: You could play some of your television clips from over the years. James: Oh, I don't think so, Tracey. I think yours might have something like… Hannah: …a highlights reel… Tracey: …a showreel! James: Yeah, my showreel. No, let's not do that. It's largely children's television, Tracey. No one wants to see that. Tracey: That would be great at a funeral. James: I could conduct a – I'd like to conduct a beyond-the-grave talkback session, probably, talkback radio or something. That could be very fun. Hannah: People could all call in to your funeral. James: Oh, I love that! Tracey: Interactive funerals! James: It's a ‘simil’ funeral. It's being broadcast on the station and then people can call in with their tributes. Oh, that's good. Hannah: Anything is possible. James: That is good. Okay, we've got it. Thank you for helping me sort that out. Hannah: We've done it. James: Well, thanks so much to our guests, Dr Hannah Gould and Tracey Spicer. You've been listening to Season 6 of Life's Booming, Dying Well, brought to you by Australian Seniors. Please leave a review or tell someone about it. If you want more, head to seniors.com.au/podcast. May your life be booming. I'm James Valentine.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Humankind stands at a crossroads: will artificial intelligence make us superhumanly productive, liberating us from life's most mundane tasks? Or have we opened Pandora's box, unleashing sentient technology that will eventually destroy us? In a colossal contest of persuasion and wit, two teams of our best and brightest debate whether artificial intelligence is better than the real thing.  Listen and help us decide once and for all who wins in the battle of man vs. machine with team captains Annabel Crabb and David Marr, as they duke it out alongside teammates Matilda Boseley, Rhys Nicholson, Tracey Spicer and Toby Walsh. Presented by Sydney Writers' Festival and supported by UNSW Centre for Ideas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Tracey Spicer is a multi Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster, who was awarded the Order of Australia for her 30 years of media and charity work. It was an enlightening chat as we discussed her Five of My Life Choices. Follow Tracey on X HERE, Instagram HERE, purchase her book 'Man Made' HERE and her best selling memoir 'The Good Girl Stripped Bare' HERE Watch Tracey's TEDx talk HERE Contact Nigel and Find him everywhere HERE  Produced by DM PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Richard King, Kate Mildenhall and Tracey Spicer with Ariel Bogle | Can AI produce literature? Writers are demanding protection against tech companies using their work without permission or compensation. Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Richard King, Kate Mildenhall and Tracey Spicer discuss the fate of the author with Ariel Bogle. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 12:00pm

Our societies are permeated with bias. Many people are subject to multiple biases without even being aware. At the same time, AI is everywhere in our everyday lives. So, what are the implications when bias is built into AI? The answer is potentially dangerous, with implications for our leadership, our workplaces and beyond. And yet, there is hope.In this conversation we are talking to Tracey Spicer about her new book Man Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future. She unpacks the shocking forms of bias she discovered in the 7 years of research for the book, the implications of AI for work and leadership, and practical steps leaders can take now to harness AI for positive impacts in the workplace of the future.Tracey Spicer is a multiple award winning author, journalist and broadcaster. She has also been awarded for her extensive charity and social enterprise work. Tracey is a sought after keynote speaker and thought leader and you're about to find out why – she's articulate, compelling and a great storyteller.Tracey is a glass half full kind of person – and this shines through in her solution-oriented thinking around what can be a daunting topic: AI, and the future of work.Find more information about Tracey Spicer and the full show notes at www.wearehumanleaders.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Award-winning journalist and and broadcaster Tracey Spicer joins Mikey and Paul to shift the debate a notch or two. Women have long been written out of schoolbook History but why The Sciences too? In the life of Ada Lovelace, Tracey believes lies the answer.  Follow Tracey on X HERE, Instagram HERE and purchase her book 'Man Made' HERE Get in touch, follow Heroes & Howlers and find them everywhere HERE Produced by DM PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There are many ways to challenge the AI juggernaut that has been unleashed on the world, but Tracey Spicer (multi-Walkley winning journalist, feminist) tackles it through a gender lens. In her latest book, Man-Made, she shows how the unresolved biases that exist in the world today are being fed into the emerging AI. The implications of this bigotry being embedded into our future are profound and could render any progressive work being done to address consent, pay gaps and so on moot. Tracey has won two prestigious Walkley Awards in recognition of her journalism work, was awarded the NSW Premier's Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize with Tarana Burke for the Me Too Movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women's Leadership. We talk about sexbot design, the significance of Siri et al being female, how our period tracker apps put us in danger and how she wrote this book with a crippling case of long covid.SHOW NOTESGet hold of Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the futureCatch up on the Wild chat with ChatGPT expert and linguist Emily M. BenderTracey mentions good work being done by Andrew Leigh MPWe also talk about the work of Caroline Criado-Perez who you can follow on her Substack Invisible WomenIf you need to know a bit more about me… head to my "about" pageFor more such conversations subscribe to my Substack newsletter, it's where I interact the most!Get your copy of my book, This One Wild and Precious LifeLet's connect on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 20 October 2023, I chaired a panel on artificial intelligence at the SXSW Sydney conference. The panel was titled ‘Terminator or Star Trek? Shaping the Future of AI', and featured Tracey Spicer, Rodolfo Ocampo and Theresa Anderson.

Kate & Katherine get excited about Katherine's upcoming trip to Kryall Castle, debrief on recent reads and Kate swoons over the amazing Stero Stories at Write around the Murray.    This episode the Featured Book is brought to you by Fremantle Press and we're talking to writer and journalist Molly Schmidt. Molly is from the coastal town of Albany, Western Australia. She is passionate about producing stories that are inclusive of all members of her community.    Her first novel Salt River Road was written as part of her PhD under Miles Franklin Award winner Kim Scott—who has also been on this show—and novelist Brett D'Arcy. As part of the writing process, Molly collaborated with Noongar Elders to produce a work that actively pursues reconciliation. She is a radio producer and journalist for the ABC, where her passion for storytelling is put to good use. Molly's writing advice: Let yourself dream and make connections along the way Molly's recommendation of a debut book: Old Boy by Georgia Tree.   Kate and Katherine mention: Wifedom by Anna Funder  Queenie in Seven Moves by Zanni Louise  Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey  The Modern by Anna Kate Blair Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Why We Are Here by Briohny Doyle After the Forest by Kell Woods One Piece on Netflix  Events:  Kate hosts Anna Kate Blair discussing her debut novel The Modern at Beaumaris Library on Monday October 2nd, 6.30pm. Free but please book here. Katherine hosts Clare Fletcher at Robinsons Bookshop Glen Waverley on Friday 6th October - Bookings here Kate hosts Charlotte Wood discussing her new novel Stone Yard Devotional at Cinema Nova for Readings Books on Wednesday 11th October, 6.30pm. Bookings here. Kate joins an online panel on AI: Opportunities, Threats and Ethical Considerations for Authors with Tracey Spicer, Holden Sheppard and ASA CEO Olivia Lancaster. Thursday 26th October 7.30-9pm. Bookings here. Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). You can support us and the making of Season Six via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

In this podcast, Emerge CEO Anne Wilson talks with Ambassador Tracey Spicer AM. We will learn from Tracey's lived experiences and gain insights that can shed light on this journey. Tracey says she became aware of ME/CFS through cousins who battled it some years ago as young women. They had gone from leading busy, active, vibrant lives […]

From a young age, journalism was always on the radar for Tracey Spicer. Exploring the stories of our time and uncovering truths. This drive continues in her latest book - Man Made. Tracey is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News. Tracey is one of the most sought-after on stage and online keynote speakers and emcees in the region. In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier's Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement. Struck by 7 words said to her by her son, Tracey has spent the last few years researching AI, in particular exploring how the bias of the past is being built into the future. In this conversation we chat about Tracey's journalism career and her experience with long covid. When it comes to AI we chat about where bias in AI comes from, how you can't just 'program bias out of AI', and practical ways that we can all seek to be mindful of AI, both the benefits and the inherent downsides. This is a thought-provoking, engaging, and fascinating conversation with someone who is an explorer of truth. Soak up the wisdom and insight that is Tracey Spicer. Host & Producer: Ali Hill - https://www.instagram.com/alihill/ Guest: Tracey Spicer - https://traceyspicer.com.au/ Book: Man-Made https://www.booktopia.com.au/man-made-tracey-spicer/book/9781761106378.html Editor: Jason Strozkiy - https://www.strozkiymedia.com/ Talent Producer: Maddy Westbrook - https://thenoblegroup.com.au/

On this episode of The Juggling Act, Mel and Sarah Marie are joined by award winning journalist Tracey Spicer, who delves into the reality of AI.    They also chat about why women suffer hair loss after they give birth, what breast milk can cure and Sarah Marie puts the happy dog hack to the test and reveals if it really works.   Have things to say about this episode? Join our Facebook group and share your thoughts! Want to see more of Mel and Jules? You can find them on TikTok via @thejugglingactpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode, we speak with former broadcaster Tracy Spicer about artificial intelligence, misogyny in the media and what it's like living with long COVID. Her latest book, Man-Made, examines the rapidly developing world of technology, which she says is fraught with danger, posing a real risk to the gains made by the civil rights movement. And hosting this conversation about bias in machine learning, living with a disability and indigenous women as the world's first coders - is senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Kerrie O'Brien. Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode, we speak with former broadcaster Tracy Spicer about artificial intelligence, misogyny in the media and what it's like living with long COVID. Her latest book, Man-Made, examines the rapidly developing world of technology, which she says is fraught with danger, posing a real risk to the gains made by the civil rights movement. And hosting this conversation about bias in machine learning, living with a disability and indigenous women as the world's first coders - is senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Kerrie O'Brien. Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode, we speak with former broadcaster Tracy Spicer about artificial intelligence, misogyny in the media and what it's like living with long COVID. Her latest book, Man-Made, examines the rapidly developing world of technology, which she says is fraught with danger, posing a real risk to the gains made by the civil rights movement. And hosting this conversation about bias in machine learning, living with a disability and indigenous women as the world's first coders - is senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Kerrie O'Brien.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Johanna speaks with author and journalist Tracey Spicer about her new book, Man-made: how the bias of the past is being built into the future. The book explores the history of discrimination in technology and the importance of diversity and inclusion in today's tech ecosystem. Spicer makes a case for a new social contract, one that would see people holding the power over machines.     Relevant Links: Tracey Spicer website: https://traceyspicer.com.au/  Tracey Spicer new book, Man-made: https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Man-Made/Tracey-Spicer/9781761106378  Dr. Joy Buolamwini: https://www.poetofcode.com/  Dr. Joy Buolamwini TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/joy_buolamwini_how_i_m_fighting_bias_in_algorithms  Algorithmic Justice League: https://www.ajl.org/  Coded Bias, Netflix documentary: https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81328723  Professor Yolande Strengers: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/yolande-strengers    Follow:  Tracey Spicer on Twitter: @TraceySpicer  Tracey Spicer on LinkedIn: Tracey Spicer AM GAICD Dr. Joy Buolamwini on Twitter: @jovialjoy Yolande Strengers  on Twitter: @YolandeStreng

How and why are women the public face of the PwC tax scandal, when men made the mess? Plus we look at the Ben Roberts-Smith saga and defamation law in Australia. And the founder turned CEO who was ousted from her position -- and the advice Kristy Carr now has for other entrepreneurs. Plus! We have an interview with Tracey Spicer, following the release of her excellent new book Man Made. Check out all the stories discussed in this week's ep below, and a link to Tracey's book Kristy Carr speaks out after public ousting with advice for female entrepreneursThe women taking the public scrutiny of the PwC mess A win for the press, a big loss for Ben Roberts-Smith: what does this judgment tell us about defamation law?‘Balance of probabilities': Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation caseBruce Lehrmann breaks silence over rape claim in an interview with Channel 7Tracey Spicer – MAN-MADECartier Women's Initiative Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From grey hair, to saggy bits and everything in between! There's no denying our bodies change as they age and our relationship does with them as well.So how do women in their 40's and beyond feel about their bodies? And faces? And hair? Today we're speaking to Tracey Spicer and Virgie Tovar about all the things you're not supposed to say about ageing bodies. The 456 Club is proudly made in partnership with Priceline Pharmacy. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Tracey Spicer, author of Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future.Virigie Tovar, author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity.Sarah Laidlaw, Priceline Pharmacy Makeup Director. CREDITSHosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine MahoneyExecutive Producer: Talissa BazazAudio Producer: Madeline Joannou HAVE YOUR SAY: We know that everybody's experience in their 40s 50s and 60s looks and feels different, so we want to hear from you! Click this link, and complete a short survey and to thank you for your time, you could win a $50 voucher. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tracey Spicer AM, Chair, NED, Journalist and Author on learning from the past and shifting into collective action, how machine learning is reinforcing gender bias and the opportunity to change our future landscape for good.   Key Insights (02:10) How Tracey started her leadership journey in advocacy and activism (09:13) The power of storytelling and why everyone's story is valid (26:04) Tracey's addition for your Leadership Toolbox   Important Resources and Links If you'd like to learn more about how CommBank is supporting the growth of women in business visit www.womeninfocus.com.au Host of the Leading Women podcast, Shivani Gopal is a serial entrepreneur, speaker and advocate on a mission to create a more equal world. She's recognised as a leading business thought leader helping professional women navigate their careers, businesses and financial success. As the Founder and CEO of Elladex and Co-Founder of Upstreet, Shivani was recently awarded the 2022 NSW Excellence in Women's Leadership Award and the Top 50 Small Business Leaders award, As a dedicated advocate for gender equality and for closing the wealth gap for everyday Australians, Shivani launched “Equality 2050”; a campaign to achieve gender equality within our lifetimes. If you're interested in learning more about Shivani visit her website: www.elladex.com.au  The Leading Women podcast is proudly brought to you by Commonwealth Bank.  The series is produced by Nicole Hatherly, recorded at RadioHub Studios with post production by Cooper Silk and Iain Wilson.   Things you should know: Guests featured in the podcast are speaking from their personal experiences only. As this podcast has been prepared without considering your objectives, financial situation or needs, you should, before acting on the content consider its appropriateness to your circumstances. CommBank does not necessarily endorse the views of a particular individual or guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.

Australian journalist Tracey Spicer speaks out against the use of sexist and racist stereotypes by artificial intelligence technology in her new book Man-Made.

Are you concerned about the growing presence of artificial intelligence in our world? Joining Sarah Grynberg is Walkley Award-winning journalist, Tracey Spicer - an activist who campaigned for equality, after being treated unfairly in the workplace based on her gender and age. In this profound and insightful conversation, Sarah and Tracey cover her recent research which looks into the fascinating and sometimes frightening presence of AI and its biases, going from a humble upbringing to presenting the nightly news, and the importance of advocating for what you care about. If you have a desire to make an impact on the world through the use of AI, then let Tracey's wisdom be an example that when passion, faith, and education combine, humans can forge a future where AI becomes the catalyst for remarkable change, inspiring and benefiting us all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Journalist, broadcaster and author Tracey Spicer has been looking at the world of IT and the way in which technology has been shaped by men. Technology embeds all sorts of biases within it and Spicer explores what all of this means. She talks about the way smart technology can help people with disabilities, and how she gets cracking when she writes a book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The team chats Coles' new era as its new CEO appoints American marketer, Amanda McVay as its chief customer officer (3:21), before a chat about the work from home debate, which has taken over adland this week (12:09). There is also a double header of interviews this week, with GroupM's new chief investment officer, Melissa Hey checking in (20:53), before a conversation with Tracey Spicer on her new book exploring the built in biases of AI technology (31:52).

What's the point in agitating to change the present, if bigotry is being embedded into our futures? Journalist Tracey Spicer chats about her new book, Man Made, delving into the AI melee, uncovering the inequities and exclusions, but also what can be done to change the future for the better. Tracey's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Man-Made/Tracey-Spicer/9781761106378

We've heard artificial intelligence could take our jobs, now a new investigation shows how it could make inequalities worse.  We speak to Tracey Spicer about her new book Man Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future.    Headlines: Budget breakdown Donald Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse Jenny Craig Australia in voluntary administration   Follow The Briefing:Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAUTwitter: @TheBriefingAUSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Mamamia In case you missed it, Splendour in the Grass happened over the weekend, and it was a muddy mess. It has us wondering - is TikTok the new version of a feedback form? Plus, have we found the last un-cancellable celebrity of Generation X? And, is long Covid a feminist issue? The End Bits: Subscribe to Mamamia RECOMMENDATIONS:Mia wants you to watch series 3 of The Split on ABC iView Sign up to the Mamamia Newsletter here  Listen to Jessie's interview with Tracey Spicer here: https://omny.fm/shows/no-filter/tracey-spicer-long-covid Read one long-covid sufferer's story on Mamamia here https://www.mamamia.com.au/long-covid-symptoms-and-diagnosis/ GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au CREDITS: Hosts: Holly Wainwright, Jessie Stephens, Mia Freedman Producer: Emma Gillespie Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading our articles or listening to our podcasts, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three years ago, Tracey was named the NSW Premier's Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too Movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women's Leadership through Women and Leadership Australia. Today, most of Tracey's days are spent at doctors appointments.  She's a multiple Walkley Award winning author and broadcaster who has anchored programs all over Australia. We're sure she didn't imagine that in July 2022 she'd be on No Filter, speaking about how she became one of the unlucky ones: a sufferer of the dreaded Long Covid.  Long Covid means your symptoms have persisted for longer than 12 weeks after initial infection. What's interesting though, is that there might be new symptoms. You could feel like you're actually getting sick with something else entirely. And for some, their condition continues to deteriorate.  Tracey has been sick for 204 days. And here's what she thinks you should know. THE END BITS: With thanks to Tracey Spicer, read about her experience with Long Covid here:  Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au Need more lols, info, and inspo in your ears? Find more Mamamia podcasts here. Check out our No Filter YouTube channel here. CREDITS: Host: Jessie Stephens Producer: Gia Moylan Executive Producer: Elissa Ratliff Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou  Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading or listening to our content, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this ep, Mia and Dinah share their experiences and top hacks to streamline life admin for new parents. Conventional wisdom recommends parents-to-be focus their discussions and planning on housework and parenting. But there is a third dimension of domestic life to discuss and organise: life admin. Life admin explodes when you have a baby, just at the time you are sleep deprived and learning to care for a new member of your family. In this ep, Mia and Dinah discuss: that before you have children you have more leisure time, physical and mental energy and life admin is done independently or designed around two people. When a baby enters your family life admin systems need to accommodate another person.  When the baby is first born it's really important to prioritise what life admin you need to do. Prioritising is about deciding what you won't do, getting clear about what's truly urgent or important and letting go of the rest that in different-sex couples there is a tendency for stereotypical domestic roles to kick in and that it's essential to have the negotiation early with your partner about who will do what in terms of housework, child care and life admin. It's important to get good at having this conversation as the discussion will need to be had again and again as the baby develops, its needs change, parental leave finishes and paid work resumes.  Some of the life admin you can attend to before you have a baby:  choosing your healthcare provider and managing appointments adding your baby to waiting lists for childcare  meal preparation - planning for sleep deprivation creating a checklist of what to take to the hospital setting up a keepsake system securing all the baby equipment  and supplies you will need updating your budget to reflect your new circumstances and be confident about how much time off from work you can take preparing or updating your will including identifying guardians for your children reviewing your life and income protection insurance identifying options for online shopping and meal kits for the first few months when leaving home can be challenging planning a babymoon! After the baby is born and you are on parental leave, the day and week lack the normal structure that work once provided. It can be helpful to create a schedule for the housework and life admin tasks and a daily routine for yourself and baby. When you return to work, routines and schedules support the smooth functioning of your household. As the baby develops your daily routine needs to shift as eat, sleep and play times will change from month to month. You need to embrace the idea that you need to redesign your life every three-six months as their needs change. Some of the other life admin hacks for after the baby is born include: lists! -  checklists and to-do lists that are shared with your partner  registering with Services Australia for the parental leave payment decluttering - developing habits to declutter as you go meal planning and bulk cooking - particularly when your baby starts solids keeping track of health appointments in a shared digital calendar starting a cloud storage system for filing important documents adding your baby to your private health insurance policy if you have one planning your social Life - hard but important - people priority vs event priority - lots of changes - need to be deliberate. RESOURCES Life Admin Hacks the book Episode 26: Optimising kid admin Episode 45 - Tracey Spicer on upskilling your kids to contribute at home Episode 51: Michael Grose on upskilling your kids to contribute Episode 54: Daycare and school transitions SHARE Please head to the Life Admin Life Hacks Facebook,  Insta or Linked In pages to connect with listeners and share your thoughts, questions or suggestions.

Honouring who you truly are takes courage and conviction, especially in the cut throat media industry, where beauty is often a woman's currency. Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster, Tracey Spicer, has inspired many with her courage to embrace her authenticity, understand the power of her story and age gracefully. Tracey has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News. In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier's Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women's Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia.  Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, became a bestseller within weeks of publication, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted more than six million views worldwide. In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence and is forging ahead with her next powerful step to write a book on AI bias. For her 30 years of media and charity work, Tracey Spicer has been awarded the Order of Australia, an award which recognises Australians who have demonstrated outstanding service or exceptional achievement. However her years of dedication to the media spotlight haven't been void of challenges.  As she grew out of her 20's, Tracey was replaced by younger broadcasters without the wrinkles and in her late 30's, Tracey was sacked from Channel 10 due to maternity discrimination. Instead of walking away defeated, Tracey turned this challenge into an opportunity and has been advocating for fundamental change and equality ever since.  In this episode, we take a deep dive into the three powerful steps Tracey Spicer has taken to own the power of who she is, despite the media industry saying she is “too old” and “too grey”. I ask Tracey about her journey of embracing her grey hair and the liberation she has experienced by being her authentic self.  We talk about the age and gender bias that exists within society and how we must continue to have powerful conversations in order to create fundamental change.  It often takes devastating circumstances for us to look within to discover who we really are and what makes our hearts sing. Tracey shares her insights on discovering what sparks joy in your life and how to find balance each day through mindfulness practices.   Where to Find Tracey: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/traceyspicer/ Website:https://traceyspicer.com.au/   Where to Find Tory: Website: https://powerful-steps.com/  Instagram: @powerfulsteps LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tory-archbold-b8542715/ Powerful Steps Coffee Challenge: https://powerful-steps.com/coffee-challenge/.  Youtube Channel:  Powerful Steps - YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tracey Spicer is an award-winning journalist, presenter, author and public speaker and gough's special guest on this week's episode of “The Beernuts Productions Podcast.” Tracey tells us the inspiration behind her career choice and why she loves what she does for a living. Tracey also tells us about her departure from the ten network and the fallout from those events. She also discusses her film documentary's, her books and why she feels it's important to add humour to darker and heavier subject matter. Tracey also chats about her public speaking and how discussing her experiences can be therapeutic for her. gough and Tracey also talk about how important proper media training is for presenters/journalists and how those skills can be used by any professionals who do any kind of public speaking. A truly interesting interview on a number of topics with an experienced and knowledgeable professional. For more info on this podcast and everything else Beernuts Productions has to offer, please go to https://beernutsproductions.com/.

Three and a half years ago, former Australian Women's Weekly editor-in-chief Helen McCabe launched Future Women: a professional network helping women connect, learn and lead. A community fighting for gender equality. This summer, we're revisiting our first ever podcast: re-releasing each episode with an updated introduction from a member of the Future Women team. Join our Chief Creative Officer Jamila Rizvi as she goes behind the scenes of Future Women, speaking to Annabel Crabb, Marina Go and Tracey Spicer about how it got off the ground just as #MeToo was breaking around the globe. Host @jamilarizvi Loved this episode? Subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play to help others find us Get in touch at hello@futurewomen.com Join the movement at futurewomen.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neuroplasticity is the secret ingredient for better brain power – and better outcomes for children with disability. In this episode Professor Iona Novak, CPA's Chair of Allied Health, co-founder of the CPA Research Institute and renowned journalist, author and broadcaster Tracey Spicer go deep into our grey (and white) matter to explore the brain's ability to create new neural pathways and what that means for a child's critical early years of neurological development. How can we rewire our brains by learning new skills? Why are some pathways a bit overgrown and others rather well-trodden? Can teenagers and adults harness neuroplasticity, and how is it relevant for people without disability? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One in ten Australian babies spend time in a newborn intensive care unit, and it's an incredible group of people who are improving outcomes for those infants. However, the greatest success will come when we all get involved. Join Professor Nadia Badawi and Tracey Spicer as they discuss the often challenging, but always inspiring, world of newborn intensive care. Hear how Nadia thinks differently about what is possible for babies born with cerebral palsy. Tracey asks how our understanding of CP has changed over the years and critically, what does that mean for the future? Could a global pandemic really offer silver linings to those living with disability? And what's changed to make the idea of a cure for CP no longer seem so fantastical? Internationally recognised neonatologist and CPA's Chair of Cerebral Palsy, Professor Nadia Badawi is renowned for her research into neonatal intensive care outcomes. At CPA's Research Foundation, Nadia and the team are investigating ways to prevent, treat and ultimately, cure cerebral palsy. Learn more about their work at cerebralpalsy.org.au/our-research/ Author, journalist and broadcaster, Tracey Spicer is a passionate advocate for the causes that matter most. For her decades of work for social welfare and charitable groups (including as an ambassador of the Royal Hospital for Women's newborn care unit), Tracey was awarded the Order of Australia in 2018. Learn more at traceyspicer.com.au Cerebral Conversations is proudly created by the team at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Find out more at cerebralpalsy.org.au/cerebralconversations See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Conversations have always been great drivers of change. That's why we are so excited to launch a new CPA podcast that features conversations between some great minds, thinking differently about how we change expectations, attitudes and culture around some of today's biggest disability issues: ableism, accessibility, visibility, and inclusion. Season one features Nadia Badawi, Iona Novak, Bronya Metherall, Pete Horsley and Alistair McEwan chatting with Tracey Spicer, Tara Moss, Naomi Simson, and Rae Johnston. We've also asked some wonderful Australians with lived experience of cerebral palsy to share their stories with us, including Hannah Diviney, Emily Dash, Lia Sintras, Arran Keith, Joe Darcy, and  Marley Lyras-Hull! Cerebral Conversations is coming soon! Tell your friends, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You might remember Tracey Spicer reading you the news every night on Network Ten throughout the 1990s and 2000s. These days, you're more likely to find her advocating for all kinds of different causes, writing books, or giving motivational speeches.After a long career in journalism including multiple Walkley Awards, Tracey has reported on some pretty horrific stuff. It's taken it's toll on her mental health having recently been diagnosed with complex PTSD. LuckShe's got plenty of strategies to help calm her farm.Thank you to Uncle Jack Charles for the acknowledgement of country.Instagrammers! (Meaning everyone on the internet) Follow us for more Calm Ya Farm tips, and send us a message saying you came from the show notes, I need to know people read these!instagram.com/calmyafarm_/calmyafarm.com.auSubscribe to BRAVE, your new favourite free monthly newsletter here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today one good girl chats to another in the Confessional as Sandy chats with special guest Tracey Spicer AM.Tracey is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier's Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women's Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia.In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. She was also named Agenda Setter of the Year by the website Women's Agenda.For her 30 years of media and charity work, Tracey has been awarded the Order of Australia.Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, became a bestseller within weeks of publication, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted more than six million views worldwide.She is currently working as a contract communications consultant, media and presentation trainer, and producer of the online sensation Wednesday Night Book Club, supporting writers, authors and performers through COVID-19. She is a fabulous guest! You can follow Tracey here:Website: http://traceyspicer.com.au/Facebook: The Real Tracey Spicer Twitter & Instagram: @TraceySpicerThe Good Girl Confessional is proudly the podcast of Wb40 - Women Beyond Forty Magazine and is available where ever you listen to good podcasts!Join the revolution - https://wb40.com

This year marks 100 years since the first woman was elected in parliament in Australia. To celebrate, we're bringing back some of our favourite Fierce Girls episodes, celebrating trailblazing female politicians. At school Julia Gillard's least favourite subject was Home Economics. The teachers told her she'd need it one day, but Julia wasn't so sure. She had her mind firmly set on a career. First, she was a lawyer, then a politician and later she became Australia's first female Prime Minister. Narrated by author and journalist, Tracey Spicer. Extra narration by Peggy Webber.

This year marks 100 years since the first woman was elected in parliament in Australia. To celebrate, we're bringing back some of our favourite Fierce Girls episodes, celebrating trailblazing female politicians. At school Julia Gillard's least favourite subject was Home Economics. The teachers told her she'd need it one day, but Julia wasn't so sure. She had her mind firmly set on a career. First, she was a lawyer, then a politician and later she became Australia's first female Prime Minister. Narrated by author and journalist, Tracey Spicer. Extra narration by Peggy Webber.

Our guest this time is the remarkable Tracey Spicer - award winning author, journalist and broadcaster. We talked about how it was necessary to pivot to survive during covid, baking sourdough bread, and the importance of AI and ethics.

We interview Tracey Spicer, longtime broadcaster and recent NSW Premier's Woman of the Year, on how she and her partner organise and share their home life and careers. Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs and in 2018 was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence . In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, became a bestseller within weeks of publication, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted more than six million views worldwide. What we talk about During the interview, we chat with Tracey about: organising holiday care for children how Tracey enlisted her seven-year-old daughter to help her with tax receipts enlisting the children to assist with life admin, cooking and other household chores how she is determined to teach non-traditional gender roles to her children  how her husband has taken control of house cleaning and comparison shopping in their household how habit, necessity and seeking advice has helped her take control of her taxes her approach to what she is happy to outsource the importance of having a conversation with your partner to reset expectations how her kids take responsibility for planning, shopping and cooking one meal each week investing the effort and time to upskill your children into contributing to your household life admin using a shared digital calendar to coordinate family logistics simplifying life to reduce the number of decisions she needs to make.  RESOURCES TEDx - The Lady Stripped Bare Tracey Spicer’s website SHARE Please head to the Life Admin Life Hacks Facebook page to connect with listeners and share your thoughts, questions or suggestions.

Having worked in the media for 30 years, on boards and with corporates, Tracey Spicer knows a thing or two about boards, culture and standing up for herself. In this podcast, from one journalist to another, Tracey talks to Claire Braund about her journey, including the day she decided it was time to stand up for herself and told the network she was taking them to court.  And how after being sacked by email after the birth of her second child, she inadvertently became an activist on pregnancy discrimination, where she learned that noise creates change.  It was such a moving experience that Tracey decided to write a book about it "The good girl stripped bare." After leaving broadcasting Tracey has had a broad portfolio career, anchoring, writing, hosting and advising corporates and boards. She shares stories, including how she worked with the CEO of a TV network who thought he had no issue with #MeToo because no one had ever called their Whistle Blower hotline.  Tracey also talks candidly about her initiation of fire on the board of the NRMA 20 years ago, including the death threats between board member of this factionalised board.  Scarred, she has only recently mustered the desire to return to the boardroom, joining the board of an NFP, with more boards on the horizon.  Tracey and Claire also talk feminism, class factions, culture and what Tracey would say to her younger self. 24 minutes of total entertainment. LinkedIn Tracey Spicer  Claire Braund (host) Further Information about Women on Boards (WOB) membership, events & services, please visit our website. to receive our weekly newsletter, subscribe to WOB as a Basic Member (free). join as a Full Member for full access to our Board Vacancies, WOBShare (our online member platform) and more. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter

Pippa Hallas is the CEO of the iconic skincare empire Ella Baché.At the time of recording, we are in the middle of the global Coronavirus pandemic and these are challenging times when we need strong leadership and inspiration. This episode is dedicated to this amazing woman who is successfully leading through change and it's an honour to hear her career journey on YOUR CAREER Podcast.Pippa Hallas is the embodiment of female empowerment - she’s a mentor, wellness authority, a mother to two young sons, a wife, and author of BOLD MOVES – How to Stand Out, Step Out and Make Your Next Bold Move. This book pays tribute to remarkable Australian women including Lorna Jane Clarkson, Tracey Spicer, Layne Beachley, Kym Ellery and, of course, Pippa’s great aunt, Madame Baché.Ella Baché is a family run business which was launched by her great aunt Madame Baché in Paris in the 1936 and brought to Australia by her grandmother Edith Hallas in the ‘50s and developed under the leadership of her father John in the eras that followed. Now, in her capable hands, Pippa is driving the brand into a new era of beauty. Over the past 10 years as CEO, she has focused on the same principles the business was founded on, but adds to its repertoire as a trusted go-to brand in the skincare and cosmetic world. Prior to joining the company, Hallas worked at the esteemed advertising agency, McCann Erickson in London. Her love for brand building and marketing [she studied business/marketing at university and did her post-grad in the same field] saw her join the family business in a marketing role, later as GM and then as CEO to take Ella Baché to the next generation. Pippa has grown the franchise business to over 155 salons and launched the e-commerce site which has evolved over the last seven years. She says she’d like to continue to support the franchise model and continue to prove that it is a viable business option for young women wanting to become business role models. “The fundamentals of what made Ella Baché a success was the person behind the name – she was a scientist/chemist and it was her approach to innovation and doing things differently that saw her become a world leader in beauty,” Pippa says. Pippa's prerogative is to educate young women about skin health and not erase the skin that makes them who they are. The key at Ella Baché is about making sure women feel confident in their own skin. It’s reflective of Pippa’s role as a working mother and CEO of a company – proving you can manage both aspects in your life and do so confidently. What’s more, she wants women to understand that quick beauty fixes aren’t the answer to skin longevity or loving yourself. “My philosophy is to make sure women feel confident in their own skin and that they don’t want to erase it to look like someone else. Beautiful differences about yourself is something we want women to embrace. Our skincare is about enhancing the look of your skin, making it the best it can be,” she says. “I feel very lucky to have grown up with such a great brand and to be part of its future,” she says. Pippa is empowering women, running a successful business and navigating uncertain times with compassion, empathy and exceptional leadership skills. Follow her business, Ella Baché, on Instagram.Where to find Pippa Hallas:ELLA BACHÉINSTAGRAM

In this week's Mumbrellacast, the team asks has Australia's media industry missed its Me Too moment? The topic comes about after it was announced NOW Australia, the organisation created by Tracey Spicer to assist victims of workplace sexual harassment and indecent assault, is shutting down. The team looks back on 2018, the promises made and allegations revealed, and analyses what went wrong.The AFL is returning in one of the biggest weeks for Seven this year. The network is promising record-breaking ratings to its advertisers, but will it live up to the hype? The hopes of Foxtel and its sports streaming service Kayo are also on the line, with football a huge draw card for attracting subscribers to both.Luckily, Kayo's chief commercial officer Ant Hearne joined the Mumbrellacast and weighed in on how much the sports streamer has learned about subscribers during lockdown. Alongside Louise Crompton, chief marketing officer of new entertainment streaming service Binge, the pair also discussed the launch of the latest venture and how they plan on cutting through the cluttered streaming market with the first campaign and 'cheeky' branding.

Today on the show the me too debacle, but is it all what it seems? The Bachie breakup rumours that won’t go away and does feminism fly out the window at Christmas time? Vote for your favourite Christmas tree on Instagram @outspoken_the_podcast.  

Me Too movement founder Tarana Burke on her work before and after #Metoo went viral in October 2017 and some of the challenges of Me Too in Australia, comedian Josh Thomas revisits Seinfeld, and Ricky Gervais hosts the Golden Globes AGAIN.

Me Too movement founder Tarana Burke on her work before and after #Metoo went viral in October 2017 and some of the challenges of Me Too in Australia, comedian Josh Thomas revisits Seinfeld, and Ricky Gervais hosts the Golden Globes AGAIN.

Me Too movement founder Tarana Burke on her work before and after #Metoo went viral in October 2017 and some of the challenges of Me Too in Australia, comedian Josh Thomas revisits Seinfeld, and Ricky Gervais hosts the Golden Globes AGAIN.

How reliable is your memory? In The Memory Illusion, forensic psychologist and memory expert Dr Julia Shaw discusses with Tracey Spicer the astonishing variety of ways in which our brains can indeed be led astray.

Maxine Beneba Clarke, Ginger Gorman, Sarah Hanson-Young and Julia Shaw speak with Tracey Spicer about the world of cyber-bullying, their experiences of being harassed online, and the roots and causes of trolling in wider society.

G'day and welcome to episode 13 of The Presentation Boss Podcast! Your hosts Kate and Thomas are experienced not only as speakers, but as presentation coaches. They love finding the strengths and weaknesses in a presentation and explaining why they work or need to be considered. And here we are with another speech breakdown, brought to you by the nice people of TED.Today we're listening to a speech that was recommended to us by a listener. See, we really do listen to suggestions! It's from an event here in Brisbane and it's a TEDx talk that's presented very well, a message that Kate was divided about and reminded us of an infamous radio ad. It's Tracey Spicer with 'The Lady Stripped Bare'.What You'll Learn• Choosing how you want your message to be introduced early in your talk.• The emphasis to place on long lists• Being aware of how your chosen visuals can detract from your message• How much logic to use in a persuasive presentation• A beautiful example of selecting and delivering statistics and evidence• How to transition into a storytelling bit• Placing the right emphasis on key stakes on a story• How props can add to a presentation that is effective even without them• Exactly what to do when your PowerPoint lags or doesn't work immediatelyMentioned In The Show• Tracey Spicer | The Lady Stripped Bare: https://tedxbrisbane.com.au/tedxsouthbank/talks/tracey-spicer/Resources and Links• Email us! podcast@presentationboss.com.au• The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/• Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/• Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss• Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/• Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/Quotes From This Episode• "I just love the Queensland accent"• "She's very well crafted this message and presentation for the audience in the room"• "Then you've immediately got a distraction and something that detracts from the presentation"• "The way she presents those statistics is quite clever"• "The storytelling in this particular instance is great"• "It's such a well crafted presentations with an audience focus"• "It's a very simple, effective use of props"• "Just pause"• "I think the theme was strong, but the message was not"• "It's a beautiful example of audience focus"

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Tracey Spicer is calling for women to challenge their ‘expected’ role in society and speak up on entrenched gender discrimination, from taking charge of personal finances to shunning gruelling beauty routines.Tracey is a popular Australian journalist and author of 'femoir' The Good Girl Stripped Bare. She has shaken off internet trolls and is continuing to call out sexism in the Australian workplace. And she is doing her part to lighten the makeup bags of women around Australia.

At school Julia Gillard's least favourite subject was Home Economics. The teachers told her she'd need it one day, but Julia wasn't so sure. She had her mind firmly set on a career. First she was a lawyer, then a politician and later she became Australia's first female Prime Minister. Narrated by author and journalist Tracey Spicer.

At school Julia Gillard's least favourite subject was Home Economics. The teachers told her she'd need it one day, but Julia wasn't so sure. She had her mind firmly set on a career. First she was a lawyer, then a politician and later she became Australia's first female Prime Minister. Narrated by author and journalist Tracey Spicer.

At school Julia Gillard's least favourite subject was Home Economics. The teachers told her she'd need it one day, but Julia wasn't so sure. She had her mind firmly set on a career. First she was a lawyer, then a politician and later she became Australia's first female Prime Minister. Narrated by author and journalist Tracey Spicer.

At school Julia Gillard’s least favourite subject was Home Economics. The teachers told her she’d need it one day, but Julia wasn’t so sure. She had her mind firmly set on a career. First she was a lawyer, then a politician and later she became Australia’s first female Prime Minister. Narrated by author and journalist Tracey Spicer.

Who were Caroline Chisholm and Elizabeth Macquarie? Sarah Goldman and Luke Slattery chat to Tracey Spicer. This session was recorded at the 2018 Newcastle Writers Festival.

Join our editor-at-large Jamila Rizvi as she goes behind the scenes of Future Women, speaking to Annabel Crabb, Marina Go and Tracey Spicer about how it got off the ground just as #MeToo was breaking around the globe.

For this episode, Fifth Estate host Sally Warhaft welcomes Tracey Spicer to the Wheeler Centre for a conversation about her accomplished, diverse and fearless life and career in Australian journalism – and the challenges and opportunities arising from the popular movements seeking to correct entrenched sexist behaviour in the media and beyond. Sally Warhaft and Tracey Spicer — Photo: Jon Tjhia In a journalism and media career spanning three decades, you could say Tracey Spicer has seen it all. She's reported locally, nationally and internationally for TV, radio, print and online, working in news, current affairs, documentary and lifestyle programmes. She's been a reporter, editor, essayist, columnist, trainer, producer – and, of course, a newsreader and presenter. As one of Australian media's stalwarts, Spicer has seen the best and worst of the industry, especially in terms of its treatment of women. Her 2006 unfair dismissal case against Channel Ten signalled a shift in the fight against workplace discrimination. For Spicer, it was about standing up for all women. And Spicer's advocacy extends beyond media – she's been an ambassador for Dying with Dignity, ActionAid, World Vision, Cancer Council NSW and many more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Podcasting has allowed more and more feminist voices around the world a platform to be centred, heard and celebrated. And as part of All About Women 2018, we invited some of the finest podcasters around to record live episodes at the festival. Of course, this had to include the wildly popular Guilty Feminist podcast, and its host comedian Deborah Frances-White brought the laughs and the politics to the festival. Along with co-host Geraldine Hickey, special guests Myf Warhurst and Tracey Spicer, they attempt to tackle the small issue of 10,000 years of gender imbalance.

The Guilty Feminist Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Myf Warhurst Episode 102: Taking a Risk with special guest Tracey Spicer Recorded 4 March 2018 at The Sydney Opera House. Released 18 June.  Music by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon. More about Deborah Frances-White http://deborahfrances-white.com https://twitter.com/DeborahFW https://www.virago.co.uk/the-guilty-feminist-book/ More about Myf Warhurst https://twitter.com/MyfWarhurst http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/myf-warhurst More about Tracey Spicer https://twitter.com/TraceySpicer https://www.outspokenwomen.com http://traceyspicer.com.au For more information about this and other episodes… visit guiltyfeminist.com tweet us twitter.com/guiltfempod like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/guiltyfeminist check out our Instagram instagram.com/theguiltyfeminist or join our mailing list eepurl.com/bRfSPT  The Negotiations special episode of the podcast is now available to purchase. http://guiltyfeminist.com/product/include-yourself-podcast/ Come to a live recording! 23 June at the Old Vic. Tickets on sale now. 29 June at the Roundhouse. Tickets on sale now. 2 July at Kings Place. Tickets on sale now. 15 July at Regents Park Open Air Theatre. Tickets on sale now. 23 July at Kings Place. Tickets on sale now. 31 July at the BFI. Tickets on sale now. 25-26 August at the Edinburgh Fringe. Tickets on sale now. 17 September at Northern Stage, Newcastle. Tickets on sale now. Leave us a review and rate us on Apple Podcasts!

Tracey Spicer has launched the Now Australia campaign, which aims to tackle sexual harassment and abuse in Australian workplaces. So what role does the media have to play? Plus, Mark Zuckerberg has responded to the Facebook scandal, promising to do better. Is it too little, too late? Also on the show, the media is buzzing about Malcolm Turnbull’s 29th negative Newspoll. Will number 30 lead to the same end for Turnbull as it did for Abbott? To discuss these issues, and more, we were joined by Anne Davies (the Guardian), Emily Watkins (Crikey) and Michael Koziol ( Fairfax). This episode was hosted by Peter Fray and produced by Ninah Kopel. Fourth Estate is made in the studios of 2SER 107.3 in Sydney and is broadcast across the Community Radio Network in Australia.

Luke O'Brien survived drugs, crime and jail to lose the most important person in his life.

Tracey Spicer tells how her "Brisbane bogan" upbringing prepared her for the challenges of working in the media.

Luke O'Brien survived drugs, crime and jail to lose the most important person in his life.

Tracey Spicer tells how her "Brisbane bogan" upbringing prepared her for the challenges of working in the media.

This week's episode is another live recording from All About Women 2018. It was impossible to have an event about issues facing women without addressing #metoo. For us it was important to recognise that even though it was events in Hollywood that turned the hashtag into a global phenomenon, sexual harassment and assault are commonly faced by all women. We were very pleased to welcome, via satellite from LA just ahead of her appearance at the Oscars, the woman who founded #metoo all the way back in 2006, Tarana Burke. She was joined live at the Sydney Opera House by local legend Tracey Spicer, whose work exposing these issues in the Australian media has been dominating headlines all year. The session was chaired by Jacqueline Maley. Please note that this episode contains discussion of sexual assault. Want more from All About Women? Find this talk and more on our Youtube channel.

On EP13: The Thinkergirls Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia, catch up for their weekly chinwag in the lead up to International Women's Day chat 'Gaslighting' and the dark reason behind women faking orgasms. What is 'Gaslighting?' (3:24) and how women suffer from 'imposter syndrome' doubting all their abilities (4:42) that Kristie wrote about for Cosmo Magazine that you can read HERE. Stace shares her own experience with gaslighting at a past job by her boss (5:58) and the character traits of someone who 'gaslights' so you know the signs to look out for (11:29) Why we need to stop making light of women faking orgasms (16:36) and the constant inner dialogue of women during intercourse #bonerkill (19:02) Can men tell when women are 'faking it?' (25:15) and the dark reason behind faking pleasure (25:50) Women need almost twice the time as men to reach climax so let's stop rushing! (31:32) OLDIE EP with Tracey Spicer. Listen HERE OLDIE EP with sexologist Tara O. Listen HERE Books mentioned: Mastering Your Inner Mean Girl - Melissa Ambrosini The Untethered Soul - Michael A Singer More from The Thinkergirls:Email us - hello@thinkergirl.com.auFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/thinkergirlsInstagram - https://instagram.com/thethinkergirlsAll Podcasts - http://bit.ly/2wviSir*This podcast contains content about emotional abuse that may be triggering. If you feel like this is bringing up anything for you, call Lifeline on 13 11 14 for support* See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“Equality starts in the lounge room before the boardroom.” Tracey Spicer is a television presenter, journalist and author. Recently appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia for her work in journalism and for her ambassadorships for social welfare and charitable organisations. She led the public voice of the #MeToo movement in Australia, breaking the Don Burke story. Tracey’s lifelong passion is amplifying women’s voices, and in today’s conversation we discuss creating equality in the home and in the workplace. We discuss: ½ of women experience pregnancy discrimination in the workplace Your job is to be prepared by finding out the state and federal legislation and creating a strategy The gender pay gap Tracey didn’t ask for a pay rise for 14 years Now she says to always ask for more than you think you’re worth The gender pay gap in her own household Do your research and keep notes Know when the best time to ask for a pay rise is Keep a detailed diary of positive feedback, so provide proof of your performance Know what the share price is, and what other people received as bonses Figure out a way to make sure everyone can benefit – it’s not a zero sum game How we can change expectations in childhood, which may lead to different outcomes in the gender pay gap Having difficult conversations with your partner “long term resentment is a huge risk to a relationship” The 30% tipping point for sexual harassment, where it peaks and then drops off Quotas, targets and the inexistence of any true meritocracy There’s no such thing as work-life balance Let’s change the conversation so MEN are being asked how they manage it all Legislative changes that could be put in place to better support families An invitation from Tracey: Sit down and write out the amount of time it takes you to do your hair, makeup, buy your work wardrobe, and do all the things that come with society’s pressure on women to look a certain way Write down how much all of these things cost you financially Consider what else you can do with that money and time, and be deliberate about whether you want to keep spending it on meeting society’s unreasonable expectations of women’s looks Have a think about these cultural expectation If you want, then slowly start to pare it back. See if you don’t start to feel more authentic and truly yourself Resources We mention some resources throughout the conversation, here is where you can find links to them all! Outspoken Women, for women who want to amplify their voices within the professional environment – Tracey’s book, Good Girl Stripped Bare – Tracey’s TED Talk on the topic – Mental Load cartoon; Tracey suggests women need to have more difficult conversations with their husbands Jamila Rizvi Not Just Lucky Gender pay gap calculator Amy Cuddy power poses  

We began the year watching a man who has been accused of sexual assault by no fewer than 13 women being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. We’ve ended in the middle of an earth-shifting #metoo movement, which has seen powerful men stripped of their untouchable status along with their honours and sometimes, their livelihoods. Rachel and Holly are joined by the face of our local #metoo movement, journalist, activist and feminist Tracey Spicer to talk about how 2017 became the year the world woke up to sexual harrasment. Show Notes Your host is Holly Wainwright with Rachel Corbett and Tracey Spicer Your producer and editor is Elissa Ratliff The Director of Podcasts is Rachel Corbett Leave us a message on the Podcast phone: 02 8999 9386 or join the conversation on the Facebook page: Mamamia Out Loud And if you can spare a second, leave a review and rating in iTunes; it helps us massively.

Tracey Spicer was my favourite newsreader in the 90s and 2000s – back in the days when you had a favourite newsreader because there were only about 12 of them. But I had no idea what was going on for her behind the scenes – the general harassment and discrimination. All this she talks about in her book,The Good Girl Stripped Bare, which has just joined the best seller list. Since her newsreading days for Ten and then Sky News, Tracey’s been a columnist and documentary producer.  But more recently, she’s been an advocate for women in the workplace which has led to her high profile investigation of sexual harassment in Australia media. The investigation has left Tracey physically and mentally exhausted. She talks about that in the interview. Tracey’s got broad shoulders – and over a thousand women who have been horribly treated by work colleagues are relying on her to tell their story, which in turn, will hopefully bring about a seismic change in how people interact with each other in a professional setting and, more particularly, stop men using a position of power to sexually exploit women. But we get to all that later because I had to start off by asking Tracey when she was most happy.   Socials Twitter - Adam Zwar / Tracey Spicer Facebook - Adam Zwar / Tracey Spicer   Thanks to this episode's sponsors Tim Roger's new book "Detours" "How to build a universe" by Brian Cox & Robin Ince.   10 Questions with Adam Zwar is produced by Nearly. On the web -10questionswithadamzwar.com  

The fabulous Tracey Spicer joins The Juggling Act crew to chat about raising strong girls (and boys!) and how she's fighting to stop sexual harassment in the workplace.  This week, Mel learns about the 'golden handshake', Cassie wonders if $40 is too much for a kid's dance concert (Hint: it definitely is!) and Giles explains what The Rock has to do with good parenting.  Who yells the most in your house, Mum or Dad? A new study claims to have the answer.  And would you pull a family sickie? Find out why one mum is making it an annual event!  Plus, It's peak family film season and the team have the verdict on the new animated movie Ferdinand.  SHOW NOTES:Your hosts are Mel Wilson and Cassie Hamer with special guest Giles Hardie and our huge thanksto the wonderful Tracey Spicer. This podcast was produced by Sinead Barrett.Before you go, we've got a little favour to ask; we'd love you to Subscribe to The Juggling Act in your podcast app and leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or your podcast app. Pretty please    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barry Jones, Tracey Spicer and Susan Wyndham wax lyrical on the books that changed their lives with Adam Suckling.

Ever since one of Hollywood's most powerful men, Harvey Weinstein, was exposed as a sexual predator who had been preying on women in his industry for four decades, the list of men behaving disgustingly has been growing at an incredible rate. Yesterday, thanks to the tireless work of some stellar Australian journalists - primary amongst them Kate McCLymont and Tracey Spicer - a big Australian name was added to that list. Don Burke. The now 70 -year-old was once the biggest name in Australian television. His show, Burke's Backyard spun off into specials, a magazine and a million lucrative events and appearances. He could do no wrong. But the rumours about his behaviour towards women never changed, he was, as legendary TV executive Sam Chisholm told the Fairfax press yesterday, 'a disgrace' and a 'terrible grub'. So what does this mean? And what will happen next? Rachel, Holly and Jessie discuss... Show Notes Your host is Holly Wainwright with Rachel Corbett and Jessie Stephens Mia Freedman is away. Your producer and editor is Elissa Ratliff The Director of Podcasts is Rachel Corbett Leave us a message on the Podcast phone: 02 8999 9386 or join the conversation on the Facebook page: Mamamia Out Loud And if you can spare a second, leave a review and rating in iTunes; it helps us massively. Massively.

“People want to see people who look like them on television - the true diversity of the community - but traditionally male, middle-aged white executives would choose women based on their penises” Ever since news broke last month about Harvey Weinstein's alleged history of sexual assault journalist, feminist and author Tracey Spicer sent out a tweet asking if there were women in Australia who had similar stories about men in the Australian media. What happened next floored her. She was inundated with anguished emails and phone calls from hundreds of women who wanted to speak up. Tracey, who told her own stories of abuse in her memoir The Good Girl Stripped Bare, is now working with police and other media organisations to take on - and take down the boys club. Show Notes Your host is Mia Freedman. With thanks to special guest Tracey Spicer Buy Tracey's book by going to apple.co/mamamia This podcast was produced by Elissa Ratliff    CONTACT US Suggest a guest via: podcast@mamamia.com.au tweet us @mamamiapodcasts or join the conversation on facebook This show is part of the Mamamia Women’s Network   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“People want to see people who look like them on television - the true diversity of the community - but traditionally male, middle-aged white executives would choose women based on their penises” Ever since news broke last month about Harvey Weinstein's alleged history of sexual assault journalist, feminist and author Tracey Spicer sent out a tweet asking if there were women in Australia who had similar stories about men in the Australian media. What happened next floored her. She was inundated with anguished emails and phone calls from hundreds of women who wanted to speak up. Tracey, who told her own stories of abuse in her memoir The Good Girl Stripped Bare, is now working with police and other media organisations to take on - and take down the boys club. Show Notes Your host is Mia Freedman. With thanks to special guest Tracey Spicer Buy Tracey's book by going to apple.co/mamamia This podcast was produced by Elissa Ratliff    CONTACT US Suggest a guest via: podcast@mamamia.com.au tweet us @mamamiapodcasts or join the conversation on facebook This show is part of the Mamamia Women’s Network   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“People want to see people who look like them on television - the true diversity of the community - but traditionally male, middle-aged white executives would choose women based on their penises” Ever since news broke last month about Harvey Weinstein's alleged history of sexual assault journalist, feminist and author Tracey Spicer sent out a tweet asking if there were women in Australia who had similar stories about men in the Australian media. What happened next floored her. She was inundated with anguished emails and phone calls from hundreds of women who wanted to speak up. Tracey, who told her own stories of abuse in her memoir The Good Girl Stripped Bare, is now working with police and other media organisations to take on - and take down the boys club. Show Notes Your host is Mia Freedman. With thanks to special guest Tracey Spicer Buy Tracey's book by going to apple.co/mamamia This podcast was produced by Elissa Ratliff    CONTACT US Suggest a guest via: podcast@mamamia.com.au tweet us @mamamiapodcasts or join the conversation on facebook This show is part of the Mamamia Women’s Network   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tracey Spicer is a talented writer, accomplished TV journalist, and whistle-blower. She has kept her sense of humour and career while she fought the good fight from the front line of commercial TV land, a place where women are still often are judged for their appearance over the quality of their reporting. Tracey has recently released a new memoir called ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare', which exposes her public hardships and personal successes on the road to now, including getting fired from a high profile commercial TV job via email, while on maternity leave. Tracey offers a wealth of stories, quips, and knowledge as we explore The Politics of Memoirs.   In this podcast Tracey shares: Why she decided to write a memoir. How a TV career and motherhood can make or break you. Why her humanitarian projects are her proudest work. Sage advice for anyone who wants to write their own memoir.   To connect with Tracey Spicer: Linkedin Instagram Traceyspicer.com.au   Amplify your ideas and get a bit political with me! To be a future podcast guest or connect with me, I can be found at: Amber@bespokecomms.com.au   Amber's social media links: Facebook Instagram Twitter    

In the frank and funny ‘femoir’, ‘The good girl stripped bare’, journalist Tracey Spicer ‘sheconstructs’ the structural barriers facing women in the workplace and encourages us all to shake off the shackles of the good girl.

This week on Fourth Estate, Olivia Rosenman spoke to veteran journalist Tracey Spicer about her new book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare. The book chronicles Spicer's experience of sexism and misogyny in the media industry, which culminated with her being fired, via email, two months after the birth of her second child. She had worked for Channel Ten for 14 years. Fourth Estate is produced by 2SER 107.3 radio in Sydney and is broadcast across the Community Radio Network in Australia.

In the Good Girl Stripped Bare Tracey Spicer reveals the pressure she was under to be a television newsreader. She talks to presenter Shevonne Hunt about pregnancy discrimination, parenthood and exposing her real self to the public.

The first ever guest, Jane Alver, PHD Candidate, mother, former President of the YWCA and gender advocate joins OverHERd. Heidi and Catherine also talk through the elusive balance challenge for women inspired by recent books by Mia Freedman and Tracey Spicer, they discuss pregnancy discrimination, different experiences of women from different socio-demographic backgrounds, the power of micro-funding women's ideas and initiatives, the pay gap and using women's purchasing power for good.

Tracey Spicer is calling for women to challenge their ‘expected’ role in society and speak up on entrenched gender discrimination, from taking charge of personal finances to shunning gruelling beauty routines. Tracey is a popular Australian journalist and author of 'femoir' The Good Girl Stripped Bare. She has shaken off internet trolls and is continuing to call out sexism in the Australian workplace. And she is doing her part to lighten the makeup bags of women around Australia.

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Tracey Spicer will make you blush as she confesses her seven deadly sins. This is the veteran newsreader uncensored, as you’ve never heard her before.

Newsreader, journalist, writer and philanthropist Tracey Spicer doesn't tolerate make-up, God, prudishness or sexism in the workplace. She rips through bullshit with a smile and had stories to burn from her time studying, working in the trenches at Channel Ten and Sky News and her colourful personal life. Tracey told me about how liberating it is to shake off the image of the "perfect" newsreader, how Joh Bjelke-Petersen inspired her to become a journalist, the issue of bias in journalism, her work as an ambassador for World Vision and the time she almost killed her mum. My upcoming dates on the MICF Roadshow Q&A's forthcoming special panel on Between A Frock And A Hard Place  @traceyspicer spicercommunications.biz Tracey on the ABC's Confession Booth podcast   Daily Mail Article: Tracey Spicer's VERY spicy confessions Article: What If We Admitted To Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure? by Alice Dreger  Article: I'm Sorry I Didn't Kill You, Mum The Lady Stripped Bare: A TED Talk by Tracey Spicer  Cause of the Week: Dying With Dignity (dwdv.org.au)   

This week the panel discuss why respected journalist Tracey Spicer was asked to write branded content for a pittance, the current threats to regional media and how The Age accidentally called for the death of Australia’s foremost Catholic cleric, George Pell. With Auskar Surbakti (ABC), Jenny Noyes (Daily Life) and Denham Sadler (freelancer). Follow 2SER & Fourth Estate: www.2ser.com/fourthestate www.twitter.com/fourthestateau www.facebook.com/fourthestateau Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The Walkley Foundation.

This week the panel discuss why respected journalist Tracey Spicer was asked to write branded content for a pittance, the current threats to regional media and how The Age accidentally called for the death of Australia's foremost Catholic cleric, George Pell. With Auskar Surbakti (ABC), Jenny Noyes (Daily Life) and Denham Sadler (freelancer). Hosted by Lucie Robson. Fourth Estate is produced by 2SER 107.3 radio in Sydney and is broadcast across the Community Radio Network in Australia.

We’ve seen the positive influence of feminist hashtag activists and organisations vying to amplify women’s voices in newsrooms nationwide. Yet, there’s still work to do. So, what can we all do to make the media landscape a more equal place? With an introduction from Nareen Young and moderated by Tracey Spicer, listen as the panel of Georgie Dent and Graeme Russell discuss. AUDIO KINDLY PROVIDED BY: The Seventh Field Trip, Tesslesstess www.soundcloud.com/tesslesstess

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A Rational Fear comes to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas for a one-off idea smack-down. Rabble-rouser Dan Ilic (Hungry Beast/Can of Worms) hosts a fast-paced topical comedy panel show featuring some of the funniest brains in Australia. In this special 'Festival of Rational Fears' edition, join DJ Tom Loud, journalists Tracey Spicer and Joe Hildebrand, comedians Lewis Hobba and Veronica Milsom, and host Dan Ilic as they dissect, join dots, and spew out spurious theories that are bound to set the sails of the Opera House alight with laughter. A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In partnership with Women in Media, we are delighted to present you the full audio from the fantastic Women in Media launch event. Women in Media is a new networking and mentoring initiative, supported by the Walkley Foundation and MEAA, aimed at helping women to achieve equality in the workplace. Through this exciting program, young media women will be mentored by leading industry figures to help them advance in their careers. At the launch, ABC Australian Story host Caroline Jones – the WiM national patron – revealed astonishing insights from her 50 years in broadcasting. She was joined by WiM WA founder Victoria Laurie, who explained the genesis of WIM eight years ago, and MEAA vice president and ABC reporter Philippa McDonald to talk about why the journalists’ union has backed the program. Your host for the podcast is WiM NSW convener, broadcaster and columnist Tracey Spicer. For more info visit www.womeninmedia.net

0:00:00Introduction Richard Saunders 0:03:50Interview with film maker, Blake Freeman"Gawd Bless America" is a Documentary Comedy coming to theaters in the USA in March and soon to Australia. The film follows Blake Freeman, who sets out to disprove the notion that aliens, people with psychic abilities and ghosts live among us.    0:21:00Maynard's Spooky Action!Maynard reports from the front line of scientific research and investigates a new DEATH RAY!! (Well not really.) Find out more on the show when Maynard chats to Robbie McNaughton from The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Our thanks to A.B.C. radio for this audio.0:26:15Tracey Spicer slaps down Meryl Dorey.. again!Anti-vaccination campaigner Meryl Dorey claims vaccination is akin to child rape. Tracey Spicer takes Dorey to task on Sydney Radio 2UE and takes a call from long time skeptic Peter Bowditch from ratbags.com0:31:00Dr Rachie Reports -With Dr Rachael DunlopThe Australian government seems confused about homeopathy.Dr Rachie reports that she was unable to find a clear and concise explanation of what it is on their official websites. They appear to be bundling it in with pharmacy medicines, thereby implying that it works and further, they are lending it legitimacy by designating it official looking numbers on the official register of government approved Australian medicines.0:41:0010:23 Challenge 1023All over the world, consumers and skeptics took a very public stand against the fraud that is Homeopathy.Dr Rachie reports from the local protest in Sydney, Australia. 0:49:00James Randi's 10:23 Challenge  Skeptic James Randi challenges sellers of scam medications as hundreds stage worldwide "overdose" on homeopathic pills and puts one million dollars on the line.