Inside the AFL's 'culture of silence'

For years, there have been financial incentives to encourage households to install rooftop solar and feed excess power back to the grid. 

It’s helping the green energy transition and driving down power bills for those able to afford the upfront costs. 

But the so-called “feed-in” tariffs are being cut as there’s a massive oversupply of energy on sunny days. 

Today, energy reporter Dan Mercer on whether rooftop solar is still worth it. 

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Daniel Mercer, ABC energy reporter

For more than 20 years, Australians have turned to botox when unwanted wrinkles begin to emerge.

It’s widely seen as a harmless way to look younger without surgery. 

Until recently botox and other cosmetic fillers have gone largely unchecked, so why have regulators decided to crackdown now?

Today, we speak to a long-time botox user and a health law expert about why we need to rethink what we’re injecting. 

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Alison Rice, former botox user

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney

Have you ever struggled to get a response from an insurer, or have they fought you on the details of a claim? 

The profitable insurance companies are facing increasing scrutiny and customers are calling them out for not paying out. 

Today, investigative reporter Adele Ferguson reveals the firms’ ‘delay and deny’ tactics that make them so hard to deal with. 

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Adele Ferguson, ABC investigative reporter

Every so often a product comes along that takes us by storm and in the process, shifts spending and changes economies. 

The iPhone, Netflix and ChatGPT spring to mind.

But less obvious is something like Ozempic, the drug that’s now helping millions of people around the world lose weight.

Today, the ABC’s business editor Ian Verrender on how it’s breaking down business models of fast-food giants and health companies. 

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Ian Verrender, ABC business editor

She had a grand ambition to knock off Donald Trump and become the Republican Party’s choice to run in November’s US election.

But Nikki Haley couldn’t do it and it’s almost certain now that Trump will run against Joe Biden for president again even as he faces more than 90 criminal charges.

So why has she held on? Why doesn’t she just give up before almost certain defeat at so-called Super Tuesday next week, the biggest contest in the primary process. 

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Kim Hoggard, a former staffer during Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations

On a Sunday morning more than three weeks ago, Ballarat woman Samantha Murphy set out for a run in dense bushland not far from her home.

She was expected back mid-morning for a family gathering, but she never arrived. 

Police have now wound back their search for the missing mother, while locals have rallied to try and find answers. 

Today, what happened to Samantha Murphy?

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Norman Hermant, 7.30 reporter

For more than 20 years New South Wales Police have marched in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. 

But not this year, with the board of the event telling them to stay away. 

It comes on a difficult week for the force after a senior constable was charged with the alleged murder of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. 

But police participation in the event has long caused controversy. Today we unpack why. 

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Nicole Asquith, the professor of policing at the University of Tasmania and the convenor of the Australian Hate Crime network

We’ve probably all experienced a less than desirable trip on public transport or ride-hailing services, but for people with a disability every day is an absolute horror show.

From buses missing stops to Uber drivers refusing to take guide dogs. 

Today, we bring you an ABC investigation into how millions of Australians are being let down by our public transport networks.

We’ll hear how laws against discrimination are continually broken. 

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Nas Campanella, national disability affairs reporter 

Evan Young, Specialist Reporting Team producer

You would have thought with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, China wouldn’t be too worried about the number of people living there declining a bit.

But as it faces the challenges of an economic slowdown and an ageing society, Beijing is urging families to have more babies to stop a population decline that’s been recorded for a second year in a row. 

But is a falling birth rate necessarily a bad thing? 

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Stuart Gietel-Basten, Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

For more than a decade Julian Assange has tried everything to avoid the position he finds himself in, on the cusp of being bundled onto a plane to the US to face espionage charges that carry a jail sentence of up to 175 years.  

His fate now rests with a couple of judges in London who’ll decide whether he can appeal against his extradition. 

Today, media freedom advocate and journalism academic Peter Greste unpacks the case for us.

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Peter Greste, media freedom advocate and professor of journalism at Macquarie University