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Insight Podcast

Summary: Hosted by Jenny Brockie, Insight is a discussion forum focussing on a single issue with the participation of a studio audience. Insight covers many issues and topics, engages in sometimes heated debates, and encourages Australians from all walks of life to have their say.

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 Insight - Attention Preview | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:00:41

Insight asks – what is attention, and how can it impact your life? How do you know if your attention span is normal? And what makes some people better at paying attention than others?

 Insight S2018 Ep23 - Attention Span | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:50:06

Insight asks – what is attention, and how can it impact your life? How do you know if your attention span is normal? And what makes some people better at paying attention than others?

 Insight S2018 Ep22 - Hungry | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:52:40

A growing number of Australians are going hungry. CEO of Foodbank, Australia’s largest hunger relief organisation, Brianna Casey says 3.6 million Australians have been food insecure in the last 12 months – including one in five children. And it’s not always the people you might think would be struggling to put food on the table. Insight asks – who’s going hungry in Australia, and why?

 Insight S2018 Ep21 - The Exercise Pill | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:51:38

Around 11 million Australians have one of eight major chronic conditions – that’s almost half the population. Conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and mental illness can develop in many ways but lack of physical activity is a primary risk factor. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has called chronic disease “the biggest health challenge that Australia faces” but is that message motivating us to make lifestyle changes and exercise more? In part two of Insight’s exercise special - we examine the role of exercise in treating chronic health conditions and ask, is exercise really medicine?

 Insight S2018 Ep20 - How To Exercise | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:51:41

Insight teams up with Dr Michael Mosley and some of Australia’s leading exercise experts to dissect the most common messages around exercise and ask how do you know what’s best for you?

 Insight S2018 Ep18 - Sizing Up Steroids | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:54:31

Insight talks to users, former users, doctors and lawyers about who is using steroids, why they use and how that use is managed in Australia.

 Insight S2018 Ep17 - Screens at School | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:53:10

Insight explores the debate about the complexities and contradictions of technology’s role in the classroom.

 Insight S2018 Ep16 - Coal Seam Gas | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:52:27

Last year, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged the NSW Government to approve the Narrabri Gas Project. But local opinion about the project is divided. More than 23,000 submissions were received by the NSW Department of Planning, making it the most protested project in the history of the department. With a looming domestic gas shortage on the horizon and the region awaiting to hear whether the project gets given the green light by the NSW Government, a special edition of Insight travels to Narrabri to hear from those who may be affected by the project and its infrastructure.

 Insight S2018 Ep14 - Joint Surgeries | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:52:41

Insight cuts through the confusion to ask how patients, surgeons and other specialists can make a joint decision about when to operate – or not.

 Insight S2018 Ep13 - Teaching Success | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:51:58

In this episode of Insight, students and teachers of Sir Joseph Banks High share stories of strength and reveal what it took to turn their school around.

 Insight S2018 Ep12 - Open Relationships | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:54:13

This week Insight looks at open relationships and finds out how they work and if they can last.

 Insight S2018 Ep11 - Accidental Killers | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:52:36

For this week’s Insight guests, however, it’s a difficult reality. How do you deal with unintentionally ending someone’s life?

 Insight - An Accidental Death Preview | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:00:33

For this week’s Insight guests, however, it’s a difficult reality. How do you deal with unintentionally ending someone’s life?

 Insight S2018 Ep9 - Witness Part 2 | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:51:02

What is it like to witness a serious crime or traumatic event? And how reliable are eyewitnesses?

 Insight S2018 Ep8 - Witness Part I | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:51:38

In this two-part Insight special, we hear from people that have witnessed serious crimes and the impact it has had on them.

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