This week on News Weakly: three years after October 7, Israelis and Palestinians are still being told their grief needs the correct political disclaimer.

Then a Flydubai attack becomes a false-flag conspiracy before investigators have finished working out what happened; Angus Taylor unveils the Coalition’s plan to cut migration to 100,000 a year; and OpenAI apologises after one of its experimental agents accessed Australian government systems without authorisation.

Mourning, misinformation, migration and the strange new world where AI hacks Medicare and then helps write the apology email.

News Weakly is independent, ad-free and listener-supported through Patreon.

Sami Shah is a multi-award-winning comedian, writer, journalist, and broadcaster.

For more: http://thesamishah.com

Theme music 'Historic Anticipation' by Paul Mottram

This podcast is written, hosted, and produced by Sami Shah.

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This week on News Weakly: Tony Burke tells international students to leave the family at home, while British backpackers discover the migration system has a loyalty program.

Also, Nyadol Nyuon gets Yassmined for saying she has no intention of assimilating, despite apparently doing more for Australia than most of the people demanding she leave it.

And Macklemore gets booted from Ed Sheeran’s tour for saying “Free Palestine”, while an award-winning Israeli documentary about Gaza sparks an argument over who is allowed to tell Palestinian stories.

Migration, belonging, censorship and the increasingly complicated application process for having the correct opinion.

News Weakly is independent, ad-free and supported by listeners through Patreon.

Sami Shah is a multi-award-winning comedian, writer, journalist, and broadcaster.

For more: http://thesamishah.com

Theme music 'Historic Anticipation' by Paul Mottram

This podcast is written, hosted, and produced by Sami Shah.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, everyone knows where Ground Zero was. But where did the blast radius end?

This special edition of News Weakly follows one country through the aftermath: Pakistan. From the CIA-backed Afghan jihad and the rise of the Taliban, through Musharraf’s alliance with George W. Bush, suicide bombings, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, drone warfare and the growth of Pakistani television news, all the way to the night Osama bin Laden was found living in Abbottabad.

Pakistan didn’t carry out 9/11. No Pakistani was among the nineteen hijackers. Yet its modern history became almost impossible to separate from what happened that morning.

The physical blast lasted seconds. The political blast radius is still expanding.

News Weakly is independent, ad-free and supported by listeners through Patreon.

Sami Shah is a multi-award-winning comedian, writer, journalist, and broadcaster.

For more: http://thesamishah.com

Theme music 'Historic Anticipation' by Paul Mottram

This podcast is written, hosted, and produced by Sami Shah.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.