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Who says business news needs to be all business? The Dive talks about the stories that matter, brings in the broader perspective, and doesn’t use the dense jargon that leaves you behind. Each episode, your host Sascha Kelly, is joined by her colleagues as they answer a different question, inspired b...
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262 Episoden2023 wrapped: the 6 biggest business stories
We have reached our final episode of 2023. And what a year it was: inflation and interest rates, miracle drugs to record breaking sports contracts, AI...
Fast 3: Is it really cheaper to buy than rent? | World’s first plastic waste treaty | Elon’s latest outburst
We’re back for another Fast 3. Where a collection of the team from the Equity Mates join me to cover 3 stories in less than 15 minutes. Today, we’re c...
Are Kyle & Jackie-O worth $200 million?
Controversy sells. We learned that last week when we saw reports that Kyle and Jackie-O signed a 10 year contract extension with Australian Radio Netw...
Happy Birthday ChatGPT! 12 months on, what's changed?
Happy Birthday ChatGPT! Since arriving in our lives this time last year, it’s made news headlines, had teachers, industries and governments worried, a...
Why Rugby League is in the middle of the US-China great power contest
If we were to say great power competition between China and the United States - what’s the first thing you think of?
Whatever it was, I’d hazard...
5 things to know about migration and the property market
Overseas migration is frequently being called out as one of the primary factors influencing the housing market. As Core Logic writes - in the face of...
Money, power and time: Is the future of 50-over cricket on the line?
Australia are cricket world champions. In a brutal six months away from home, Australia’s men’s cricket team has won the World Test Championship, reta...
OpenAI Saga: Sam Altman’s Wild Weekend
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm this year. That is the AI chatbot made by OpenAI.
Sam Altman, the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, has become...
Aussie banks have just made record profits. What's going on?
Cost of living, inflation and interest rates have been the big economic story of the past 18 months. People and businesses are doing it tough.
S...
Does Australia have what it takes to be a hydrogen superpower?
Zero emissions hydrogen has the potential to supplant oil and gas as the fuel of the future — Australia is in a brilliant position to take advantage o...
Who cares about the US government shutdown?
America is once again nearing a financial crisis, where the government is unable to spend money and needs to shut down everything but the most essenti...
Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty. What does this mean for crypto?
Sam Bankman-Fried. The founder of crypto exchange FTX was arrested last year and earlier this month was convicted by a jury of his peers in New York.<...
Will this interest rate rise finally take the heat off property prices?
On Melbourne Cup Day, there was one fairly safe bet. Michele Bullock would raise interest rates. And they did, by 25 basis points.
The increase...
23andMe is selling access to customer's DNA
23andMe and Ancestory.com allow people to spit in a tube and have their DNA analysed to learn more about their ancestory and any health risks. To date...
Driveless cars are driving headlines. Here's what you've missed
Waymo, Tesla, Cruise, Baidu. Some of the biggest names in the race to get driverless cars on the road have been in the headlines lately.
In toda...
If Qantas is an indication, it’s going to be a fiery AGM season
Today, the Qantas board will be holding their annual general meeting. It’s a chance for shareholders to hold a mirror to the board and management afte...
Meet your new North Korean colleagues
Turns out, large western companies accidently hired thousands of North Koreans.
Now that is a headline that caught our interest. Seems like a b...
How are Americans avoiding paying $688B in tax?
$688 billion. That is how much tax Americans avoided paying in 2021.
With Australia’s tax deadline fast approaching - it is tomorrow, or 31 Oct...
4x larger than Hollywood: Australia’s video game opportunity
Would it surprise you to know that the video game industry is worth $200 billion globally? Ok, numbers without context is always difficult, so here’s...
The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
Fallen Crypto King Sam Bankman Fried… once ‘king of the crypto world’, is now in the midst of one of the biggest fraud trials in American history, tak...
Fast 3: Gina v Albemarle | AI Deep Fakes | Is Amazon ripping off small businesses?
It’s a new week, and we’re hitting the decks with a fast three. The stories that have had us chatting in the Equity Mates office. Sascha is joined by...
Why is Atlassian doubling down on WFH, when everyone is going back to the office?
Atlassian - the Australian software products maker - recently announced it had agreed to buy video messaging platform Loom. They paid US $975 million...
Why did Birkenstocks IPO get off on the wrong foot?
Birkenstock Holding plc is a German shoe manufacturer known for its sandals and other shoes notable for contoured cork footbeds (soles) made with laye...
What does the future of money look like without cash?
It’s a two parter today! Digging into two stories that caught our attention at Equity Mates.
The Nobel Prize for Economics has just been announ...
Endometriosis: Is there a breakthrough treatment coming for 176 million people?
Here’s some facts about endometriosis. According to the conditions’ official Australian website, more than 830 000 - or 1 in 7 - of Australian girls a...
What’s Lachlan Murdoch’s plans for News Corp & Fox?
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down from his media empire, handing over the reigns to his son Lachlan Murdoch. While a lot has been written about what Ru...
What’s the latest in the Epic Games v Apple stoush?
Epic Games - maker of Fortnite - has been firmly embroiled in this stoush already for years. Epic sued Apple in 2020 after the game company introduce...
Fast 3: Elon's one step closer to putting a chip in your brain
This episode, it’s another fast 3, as promised. What’s on the agenda? Well, Simon has an update about Elon Musk’s microchips that he plans to insert i...
1 in 5 houses on the market have been owned for less than 3 years. What does this mean?
Sascha is joined by Eliza Owen from Core Logic to chat about their latest data. Together they discuss the market’s remarkable rally, in spite of risin...
Who is Michele Bullock, the new RBA Governor?
On September 18, Michelle Bullock succeeded Dr. Phillip Lowe as the RBA Governor. Her term starts amid heightened national attention on the RBA's inte...
How the AFL & NRL Grand Finals could break one bookie
Sport is big business. That is something we’ve covered over and over again on this podcast.
From lucrative TV rights deals to oil-states fundin...
Unhappy Hour: How UK pubs are using dynamic pricing
On the weekend, a friend of the pod was sitting in a pub owned by Britain's biggest pub company, Stonegate Group. If you have ever drunk in a pub in t...
We can’t build our way out of a housing crisis
Build, build and build some more. That sums up our government’s approach to our current housing crisis.
Just this month we’ve seen it from all...
Fast 3: The US has discovered the largest lithium deposit in history
It’s another Fast 3 - the three stories that we thought you needed to hear this Friday. Today we’ll be talking about why Rotten Tomatoes scores aren’t...
Apple’s new iPhone - Does anyone care?
Last week we saw the biggest news on Apple’s calendar - Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone.
There was a time when the world sat up and marv...
Is Airbnb facing an existential crisis?
If you’ve booked an AirBnB recently, it seems like we're drowning in a sea of house rules: no parties, quiet hours after 10 pm, laundry duties before...
Is Rugby Union on the brink of a new golden age?
2003 was the most recent high water mark for Australian Rugby. We were hosting a World Cupt on our shores, and we very close to winning it all, before...
What's the concrete crisis gripping the UK?
It’s another favourite of The Dive fans - 3 stories in 15 minutes. We’ve gone around the office and asked for the stories that are grabbing our attent...
Ronaldo’s $313m contract shows why it’s time to worry about oil
The extension of oil production cuts by Saudi Arabia is driven by its geopolitical and economic ambitions. Last week the Australian Financial Review w...
Lab Grown Diamonds are forever
It turns out that fake diamonds are having a moment. As a new threshold has been reached - Last year, lab-grown diamond jewellery surpassed 10% of the...