Headlines: Christmas tree light warnings, Victorian bushfire update, Airfare charter of rights proposed, and Aussie researchers create injection to reverse blindness.

Deep dive best of: Amid a cost of living crisis, who can resist the invitation to “shop like a billionaire” at bargain-basement prices?

Online juggernaut Temu is Australia’s most popular free app, offering a vast vortex of low-cost merchandise from fashion and homeware to toys and electronics.

But amid the thrilling rush of retail therapy lie some serious questions: Where does this stuff come from and what are conditions like for those at the bottom of the supply chain?

As part of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re revisiting Sacha Barbour Gatt’s chat with senior labour rights campaigner at Oxfam, Sarah Rogan to find out more.

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Richard Baker is one of Australia’s best investigative journalists, who has spent decades chasing stories.

The Walkley award winning journo is the host of LiSTNR's Secrets We Keep: Pray Harder, which explores a secretive religious group in Geelong where every aspect of members’ lives are tightly controlled by their hardline pastor.

In this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, Richard explains why he doesn't have any social media, what life is like as an investigative journalist, and how dangerous it is for whistle blowers in Australia.

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We’ve been captivated by the US election, horrified at wars overseas and have marvelled at the Olympics. There’s no doubt 2024 has been another massive year in news.

In today’s deep dive, Sacha Barbour Gatt and Bension Siebert talk through the biggest stories of the year and what they’ve meant to us, before looking ahead to what we can expect in 2025.

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