Should drag be promoted to kids? Meet the Aussie boys transforming themselves with glitter and makeup into pint-sized drag queens. Plus, Conrad Sewell performs his single 'Love Me Anyway'.
Can you really make thousands selling makeup, protein powder or vitamins on Facebook? Which 'get rich quick' schemes are legit and which are bogus? Plus, Dean Lewis performs his single 'Be Alright'.
Health experts say loneliness is the next big public health crisis that can take years off your life. So what's going on and what can be done? Plus, Yungblud performs his single 'Loner'.
Can you ever come to terms with death? After taxes, it's the one thing that unifies us. Tonight, Marty Smiley explores the 'weirder' approaches to burial. Plus, music from Tia Gostelow.
The Feed questions cutting babies' tongue ties for breastfeeding and investigates the fertility stats pushing people to a multi-million dollar IVF industry asking, is this bad medicine?
Is anger unfeminine? Jan Fran explores the rise of female anger, from smash rooms to 'metoo'. Plus, comedian Zoe Norton Lodge tries to go a week without shouting, and music from Dean Lewis.
Stories that surprise, make you laugh, cry and then cry laughing. Plus, sketches that skewer the news, reporters who explain the story behind it, and interviews from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Should teenagers learn how to watch porn in school? Experts say generations of young men and women are growing up with warped views of sex. So is a Porn 101 class the answer?
People at a turning point, from the farming community fighting the big miner, to the basketball star who almost lost her career on one injury, or how musician John Butler came back from despair.
Could you live on $40 a day? Marty Smiley spends a week below the poverty line on Newstart. Plus comedian Ben Jenkins on what happened when he found out his Uber rating. Marc Fennell meets Matt Corby.
Is bullying having its own 'MeToo' moment? Adult bullies often go unchallenged in workplaces and neighbourhoods. But is that about to change? Plus, Marc Fennell meets Murray, the original Red Wiggle.
The regional town with mental healthcare worse than you get in prison. Are young people being locked up for minor offences, just to get treatment? Plus, Marc meets the lead singer of Vampire Weekend.
The never-before-seen true story of the Aussie musical duo who were destined to win Eurovision, until a wardrobe malfunction ruined their chances. Plus, Pat Abboud interviews Kate Miller-Heidke.
Election special: the woman trying to unseat Tony Abbott in a David vs Goliath battle, the minor parties vying for your vote, and the end of Michael Hing's One Asian Party Senate campaign.
The vegan activist who stole livestock, got a $1 fine for her crimes, and then feared for her life. She was publicly outed, got death threats, and stalked in her private home. Who is in the right?
The dark side of Hustle culture: a generation at breaking point. From start-up founders, to Instagram influencers, to homeless college students, see the extreme underbelly of the American Dream.
Fighting for recognition, from birth 'til death - from Tasmania's move to make gender optional on birth certificates, to elderly LGBTIQ+ residents of aged care being forced back into the closet.
Has political correctness gone mad on university campuses? From safe spaces to deplatforming, have universities become hostile to debate? Plus, do school suspensions cause more harm than good?
The new war on abortion in America, where eight Republican-led states have put curbs on abortion this year. Will a newly conservative Supreme Court intervene? Plus Boy & Bear's shock, secret illness.
Meet the men reclaiming their bodies by restoring their foreskin. We wade into the complex debate around male circumcision - a simple procedure with complicated emotional and psychological results.
Meet the young man trying to keep bulldozers from tearing down artefacts of Australian culture that are thousands of years old. Do we only care about history if it's white?
Meet the people bottling up Australian air and shipping it to China and India for wealthy consumers. Is this Australia's next big export or just a bunch of hot air?
After moving to Australia for love, these women have become prisoners of marriage. Plus, the Australians determined to climb Uluru before its banned.
It's been called a 'clusterf*ck' by the media - meet the Aussie mum who's helping strangers fight Centrelink's automaticallly generated debt notices.
Could treating ice addicts as criminals be doing more harm than the drug itself? Normally opposing voices are pushing for decriminalisation in NSW, but they're facing an uphill battle.
From industrial scale sounds to the noisy family next door - and the frequencies only some can feel - the world is louder than ever before, and we don't yet fully know how it will affect us.
Travel to the former Lutheran mission of Hope Vale to understand the largest settlement outside of Native Title - a 12 year fight for 'stolen wages'. Plus, documentary maker Louis Theroux.
The debilitating disorder affecting 1 in 20 women that most people have never heard of - why some doctors aren't taking PMDD seriously. Plus, go inside the anti-vaccination capital of Australia.
Jan Fran travels to Spain, where the rural population is decreasing at an alarming rate. As the government and locals scramble to stop the exodus, can a bus load of single ladies save the day?
Marc Fennell travels to Hong Kong to meet the people fighting Chinese control in the face of brutal police tactics. Plus, the Tibetan asylum seekers in Australia who've seen it firsthand.
Former teenage model Jenna Owen comes to grips with the dark side of the modelling industry: teenage girls working for free, in often sexually explicit situations.
They've declared a global, non-violent uprising against governments for climate inaction but have been accused of sinister and dangerous tactics. We go behind the front lines of Extinction Rebellion.
They're the migrants, foreign students, and refugees keeping Australia's hospitality, building and even health sectors ticking over with their cheap labour. But at what cost?
Australians doing Kambo: putting the poison of an Amazonian frog into their body. Those who swear by the spiritual practice come away convinced that it's cured them of anything from depression, to hay fever.
They're behind the bars of Australia's hottest bars and night spots, but at what personal cost? Hospitality workers speak out about the harassment and assault they suffered while doing their jobs.
Meet the Australian prisoners changing the lives of young girls in period poverty.
Can you really make thousands selling makeup, protein powder or vitamins on Facebook? Which 'get rich quick' schemes are legit and which are bogus?
Former teenage model Jenna Owen comes to grips with the dark side of the modelling industry.
Squatting in empty homes - are they freeloaders scamming the system, or victims of a housing market run red hot? Plus, Marc Fennell chats to the Black Eyed Peas.
It's been more than two years since water has run on Bill and Fiona Aveyard's farm in north-west NSW. That is, until the first big rain arrived last month. But is the drought over?
Is ADHD a disability? Parents want it funded like other disabilities but the government is trimming how much it spends on disability. Some experts even warn ADHD is already being over diagnosed.
After a devastating fire season decimated Australia's koala population, a small community in New South Wales is galvanised to stop the building of a Korean owned coal mine in a koala habitat.
Are sex robots a force for good or a plaything of the perverted? They're the holy grail of the sex toy industry - a robot so life-like it seems human. But are they immoral and should they be illegal?
With all the noise and fear surrounding coronavirus, The Feed dedicates this episode to stories of love and hope.
Retiree nurses across Australia are being coaxed back into hospitals to join the fight against COVID-19. But is re-joining the workforce as easy as just dusting off the old scrubs?
Small towns are shutting their doors to city tourists amid fears they will bring with them COVID-19. With resources in regional hospitals already stretched, do they have a point?
Parents from migrant and low socioeconomic backgrounds say they're in an impossible situation - trying to home school their kids due to COVID-19.
Sweat, spandex and choke holds: it's the life of a professional wrestler. At a handful of wrestling schools around Australia, budding athletes are turning their childhood WWE fantasies into reality.
Cirque du Soleil has laid off nearly all its staff after closing shows due to the coronavirus. But even before the pandemic, performers have been walking a tightrope when it comes to their job safety.
Two-year-old Saxon desperately needs a bone marrow transplant, but the recent restrictions on elective surgeries due to COVID-19 have left him and his parents in a dangerous limbo.
After a summer of bushfires, floods, and now COVID-19 killing 80 percent of sales, NSW oyster farmers are begging for the government to waive marine fees and charges for fear they will go bust.
Australian Black Lives Matter: Meet 17-year-old Ken, an Aboriginal teen from Redfern, as he prepares to join thousands of protesters in Sydney calling for an end to Indigenous deaths in custody.
1 in 8 Australians think COVID-19 is caused by 5G mobile technology. Marc Fennell travels to the anti-vaccination capital of Australia to meet the protestors on the frontline of anti-5G sentiment.
At the start of the pandemic, The Feed set up a hotline asking viewers to leave a phone message telling us how they're coping. Hear those heartfelt messages in this half hour special.
Marc Fennell meets the man behind Australia's largest museum theft. Hendrikus van Leeuwen stole thousands of specimens from the Australia Museum, and now he's about to open a museum of his very own.
From bushfires, drought, floods and now a global pandemic, Australians are living through some of the most traumatic events in our history. But can trauma push us to be the best version of ourselves?
For the past six months, The Feed has followed the lives of three bushfire survivors from Mogo, NSW, as they try to rebuild their town and themselves from a day they will never forget.
96 percent of Australians don't eat enough vegetables, so imagine getting your daily serve hidden in your morning coffee. Meet the Aussie scientists turning farm waste into futuristic foods.
Alex Lee is pretty much scared of everything: roller coasters, scary movies, tiny planes, getting in trouble, small talk, rats, the list goes on. Whats behind fear and what can we do about it?
Comedian Alex Lee is a self-professed coward. This week, she continues her journey to find out everything she can about fear so that she can be less of one.
Comedian Alex Lee is a coward. While over the past two weeks she's been learning how to face her fears, there's still one thing left on her list. Will she take the plunge or chicken out?
Surrogacy is complicated at the best of times. But what happens when you add in a pandemic? We meet parents and surrogates navigating COVID-19 restrictions in a quest to bring a baby into the world.
Is it possible to live to 120? Yes, according to the burgeoning field of longevity science. Reporter Darren Mara puts his own body to the test to find out if ageing really is a thing of the past.
There's been a drastic drop in Australia's life-saving cancer screenings, amid fears patients are going undiagnosed and untreated.
Should rock climbing be banned on sacred sites? Across Australia traditional owners are calling for climbing on their land to stop, but climbers say it would devastate the sport and regional tourism.
Are doctor's ill-equipped when treating transgender people? The trans community is speaking out about 'invasive and unnecessary' genital examinations at routine visits to the GP.
Pounds were cleared out at the peak of the pandemic, but as states return to life as normal, these same pounds are returning to full capacity. What happens to these seemingly disposable companions?
Are Taylor Swift's fans the most toxic in the world? Knowns as Swifties, they'll do anything to make their hero top the Billboard charts, including harassing and doxing anyone standing in their way.
Tinder, Bumble, Hinge - there's no shortage of dating apps for those looking for love, so why are some Indian-Australian millennials opting for arranged-marriages through old-fashioned matchmakers?
The Feed continues its investigation into the murky world of social media influencers. This week, journalist Calliste Weitenberg tries everything to grow her fake Instagram account.
In a wild experiment, journalist Calliste Weitenberg and producer Elise Potaka build a fake influencer persona to see if they can cash in on what's now a $15 billion dollar industry.
Women athletes are twice as likely as men to get concussed and the effects are more severe, but with research focusing mainly on men, Jodie Noyce looks at whether concussion in women being overlooked?
Across Far North Queensland, children as young as eight are roaming the streets at night, vandalising property and stealing cars. The government is promising a crackdown, but will tough love work?
Kangaroos are an Aussie icon but with booming population numbers there's growing debate on whether they should be nurtured or culled and harvested for meat.
Blue Mountains locals in New South Wales are fighting a proposed mine expansion, which they say will threaten habitat and cultural sites that survived the 2020 Black Summer bushfires.
The Feed goes inside a girls' refuge in Sydney's inner west and meets two teens who are enrolled in a program that teaches them to literally fight for a better life.
A spate of mysterious disappearances in Victoria's high country has set the local rumour mill on fire. At the centre of it all is a reclusive bushman known only as 'The Button Man'.
COVID lockdowns saw the immediate shutdown of the music industry. For the first time, The Feed reveals the deadly toll of those decisions: a spate of suicides and deaths across the country.
What's causing a cancer cluster in regional Victoria that has killed babies, children and adults? Locals are blaming a council pesticide spraying program in the nearby wetlands.
Thousands of Australian parents are seeking protection from their abusive children, but loopholes in the system are leaving them unprotected and on their own.
A look at how vaccine apathy turned to urgency. Thousands of Victorians rushed to get their coronavirus jabs, following a growing cluster of cases which plunged Melburnians into lockdown again.
A growing number of Aussies are being misdiagnosed with depression, insomnia and other chronic illnesses when actually a debilitating mould-related disease is to blame.
A Chinese medicine made from donkeys is said to cure anything from cancer to anaemia. Aussie companies and farmers want in on the boom, but as donkey numbers plummet, is it just a dangerous snake oil?
What's it like to come of age in a pandemic? The Feed follows four diverse young Australians and takes a hopeful glimpse into the lives of the generation that will shape the post-COVID world.
What's it like to come of age in a pandemic? The Feed follows four diverse young Australians and takes a hopeful glimpse into the lives of the generation that will shape the post-COVID-19 world.
Stomp! Whack! Slam! Behind the sound effects on film and television are Foley artists with enormous collections of odds and ends working to build what we hear from scratch.
In Nigeria, where blood donations are so scarce many hospitals go without, a man risks his life on a motorcycle every day to pick up and deliver the vital fluid to emergency rooms.
Meet the young female politician taking New Zealand by storm. (It’s not Jacinda Ardern.) So who is Chlöe Swarbrick and why would an idealistic millennial choose to go into politics?
“Sharon” has been addicted to poker machines since they first arrived in Australia in 1992. In this visceral animated documentary, voiced by actor Claudia Karvan, Sharon's devastation is laid bare.
What if you could remember almost every detail from any day of your life since you were young? The Feed meets two people with phenomenal memories to find out if it's a blessing or a curse.
Should obese children have surgery to lose weight? A quarter of Aussie kids are overweight or obese, so is bariatric surgery a helpful tool in the fight for weight loss or a dangerous intervention?
The Feed looks at one Australian life coaching organisation and its charismatic leader. Some say it's transformative, others say it's doing more harm than good.
In an Arab owned hair salon in Haifa, the shampoo basin becomes the talking space for Arab and Jewish women on politics and life in Israel.
Locals fear that a noisy minority of anti-vaxxers is pushing Byron Bay to the brink of social division and economic collapse.
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No masks, no worries. With nearly all restrictions lifted, Denmark is plotting a course to leave COVID-19 behind. Is this what living with the virus will soon look like, or yet another false dawn?
Should obese women be turned away from fertility clinics because of their weight? Current guidelines say yes, but is it backed by science?
This is the musical story of Jo (Vic Zerbst) and Erin (Montaigne) who are trying to buy their first home. The key word being trying - if only it was that simple.
Are schools failing gifted and twice-exceptional students? Parents say children's intellectual abilities aren't being catered for and it's leaving them bored, disengaged, and socially isolated.
What's driving a dramatic rise in the number of parents choosing to home school? Is it just a response to the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic or the start of a remote learning revolution?
After years of fighting the front line of the pandemic, U.S healthcare workers are leaving their profession in droves. Is Australia facing its own exodus? And what can we learn before it's too late?
Getting up close and very personal. A look at the program training hairdressers to be on the front line of the campaign to spot and stop domestic violence.
The new generation of film-makers determined to change how we see disability on-screen. This one film school trains adults with a disability to tell their stories from both sides of the camera.
Get big or get out. Australia's agricultural industry is booming, but what does the rise of mega farms mean for small scale farmers and the communities they helped build?
Marc Fennell investigates the rise of Crypto currencies and meets the Aussie investors betting big on what they hope is a digital gold rush.
This is part two of Marc Fennell's investigative series into the rise of Crypto. Marc meets the victims and the vigilantes of digital currencies.
The final episode of Marc Fennell's investigation into the world of Crypto. Is it a ticket to a better financial future or another scammers paradise?
From big money taxes to residents throwing open their homes, the radical plans aimed at solving one of America's worst homeless crisis.
A gift from grandma. Meet the women hoping to join Australia's first uterus transplant program as we ask the question what is the future of fertility.
The Feed catches an outback ride with a fly in, fly out vet. Is it really the dream job or just an extreme example of a profession that is pushing vets to breaking point.
Tech companies are betting big on low earth orbit satellites to revolutionise internet access and telecommunications. But some are concerned this new space race could change our night skies forever.
The surrogate and the solo father. The friendship at the heart of a ground-breaking new family and a slice of Australian surrogacy history.
Each year thousands of babies are born in Australia after being exposed to illegal drugs and yet doctors say we still don't properly understand the long term effects of this pre-natal exposure.
Leading into NAIDOC week, The Feed has an important story about the over-representation of Indigenous women in the country's Missing Persons statistics. Hosted by Marc Fennell and Virginia Langeberg.
Panel Discussion: Cultural, Social and Linguistic Impact of If You Are The One in Australia. Panelists: Meng Fei – host of If You Are The One Chen Chen – producer of If You Are The One Ien Ang - Professor of Cultural Studies Wanning Sun - Professor of Media and Communication Studies Joe Sweeney - former If You Are The One contestant Jing Han - head of SBS Subtitling Department
The Feed takes an exclusive look behind the scenes at one of the world's toughest dating shows.
Almost half of single young men and women in Japan are virgins. Up to 70 per cent of millennials aren’t in a relationship but their desire to marry one day remains. In a country where birth rates are crashing, the stats have been blamed on everything from anime to porn and women not pulling their weight. The Feed travelled to Japan to find out if there’s something else at play.
It may have been the biggest museum theft in Australia’s history, with more than 2,000 artefacts stolen between 1996 and 2003. But since headlines like ‘Bug man accused of $1m museum thefts’ circulated in the early 2000s, the story has been left for dead. Until now... The Feed tracked him down.
