As news broke around the world about the outbreak of the coronavirus now known as COVID-19 in China, the Australia government announced that it would quarantine citizens evacuated from Wuhan, the city where the first infections were identified, to the immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island. Medical historian Dr Peter Hobbins explains the history of quarantine in Australia and addresses questions about whether the practice can just be dismissed as racist.

Australia's loneliness epidemic: what's the rise of social media got to do with it?

This show casts a critical eye on the myriad ways in which we communicate with each other in our increasingly interconnected, multi-media platform world. Each week we mix down the who, the what, the where, and the how of particular communication events, messages, trends and technologies, and then consider: what impacts and what consequences?