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Donald Trump has had a busy first day back in the White House.  After being sworn in for his second term as President of the United States, he's made light work of signing executive order and attending important inauguration events.  But where to from here? Our US Correspondent Amelia Lester has the details. THE END BITS Support independent women's media Check out The Quicky Instagram here Support independent women's media here GET IN TOUCH Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice note or email us at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to: Amelia Lester, Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine Executive Producer: Taylah Strano  Audio Producers: Tegan Sadler Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While we've all been enjoying our summer holiday break President-elect Donald Trump has been busy...  From announcing his plans to take over multiple countries to avoiding jail time at his criminal trial sentencing and fractures in his friendship with Elon Musk, Trump has had a very busy few weeks.  Follow The Quicky THE END BITS Support independent women's media Check out The Quicky Instagram here Support independent women's media here  GET IN TOUCH Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice note or email us at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to: Amelia Lester, Deputy Editor of Foreign Policy Magazine  Executive Producer: Taylah Strano  Audio Producers: Tegan Sadler Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The US election may be won and done, but Australia's federal election is just around the corner.  After following the Trump vs Harris fight so closely what can Aussie politicians learn? And are we really staring down the barrel of our own upcoming election getting a 'trumpification'?  Follow The Quicky THE END BITS Support independent women's media Check out The Quicky Instagram here Liked this episode? Listen to these: An Anti Vaxxer, Conspiracy Theorist & A Russia Apologist: Meet Trump's New Cabinet Your Body My Choice; Women Respond To The US Election Fall Out The Biggest Revelations From Melania Trump's Memoir GET IN TOUCH Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice note or email us at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to:  Mark Kenny, Australian Studies Professor at the Australian National University and host of the weekly politics and public affairs podcast, Democracy Sausage With Mark Kenny  Amelia Lester, Deputy Editor Foreign Policy Magazine Executive P

Donald Trump has been on a nominating spree in the week since he took the win in the 2024 US presidential election. From one of the most controversial selections for Secretary of State to an anti vaxer in charge of health, the stories of the men and women lining up to run government in 2025 has been met with raised eyebrows and a little bit of comedy. Mamamia's US correspondent, Deputy editor of Foreign Policy Magazine Amelia Lester fills us in on the collection of people who will be Trump's cabinet when he returns to the Oval Office.  THE END BITS Follow The Quicky here Support independent women's media Check out The Quicky Instagram here Liked this episode? Listen to these: The Numbers Might Just Put Trump Back In The White House The Biggest Revelations From Melania Trump's Memoir We Watched The Vice Presidential Debate So You Don’t Have To From Abortion Rights To Celeb Endorsements: The Democratic National Convention 2024Harris Is Officially In The Race, But Trump's Women Are Rallying Behind Him Women In

Support independent women's media So then. It's been quite the week. Trump won and... well, HOW? Because after the initial shock and disbelief comes the need for the cold, hard facts of exactly what happened.  Grab a cup of tea, a wine, your dog or whatever will help you get through and listen to the calm, soothing tones of Deputy Editor of Foreign Policy magazine and Mamamia's US correspondent Amelia Lester, as she joins Mia Freedman to digest the events that led up to yesterday's US election results.  What To Listen To Next:  Listen to our latest episode: US Election Emergency Meeting: Not Again More US Election: Trump's Doing Work Experience & Other Election Plot Twists More US Election: Melania Is Not Afraid To Name Names More US Election: Mansplaining & Resting Worried Face - VP Debate Debrief More US Election: "I'm So Sorry, They're Inside". The Impact of January 6 More US Election: Forget The Shooting, Everyone's Talking About Trump's 'Girlfriend' More US Election: The Prosecutor & The Ang

The polls have closed and Donald Trump has claimed victory in the 2024 US Presidential election. The Republican candidate might be moving back into the White House as the 47th President of the United States, but how did we get here? What factors went into this win for Trump, and what let Kamala Harris' campaign down?  Follow The Quicky THE END BITS Subscribe to Mamamia Check out The Quicky Instagram here Liked this episode? Listen to these: The Numbers Might Just Put Trump Back In The White House The Biggest Revelations From Melania Trump's Memoir We Watched The Vice Presidential Debate So You Don’t Have To From Abortion Rights To Celeb Endorsements: The Democratic National Convention 2024Harris Is Officially In The Race, But Trump's Women Are Rallying Behind Him Women In Power; Why Kamala Harris Understood The Assignment Project 2025 & Another 4 Years Of Trump: What You Need To Know Join the Month of MOVEGet $30 off a Mamamia subscription and get unlimited access to our feel-good exercise app. Head here

Come sit in on our emergency meeting about the US election. Recorded as late as we could manage on Wednesday afternoon, join Holly, Mia, Jessie and Amelia Lester in quietly panicking, comforting and dissecting where the world's at with Harris Vs Trump. What To Listen To Next:  Listen to the latest episode of Mamamia Out Loud: Bonnie Blue & Filming Sex At Schoolies More US Election: Trump's Doing Work Experience & Other Election Plot Twists More US Election: Melania Is Not Afraid To Name Names More US Election: Mansplaining & Resting Worried Face - VP Debate Debrief More US Election: "I'm So Sorry, They're Inside". The Impact of January 6 More US Election: Forget The Shooting, Everyone's Talking About Trump's 'Girlfriend' More US Election: The Prosecutor & The Angry Orange Man More US Election: The Big Trump Conspiracy Theory More US Election: Donuts, Bl*wjobs And The US Election The End Bits:  Sign up to the Mamamia Out Loud Newsletter for all our recommendations and behind-the-scenes conten

Welcome to the Cancelled courtroom Donald John Trump, reality star, businessman, former president and current presidential candidate. Donald is no stranger to a real courtroom but today is all about his petty crimes like drinking 12 diet cokes a day, claiming bodies are like batteries and not thinking through the logistics of a particular wall.  Now, if you genuinely tried to do a Cancelled episode about Mr Donald, you’d be going for a decade so instead the episode covers SOME of the bizarre you may have forgotten about. Plus, more of your lazy gewl stories.Listen to Donald Trump Part Two: Yelling At A Child & The Most Embarrassing Tantrum In History, here.  A LIST OF EVERYONE WE'VE CANCELLED ALONG THE WAY: The OlympicsDrew BarrymoreIt Ends With Us DramaBenniferLady Gaga SEND US YOUR LAZY GEWL STORIES: podcast@mamamia.com.au END BITS:If you’re looking for something else to listen to why not check out our award winning parenting podcast How To Build A Human.Or click here to listen to the hosts of Mamamia O

Follow The Quicky The United States election is less than two weeks away and it's still anybody's game... or is it? We're taking a look at the polls, what they actually mean, and if they can predict the election ahead of time with any certainty.  Amelia Lester joins Claire Murphy to walk us through the polls and the potential outcomes on November 5.  THE END BITS Subscribe to Mamamia Check out The Quicky Instagram here Liked this episode? Listen to these: The Biggest Revelations From Melania Trump's Memoir We Watched The Vice Presidential Debate So You Don’t Have To From Abortion Rights To Celeb Endorsements: The Democratic National Convention 2024Harris Is Officially In The Race, But Trump's Women Are Rallying Behind Him Women In Power; Why Kamala Harris Understood The Assignment Project 2025 & Another 4 Years Of Trump: What You Need To Know Want to try MOVE by Mamamia?Click here to start a seven-day free trial of our exercise app. GET IN TOUCH Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice note

Listen to the full episode here We're having déjà vu. It's 2024, and the US presidential election is fast approaching. On 5 November, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are headed for the polls, and more than ever, we need Amelia Lester and Mia Freedman to come back and tell us... it's going to be OK.Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Follow The Quicky for all our US election coverage A former First Lady putting her story to publication may not be unusual, but Melania Trump's memoir feels hotly anticipated.  With very little shared ahead of its release, except of course her pro-abortion revelation, we've all been left wondering... what is she saying with this book?  And is the timing of this memoir release suspicious? Were on the case. THE END BITS Subscribe to Mamamia Check out The Quicky Instagram here Check out Kate Andersen Bower's latest book The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol here Liked this episode? Listen to these: We Watched The Vice Presidential Debate So You Don’t Have To From Abortion Rights To Celeb Endorsements: The Democratic National Convention 2024Harris Is Officially In The Race, But Trump's Women Are Rallying Behind Him Women In Power; Why Kamala Harris Understood The AssignmentProject 2025 & Another 4 Years Of Trump: What You Need To Know GET IN TOUCH Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send u

Subscribe to Mamamia Australians woke up on Saturday morning to the news that the US Supreme Court had voted to overturn the constitutional right for American women to access abortion. Amelia Lester is an Australian journalist living in Washington D.C, she joins us to help unpack what’s happening on the ground over in the U.S. Plus, a few weeks ago, we had a vibrator dilemma that broke the Internet. Now, there’s another one… And we’ve got our Jessie back at last. So, what DID she do on her holidays, how much do cocktails cost after inflation? And what does she want you to know about what it's really like traveling in a post-Covid world? The End Bits: Subscribe to Mamamia RECOMMENDATIONS:Jessie wants you to read Magpie by Elizabeth Day Sign up to the Mamamia Newsletter here  GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We’re listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au CREDITS: Hosts: Mia Freedman, Jessie Stephens and Holly Wainwright Producer: Emma Gillespie Audio producer: Leah

What's a soft voter? Are there any election policies centered around women? If I care about the environment, who should I vote for? How many of us are early voting, and how will that impact getting a result on election day? As we crawl slowly towards the end of a grueling six-week campaign, Mamamia Out Loud's Holly and Mia spoke to The Guardian Australia's political reporter, Amy Remeikis, to answer all your burning questions ahead of Saturday.  Hosts: Mia Freedman & Holly Wainwright Producer: Emma Gillespie With thanks to Amy Remeikis Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yes, we're back! With Biden now President-Elect, Mia and Amelia are back with a special episode of Tell Me It’s Going To Be OK. While we may have stopped the show in December of 2018 because our mental health couldn’t take it any more, we’re bringing it back for you today, because it seems like it maybe…just maybe is going to be OK…. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mia is back with Holly and Jessie from Mamamia Out Loud to give you an update on all things 2020 election. Biden and Trump believe they're both on track to win, as protestors in Washington take to the streets and the mood grows sombre for many....But with mail-in ballots continuing to be counted, we're in for a long week.  CREDITS Hosts: Mia Freedman, Holly Wainwright and Jessie Stephens  Producer: Emma Gillespie and Elissa Ratliff CONTACT US Via our PodPhone on 02 8999 9386 Via our email at outloud@mamamia.com.au   Via our Outlouders Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/groups/329632330777506/ Mamamia Out Loud is a podcast by Mamamia https://www.mamamia.com.au/author/mamamiaoutloud/     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello there Tell Me It's Going To Be OK - it's been a while.  While Tell Me It's Going To Be OK is no longer, don't fear, we've still got all your Trump updates, just in a different feed. So for all your US election news, subscribe to The Quicky.  The US election is now underway and everyone is waiting to see if it is in fact 4 more years for Donald Trump or a swing back to the Democrats in what has been a hate-fuelled, angry campaign from both sides. Will it be a repeat of 2016? Will Joe Biden actually win like the polls suggest? What if the Electoral College ends up in a tie? Chas Licciardello from the ABC's Planet America breaks down all the potential outcomes of Biden/Harris or Trump Pence 2020. Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Guest Booker: Mel Sauer Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Guests: Chas Licciardello co-host of the ABC's Planet America CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamam

Hello there Tell Me It's Going To Be OK - it's been a while.  While Tell Me It's Going To Be OK is no longer, don't fear, we've still got all your Trump updates, just in a different feed. So for all your US election news, subscribe to The Quicky. In the meantime here's Claire Murphy hearing from the people who know Joe Biden and Donald Trump the best... How do you know if someone is the right person for the job if you've never met them in person? How about speaking to the people who have? The Quicky finds out who Joe Biden and Donald Trump really are from those who have worked alongside them. Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Guest Booker: Mel Sauer Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Guests: Jeff Bleich, former US ambassador to Australia and audio courtesy of MSNBC, CNN the Ben Shapiro Show and Business Insider Australia CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au See omnystudio.com/l

Hello there Tell Me It's Going To Be OK - it's been a while.  While Tell Me It's Going To Be OK is no longer, don't fear, we've still got all your Trump updates, just in a different feed. So for all your US election news, subscribe to The Quicky. In the meantime, here's what it is actually like being a reporter in the White House... Imagine every day you turn up to work, the most powerful man in the world tells you you're bad at your job, that you're a liar, that you spread 'fake news'? That's what it's like for some members of the White House Press Corp. Today The Quicky finds out what it's like to cover the day to day life of President Donald Trump Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Guest Booker: Mel Sauer Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Guests: David Smith, Washington Bureau Chief for The Guardian and Kathryn Diss, ABC Australia US Correspondent based in Washington CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email

Amelia Lester and Mia Freedman debrief on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report released this. The shortened version? NO COLLUSION. If you want to get in contact with Mia and Amelia, email podcast@mamamia.com.au Tell Me It's Going To Be OK is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here.

This week we've seen New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern cement her place as a leader of her generation. She's responded to the terror attacks in Christchurch with meaning and purpose, her people saying instead of feeling like she was above or removed from them, she was right there beside them. But who is Jacinda Ardern? Mamamia's new podcast The Quicky sat down with writer Amelia Lester who has spent time with one of the youngest world leaders and find out more about the woman currently holding New Zealand's top job. CREDITS Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Elle Beattie Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Special thanks to Amelia Lester.  The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you are...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. The Quicky. Getting you up to speed. Daily. Want The Quicky in you