Retail spending across Australia jumped by a record 8.5 per cent in March as consumers stockpiled food, home and office supplies in anticipation of coronavirus lockdown measures.

AMP has been forced to defend its plans for executive pay after frustrated shareholders moved to block the company’s 2019 renumeration report. The Finance Giant’s report has been voted down by a 67 percent majority at the company’s annual general meeting. The report stated the AMP’s Chief executive officer had been paid approximately four million dollars in 2019, despite the bank recording a four year net loss of 2.5 billion dollars in February.

Bike stunts, pet birthdays and a baby names which stumped the world are some of the trending topics on social media in Australia.

It seems that banks and other lenders are doing their best to lock in our mortgages.

You’ve probably heard the term “flattening the curve” more times than you can count over the past couple of weeks. But if we’re being totally honest with each other, there’s a good chance there’s something else that needs flattening, too.

Health Hacker Adam MacDougall reveals tips on how to fight lockdown weight gain.

It’s the same story whether you’re a celeb or a pleb - we’re all getting on each other’s nerves in lockdown. And it’s the same story for Kim and Kanye.

What the Oka crisis reveals about this week's pipeline standoff, COVID-19 sparks fears of a hockey stick shortage, Bernie Sanders impersonator James Adomian, charting U.S. Attorney General William Barr's next move, why pop music works, revisiting the death of Malcolm X and more.

Thirty years after she was wounded during the clash between soldiers and Mohawk activists at Oka, Que., ex-Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller reflects on how the country has changed — and how the rail blockade crisis could end badly.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde sits down with CBC's The House to talk about protests, blockades and how to save the Indigenous reconciliation project.

Seniors living in Ontario’s long-term care homes where some residents have been infected with COVID-19 say they are scared and lonely as many facilities enforce physical isolation to curb the virus, but they also praise staff and speak about resilience.

Tensions persist across the country over the ongoing rail blockades protesting the Coastal Gaslink pipeline.

On today's show: * Were the lockdowns worth it? * Why is the tracing app critical time set to 15 minutes? * When is it likely that we will be able to travel interstate again?

If a future employer asks you: "What did you do during lockdown?" Then "I watched a lot of TV" probably won't go down so well. Today, two career experts join us to talk about how to use your time in lockdown to build a solid career plan and make yourself as employable as possible.

Now, more than ever, are we sacrificing privacy online for connection? The changes in online dating behaviour during lockdown, and ruminations on aging when you still feel 28. Plus a song for its namesake.

Last month, the government of Malawi tried to impose a lockdown, but was knocked back by the courts.

A 15-year journey to build the world's largest wooden clock hit several hurdles, but the biggest was finding somewhere to put the 6-metre tall wooden timepiece.

A prison in WA's South West remains in full lockdown as a three-day raid uncovers a significant haul of drugs and syringes.

It's Holmes versus Moriarty in this lacklustre sequel that fails to add much to the detective-action franchise.

Queensland landholders are afraid that new government mapping of threatened species could lock up their land and force them to stop farming and grazing.

Cutting off essential services - like schools and support groups - because of the Coronavirus pandemic leaves 'at risk kids' increasingly isolated and vulnerable. 

The Prime Minister wants Australians to stop watching Netflix and start studying online – will his new package for universities work?

Star midfielder Tim Kelly says having two of his three sons diagnosed with autism while living on the other side of the country from his family was a major factor pushing his trade from Geelong to the West Coast Eagles.

Cryptocurrencies and gold would appear to at opposite ends of the investment risk spectrum, but that has not stopped The Perth Mint attempting to create a digital alloy to cash in on gold's return to favour.

About 65 arrests are made after some of the busiest roads in Perth's CBD were thrown into chaos on Friday morning by climate activists as part of a nationwide Extinction Rebellion demonstration.

Western Australia is experiencing its worst outbreak of measles for two decades, with 28 confirmed cases since the end of September and it is being handled in much the same way as a bushfire or a cyclone.

How well do you listen to people at work? No, stop and think - how well do you really listen, not just wait for your turn to talk or be distracted by the chatter in your head: "Wish he would hurry the hell up!" or "Here she goes pushing that agenda again, now I will be late for the gym." Executive coach Oscar Trimboli and author calls it deep listening and he says it involves not just listening to the content but also the meaning, context and most importantly, the unsaid. And it can change your life and your career. And if you are struggling a little in finding your mojo after being suddenly thrust into WFH, organisational psychologist, podcaster and founder of Inventium, Amantha Imber, shares her science-based tips on how to better structure your day to get stuff done. Oscar's book: Deep Listening - Impact Beyond Words. Deep listening quiz Producer: Maria Tickle

Brisbane parents Lachlan and Kristin Ryan are keeping their energetic daughter Sophia entertained while in lockdown with games and obstacle courses.

There are too many video conferencing apps. So this week on Download This Show, which is the least worst? Plus, how well is Australian internet holding up to our socially isolated future? And, how are streaming services responding to us all being stuck in the house? Guests: Tegan Jones, Editor, Gizmodo @Tegan_Writes and Seamus Byrne, writer, broadcaster of tech, future, gaming and digital culture @seamus This is an updated version of our episode

An ageing workforce and preconceptions about the transport industry are helping create a nationwide truck driver shortage that has serious implications for the economy.

The export market for raw leather and sheepskin has plummeted as competition from synthetics and a lack of demand has left exporters with stockpiles of almost worthless skins.

Trevor Ashby's property south of Mount Gambier looks like a typical dairy farm from the roadside, but hidden among the cows is a tiny portal into a world-class dive site.

At least one home is destroyed and there are fears for several others as fire crews deal with a bushfire emergency at Laidley in Queensland's Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane.

Parents are seeking answers after buses dropped off school children at a road block during the height of the Peregian Beach bushfire emergency, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast yesterday.

NSW's social-distancing shutdown will remain unchanged for the foreseeable future, despite just two new coronavirus infections being recorded yesterday and some other states relaxing their laws.

The Holmes family will continue staying home even after COVID-19 lockdown rules are relaxed — with good reason.

On March 31, the Premier enacted stricter social-distancing measures "for our own good" — here's how people in Australia's worst-affected coronavirus state survived, and thrived amid the lockdown.

As coronavirus restrictions tighten and public venues close around the country, egg producers turn to other avenues of income to get by.

Nursing homes have been locked down to protect vulnerable older people from the coronavirus but families who provide basic care, like feeding, say they need access because their loved ones may not survive without it.

A ship that sank in 1852 off Rye in Victoria has given archaeologists new insights into early Australian boatbuilding.

Residents are finding ways to cope as a full lockdown looms over the region, with one woman banging pots and pans in support of essential workers, while another considers whether to shut up shop.

Kat Jackson does not play a brass instrument, and neither does her eight-year-old daughter, Neve, but they plan to sound the Last Post in their driveway this Anzac Day.

With many children home from school during lockdowns parents are learning to balance work and life balances.

On her country mail run Jocelyn Flint delivers letters, boxes of wine, flat pack queen-size beds, asthma puffers and even biscuits for morning tea and she's a welcome sight in Tasmania's coronavirus hotspot.