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Jodi Lee and Annie Pullar
Ep 24 · 2 October 2026 · 36 min

RBA Hikes Cash Rate to 15-Year High, Iran and the UK Terror Scare & Christa Pike's Failed Execution

This week on Covered, the RBA has hiked the cash rate to a 15-year high, we unpack what a fourth rate rise this year means for your mortgage and who's really to blame. Then, two suspected terror attacks on two separate continents in the past week. Passengers are being hailed as heroes after storming the cockpit of a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv. In the UK, five men arrested near an air base used by the US military were released on bail the next day, and Britain's Prime Minister now says Iran played a part. And finally, Christa Pike survived two lethal injections in Tennessee, reigniting the debate over the death penalty and why Australia abolished it.

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Jodi Lee

Jodi Lee

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