Yasmin Parry
Yasmin Parry is the senior digital and audio producer for the ABC's Audio Current Affairs team. She is the senior producer of the ABC podcast If You're Listening, and creates digital content for ABC News. She was previously a producer on the ABC podcasts Trace, The Signal, Tell Me Straight and Control Z.
Latest by Yasmin Parry
Britain's Tories copied Australia's 'stop the boats' policy. Now they're set to lose the election
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spent years fighting to send asylum seekers to an offshore detention facility. Not only has the plan failed, it's likely to help sweep his government out of office.
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Britain's beloved NHS was kneecapped by the Conservative Party. Then the COVID pandemic hit
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
The NHS was woefully unprepared when the pandemic arrived. Will this damn the Conservative Party when voters go to the polls in a few days?
How much is Brexit to blame for the UK's years of political uncertainty and chaos?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
David Cameron took a colossal gamble on Brexit and lost. What followed was years of political chaos and division. With a general election approaching next month, did Brexit break Britain?
The UK is poorer, sicker and more unsafe. Did the Conservatives break Britain?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
When the Conservatives took power in Britain 14 years ago, they took a butcher's knife to budget spending. It was designed to save the country, but did it break it instead?
Should we treat domestic violence like we treat terrorism?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
Spending on domestic violence prevention in this year's budget was dwarfed by funds apportioned for fighting terrorism. Is it time to change our approach?
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Michael Cohen has destroyed his life trying to put Donald Trump in jail. Here's why he flipped on his former boss
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
Michael Cohen was once Trump's personal attorney and said he would "take a bullet" for his boss, so what happened to make him flip?
When the Shah of Iran was diagnosed with cancer, a revolution was already underway
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
In 1974, two French doctors were called to the Iranian capital, Tehran. The doctors — specialists in blood diseases — had been asked to assess a government minister with cancer, but the appointment was odd.
Panda diplomacy: How China uses pandas to signal which countries they like, and which ones they don't
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
China's pandas are not just pandas. They're diplomats. You're friendly to China? You get a panda. You criticise China? You get no pandas.
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North Korea was floundering under sanctions. Now it's making billions from stolen cryptocurrency
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
Last year, stealing cryptocurrency became North Korea's primary form of foreign currency income.
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Netanyahu's brother once pulled off a legendary hostage rescue. Can Israel do it again?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
Benjamin Netanyahu's brother once led a team that rescued 102 hostages and created a legend. It gave Israel a reputation for getting hostages back no matter what, but can they pull it off this time?
Ahmed Yassin was a quadriplegic refugee who ran a charity. How did he end up founding Hamas?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
How did Ahmed Yassin go from a spiritual leader running a charity, to the co-founder of the ferocious political and paramilitary group Hamas?
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How a group of Florida men allegedly plotted the assassination of the Haitian president and sent the country into chaos
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
In 2021, a doctor and pastor met with his friends in Florida allegedly to arrange the overthrow of the Haitian president. Now Kenya is being sent in to help a country plunged into chaos.
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Elon Musk wouldn't give Ukraine's military access to his Starlink satellites at a crucial moment. Did he make the right call?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
On the evening of Friday, September 16, 2022, Elon Musk was stressed. He was being asked to make a decision that he thought would change the fate of the war in Ukraine.
Robert Goddard's ideas were mocked a century ago. Now, his ideas will help build a petrol station on the Moon
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
When Robert Goddard thought he'd figured out how to get humans into space in 1920, the press called his ideas "absurd". Now, his ideas about rocket propulsion will help us create a petrol station on the Moon.
A Danish pharmaceuticals-maker has just become the biggest company in Europe — all because of one drug
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
How did Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk become the proprietor of one of the most in-demand products in the world?
One of China's biggest decisions was a secret from the West. Then David Attenborough asked one question
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
When David Attenborough was touring China in 1979, he asked a question about population control. Transcripts show it was one of the first mentions of the One Child Policy to Western media.
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Why is Russia meddling in West Africa, and could it plunge the region into war?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
The world's attention is on Ukraine, but a wave of coups in West Africa could lead to all out war between Russia and the West.
The world's most important company and why everyone wants control of it
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
The best microchips in the world are made by TSMC. How did it become so important?
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Worthless banknotes and spending money while you have it: This is what life is like with 100pc inflation
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
How did a country, once among the wealthiest in the world and uncomfortably similar to Australia, totally lose control of its economy?
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Donald Trump was just charged with deleting CCTV footage. Could it land him in jail?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
Donald Trump has been charged after trying and failing to delete CCTV evidence of farcical and allegedly criminal behaviour. How was he brought undone by a bunch of boxes?
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Russian 'General Armageddon' Sergei Surovikin is missing — is he 'resting' or Resting In Peace?
By Matt Bevan and Yasmin Parry for If You're Listening
One of the top leaders in the Russian Army, Sergei Surovikin, has not been seen since the mutiny against the Kremlin last month. At first it seems odd, but it turns out General Surovikin is not who he seems.
Prince Harry and Meghan's Spotify drama comes as the royal couple quietly pivot their careers
By Rebecca Armitage and Yasmin Parry
Just months after Meghan Markle's podcast debuted at the top of Spotify's charts, her lucrative deal with the audio giant has collapsed. Here's what may have gone wrong.
Desperate son searches for mother after Türkiye-Syria earthquake
Gürkan is standing in front of an apartment block that collapsed when an earthquake hit southern Türkiye and northern Syria. His mother is trapped somewhere inside.
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Doctors warn bulk-billing system will collapse without major Medicare overhaul
GPs are warning that your days of finding a bulk-billing doctor could be numbered, with some arguing that without a major injection of Medicare funding they will be forced to charge patients hefty out-of-pocket fees.
When 28 horses were found submerged in freezing floodwater, a 24-hour rescue mission began
By Dale Drinkwater, Wing Kuang, and Yasmin Parry
When Liz Hall saw a photo of three horses waist-deep in floodwaters, covered in heavy rugs and trapped by fencing, she asked Facebook, "How on Earth is this OK?". Then she took action.