We are delighted to have Belinda Smith host the launch of Investigative journalist Rich Haridy's Trip Reports.

Psychedelics have been one of the most exciting and controversial developments in mental health treatment in recent years. Journalist Rich Haridy has been reporting on this space for years. In that time he has seen many shifts, including Australia moving from one of the strictest to one of the most progressive nations when it comes to the ways that psychedelics can being studied in labs and in experimental trials.

In Trip Reports, Rich Haridy does a deep dive into the experimental science and treatments happening across Australia and the world, from the little-known history of psychedelic use in medicine in 1960s Melbourne to the latest science on the impacts of microdosing (or lack thereof) and use of MDMA in PTSD treatment.

Belinda Smith started writing about science after realising she wasn't going to cut it as a scientist and now co-hosts The Science Show on ABC Radio National. She's presented and reported for All in the Mind, Science Friction, the Health Report and What the Duck?!, among many other podcasts, and her work's appeared on the BBC World Service.

Free, but bookings are essential.