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Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skies
Ian Dunt examines the role that the UK played in the Gaza ceasefire, and Keir Starmer crosses a personal Rubicon: he's criticising Brexit in public. I...

Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who speaks Esperanto?
Political editor at Guardian Australia, Tom Mcllroy, on why the government has watered down its superannuation tax plan, the wonders of cloud-watching...

Questions of consent: Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial plus shadeless landscapes
One of the 51 men convicted men of raping French woman Gisele Pelicot is appealing his conviction, arguing he didn’t know that she hadn’t given her co...

Could sanctions on Iran backfire? Plus the Australian father of the bomb
After attacks from Israel and the United States bombing of a nuclear facility, Iran is cracking down on dissent, while dealing with reimposed sanction...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Irris Makler on October 7, and New Zealand's crusade on feral predators
Bruce Shapiro discusses how long the U.S. government shutdown might last, and why ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are causing tu...

Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids
The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman is calling on the world's best and brightest to quit their corporate jobs and show some more 'moral ambition', to b...

Doc Evatt and the making of Israel, plus the twisted history of rope
Doc Evatt, an influential Australian politician and jurist, played a notable role in shaping Israel’s early international standing. As President of th...

How Malka Leifer was brought to justice, plus when America went mad for Mars
A new documentary recounts the 15-year struggle of three sisters from Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to bring their abuser and former-hea...

Ian Dunt's UK, the right to sing in Afghanistan, and how salmon got to Tasmania
UK columnist Ian Dunt surveys the strange world of political party conferences in the UK, plus the emerging role of former PM Tony Blair in plans for...

Mark Kenny's Canberra, ASIC and Stablecoin, and the threads of empire
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has wrapped up his three-day visit to the UK, including an appearance at the UK Labour Party conference. He's told the...

When 29 nations defied the world's superpowers, plus the pioneering SA cop Kate Cocks
It's been 70 years since 29 nations of Africa and Asia gathered in Bandung Indonesia in 1955 to forge a path beyond Empire, and lay the foundations fo...

Busting myths about young Australian voters, plus the decline of NGOs
Many assumptions are made about the politics and voting habits of young Australians, but what does the data actually say about generational political...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Nepal in the aftermath of revolution, and Ackland on defamation
The fallout of the Charlie Kirk assassination continues, with dozens of academics fired for their comments and Jimmy Kimmel returning to the air. Kirk...

Mark Kenny's Canberra, Trump's corporate clemency, and Muslim-Australian poetry
The ANU's Mark Kenny on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's performance at the UN General Assembly, how US President Donald Trump is going easy on white...

Questions over the Australian War Memorial literary prize, and trouble for the CIA
The Australian War Memorial has overruled a decision to award a military history literary prize to Chris Masters’ book, Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and W...

The politics of humiliation and billionaire giveaway
Australian anthropologist Hassan Gage makes the case that humiliation and its counterpart, dignity, are overlooked motivators of politics, both locall...

The UN's report on genocide in Gaza, Donald Trump heads to the UK, and Anguilla's internet jackpot
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a report by a United Nations Commision of Inquiry. One of the key authors of that report, Australi...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the killing of Charlie Kirk, plus why are we keeping QWERTY?
Anna Henderson on why both Labor and the Coalition are still grappling with climate targets when our first risk assessment shows urgent action is nee...

Germany's Gaza protest crackdown plus solving crimes using feathers
A new film investigates how Germany's desire to never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression...

The rise of the Chinese right wing in the US and how memory shapes geopolitics
The growing appeal of Donald Trump to the right wing Chinese community in the US, and the hidden war for collective memory - how narratives about nati...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, 50 years of independent Papua New Guinea, and the closure of Meanjin
Trump's soon-to-be-renamed "Department of War" killed 11 people on a boat, saying they were Venezuelan drug smugglers. As Bruce Shapiro says, the kill...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Modi's pivot to China and the death of Aussie gaelic
Anna Henderson discusses the fall-out from Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments on Indian migration, India's PM Narendra Modi wants a closer re...

Behrouz Boochani on Iran's Revolutionary Guard, plus why Trump is targeting libraries
Behrouz Boochani was locked in Naura for more than half a decade after fleeing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC). Now, that group will be designa...

Ian Dunt's UK, the journalists killed in Gaza, and why we're mesmerised by gold
Ian Dunt looks at Nigel Farage's scare campaign on migration in the UK, Al Jazeera plus' Managing Director, Dima Khatib, speaks out about the huge num...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Project Esther's antisemitism crackdown, and the dandy as working-class rebel
Liberal leader Sussan Ley condemned the weekend's anti immigration protests, but CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price supported them. Meanwhile the go...

Robyn Williams' 50 years of science shows, and the French philosopher guiding Silicon Valley
Robyn Williams looks back at fifty years of broadcasting The Science Show on ABC Radio National. Plus, why the tech tycoons of Silicon Valley love the...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, future Palestinian leadership, and Sydney's old street photography
From the USA, Bruce Shapiro on the latest deportation attempts against Kilmar Ábrego García, the FBI raid on John Bolton, and the twentieth anniversar...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's famine crisis, and Australia's missing poet laureate
Anna Henderson from SBS World News looks at the Nationals' attempt to repeal their net zero emissions target and what that means for the Coalition's e...

A Palestinian psychiatrist on the trauma in Gaza, and a yarn about wool and war
Drawing on her expertise in mental health and trauma studies, Palestinian psychiatrist, Doctor Samah Jabr, explores how the trauma of displacement and...

Ian Dunt's UK, Imran Kahn's defiance in prison, and rebuilding the past
Columnist Ian Dunt on the UK & European scramble to support Zelenskyy and Ukraine at the White House, after Trump's meeting with Putin in Alaska. Afte...

Laura Tingle on Trump & Putin in Alaska, Tuvalu's climate refugees, and why do we have surnames?
Laura Tingle assesses the meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin and where President Zelenskyy fits in the negotiations. A world-first bilateral c...

How evangelicals transformed Brazil, plus the last letters of French resistance fighters
A new documentary looks at how the evangelical movement began in the US, spread to South America, paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro a...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Why the Egyptians aren't doing more on Gaza, and deer gone feral
Bruce Shapiro looks at the man behind Donald Trump's immigration policy, Stephen Miller. The increasing pressure on Egypt to take action on Gaza. Plus...

Australia to recognise Palestinian statehood, and the first Tasmanians
Australia has announced its recognition of Palestinian statehood, joining a growing number of countries supporting a two-state solution. And historian...

Satyajit Das on the US debt crisis, plus 100 years of Mein Kampf
US debt is now at a level that some economists call "the death zone". Donald Trump is hoping his tariffs will help, but Satyajit Das thinks disaster i...

Hiroshima and the new nuclear threat, plus inside London's exclusive clubs
Eighty years since Hiroshima a nuclear expert says deterrence policies are no longer enough to deal with the increasing prospect of nuclear escalation...

Ian Dunt's UK, can peace last between Thailand and Cambodia? Plus, remembering the mad cow crisis
Ian Dunt looks at the backlash to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's intention to recognise Palestine. The bombs have stopped on the Thai-Cambodia borde...

LNL's new theme, lessons from the bridge walk, and Ukraine's corruption woes
After nearly ten years, Late Night Live has changed its tune. Annabel Crabb reflects on the lessons for Australian politicians after the Sydney Harbou...

Future warfare is already here, and a new story from an old tragedy - the sinking of the Titanic
Israel is using AI to track and target Hamas operatives - and those around them. Ukraine is efficiently deploying cheap drones against the military mi...

Unearthing the real Pompeii, plus when Zane Grey went shark-hunting in Australia
The Director of Pompeii Archaeological Park Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares some of the latest discoveries from the buried Roman city, as new areas are exc...