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Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
A war breaks out, a leader emerges, a revolution unfolds. How did it happen, and what are the implications for you? Award-winning journalists Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald are joined by two new hosts, former foreign correspondent Kylie Morris and journalist Latika Bourke in London. Every day, they'll be discussing the biggest world events and how to make of sense of them. Along with expert guests, they take a single topic and examine it with Australian eyes. Challenging, thoughtful and…
Episodes
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldLula's army: How WhatsApp helped flip Brazil's election
Lula wasn't supposed to win. Just three weeks before Brazil's presidential runoff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was trailing Flavio Bolsonaro by 2.2 million votes…
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldIs the US midterm result a win for ‘normal Americans’?
The US has been hit by a blue wave, maybe even a tsunami. But what can the Democrats achieve with their control of the congress? Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine…
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldNuclear anarchy: who’s stopping the next arms race?
In February this year, the New START treaty governing nuclear weapon stockpiles in USA and Russia expired. Is there anything to replace it? Pulitzer…
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldSouth Africa is moving on from Mandela's party. Is a new Africa emerging?
South Africa's politics are changing fast, and it may signal something much bigger. The African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela and President…
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Is Trump’s Russia diesel deal designed to win the midterms?
Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, a Senate race turns ugly, and a midterm election that could reshape his presidency. On the eve of the US midterm elections…
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Has liberalism stopped working? Waleed Aly on a world of 'monsters'
Populists are rising. Traditional parties are struggling. Trust in institutions is falling. So what if these aren't separate crises at all? In this special…
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Israel in deadlock: Will the Arab parties decide who governs?
Israel has voted in one of the most consequential elections in its history, but the result has produced no clear winner. Benjamin Netanyahu remains a major…
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Trump wanted a 51st state. Canada said no
Alberta has voted overwhelmingly against opening the door to separation from Canada, dealing a significant blow to one of the country's most persistent…
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Netanyahu's on the campaign trail: Will he survive Israel's election?
Will Israeli voters renew Benjamin Netanyahu's mandate, or is the country heading for a political turning point? ABC Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran…
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Is Europe at war with Russia? Russia seems to think so
Has Russia’s war with Ukraine spread beyond both countries borders? From cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns to attacks on critical infrastructure, one…
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How can we protect women in politics?
In the wake of the attack on Independent MP Helen Haines, Geraldine Doogue and Latika Bourke revisit their interview on the violence aimed towards women in…
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Is this the most consequential election in Israel’s history?
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert weighs in on the upcoming election, and the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Francom. With Israel heading to the polls on 27…
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Will the US midterms turn Trump into a lame duck?
Political tradition usually dictates that the midterm elections are bad news for the incumbent president. But when has Donald Trump ever been traditional?…
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Is Narendra Modi trying to rig India’s elections?
ABC Asia editor Karishma Vyas joins Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald to unpack a week of fast-moving stories across Asia. In India, a youth protest…
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Patrick Radden Keefe on the Russian money that remade London
In 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell from a riverside apartment balcony into the Thames. His death would reveal a massive dirty-money empire. Brettler's…
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What the gold market tells us about Trump, Russia, and China
Gold is the ultimate rainy-day investment. So why are countries around the world shoring up their stockpiles? And what does it mean when the price of gold…
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Jordan fears Israel more than Iran. Is the Middle East's buffer state about to crack?
Wedged between Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan has spent decades surviving crises that would have broken many states. It hosts millions of…
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro surge: Are Trump’s friends taking over Latin America?
His father’s in jail for attempting a coup, but Flavio Bolsonaro currently stands as the likeliest candidate for president of Brazil after the first round of…
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Do Trump’s allies now own everything you watch?
Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros is done, handing David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, control of CBS, CNN, HBO Max, Paramount Plus and…
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldDoes Australia overrely on the US? Two experts debate ANZUS and AUKUS
As long-held relationships between the US and traditional allies like Canada and the UK unravel, does Australia need to start eyeing the emergency exit? Does…
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Russia is stealing and indoctrinating Ukraine's children
It's been called the largest mass abduction of children since World War II. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken by Russia since the…
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'Frozen on October 7': Why Israel hasn't moved on
Three years after October 7, the Middle East that emerged from the attacks looks very different from the one that existed before them. In this special Global…
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A new world order is forming in the Middle East. Who will come out on top?
Eight months into the war between Iran, Israel and the US, the Middle East's old order is being redrawn, while opportunities and pitfalls abound. Geraldine…
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Xi Jinping is going after China's tycoons to save the economy
China's ultra-rich have started quietly selling down stakes in their own companies ahead of a looming October 22 deadline that will close a decades-old tax…
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Policy of rupture: How the AfD became Germany's most disruptive force
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz looks weaker than ever, and the nation's far-right AfD is stronger than ever. Europe's most important country looks to be…
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldIs Australia the world's last great book-loving nation?
Richard Walsh has spent decades publishing books. He thinks the physical book is surviving for a reason. As Radio National prepares to reveal Australia's Top…
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'To the Victor Belong the Spoils': Trump's UN speech and the weakest world order in generations
The world's leaders are heading home from UN General Assembly week, and Donald Trump gave them plenty to talk about: a threat to annihilate Iran, and a line…
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They risked their lives for Australia. We left them behind in Afghanistan
Four years after Kabul fell, hundreds of Afghans who worked for the Australian Defence Force, diplomats and NGOs are still waiting on promised visas, while…
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Has the flood changed Nepal forever? Amanda Hodge shares her ground view
A month after catastrophic floods and glacial collapse swept through Nepal, thousands are still missing and entire mountain communities have been wiped off the…
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Why Richard Flanagan says Elon Musk's X is the new Spanish inquisition
Australian author Richard Flanagan joins Global Roaming to talk about his new essay collection Heresies. He tells Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly why he thinks…
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Is China's rare earth monopoly already unbreakable?
China controls as much as 95–99% of the world's heavy rare earth processing. Your phone, your car, the wind turbines on the horizon, the F-35 fighter jet; all…
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Will Argentina go to war with the UK over the Falklands?
Argentina's President Javier Milei is suffering in the polls. The Falkland Islands may help with that. Javier Milei's radical style of leadership has earned…
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Can the centre hold? Lord Andrew Roberts on extremism and antisemitism
Historian Lord Andrew Roberts, biographer of Churchill and Napoleon, sits down with Geraldine Doogue fresh from visiting the site of the Bondi Beach massacre…
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AI tech bros are warning AI will destroy us. Are they right?
Tech giants from OpenAI, Anthropic, and X have all warned in the same week that AI could threaten humanity itself, as former employees go public with their…
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The Alliance | Your questions answered
After The Alliance mini-series drew a flood of listener mail, Hamish McDonald and Geraldine Doogue open the mailbag and bring in Guardian Australia's Ben…
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The assassination of a Maltese journalist and the verdict that shocked Europe
Nine years after Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb, the businessman accused of arranging her assassination has walked free. A…
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Trump, the Kushners and the rise of the US oligarchy
Much has been made of Trump dispatching his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for high-stakes diplomatic missions to solve conflicts across the world, but what do we…
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Will Japan's weak yen trigger a global debt crisis?
Global debt has passed 300 per cent of world GDP, bond yields are climbing across the world, and the U.S. war with Iran is putting pressure on households…
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Britain accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament the UK will ban trade with unlawful Israeli settlements days after publicly thanking Israel for sheltering his…
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25 years since 9/11, has AUKUS made Australia stronger?
In the five years since the AUKUS agreement was announced, can we still rely on our British and American allies? While most debate on AUKUS focuses on the…
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldAs Myanmar's civil war intensifies, Rohingya Muslims face violence once again
Nine years after more than a million Rohingya fled Myanmar, Bangladesh wants them to return. But return to what? As Myanmar's civil war intensifies, the…
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How Giorgia Meloni built Italy's most stable government since Mussolini
Giorgia Meloni has become Italy's longest continuously serving prime minister since Mussolini - no small feat in a country that usually burns through leaders…
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The AfD are winning elections: Is the German far-right back?
A far-right party is on the verge of forming a German state government for the first time since World War II. The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged…
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Is China gutting Germany's car industry while Trump grades NATO on loyalty?
China shock 2.0 has arrived and this time it's not the US rust belt in the firing line, it's Germany's beating industrial heart. Geraldine Doogue and Nick…
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The Alliance | Does the US value Australia?
After a week examining the history, logic and limits of the ANZUS alliance, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue turn to the American perspective. Former…
Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish MacdonaldThe Alliance | Has Australia sold its sovereignty to the US?
Andrew Hastie, the Liberal MP for Canning and Shadow Minister for Industry and Sovereign Capability, joins Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald for the fourth…
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The Alliance | If the US and China go to war, whose side are we on? Kevin Rudd answers
Fear of China and Japan has long defined Australia's foreign policy. Could there be a new way forward? In the third episode of The Alliance, Hamish McDonald…
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The Alliance | Why did we ally with the US in the first place?
The ANZUS treaty might be based more on cynical self-interest than a shared system of democratic values. In this episode of The Alliance mini-series, Hamish…
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The Alliance | Does Australia Still Need America? John Howard on Trump, ANZUS and AUKUS
In a special series this week, Global Roaming is checking the use-by date on our relationship with the U.S. Signed on 1st September 1951, the ANZUS treaty has…
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Her father fled the Taliban by boat. She became the first Afghan woman in the Australian army
At age nine, Kbora Ali arrived in Australia as an Afghan refugee after her family fled Taliban rule. Less than a decade later, she became the first Afghan…
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How big tech is creating the next Donald Trump
Nobel Peace laureate and Rappler founder Maria Ressa sits down with Hamish McDonald at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney to make the case that the…
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Helen Clark defends Fauci pleading the fifth and says Trump's vaccine cuts could cost lives
Helen Clark led New Zealand as Prime Minister for nearly nine years and she hasn't slowed down since. Now the Chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Clark spoke…
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As Israel rejects a criminal investigation into Zomi Frankcom's death, is international law dead?
In April 2024, an Israeli strike hit a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza, killing Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and and six of her colleagues. Two…
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The Taliban's rule over Afghanistan is starting to crack
As rebel forces grow in strength, and tensions rise their once-friendly neighbour Pakistan, how long can the Taliban rule? The Australian's Asia-Pacific…
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The case for optimism: Michael Kirby looks beyond the dire headlines
Has the world taken a wrong turn, or are we simply losing sight of how much progress has already been made? In the second part of this conversation, former…
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Is a unified Korea a lost cause? Justice Michael Kirby has hope
How do you begin mending one of the most destructive political divides in modern history? That is the challenge that former High Court of Australia justice…
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Surveillance, fear, and exile: The price of speaking out against China
When does political resistance become a moral obligation? Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao and Chinese-American journalist Melissa Chan have both paid a…
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Are American Democrats having their own MAGA moment?
What happens when a party's own voters start to rebel against the establishment? The victories of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and Democratic senate nominee…
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New Zealand's leadership challenge and the mystery of Kim Jong Un's heir
China fired a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific. Then its neighbours couldn't agree to condemn it. The missile came down in waters close to…
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Peter Garrett puts AUKUS on trial: is it a rip-off?
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has labelled AUKUS a bipartisan mistake. Is he right? Peter Garrett, former Labor minister and rock superstar, is now…