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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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Why India is threatening Pakistan's water supply, plus the destruction of olive trees in the West Bank
After a terror attack in Kashmir in 2025, India suspended a key water treaty between the nations, threatening to cut Pakistan’s water supplies off by building…
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Australia's new treaties in the Pacific, plus do we really want to colonise space?
Australia's new treaties with Fiji and Vanuatu are being hailed as a diplomatic triumph. But how meaningful are they, and are they in the best interests of the…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, how sustainable is Ikea's wood, and the gossip and scandals of Australia's past
US commentator Bruce Shapiro looks at the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, Trump's attack on New York Times journalists over their Air Force One reporting, and…
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Mark Kenny's Canberra, death penalty methods in the US, and why more of us are using subtitles
Canberra columnist Professor Mark Kenny examines Liberal leader Angus Taylor's fresh criticism of One Nation. In Alabama, there's debate over the use of…
Late Night Live — Full program podcastSongs and stories with Roger Knox, the 'Koori King of Country'
Uncle Roger Knox joins David Marr in the studio for an hour of stories and songs: from growing up on the mission, to making his name in Tamworth, surviving two…
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Jonathan Swan inside Trump's regime, plus Thomas Jefferson's slavery paradox
The hit new book Regime Change offers staggering insights into Donald Trump's second presidency, revealed by New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan and…
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Ian Dunt on Nigel Farage's future, anti-gay laws in Africa, and the right to safe footpaths in India
UK commentator Ian Dunt joins Late Night Live moments before Reform leader Nigel Farage's fiery resignation as MP. Human rights researcher Larissa Kojoue says…
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Mark Kenny's Canberra, the age of manipulation, plus collecting ancient coins
Prof Mark Kenny surveys the Coalition's ongoing struggles to handle the surging popularity of Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Israeli philosopher Assaf Sharon…
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Did America's Revolution spur Australia's colonisation?
As the US celebrates 250 years since its Declaration of Independence, what links can we draw between America's Revolution and Australia's colonisation? Plus…
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When Australia had the world's first euthanasia laws, plus the huge potential of tiny gardens
30 years ago today, the Northern Territory briefly became the first place in the world where eligible patients could access voluntary euthanasia, until the…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, Japan's military woes, and vigilante cactus smugglers
Bruce Shapiro on the USA turning 250 and why a new Supreme Court decision means US President Donald Trump will have even more firing powers. Japan is…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, France ditches Palantir, plus Italy's expanding forests
Anna Henderson (chief political correspondent, SBS) surveys the latest polling figures, as the Coalition records a historically low primary vote of 17 per…
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How Murdoch's media wields power, plus the epidemics we've averted
A new book interrogates how Rupert Murdoch's global media empire shapes politics and public opinion in Australia and beyond. Plus, as the current outbreak of…
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UN to leave Lebanon, and should we ever bring lost species back to life?
UN peacekeepers will be leaving southern Lebanon after 40 years of service in the region, which dismays former peacekeeper, Professor Ray Murphy. Plus…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, economist Mariana Mazzucato on the common good, and Australia's first soccer match
After Pauline Hanson declared Australia should be 'monocultural', Coalition leader Angus Taylor has refused to commit his support for a multicultural…
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Ian Dunt on Keir Starmer's resignation, plus the rise and fall of Islamic State
After months of political pressure, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has resigned. Late Night Live's UK correspondent, Ian Dunt, joins the show for…
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Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party? Plus, the drawings that rewrite Aboriginal art history
A new tell-all book recounts the colourful escapades of adult industry lobbyists Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, in the lead up to the formation of the…
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Anna Goldsworthy on being human in the era of AI, plus the wonders of the Paris Menagerie
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is making writer and musician Anna Goldsworthy feel both more human - valuing what it is that differentiates us…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, the Indian sailors killed by the US, and First Nations anger at Brisbane Olympic site
Bruce Shapiro on the Iran-US deal, and where Benjamin Netanyahu sits within that. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure to confront Donald…
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Laura Tingle on Israel's response to the US-Iran deal, Trump vs South Africa, and Google's mosquito hunt
ABC's Global Affairs editor, Laura Tingle returns to Late Night Live, to examine Israel's response to the US-Iran peace deal. Can it hold? And Donald Trump's…
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'Serbia's Iron Lady' unrepentant for war crimes, plus how humans read faces
Biljana Plavšić became the only woman convicted for mass atrocities in the Bosnian War. Still alive, in her 90s, a Bosnian-Australian law professor meets her…
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Saving the Sepik river, and remembering the Soweto uprising
When a proposed mine threatens Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, the Sepik people resist the mine on their own terms, but will they succeed? And fifty years…
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Ian Dunt's UK, America's 'masculinist' movement, and could Switzerland cap its population?
Ian Dunt on the continued fallout over the death of 18 year old Southampton University student Henry Nowak. In the US, a radical movement known as…
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Finishing La Sagrada Familia, plus why people still love Spam
Against the odds, the exterior of Antoni Gaudi's extraordinary Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona is finished, and Pope Leo will bless the newly completed…
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How Australia changed course on drug policy, and the forgotten boat people of East Timor
Teenage vaping, pill testing, injecting rooms, medicinal cannabis and the opioid crisis: a look at Australia's efforts to manage illicit drug use. And the…
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Is Muskism the new Fordism? Plus, the maverick psychiatrist who studied life after death
Elon Musk looks set to become the world's first trillionaire when his company SpaceX goes public on the stock exchange. A new book asks if we're living in an…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, an Ethiopian philosophy of running, and a Glasgow protest gives hope
Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republican backlash to Donald Trump's so-called IRS slush fund. How Ethiopian runners win over performance enhanced athletes and a…
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Mark Kenny's Canberra, Syrians return home and Lord Howe Island cockroaches
A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, and Mark Kenny says…
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When America admired Iran, plus what are conservative environmentalists fighting for?
Historian and author John Ghazvinian argues that the past fifty years of hostility between the U.S. and Iran are an exception in a much longer relationship…
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Reckoning with war crimes, plus the women at the Nuremburg trials
Veteran war correspondent Janine di Giovanni has set up a project that trains journalists and researchers to gather evidence that can be used to prosecute war…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Spain's defiant PM, and Pavlova's tour of Oz
Ian Dunt surveys the unfathomable political turmoil in the United Kingdom, as a monumental by-election looms for Andy Burnham, the key Labour rival of…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bhaskar Sunkara on the Left in America, plus why ancient Roman gossip mattered
Anna Henderson looks at how likely it is that independents like the Teals could form a new centrist party. Does the success of New York City mayor Zohran…
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Satayjit Das on how the war in Iran has rocked global markets, plus queer Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi on finding home
Global financial analyst Satyajit Das looks at how the double whammy of Trump's economic warfare and the war on Iran is playing out here and around the world…
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Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin
Roddy Doyle reflects on a lifetime telling the stories of working-class people in Dublin, with themes of domestic violence, unplanned pregnancy and life in the…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, John Safran on when offending goes too far, and was Blind Freddy real?
Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republicans' shaping of South Carolina's congressional districts, in an effort to win the November mid-terms. John Safran's new…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, and translating Shakespeare
Anna Henderson looks at why the government remains unpopular despite popular support for changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax in the budget.Dr…
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How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones
There have been 141 royal commissions in Australia since Federation, but not all of them have brought about meaningful policy change. Plus, a new book tells…
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Ian Dunt on Starmer's demise, Antoinette Lattouf on women who win, plus 50 years of Australian film at Cannes
Ian Dunt on the political demise of Keir Starmer: even if he hasn't yet resigned, Ian says, he's already dead. How Antoinette Lattouf found inspiration in the…
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Australia's first political assassination, plus the man who led Japan into war
Journalist Debbie Whitmont revisits the 1994 murder of John Newman MP - a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination - and the man still behind…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, six months in a submarine and the ethics of crisis reporting
Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's victory in the Farrer by-election. What does the result say about the growing frustration with the major parties? The…
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Fintan O'Toole on Trump's brand of 'crazy,' plus how to escape the Taliban
Acclaimed journalist and author, Fintan O'Toole argues Trump’s political power lies in projecting the “right amount of crazy”. Plus how to help an Afghan woman…
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Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come up against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his biggest…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, why community radio matters, and an historic Pitcairn Island document returned
Our regular US commentator looks at recent political attempts to use defamation law to silence American media. 2SER, a Sydney community radio station with a…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, Kim Jong Un's comeback and classical marble statues - in colour
Anna Henderson on the Japanese PM's visit and the tragedy of Kumanjayi Little Baby's death in Alice Springs. Plus 2020 wasn’t a good year for North Korea’s…
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Australian writers celebrate David Malouf - friend, mentor, inspiration
David Malouf, who died last week at 92, was a hugely influential figure in Australian culture. A novelist, poet, teacher, arts advisor and board member, 'Boyer…
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Ian Dunt on the King's speech to Congress, plus the scandalous life of Dick Meagher
Ian Dunt looks at King Charles' address to US Congress and the subtle anti-Trump messages within it. Plus, a new biography details the life of Richard 'Dick'…
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Pakistan the negotiator, and reporting mass shootings
Why is Pakistan the new deal broker in the US-Iran war? And what do cryptocurrency and critical minerals deals have to do with their new-found role? And the…
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How war fired up indigenous soldiers, and Japanese espionage - fact or fiction?
Indigenous soldiers who fought in WW felt betrayed when they returned, then formed the first radical Aboriginal political organisation. And, before the Pacific…
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Who are the British elite today? Plus, memories of polio in postwar Australia
How the British elite see themselves is not what the data reveals. An historian of medicine, who's mother had polio, is revisiting the experiences of polio for…
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NZ PM's leadership struggle, and the Weintraubs Syncopators' sad end
New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon survives a no confidence vote, but how long can he hang on to the leadership? Plus why the Musician's Union of Australia put…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, Chernobyl's wildlife thriving and the great convict escape on the Catalpa
Trump contemplates his next move on Iran as the ceasefire deadline looms, while at home his administration is dealing with yet more scandal, this time in the…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, how best to commemorate war, plus Lake Eyre tourists need fuel
Our regular Canberra correspondent on the latest polling, and Independent David Pocock's new focus on taxing gas. Historian Peter Stanley argues for a new way…
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A Jewish Australian lawyer reckons with state violence. Plus, can corporate scandals be good for the world?
The Melbourne legal scholar Marika Sosnowski spent many years researching violence and the law in Syria. Now she reckons with her own family's proximity to…
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Ian Dunt's UK, the Colombo plan, and AI publishing scams
Ian Dunt examines what Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary means for the EU and looks at questions around Donald Trump's mental capacity. There once was a plan that…
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Jon Lee Anderson on Trump's Cuba threats, plus how chokepoints like Hormuz have shaped history
Cuba's leader is defiant in the face of the country's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, while President Trump hints at inflicting more pain. And the Strait…
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Australia's fuel import dependency, gay conservatives backing Trump, plus damaged treasures in Iran
Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republicans, a…
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The making of poet A.D. Hope, Australian literary giant
Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000) was one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. His first collection was not published until he was 48 years old, but its release…
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Sebastian Smee on being laid off by the Washington Post, plus the secret life of famous author Daniel Defoe
Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, recently laid off by Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America., Plus…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, antibiotic resistance in India, plus Marralwanga's bark paintings
Bruce Shaprio on the US President's latest ultimatum for Iran. Prof.Assa Doron reveals how India has become the global epicentre for the world's antibiotic…
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Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside down
The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic of…