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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?
A new history of the union movement in Australia looks at those often left out of the picture: migrants, women, Indigenous Australia and LGBTIQA+ people. Plus…
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Tariff chaos on American shelves, Ukraine minerals deal and Lake Eyre in flood
Trump's constant changes to tariffs are wreaking havoc on US ports, logistics, and the price of goods. Any Russia/Ukraine ceasefire may be at a high cost to…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, and Harriet Walter re-writes Shakespeare's women
7.30 Political Editor Laura Tingle surveys the path ahead for conservative politics in Australia. And from Lady Macbeth to Kate the Shrew - actor Dame Harriet…
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The Brazilian Marxists claiming unused land, and Australia's Antarctic obsession
Journalist Vincent Bevins on the popular Landless Workers Movement of Brazil - an agrarian movement which redistributes unused government land. And…
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Who's still selling arms to Israel? And the legal rights of nature
Antony Loewenstein on the countries still supplying arms to Israel. And nature writer Robert Macfarlane asks, is a river alive?
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Ian Dunt's UK, Europe's thirsty data centres, and the survival of Indigenous message sticks
Ian Dunt unpacks the UK government's tough new plan to reduce migration. With swathes of Europe in drought, could new data centres exacerbate growing water…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, US-China trade talks and the art of the courtroom sketch
Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.
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Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids
Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.
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The destruction of Gaza's universities, and Donald Trump's fantasy maps
Cambridge scholars Dr Wesam Amer and Dr Mona Jabril on the destruction of universities in Gaza. Plus, why does US President Donald Trump enjoy meddling with…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, How Kerala got rich and vale Ted Kotcheff of Wake in Fright
Bruce Shapiro critiques Donald Trump's first hundred days in office. Fifty years ago Kerala was one of India’s poorest states, now it's one of the richest…
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Labor's stunning landslide, plus the hangover from Australia's wine boom
Laura Tingle and Niki Savva dissect Labor's landslide victory in the federal election, and examine what went wrong for the Coalition. Plus, writer Nick Ryan…
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Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
Leni Riefenstahl has been hailed as one of the greatest directors of all time, even though her most famous films were works of propaganda for Hitler's Reich…
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Australia's biggest tax lurks, and Mexico stares down Donald Trump
Australia's tax system is unusually generous to the prosperous. Ahead of the Federal election, why is tax reform not on the agenda? And how Mexico's first…
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Ian Dunt on UK's gender wars, John Lyons on Ukraine's resistance, and arts funding under pressure
Ian Dunt looks at how the gender wars have exploded in the UK, Global Affairs Editor John Lyons take us to a bunker in Kyiv and Brook Turner examines the…
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Laura Tingle's election, and the year that changed the world
Laura Tingle counts down to election day, as costings are released and Labor maintains its two-party preferred polling lead. Writer Phil Craig recounts how the…
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Australians in the Spanish Civil War, and when hair was thought to indicate character
Approximately 70 Australians risked their lives to fight Franco's fascism in the Spanish Civil War, but they are not honoured in Australia. And, whiskerology -…
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What it's like to be raided by DOGE, and the fearless feminist Beatrice Faust
A former employee of the US Institute of Peace (USIP) recounts the dramatic days when members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) raided…
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Laura Tingle's election, the survival of NATO, and the misunderstood pigeon
Early voting opens on a subdued day in the federal election campaign. Will the 76 year-old security pact NATO survive, despite US President Trump's skepticism?…
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Taiwan and its chips: the colourful history of this strategically important nation
As Taiwan waits to hear what tariffs the Trump Government will impose on its world-leading computer chips and semi-conductors, we bring you a rollicking…
Late Night Live — Full program podcastPhilippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now
In 1998, the former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet was arrested on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide. Philippe Sands was called to advise…
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Pollies and their private interests, and a forgotten hero in forensics
Sean Johnson from Open Politics says Australia's federal parliament needs to act against MPs who fail to disclose their private interests. And journalist Pagan…
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Harvard defies the White House, Yanis Varoufakis on 'Trump Shock', and Australia's oldest footrace
The Trump administration's war on universities continues, but Harvard refuses to 'yield'. Political economist Yanis Varoufakis compares Trump's tariffs to the…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the broken promise of religious discrimination reform, and a history of hand gestures
Laura Tingle recaps the official campaign launches of the major parties, three weeks out from the federal election. Another federal term ends without a…
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'Sorrow, grief, horror': Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
Two decades after The Secret River, Kate Grenville looks back into her family history—this time with fresh questions. What does it mean to live on land taken…
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Antony Green's last election broadcast, and the path ahead for Syria
Legendary ABC election analyst Antony Green has announced this federal election will be his last in an on-air role. Plus, journalist Nicholas Pelham on what…
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Bruce Shapiro's Trumpland, Netanyahu's latest scandal, and the death of the interval
Bruce Shapiro on who is getting rich from Trump's tariffs, Irris Makler on how the Gaza war is playing out inside Israel, plus why the theatre interval is…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the Brits baulk on AUKUS, and tariffs in the ancient world
Can Opposition leader Peter Dutton recover from a policy backtrack? What does the UK's AUKUS review mean for the relationship between the three allies? And a…
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John Howard and the 1998 waterfront dispute, plus Peter Rose on life as a literary editor
An ABC podcast has uncovered new evidence that casts doubt on the Howard governments' claims they knew nothing about plans to sack 1400 wharfies and train a…
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First Nations resistance in the River Country, and is ignorance always bliss?
Historian Stephen Gapps reveals the incredible story of frontier resistance warfare in a huge area of the Murray-Darling river system, across many First…
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Ian Dunt's UK, does the Coalition's gas policy stack up, and Australia's endless rabbit problem
Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.
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Laura Tingle's federal election, plus defining antisemitism at universities
As the election campaign gets underway, Laura Tingle looks at the messaging, who is being effective and what role US President Donald Trump plays in it all…
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Gaza and the contradictions of the West, and are priests employees of the Church?
Journalist Omar El Akkad examines what he sees as the moral contradictions of the West in the face of sustained violence in Gaza. Plus, lawyer Judy Courtin on…
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Sexual violence perpetrators getting younger, and lost in the Amazon for forty days
Perpetrators of sexual violence are getting younger, and the messaging campaigns aimed at men are only causing a backlash. Jess Hill on why our prevention…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Poland digging trenches, and crime in the Antarctic
Bruce Shapiro on the pressure facing judges, law firms and institutions to either comply with - or resist - US President Donald Trump's executive orders. As…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, mass protests in Turkiye and Australia's own vernacular
Laura Tingle on how the major parties have aligned to water down environmental protection laws in the face of further disasters in the Tasmanian salmon…
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The ethics of posthumous publishing plus the dark side of green cities
Questions are being asked about whether its ethical to publish author Joan Didion's personal diaries after her death - and without her consent. Plus the dark…
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Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East, and the firebombing of Tokyo
Historian Margaret Peacock traces the history of radio propaganda in the Middle East from 1940-1960. From the BBC to Radio Moscow, all the big powers had their…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Russia's frozen assets, and Poland confronts its queer history
Ian Dunt reflects on the role of Britain in a Europe bolstering its defences. Sir William Browder says sanctioned Russian assets should be used to leverage a…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Satyajit Das on how to survive a trade war, and trolling before the Internet
7.30 Political editor, Laura Tingle, asks whether Anthony Albanese ever had any chance of escaping Trump's tariffs. Economist and writer Satyajit Das, on how…
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The most trusting nation on Earth, and the rise and fall of Trudeau
The Danes, alongside other Scandinavian nations, are the most trusting people on Earth - trusting of their neighbours, fellow citizens and public institutions…
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A new age of nuclear peril, and the Caribbean countries lining up to leave the monarchy
As alliances wobble, wars rage and world leaders talk of rearmament, are we on the precipice of a new nuclear age? Security expert Ankit Panda says our…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, the potential of prison architecture, and Queensland's rebellious first female doctor
Bruce Shapiro is back as measles spreads in Texas, and Columbia University faces drastic defunding from the Trump administration. Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the origins of DEI, and who really discovered gold in Australia?
Political Editor Laura Tingle on the potential federal implications of WA's state election result. What are the origins of the DEI initiatives (diversity…
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Alan Rusbridger on the perils of political journalism, and Robert Dessaix on life, death, sexuality and more
Alan Rusbridger, the former editor in chief of The Guardian UK on Trump's push to silence dissenting voices in the media and writer Robert Dessaix has a new…
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The State of the World: the rise of Orbán, Trump and Netanyahu
Has the rise of leaders like Orbán, Trump and Netanyahu finally put paid to the liberal fantasy that fascism, ultra-nationalism and xenophobia were symptoms of…
Late Night Live — Full program podcastThe State of the Self: Have we lost a sense of community in a post pandemic world?
Despite the promise that we were “all in it together”, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a flight from sociability. While that escape may have been a relief for…
Late Night Live — Full program podcastThe State of the Nation: has the myth of the 'fair go' been broken?
Has the myth of the Australian fair-go finally been broken? Are social divides deepening and widening? And in a time of great uncertainty, how does Australia…
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Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump
Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on how they use humour to flip the narrative about transgender people, and how to tackle Donald Trump's transgender ban…
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The story of Russia through Putin's eyes, and the painting that rocked Australian politics
Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, renowned historian Orlando Figes, delves into President Vladimir Putin's rationale for war. And we go back to…
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Ian Dunt's UK, NT mining royalties slump and how to rescue a hummingbird
Ian Dunt on how the UK is reacting to Trump abandoning Ukraine. What happens to NT Indigenous communities when mining royalties dry up? And how to rescue a…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the money behind far-right young voices and the charlatan geologist from WA
Laura Tingle on the variation in poll results ahead of the election being called, the big money media-training the conservative young faces of the far-right…
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Calls to audit Welcomes to Country, and who pays for climate disasters when insurance folds?
Indigenous Australian theatre and arts director Rhoda Roberts says the backlash against Welcome to Country ceremonies is a return to assimilation. Plus in…
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A Catholic Bishop's take on the US Immigration crackdown, and the women who revolutionised Australian publishing
A growing number of Catholic Church leaders have criticised US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Bishop Mark Seitz from El Paso, Texas, says…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Vanuatu deals with multiple earthquakes and are book blurbs just an incestuous love-fest?
Members of the US Congress are wondering whether President Donal Trump will simply ignore the courts and and precipitate a constitutional crisis. How does…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the War Memorial refurbished, and the shipwreck that devastated Darwin
Laura Tingle looks at what role the independents could play in a minority Coalition government. And a look back at the shipwreck that devastated early Darwin…
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Political chaos in South Korea and the poet who broke taboos
A declaration of martial law in South Korea, lasting six hours, has created the country’s biggest constitutional crisis since the late 1980s, and the life of…
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Life in the shadow of Mussolini and how white supremacy infiltrated the wellness industry
The small town of Predappio is Italy’s premier neo-fascist tourist site, with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathisers descending on the town annually. So…
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Ian Dunt's UK, the economics of degrowth, and how relevant are the Oscars?
Calls to "stop the boats" have returned to UK Parliament. What is the degrowth movement, and can it really challenge the global economic order? Plus how…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the invention of jaywalking, and unearthing Roman mosaics
Outrage in parliament as the Opposition shuts down Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during Holocaust speech. Why some US cities are decriminalising jaywalkers…
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The wild and talented poet Dorothy Porter and re-thinking privacy
The late Australian poet Dorothy Porter is best known for her verse novel The Monkey's Mask. But her work ranged across many ouvres. Her early life at home…