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0:54:04

Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal?...

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2025/11/06

50 years since the Governor-General sacked sitting Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, do modern Liberal MPs still back the Dismissal? Plus, Peter Fitzsimons pays tribute to the heroic war surgeon, Ernest 'Weary' Dunlop.

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0:54:31

Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's win, despot architecture,...

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2025/11/05

New Yorkers have shaken the United States's political establishment and delivered 34-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani a thumping victory in the city's contentious mayoral election. Bruce Shapiro breaks down the early results. And US President Donald Trump said he wouldn't touch the East Wing of the White House. It's now been flattened, and there are plans for a new ballroom to be built. Plus Andrea Bartz, the Queer thriller writer who took on an AI company and won.

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0:54:34

The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest...

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2025/11/04

U Thant went from being a Buddhist teacher to playing a pivotal role in resolving some of the most dangerous international crises of his time as UN Secretary-General, so why has his legacy been over-looked? Plus what Australia's first photographs can tell us about early colonial life - and what they left out.

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0:54:34

Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social...

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2025/11/03

Anna Henderson looks at the political implications for both the Nationals and the Liberals of the Nats' decision to abandon its net zero policy. Can banning kids from social media really work, and will the big tech companies comply anyway? Plus the strange story of the CIA Kryptos code and why the answer is being auctioned off.

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0:54:34

Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza...

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2025/10/30

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says that rather than ensuring Israel respects the basic human rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people, Western states - including Australia - have provided Israel with military, diplomatic, economic and ideological support. And investigative journalist Quentin Beresford examines the deep connections between the Labor party and the gambling industry in Australia.

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0:54:35

The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive

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2025/10/29

A new book looks at author Patrick White's startling use of language, his mythic depiction of the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it, and the power his prose still holds today. Plus philosopher Lucy Allais reflects on the nature of forgiveness.

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0:54:32

Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and...

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2025/10/28

What does Ian Dunt think of the King's attempt to eject Prince Andrew from his royal lodgings? Then, in America, Chicagoans have been organising against ICE agents who are attempting to implement Trump's aggressive deportation agenda. Here at home, anthropology has turned 100 years old. Can the academic discipline escape from its colonial roots?

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0:54:34

Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance...

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2025/10/27

Anna Henderson looks at what changes the government is trying to make to environment protection laws and why the Coalition wants to split the bill. How an Indonesia-based surveillance company tracked journalists, activists and dissidents all over the world, and the scientists using artificial intelligence to understand whale language.

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0:54:35

The political drama before the Dismissal, and...

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2025/10/23

Today, we look backwards. Gough Whitlam's dismissal didn't come out of nowhere; 1974 and 1975 were years of intense political turmoil and scandal. Paul Kelly was there, in his late-20s, as The Australian newspaper's chief political correspondent, and has become one of the chief chroniclers of the dynamics that led to The Dismissal. Political ghosts haunt Russia, as well. But there's a very specific belief, held by some Russian occultists, that the ghost of Stalin is haunting their

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0:54:34

Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in...

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2025/10/22

The famous Benin bronzes, looted by the British in 1897, are gradually being returned home to Nigeria. But they won't be on display at Benin City's new Museum of West African Art when it opens next month. Plus, classicist Professor Marguerite Johnson on understandings and expressions of love in antiquity.

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0:54:32

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female...

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2025/10/21

Bruce Shapiro looks at Anthony Albanese's first meeting with US President Donald Trump and whether the critical minerals deal will see Australia become America's quarry. The little Dutch-speaking country of Suriname in South America has been ruled by a despot for years. But now it has elected its first female president who is promising to turn its fortunes around, and save its rainforests at the same time. Plus, why is the world running out of sand, and what can be done about it?

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0:54:34

Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western...

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2025/10/20

Crikey's Bernard Keane on Barnaby Joyce's decision to quit the Nationals. There's speculation the New England MP may join the One Nation party. Pulitzer prize winning journalist Chris Hedges slams the Western media's reporting of Gaza and the power of the Israel lobby. And why epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley, considered asking the Perth hospital named after her, to remove her name.

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0:54:34

Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus...

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2025/10/15

Historian and former intelligence officer Clinton Fernandes says there's method to the apparent madness of the second Trump administration's approach to foreign policy. Plus as hostages are returned and a ceasefire holds, historian Ilan Pappe considers the uncertain future of Israel.

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0:54:34

Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in...

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2025/10/14

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. In Madagascar, youth protesters have taken cues from the Gen Z uprising in Nepal and chased their president from the country. Then: the gender revolution in the sky, with the rise of the air hostess.

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0:54:33

Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who...

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2025/10/13

Political editor at Guardian Australia, Tom Mcllroy, on why the government has watered down its superannuation tax plan, the wonders of cloud-watching, and why aren't more people speaking Esperanto?

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0:54:33

Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial, plus how our cities...

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2025/10/09

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 consent. While French feminists argue consent should be explicitly included in French law, philosopher and author Manon Garcia says cultural understandings of consent, addressing patterns of violence and shoring up support in our criminal and civil courts are more important. Plus, why are our cities and towns devoid of any shade?

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0:54:34

Could sanctions on Iran backfire? Plus the Australian...

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2025/10/08

After attacks from Israel and the United States bombing of a nuclear facility, Iran is cracking down on dissent, while dealing with reimposed sanctions from western powers. Could these sanctions bring Iran closer to China? Plus, a new history of the Australian physicist Mark Oliphant, who made possible Oppenheimer's atomic bomb.

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0:54:25

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Irris Makler on October 7, and...

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2025/10/07

Bruce Shapiro discusses how long the U.S. government shutdown might last, and why ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are causing turmoil on American streets. Veteran journalist Irris Makler, reports on the two years since the October 7 Hamas attacks and examines Donald Trump’s proposed plan to end the war in Gaza. Plus, a look at New Zealand’s bold mission to eliminate all invasive predators by 2050.

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0:54:33

Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian...

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2025/10/06

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 build a better world. And botanical hysteria in Victorian England. How wealthy orchid fanatics sent hunters around the world in search of the ultimate bloom.*This show originally aired on 08 May 2025.

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0:54:01

Doc Evatt and the making of Israel, plus the twisted...

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2025/10/02

Doc Evatt, an influential Australian politician and jurist, played a notable role in shaping Israel’s early international standing. As President of the UN General Assembly in 1948, he was a strong advocate for the UN partition plan that led to the creation of the State of Israel. Plus sailor and author Tim Queeney examines the fundamental role that rope has played in shaping human civilisation, from enabling the construction of the Egyptian pyramids to facilitating Magellan’s

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