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Peter Garrett on Aukus, politics and the fight for “the soul of the country”

14 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aukus is the most expensive defence project in Australia’s history; a project, that at its heart has the plan to acquire nuclear-powered submari...

The ‘playbook’ lobbyists use to delay climate action

13 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Professor Christian Downie appeared before a Senate inquiry into climate and energy misinformation, he warned that Australia is facing coordinate...

Policy advisor Rinehart and One Nation’s three million dollar payday

12 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pauline Hanson has spent decades casting herself as the outsider, the voice of people who feel ignored by the political class.  Now, One Nation i...

Emily Maitlis on the Belfast riots, Elon Musk, and the anti-migrant frenzy

11 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The scenes in Belfast this week have been horrifying to watch - ugly clashes, masked men rioting in the streets, immigrant families begging neighbours...

“Hit them hard”: Trump unleashes on Iran amid claims he’s lost control

11 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump is right now following through on his threats to “hit Iran hard again” unleashing another round of strikes. Trump says he wan...

Ditch the Witch 2.0 and the personal toll of sexist abuse in politics

10 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Julia Gillard delivered her now-famous misogyny speech in 2012, it was against a backdrop of some horrendous sexist attacks. One of the most prom...

Inside the Neo-Nazi compound funded by millionaires

09 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, the federal government announced that the biggest neo-Nazi organisation in the country would be listed as a hate group. A few days ago, Th...

Meet Jeni and her 2681 alter personalities: together they made legal history

08 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The conversation you’re about to listen to is almost certainly unlike any interview you’ve heard before. It’s unlike any 7am has eve...

Mega data centres in bed with big gas: how fossil fuels are powering the AI boom

07 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Right now, AI data-centre mega-hubs as large as 350 hectares are being planned across Australia – that’s the equivalent of 175 MCG playing...

Trapped in a Cambodian scam factory

06 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this year, authorities found something extraordinary inside a Cambodian scam compound: a fake Australian Federal Police office. There were Aus...

Can Tony Abbott save the Liberal party?

05 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Abbott is back at the centre of Liberal Party politics.  The former prime minister has been elected unopposed as federal Liberal Party presi...

Nick McKenzie on Mick Gatto, the underworld, and construction corruption

04 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Melbourne, few names carry the weight of Mick Gatto.  For decades, he’s been known as a survivor of the gangland wars, a man whose influ...

Do we need a royal commission into violence against women?

03 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

29 women have been killed in Australia so far this year - most allegedly by their intimate partner. Their names sometimes hit the headlines, but often...

Could Pauline Hanson actually become Prime Minister?

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For decades Pauline Hanson has been on the fringe of politics. Sometimes mocked, often ignored, occasionally courted. Even from that position she...

The next pandemic: Why the world’s more at risk than ever

01 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Five years on from COVID, a new report has found the world is even more vulnerable to new pandemics than it was before.  The report, by a body li...

Why Sarah Wilson says civilisation is collapsing

31 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The world is facing a series of large-scale crises – war, declining democracy, climate catastrophe.  So, is it all a sign that our civilisa...

‘We do not feel safe’: Kumanjayi White’s grandfather on the danger of the NT police

30 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One year ago this week, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi White, died after being restrained by police inside a supermarket in Alice Springs. This...

Teal party power and Albo’s political booby trap: the week in politics

29 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Well, the budget blowback is showing no signs of easing but this week the government doubled down, introducing the legislation for its tax changes to ...

‘A serious mess’: The crisis inside the corruption watchdog

28 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Brereton – the outgoing head of Australia’s National Anti-Corruption Commission – was grilled at Senate estimates this week. Br...

The fantasy of Trump’s Iran deal

27 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Guest host Waleed Aly joins the 7am team as the US launches fresh strikes inside Iran, in the middle of a ceasefire. Days earlier, Donald Trump had sa...

Kids forced to represent themselves in court: The NT’s legal aid crisis

26 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For most of us, facing court with no lawyer and no legal advice in a case that could change the course of your life would be unthinkable. But that&rsq...

Part 1: On board the flotilla captured by Israel

25 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, seven Australians returned home after being detained by Israel. They had been part of the Global Sumud Flotilla – more than 400 activ...

Part 2: The legal fight to hold Israel to account

25 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Lawyers for the Australians detained after Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla are now building a record of what happened.  They’r...

Tanya Plibersek on the PM’s ‘tone deaf’ DV comments and calls for a royal commission

24 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australia is again being forced to reckon with the violence being inflicted on women and children.  The PM is adamant a royal commission isn&rsqu...

The man who took the fight to Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest

23 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Federal Court has ordered Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue to pay the Yindjibarndi people $150.1 million. It is the biggest native title compensat...

Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

22 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The federal budget has been hit by a fierce campaign from large sections of the media and a handful of high-profile millennial entrepreneurs. But so f...

Nightclub firebombings and ‘The Ghost’: Melbourne’s latest crime war

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It started with a single nightclub attack and escalated into what’s been dubbed Melbourne’s hospitality crime war. More than 30 clubs, pub...

Jim Chalmers defends his budget

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For two decades, we’ve had a tax policy that pushed up house prices, gave landlords huge advantages, and ultimately created an intergenerational...

Keli Holiday and the new risk of touring Trump's America

19 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You may know him as Keli Holiday, one-half of Peking Duck, or even as Abbie Chatfield’s boyfriend… Now, Australian musician Adam Hyde has...

Doped-up athletes and million dollar prizes: The Enhanced Games is here

18 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This weekend in Vegas, athletes including Australian swimmer James Magnussen will take part in the Enhanced Games – a competition that freely al...

Eurovision, Israel and the politics of pop music

17 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over the weekend, Eurovision got a feel-good ending. Bulgaria won the contest for the very first time with their infectious song Bangaranga. And Austr...

AUKUS: This could only end in a very bad place

16 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s budget shows AUKUS is getting bigger. The government is putting more money into the agencies, workforce and infrastructure needed fo...

Why Labor's 'breadcrumb' budget feels like a meal

15 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After Labor handed down its fifth budget, Anthony Albanese spent the week answering one question: had he broken his promise? The government wanted the...

David Pocock on the “cowardly” announcement hidden on budget day

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Senator David Pocock has been one of the fiercest advocates for the You win some, you lose more report, known as the Murphy Review, and its recommenda...

Why is Rebel Wilson being sued by her co-star?

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's a case where the art has been overshadowed by the drama.  The star of Australian film The Deb, singer Charlotte McInnes, is suing Austr...

Will the PM’s tax reform fix the housing crisis?

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The housing market – and young people without rich parents being locked out of it – has dominated dinner table conversations for years.&nb...

Labor’s budget promises fairness – does it deliver?

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It was a budget framed around fairness for workers and for young people locked out of the housing market.  Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ fifth bu...

Did Coles and Woolies con customers?

11 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Tams and Tiny Teddies aren’t usually the stuff federal court cases are made of, but product by product, dollar by dollar, the ACCC has been ...

Bonus ep: Why One Nation’s win changes the game

11 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s something Pauline Hanson has been eyeing for years – and on the weekend, she finally got it: a seat in the lower house. Her candidate...

“Children saying heil Hitler”: What we’ve learned from the antisemitism hearings

10 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The first week of hearings at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion opened with Jewish Australians describing what life now feels...

The tabloid panic rewriting bail laws

09 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last year – after months of pressure over youth crime, and claims the system had become too soft – Victoria passed what it proudly called ...

Will One Nation win its first federal lower house seat?

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The seat of Farrer in NSW has been empty since the resignation of former Liberal leader Sussan Ley.  Today, a new member will be elected, and whi...

The danger of shunning the ‘ISIS brides’

07 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Late yesterday, four women and nine children arrived in Australia from Syria.  The women, who originally left the country to be part of the Islam...

Beatings and rubber bullets: Onboard the flotilla intercepted by Israel

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A flotilla of boats carrying aid towards Gaza was still hundreds of kilometres from the coast when the Israeli navy moved in. Australian activist Zack...

Could the RBA’s rate rise send Australia into recession?

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates again. The cash rate is now 4.35%, after the third rate hike in a row.  For Australians already stretc...

“Our little queen”: Could Kumanjayi Little Baby’s death be a turning point?

04 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On April 25, Kumanjayi Little Baby was reported missing from her bed at the Old Timers town camp, just south of Alice Springs. Five days later, after ...

Antoinette Lattouf on her ABC battle and the cost of winning

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2023, Antionette Lattouf was sacked by the ABC after sharing a Human Rights Watch post about Gaza.  What followed became one of the most close...

Why Australia has more guns than ever

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In December last year, in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, Anthony Albanese promised the biggest national gun buyback since Port Arthur. He wanted...

All aboard Gina Air! Pauline’s private plane and the week in politics

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Albanese government has moved quickly on the royal commission into antisemitism, accepting all the recommendations from its first report, before p...

Why rising terror threat levels could render the Bondi Royal Commission useless

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The first report from the Royal Commission into Antisemitism has landed at a volatile moment.  Australia’s terrorism threat level is alread...

Bonus Ep: How Iran is using rap and lego to win the propaganda war

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Iran’s war time propaganda videos featuring AI rap music and Lego characters are getting millions of views online. They praise the Islamic ...

The MAGA breakup: Why Tucker Carlson turned on Trump

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It was a relationship that saw both Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson rise to power. Now, the Tucker-Trump bromance is officially over. Conservative med...

Andrew Denton on a beloved broadcaster's final taboo act

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From his diagnosis with oesophageal cancer in 2024 to openly wrestling with end-of-life decisions, beloved ABC broadcaster James Valentine took his li...

Fanning the flames: political violence in Trump’s America

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump has compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and JFK after an alleged shooter, dubbed in his reported-manifesto as the “friendly federal...

The fight for Dan Duggan - Part 1: From 'Top Gun' to wanted man

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2022, Dan Duggan was arrested at a Woolworths in Orange, regional New South Wales, after dropping his kids off at school. American prosecut...

The fight for Dan Duggan - Part 2: The extradition battle

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Duggan’s case is now an extradition battle. Former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus approved the Australian citizen’s extradition to the ...

Part 1: Victoria’s historic treaty

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan introduced the state's treaty bill into parliament, she said it would pave the way for a formal apology, the intr...

Part 2: The politics and pushback

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Indigenous leaders across the country welcomed Victoria’s treaty. The legislation enshrines a democratically elected body for First Peoples, cal...

NDIS shrinks, gas profits soar, and One Nation takes a hit: the week in politics

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the Albanese government moved to rein in the NDIS, making a hard political argument that one of the most impactful reforms in recent memory...

“Confusion and distrust”: The disability community on the NDIS overhaul

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The government says the NDIS has drifted too far from its original purpose, has grown too fast and too loosely, and that it now needs a major reset. H...

Bonus Ep: Punter’s Politics and the gas tax “ripping off” Aussies

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not often politicians are taken to task by regular Australians on the issues that fill them with rage. But that’s exactly what happen...

A fellow war vet on Ben Roberts-Smith and the long legal road ahead

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith, who is out on bail for five charges of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners in 2009 and...

Inside Putin’s classroom propaganda push

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This year a Russian documentary filmed at a school in Russia won an Academy Award. Its hero? A Russian Primary school teacher, Pasha Talankin. After R...

Amateur hitmen, mistaken murders and airtasker for crims: the new underworld

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been dubbed by underworld kingpins as “disorganised crime” A new wave of young, amateur gangsters is changing the scene –...

Acid rain, toxic water & tonnes of CO2: The hidden cost of the Iran war

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The images coming out of the US-Israeli-led war in Iran have been described as apocalyptic. Oil depots have burned for days. Strikes have hit petroche...

The powerful firms reshaping our universities

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One of Australia’s most prestigious universities is now at the centre of three investigations and could be about to face a fourth. Last year, AN...

“Dumb bigotry” and recession warnings: the week in politics

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the Albanese government has been forced to confront a growing sense of instability, with fresh warnings from the IMF about the global econo...

Albo’s gambling ad gamble: too little too late?

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For years, gambling advertising has spread far beyond the ad break, becoming a familiar part of how Australians watch sport, follow news about sport a...

When kids = content: Inside the world of family influencers

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It started as a bunch of mummy bloggers on the internet trading tips on everything from breastfeeding to toddler tantrums.  Now the world of chil...

Migrants draining the nation: Angus Taylor's hard line immigration plan

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a controversial proposal – immigration based on blatant discrimination. Opposition leader Angus Taylor has laid out the beginnings of...

Death by Hanging: Inside Israel's new laws for Palestinians

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Israel has passed a new law allowing for the execution of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks. The law passed through the country’s parliam...

‘I’m sitting at home having seizures. I can't drive my car’: Why John Barnes is suing the AFL

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

More than a decade after he retired from AFL, John Barnes collapsed without warning and began having seizures. The former Essendon and Geelong ruckman...

Ali Jan’s family speaks: We want to testify against Australian troops

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In September of 2012, Australian soldiers descended on the rural village of Darwan in Afghanistan, killing four men. That raid and the events of that ...

Can Singapore help with Australia’s fuel problem?

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The fighting may have temporarily eased in the Middle East, but the fallout is still moving through the global economy. Shipping through the Strait of...

Chris Masters on unravelling the Ben Roberts-Smith story

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Roberts-Smith was once held up as the face of Australia’s war in Afghanistan. This week, he was arrested and charged with war crimes.Ben Rob...

The Stolen Generations never ended

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Eighteen years ago, Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations and said those injustices must never happen again. But in that same year, Vanessa ...

‘You’ll be living in hell’: Is Trump threatening war crimes?

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a war of shifting deadlines for President Trump. And now, his latest one expires this morning. Trump is threatening that if Iran fails...

The social media ban isn’t working. Now what?

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The first official report from eSafety on how the government’s under-16 social media ban is going has been released. And the early picture is gr...

The Texas oil man planning to frack the Kimberley

05 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Under one of the most remarkable landscapes in Australia is one of the world’s largest undeveloped reservoirs of onshore gas – and a Texas...

How pro-wrestling shaped Trump

04 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2007, future United States president Donald Trump stepped into the wrestling ring for a showdown with Vince McMahon, then head of World Wrestling E...

It’s a tough time to be Jim Chalmers

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For months, Jim Chalmers has been trying to write a budget about the future – productivity, reform, repair. But events have a way of dragging bu...

Kathy Lette on the AI book scandal

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Readers and writers have been left reeling after a horror novel became the first book to be cancelled over AI claims. The New York Times has reported ...

‘Cuba’s next’: Can anything stop Trump?

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump says Cuba's next. For decades, the United States has tried to isolate the country, but now the language is getting stronger, and a tighte...

Artemis and the new China-US Space Race

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Hoffman grew up on Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. He was still a boy when the space age began – Sputnik, the first American astronauts, t...

Will Trump invade Iran?

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s now one month since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran – and it looks like it may be entering a more dangerous phase. Was...

What Louis Theroux’s Manosphere doco missed

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Louis Theroux has spent years making television out of the people polite society prefers not to think about. In his new documentary on the Manosphere,...

How Australia is taking advantage of one neighbour’s climate crisis

28 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In late 2023, Australia signed a landmark treaty with Tuvalu – a low-lying Pacific nation threatened by climate change – promising a speci...

Waleed Aly on the shifting political order

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last weekend’s South Australian election wasn’t just a wipeout for the Liberals and triumph for Labor, it was a sign that political discon...

The Holy Warrior leading Trump’s War

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Pete Hegseth faced the Senate to become Donald Trump’s defense secretary, he was grilled on everything from his lack of experience and his ...

Chris Bowen on the fuel crisis, a gas tax, and backing the Iran war

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a rollercoaster ride on the global oil market, with wild swings in petrol prices at the bowser. The war against Iran has caused panic ...

Should tobacco shops exist? The new weapon in the tobacco wars

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australia’s tobacco wars are fuelling violence, with fire bombings and arson attacks spanning across the east coast. Now the federal government ...

Covid-level crisis? How Australia ignored fuel warnings

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

John Blackburn spent four decades in the Air Force, rising to Deputy Chief. For more than decade he’s been warning that Australia is too reliant...

Disinformation Wars and a ‘Post Truth’ World

22 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Like so many stories about misinformation, this one starts with a social media post.  “Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake ...

The giant cuttlefish and the deadly algal bloom

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been one year since dead fish began washing up on South Australian beaches, as the largest algal bloom in Australia’s history spread ...

Will SA be hit by One Nation’s ‘orange wave’?

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

South Australia does not usually wake up on election day at the centre of the national mood. But this morning, a contest that looks settled on paper i...

The other war front: Lebanon on the brink

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

While the world focuses on the war underway in Iran, Israel and the Gulf, there is another war front developing – Lebanon. Lebanon’s Irani...

“Grown men reduced to tears”: the laws pushing farmers to the brink

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Brett Hosking is a fifth-generation grain and livestock farmer, and has seen his fair share of heartache and hard times. But this time, it’s not...

“A real smack in the face”: Did the RBA get it wrong?

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australians are in for a world of pain, with mortgages and rents set to rise after our second interest rate hike in as many months. It was a line-ball...

“Prices could double”: how the fuel crisis will hit your hip pocket

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The war in the Middle East has sent Australia’s fuel prices soaring. And people are worried that if the battle between the US-Israel and Iran co...

Kyle and Jackie O's $200m break up and the end of the shock-jock era

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This month, one of the biggest shows in Australian radio was suddenly pulled off air. For years, Kyle and Jackie O have been treated as untouchable &n...