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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...
The Australian teachers quitting over Andrew Tate
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For some time now, an alarming number of Australian boys have been engaging with, and looking up to, the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate. This wee...
Robodebt Revelations, Royal Commission Chaos and the New Nats
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Canberra, accountability is often promised in moments of crisis. Much harder is what comes after. Matt Canavan has taken over the Nationals leaders...
John Bolton thinks bombing Iran is the answer
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
John Bolton has spent years arguing that bombing Iran isn’t just justified but necessary. For decades he has argued that American military...
Inside the Powerful Elite Forces Running Iran
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week Iran announced a new Supreme Leader. Mojtaba Khamenei is the son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But who’s really run...
Craig Foster and the rescue mission to save Iran's soccer stars
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Sunday night, after Iran’s final game of the Women’s Asian Cup on the Gold Coast, protesters surrounded the team bus, banging on the wi...
Big Tobacco, Big Coal, Big Banks: The Lobbyists Charming our Leaders
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Independent MP Monique Ryan can remember a time in Australian politics when small breaches could cost a career. Now she says we’ve been gr...
Killer Robots and AI on the Battlefield: the Pentagon vs Anthropic
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Who should hold the power to decide how AI is used on our battlefields? That’s the question being debated after a face-off between the Pentagon ...
Giving birth to a stranger’s baby: the cost of IVF mistakes
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been revealed this week that Monash IVF has paid millions of dollars in secret settlements, after two nightmare mixups saw women implanted ...
“Deputy Sheriff” Albo’s Wartime Transformation
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the United States launched strikes on Iran, Australia was quick to back the move. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it’s about def...
“The Law of the Jungle”: How Trump’s war is causing chaos
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An effort by Congress to rein in President Trump’s war in Iran has failed. Democrats and a few Republicans tried to use the War Powers Resolutio...
The Howard Effect: Who Belongs
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the High Court handed down its Mabo decision, it cracked open the legal fiction at the heart of the nation. Terra Nullius was gone. For John Howa...
The Howard Effect: In the Shadows of the Australian Dream
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s just over two years into his first term and John Howard is taking the country to another election. In that short time he has seized the man...
The Howard Effect: Australia’s Sliding Doors Moment
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It was the second of March 1996. After 13 years of Labor in power, Paul Keating’s government had been defeated in a landslide, closing the door ...
Trump’s Iran war: regime change or regime chaos?
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has entered a new war in the Middle East – alongside Israel – launching strikes inside Iran. Iranian authorities say civ...
How big should Australia be?
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration is back at the centre of federal politics – again. The Coalition’s new leadership is arguing Australia needs lower numbers, to...
Beer, gas and capital gains tax
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Canberra, a fight both major parties have tried to avoid is back. The Senate is examining the capital gains tax discount – the Howard-era cha...
Speak the truth, pay the price: Australia's broken whistleblower laws
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Whistleblowers have exposed some of Australia’s biggest scandals – from Robodebt and misconduct in the banking sector, to alleged war crim...
“We’re winning so much”: Trump’s message to Americans
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Full of hubris and bravado, the State of the Union Address was classic Trump – the showman who knows how to work a crowd. In the chamber t...
Is it time for Ukraine to cut a deal?
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Russia struck Ukraine four years ago it kicked off the first full scale war in Europe since World War II. Now, as Russia knocks out Ukraine&rsquo...
Could the Andrew scandal bring down the King?
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
By the time a wide-eyed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was slumped in the back of a Range Rover on his way to the police station last week, the reality ha...
Why Elon’s million satellites could spell disaster
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk and his SpaceX team want to launch up to one million satellites as part of a proposal to power massive data centres in space. They pitch it ...
Inside the Coles and Woolworths 'fake' discounts case
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Coles and Woolworths are now in court. The case, brought by the consumer watchdog, came on the back of hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and Reddit...
Why Howard’s battlers are turning to Hanson
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week Pauline Hanson declared there are “no good Muslims” and renewed her call for a ban on people from Gaza and other so-called &ldqu...
“Yarning with Youth”: our new Commissioner for Aboriginal kids
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sue-Anne Hunter has had a long career which started as a social worker and reached the heights of Commissioner for Victoria’s Truth Telling Comm...
What’s next for the Aussie ‘ISIS brides’ trapped in Syria
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
They’re known as the ISIS brides. 11 women and 23 kids who, for nearly a decade, have languished in a dusty desert detention camp in Northern Sy...
Emily Maitlis on Epstein, Andrew, and the new world order
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It was 2019 when journalist Emily Maitlis sat down for that car crash interview with then-Prince Andrew. It was the beginning of the end for the...
Nick McKenzie on CFMEU corruption and Labor’s blind eye
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The CFMEU construction union has been under a cloud since investigative journalist Nick McKenzie started digging into allegations of corruption in 202...
Inside the Australian scheme accused of modern slavery
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
More than 30,000 people from Pacific Island nations and Timor-Leste are on a working visa in Australia as part of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobilit...
Why protests are getting more dangerous
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, about 6,000 people attended a protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Sydney. The event began peacefully – but vide...
Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It took just nine months for the Liberal Party to turn on its first female leader. After months of internal agitation and sliding polls, a spill motio...
Friday Face Off: Inside the Libs Leadership Spill
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The knives are out. The spill is on! Liberal MP Angus Taylor is set to challenge Sussan Ley for the leadership in a party room showdown at 9am. Their ...
The fight over Mardi Gras’ future
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Australia’s loudest, proudest celebration. But two weeks out from Mardi Gras – there are claims a rebel group has hijacked the ...
The son of Hong Kong’s jailed democracy hero
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy Lai is a media tycoon and hero of Hong Kong’s freedom movement. A symbol of the city’s fight for democracy and a free press &n...
On the ground at the Herzog protests
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has arrived in Sydney for a four-day visit to Australia, invited in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack in Decemb...
Breakup to Makeup: Can the Coalition last?
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been just over two weeks since the Liberal and National parties’ dramatic split and now the Coalition is back together. Sussan Ley an...
The MAGA billionaires taking over TikTok
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok is the most influential media platform for Australians under the age of 25. It’s where millions get their news – whether they reali...
Is now the time for Albo to be bold?
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week Australians were hit with another reminder that the cost-of-living crisis isn’t over, and that the government's room to move is narrow...
Is the Israeli President's visit a "bad mistake"?
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the Bondi terror attack, the Prime Minister invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia, a move framed as an act of solidarity ...
Is a New Nuclear Arms Race Brewing?
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Between them, the US and Russia hold 90 per cent of the world’s nuclear firepower. But today, the New START Treaty, which limits the number of m...
Why 'good character' references are being scrapped
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For years, survivors of some of the worst crimes imaginable have been put through hell. Their perpetrators allowed to use glowing character references...
Colombia, Trump and the drug war
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the US military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, people in Colombia were left wondering if they were next. Almost immediately, ...
The national shame of locking up 10 year olds
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Australia likes to present itself as a defender of human rights. But right now, on the world stage, that reputation is being seriously questioned.&nbs...
Sean Kelly on the right’s identity crisis
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Liberal Party is locked in a very public power struggle. The Coalition has broken apart. One Nation is on the rise. What’s emerging is...
Is this why we still haven’t seen gambling reform?
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Anthony Albanese’s political universe, personal relationships are everything. High on the list for Albanese is his bond with Peter V'landys, ...
Daniel James on the Perth pipe bomb
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At Forrest Place in Boorloo (Perth), on what this country officially calls Australia Day, around 2,500 people gathered to mark Invasion Day. They list...
The man behind the Nationals’ leadership spill
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Boyce is a Nationals MP from Central Queensland. He represents a huge swathe of land stretching from Bundaberg to Rockhampton – and as he&...
Treason, coup plots and corruption: Behind Xi’s military purge
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Xi Jinping has just sacked his top military general – putting him under investigation and accusing him of “grave violations of discipline ...
Trump's ICE crackdown in Minneapolis
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Minneapolis has become the focal point of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, as he tries to round up and deport 10 million people from the co...
How AI is draining Australia’s green power
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, a new venture in the Australian outback looked set to export our solar power to the world – upending our neighbours’ reliance on ...
The frontline of Australia’s family violence crisis
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Family violence in Aboriginal communities is a national crisis – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 33 times more likely to be vict...