The theme park and the trillion dollar investment scheme
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As Scott Morrison resists signing up to the Belt and Road Initiative, China has begun focusing on lo...
How coronavirus is reopening the wage gap
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In past recessions, women have tended to fare better than men. But now the trend is reversed, with w...
Black Witness, White Witness
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the world protests the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Darumbal and South Sea Islander jo...
Spotlight: Inside the Tanya Day inquest
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Day was a 55-year-old Yorta Yorta woman who died in police custody. In this archive episode, M...
Tear gas in the Rose Garden
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Description: As protests against police violence and inequality continue in the United States, Scott...
Like a scene from 'The Castle'
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Queensland town of Acland has been all but swallowed by a coal mine. After decades of legal batt...
Killed during the pandemic
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the beginning of the lockdown, domestic violence workers warned of the heightened risk of abuse...
When is a bushfire like a coronavirus?
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of making us forget the bushfires, evidence suggests coronavirus will make us more conscious...
The screens that ate school
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Big Tech has become an integral part of education. But there are questions over how much private com...
Morrison’s economy (unplugged)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The prime minister is adamant that the government will not commit to further stimulus of the economy...
The Accord according to Morrison
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Morrison’s appeal for a new compact between workers and business has reminded some of Bob Ha...
Uber but for government money
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A multimillion-dollar contract for an app that places aged-care workers in nursing homes has trigger...
The crisis universities should have seen coming
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Almost overnight, Australian universities have lost the international student fees on which they dep...
‘In my new home, I am loved.’
24 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After five years on Manus Island, Imran Mohammad was resettled in Chicago. He says arriving in Ameri...
Don’t mention the trade war
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Morrison government is working hard to disguise the trade war opening up with China. But its exc...
Who is really planning Australia’s economic comeback?
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister has appointed a panel of business leaders to develop a blueprint for the country’...
Back on the tinnies
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pubs, restaurants and other businesses across the country are reopening and the government is predic...
How Covid-19 united conspiracy theorists
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conspiracy theorists have been energised by Covid-19, with misinformation on everything from 5G to v...
The push to expand ASIO’s powers
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has recently introduced legislation that would expand the surveil...
Back in black. Cough, cough.
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the federal government struggles to rebuild Australia’s battered economy, the threat of a trade...
The ABC’s funding crisis
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
ABC staff are revealing the pressure they are under as the public broadcaster absorbs budget cuts am...
Australia’s worst coronavirus cluster
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Ruby Princess is responsible for more than 10 per cent of Australia’s cases of Covid-19. The d...
Adam Bandt’s green capitalism
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Three months since becoming leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt has begun articulating a plan for the p...
Inside the Newmarch cluster
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An aged care facility in NSW is the site of one of Australia’s biggest clusters of Covid-19. Now, ...
Snakes in the garden of Eden-Monaro
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Infighting within the Coalition has been exposed as candidates emerge and then quit in the race for ...
Jane Caro on reopening schools
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister has made reopening schools a priority of his response to coronavirus, and part of...
Making sense of the Black Summer
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of Australians had their homes and lives destroyed by last summer’s bushfires, and now t...
The 160,000 jobs lost while the government waited
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The government’s economic relief package was broken into three phases, but serious questions are b...
The real reason supermarket shelves were empty
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed many Australians to shortages of food and essential items for t...
Bonus episode: Morry Schwartz on starting The Monthly
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fifteen years ago Schwartz Media launched The Monthly, a magazine dedicated to current affairs, poli...
How Scott Morrison sparked a new war with China
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s relationship with China has become more strained than ever, as Scott Morrison pushes f...
Evangelical Christianity in the age of coronavirus
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Morrison’s relationship to the founder of the Hillsong church has focused attention on the e...
The generation “done over” by coronavirus
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we learn more details about the economic fallout from the pandemic, it’s clear young people wil...
How Indigenous communities got in front of the pandemic
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Remote Aboriginal communities across Australia reacted swiftly and effectively to the Covid-19 outbr...
Anthony Albanese’s pandemic response
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Labor leader Anthony Albanese is attempting to pull off a delicate balancing act: between appearing...
Malcolm Turnbull’s last word
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The country may be in the midst of a health and economic crisis, but that didn’t stop former prime...
The inside story of Australia’s coronavirus supercluster
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With two hospitals shut down and thousands of residents quarantined, the Tasmanian Covid-19 superclu...
The truth about coronavirus fines
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of Australians have been fined by police under Covid-19 public health orders. New analysis...
The coronavirus endgame
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the number of coronavirus infections in Australia stabilises, talk has turned to how and when thi...
“I can survive until the end of May, maximum.”
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are over 1 million migrant workers in Australia who aren’t eligible for any financial suppor...
Virus economics: you and whose numbers
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the global economy facing its biggest downturn since the Great Depression, the Treasury and the...
What governments are hiding behind coronavirus
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Federal and state governments have quietly been winding back environmental regulations while most of...
Taking back control of our super
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The global economic downturn is straining our financial system, and it’s hitting our superannuatio...
The other holes in Australia’s quarantine
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s strict quarantine measures have dramatically slowed the spread of Covid-19, but confus...
Spotlight: Badiucao, Chinese dissident
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Months before the latest mass protests began in Hong Kong, the Chinese government shut down an art e...
Spotlight: Inside Australia's biggest cult
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s, Anne Hamilton-Byrne set up Australia’s most notorious cult, The Family. Last month, ...
Spotlight: Looking back at Christchurch
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year on from the Christchurch massacre, survivors face isolation and economic hardship. We speak t...
Spotlight: Tracing the source of coronavirus
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As coronavirus shuts borders and creates global panic, there is a risk it will reach a point where i...
How coronavirus could break the NBN
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The NBN is facing it’s most crucial test yet, and there are serious questions over whether the net...
The women and children at risk in a lockdown (plus, the Pell verdict)
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lockdown, together with a shattered economy, means that many domestic violence victims are now tra...
Policing a pandemic
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The public health response to the coronavirus has quickly become a law and order issue. Extensive ne...
Surviving the economic turmoil of coronavirus
05 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In one share-house, all five housemates have lost work because of the coronavirus shutdown. Today we...
Bonus episode: Behind the scenes at The Saturday Paper and The Monthly
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a special bonus episode of 7am host Ruby Jones talks to the show’s editor, Osman Faruqi, editor...
How Scott Morrison became an accidental socialist
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The past week has completely changed the way politics works in Australia, with a right-wing governme...
A Nobel prize winner explains coronavirus
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Peter Doherty won the Nobel prize for his research on how our bodies fight off viruses. To...
Should we bail out the airlines?
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s airlines have been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, and they’re asking the gove...
Hoaxes, lies and coronavirus
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we try and contain the coronavirus outbreak, health authorities, governments and social media pla...
How to survive the shutdown
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As more of Australia goes into coronavirus isolation, advice is being offered on how to manage menta...
Coronavirus, part five: One month in
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s now been one month since Scott Morrison’s first announcement on the coronavirus pandemic. S...
Coronavirus, part four: the Australian scientists who could beat it
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Teams of researchers are working around the clock to try and develop a vaccine against coronavirus. ...
Coronavirus, part three: the economics of a shutdown
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With hundreds of thousands of Australians losing their jobs, the economic cost of coronavirus is bec...
Coronavirus, part two: How the government failed
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Medical experts say that the government’s slow response to the coronavirus outbreak has left Austr...
Coronavirus, part one: The frontline
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases grows in Australia, hospitals are gearing up for a spik...
The day coronavirus swallowed Scott Morrison
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Morrison has finally begun to acknowledge the serious economic cost of coronavirus, and specul...
Ten questions about coronavirus
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow, many in the community are still unclear about the vir...
George Pell’s last stand
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, George Pell was sentenced to six years’ jail for the sexual abuse of two Melbourne cho...
Trust in the time of coronavirus
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Containing the coronavirus outbreak requires clear, decisive action from the government. But public ...
The future of dairy
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Animal-free dairy could be the norm within the next decade, promising affordable, sustainable and cr...
Can Team Australia beat the coronavirus?
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The economic and social effects of the coronavirus outbreak are accelerating, with new trade and tra...
White terror, part three: The itch at your back
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year on from the Christchurch terrorist attack, Muslims in Australia are still wrestling with a ne...
White terror, part two: The dossier
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A secret document prepared by ASIO warns of the threat of far-right terrorism in Australia. In detai...
White terror, part one: 35 widows
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A year on from the Christchurch massacre, survivors face isolation and economic hardship. We speak t...
My name’s Scott Morrison, and I have a truth problem
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Scott Morrison finally told the truth about his attempt to invite Hillsong founder Brian H...
A fear at the end of the earth
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Button spoke to scores of people about climate change and what it means to them. He found deep...
Labor’s climate smokescreen
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Labor Party has committed to zero emissions by 2050, but hasn’t said how it will get there. An...
Could we end domestic violence?
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children has once again put Australia’s failure to grapp...
The town without abortion
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Description: A consortium of powerful religious doctors has made it impossible to choose a surgical ...
Scott Morrison’s fortunate disaster
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coronavirus has provided Scott Morrison with an opportunity to re-establish his leadership credentia...
How coronavirus feeds Australian racism
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The panic generated by coronavirus has reignited an older, deeper panic about Chinese migrants. Ruby...
We need to talk about St Kevin’s
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode we speak to Luke Macaronas, a former St Kevin’s student. He wrote for The Sat...
The prison riot sparked by climate change
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A riot caused by the intense summer heat in Alice Springs shows how vulnerable our justice system is...
How billions in government spending could be unlawful
23 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the past year, the government has directed nearly $5 billion to various schemes using a process l...
Does Scott Morrison finally have a climate policy?
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sandwiched between the climate deniers in his government and growing public pressure for real action...
The minister for nuclear power
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Pitt is a climate sceptic and coal evangelist. He is also the minister for Water and Resources...
Suing over Howard’s camps
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More than 60 former asylum seekers are seeking compensation for the psychological trauma they endure...
Plants, mental health and an unrecognised humanitarian crisis
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding among thousands of asylum seekers living in Australia without wor...
Zali Steggall’s climate breaker
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is a successful model to de-politicise climate change. It works in Britain, and a private memb...
Llew ‘Who’ O’Brien and the National Party turducken
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The upcoming Queensland state election is shaping Canberra politics and tearing the Nationals apart....
The tiny town where Scott Morrison is building a nuclear dump
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Morrison government has bought part of a farm in Kimba, South Australia, where it intends to bui...
The love story behind Australia’s biggest political donation
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Scott Morrison’s re-election campaign received a huge boost from one of Sydney’s mo...
Did Clive Palmer buy an election for $84 million?
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Clive Palmer spent $84 million of his own money on the last federal election – and didn’t win a ...
Profiting from Auschwitz: How 4 million books were sold on fabrications
09 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australian author Heather Morris has made millions selling books about the Holocaust. But the people...
Barnaby Joyce’s failed coup
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Barnaby Joyce lost his leadership tilt but has reopened a schism in the Coalition on climate policy....
Australia’s secret emissions target
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government is refusing to adopt stronger climate-change policies, but it turns out that ...
What happens if we don’t stop coronavirus?
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As coronavirus shuts borders and creates global panic, there is a risk it will reach a point where i...
Honouring Bettina Arndt, men’s rights activist
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bettina Arndt has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of her work for ...
The prime minister and the dung beetle
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Don Watson on why Scott Morrison is not really a politician, and how the collapse in difference betw...
Scott Morrison’s eternal present
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As Scott Morrison pivots to the coronavirus evacuation and deploys the military to the fire zone, ...
Exclusive: Red Cross staff speak out
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Red Cross has collected more than $115 million since Australia’s bushfire crisis began. But wh...
Sports grants are the tip of the iceberg
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the government deals with the Bridget McKenzie scandal, questions are being asked about other lar...