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Anna Henderson's Canberra, six months in a submarine and the ethics of crisis reporting

11 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's victory in the Farrer by-election. What does the result say about the growing frustration with the major parties...

Fintan O'Toole on Trump's brand of 'crazy,' plus how to escape the Taliban

07 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed journalist and author, Fintan O'Toole argues Trump’s political power lies in projecting the “right amount of crazy”. Plus how to help...

Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come up against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, why community radio matters, and an historic Pitcairn Island document returned

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our regular US commentator looks at recent political attempts to use defamation law to silence American media. 2SER, a Sydney community radio station...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Kim Jong Un's comeback and classical marble statues - in colour

04 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Henderson on the Japanese PM's visit and the tragedy of Kumanjayi Little Baby's death in Alice Springs. Plus 2020 wasn’t a good year for North...

Australian writers celebrate David Malouf - friend, mentor, inspiration

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

David Malouf, who died last week at 92, was a hugely influential figure in Australian culture. A novelist, poet, teacher, arts advisor and board memb...

Ian Dunt on the King's speech to Congress, plus the scandalous life of Dick Meagher

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt looks at King Charles' address to US Congress and the subtle anti-Trump messages within it. Plus, a new biography details the life of Richar...

Pakistan the negotiator, and reporting mass shootings

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why is Pakistan the new deal broker in the US-Iran war? And what do cryptocurrency and critical minerals deals have to do with their new-found role? ...

How war fired up indigenous soldiers, and Japanese espionage - fact or fiction?

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Indigenous soldiers who fought in WW felt betrayed when they returned, then formed the first radical Aboriginal political organisation. And, before t...

Who are the British elite today? And a tribute to David Malouf

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How the British elite see themselves is not what the data reveals. An historian of medicine, whose mother had polio, is revisiting the experiences of...

NZ PM's leadership struggle, and the Weintraubs Syncopaters' sad end

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon survives a no confidence vote, but how long can he hang on to the leadership? Plus why the Musician's Union of Austr...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Chernobyl's wildlife thriving and the great convict escape on the Catalpa

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Trump contemplates his next move on Iran as the ceasefire deadline looms, while at home his administration is dealing with yet more scandal, this tim...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, how best to commemorate war, plus Lake Eyre tourists need fuel

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our regular Canberra correspondent on the latest polling, and Independent David Pocock's new focus on taxing gas. Historian Peter Stanley argues for ...

A Jewish Australian lawyer reckons with state violence. Plus, can corporate scandals be good for the world?

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Melbourne legal scholar Marika Sosnowski spent many years researching violence and the law in Syria. Now she reckons with her own family's proxim...

Ian Dunt's UK, the Colombo plan and AI publishing scams

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt examines what Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary means for the EU and looks at questions around Donald Trump's mental capacity. There once was a...

Jon Lee Anderson on Trump's stranglehold over Cuba, and other maritime chokepoints before the Strait of Hormuz

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Cuba's leader is defiant in the face of the country's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, while President Trump hints at inflicting more pain. And ...

Australia's fuel import dependency, gay conservatives backing Trump, plus damaged treasures in Iran

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republi...

The making of poet A.D. Hope, Australian literary giant

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000) was one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. His first collection was not published until he was 48 years old, but it...

America’s arts in freefall under Donald Trump and Daniel Defoe's secret life before he wrote Robinson Crusoe

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America, and the story of Daniel Defoe's secret life as a...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, antibiotic resistance in India, plus Marralwanga's bark paintings

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shaprio on the US President's latest ultimatum for Iran.  Prof.Assa Doron reveals how India has become the global epicentre for the world's an...

Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside down

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic...

Robert Reich's America and ten years since the release of the Panama papers

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In his new memoir, Former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, traces how the Democrats lost the working class and paved the way for ...

Ian Dunt's UK, and the Shahs and Ayatollahs of Iran

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his plan to address fuel prices. And 'The Shah's party, and the Iranian revolution that followed'. Bob Templ...

Western Australia's GST wins, Israel death penalty for West Bank, and mapping the wilderness

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The only Australian state with a budget surplus will get an extra $6.6 billion from Australian taxpayers in the coming financial year, under its spec...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Ash Sarkar critques the modern Left, and should daylight savings be permanent?

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Australian government will halve the fuel excise for three months, as the energy crisis triggered by the Iran war looks set to drag on. UK journa...

The struggle to get aid into the Middle East, plus a great Australian librarian retires

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Millions have been made homeless by wars in the Middle East, but with access severely limited, humanitarian agencies are struggling to get aid into t...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Trump’s business in the Gulf, plus the Museum of Failure

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro on whether Trump now looking for a way-out of the war in Iran, and why the Pentagon has lost its defence of media shut-out rules. Plus ...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, a tribute to Rhoda Roberts, and making floristry more sustainable

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The South Australian election result has got the major parties elsewhere scrambling to understand what the One Nation phenomenon means for them. In t...

Guns and God in the USA, plus fresh scrutiny on weedkiller Roundup

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist and author William J. Kole examines how white evangelicals in the United States have fused the gospel and guns - and are standing in the w...

Please explain: Niki Savva, Paul Kelly and Antony Green on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pauline Hanson rose from Ipswich City Council in 1994, to win the federal seat of Oxley in 1996, as a disendorsed Liberal turned independent. Her mai...

Ian Dunt's UK, Geoffrey Watson finds the NACC wanting and the power of presidential pardons

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt on why UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to be drawn into the "wider war" in the Middle East. Geoffrey Watson reflects on the findi...

The new Nationals' front bench, where Saudi Arabia sits in the Middle East war, and meet veteran protestor Mag Merrilees

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our regular Canberra correspondent Anna Henderson on the new-look Nationals. Saudi Arabia is playing a quiet hand so far in the war. And a longtime r...

Acclaimed historian and author Antony Beevor on Rasputin, and Elon Musk's facilitation of making fake porn with unauthorised images

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle...

Funding Australian TV, and conspiracy theories in Irish politics

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australian TV now has to compete with social media, on-demand streaming, and, soon, AI. Our government supports the industry, but the amount of Austr...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Christian rhetoric in the US military, and Vanuatu's lost numbering system

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump's war in Iran is certainly taking the world's attention away from the scandals of his administration, including the firing of former Sec...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Economist journalist Sophie Pedder on President Macron's support for Lebanon, and why the power of the mafia - in multiple cultures - still prevails.

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our Canberra correspondent on Australia's delicate positioning with the Middle East War. Why the French President is passionately arguing for no furt...

Yanis Varoufakis on war and drugs, and 200 years of the State Library of NSW

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Yanis Varoufakis, the firebrand economist and former Greek Minister of Finance, joins David for a talk about the Iran war, Trump's tariffs and the ne...

In conversation with the UK's Ian Dunt

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For the first time, Late Night Live UK political commentator Ian Dunt, meets David Marr in person. In this special hour-long conversation, Dunt explo...

Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, the secret life of batteries, and Australia's earliest desert people

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What are Israel's ultimate objectives in Iran, Lebanon and the broader Middle East? The veteran journalist and author Gideon Levy joins the show to d...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the US attack on Iran, and when books go bad

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australian Government leaders have been taking a cautious 'let's just wait and see what happens' approach to the war in the Middle East. Bruce Shapir...

Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Former NSW Premier and former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr and his wife Helena were almost inseparable. When she suddenly died, whil...

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's State of the Union, Catholic Church High Court loss and do Australian cities have a guaranteed water supply?

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our US political commentator Bruce Shapiro has watched the (very long) State of the Union address.  The High Court has found the Catholic Church is ...

Richard Ackland on the antisemitism Royal Commission, the biodiversity of the high seas, and Mawson's scrawled diaries

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Ackland discusses the scope and ambitions of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, and the challenges facing the enquiry....

Anna Henderson's Canberra, and Helen Clark on the UN's missing senior women

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Chief political correspondent for SBS, Anna Henderson, on the ongoing political wrangling over people who do or do not reflect 'Australian values'.An...

A review of the Pacific labour scheme in Australia, and rethinking the gay rights movement

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The PALM scheme, bringing Pacifika workers to regional Australia to work, has many fans, but significant problems also, a new report finds. Its autho...

A review of the Pacific labour scheme in Australia, and rethinking the gay rights movement

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The PALM scheme, bringing Pacifika workers to regional Australia to work, has many fans, but significant problems also, a new report finds. Its autho...

Ian Dunt's UK, Germany rearms and politicians who dodge questions.

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

i Paper's Ian Dunt on Keir Starmer's political future and how UK asylum seeker policy is getting headlines in the tabloids. Plus why Germany is on a ...

Gambling's grip on politicians, Cuba's invasion threat and greenwashing green burials

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Australian Democracy Network says our lobbying laws make it easy for the gambling industry to have the ear of our political leaders. After captur...

Meet the new Liberal Party leaders, what future for Hong Kong, and making music from stars

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberal Party has to make some big decisions about its direction, and journalist Anna Henderson is watching closely. Author Antony Dapiran on how...

The US is run by meme lords, and Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusions

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Trump flies over a US city in a jet, dumping excrement on protesters; welcome to the era of government-endorsed AI slop videos. Charlie Warzel from T...

Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Gaza is today in ruins, with over seventy thousand dead and buildings everywhere rendered rubble by the onslaught from Israel since the Hamas attack ...

What the NSW State response to the Herzog protest represents, the challenge of digging through the Epstein files, and discovering a very old, very famous Italian artist

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

NSW Police responded with violence to a Sydney protest against Israeli President Herzog's support of Israel's war on Gaza. An American journalist des...

Bernard Keane's Canberra, a security pact with Indonesia, and toads most feral

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In parliament's second sitting week of the year, the Liberals are contemplating "non-existence". Australia recently formalised a major security treat...

A portrait of the powerful right wing commentator Tucker Carlson, and celebrating Winnie the Pooh

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An unauthorised biography of US broadcaster Tucker Carlson shows how he wields his influence. And it's 100 years since the creation of Winnie the Poo...

Ian Dunt's UK, India cuts trade deals, and the black market in polar bear fur

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt does not spare Peter Mandelson, the former ambassador to the US who was pictured in his underwear in Jeffrey Epstein's mansion and accused o...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, where to now for Iran, and 'Aussie' poster artist Peter Drew

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

US politics commentator Bruce Shapiro looks at the aftermath of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti. President Trump's intended intervention in Iran seems...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Herzog in Australia, and Indigenous circus stars

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As parliament returns, the conservative side of politics is in a moment of upheaval. Leadership questions hang over Littleproud and Ley, and One Nati...

Barry Jones on a life of public service and the state of politics today

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Our politics is dumb and completely short-sighted and personally obsessed." At 93 Barry Jones, former ALP National President, writer and public inte...

The Nationals' split and spill, and American history's banker hero

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Australian Coalition is no longer, and the newly alone Nationals are rethinking their leadership. We assess the role of the Nationals in the Coal...

Bruce Shapiro's America: backlash over Minnesota shootings, Mark Carney's Davos moment, and the tiny world of springtails

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump will send his border czar to Minnesota and says his administration is "reviewing everything" in relation to the shooting death of nurse,...

Australian politics by the numbers, an expansion of Indigenous Protected Areas, and January 26 throughout history

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What do the numbers tell us about how many Australians are buying into the anti-immigrant rhetoric from the far right? Then, a look at last year's ex...

How Oscar Wilde was reclaimed by his grandson

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s 125 years since the death of Oscar Wilde. The famous playwright and author died alone in a French hotel in 1900. Since that time, so much has ...

Ian Dunt: Trump’s tariff strategy and the limits of UK influence, and just who is Stephen Miller?

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As US President Donald Trump eyes the UK with tariff threats over Greenland, i Paper columnist and UK correspondent, Ian Dunt, examines Keir Starmer’...

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's first year plus a Royal finance scandal

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro looks back at how US President' Donald Trump has changed the world in one year, and how the world is responding to his plans for a "Boa...

Crikey editor Bernard Keane on the political response to the Bondi shooting, and two legal analysts discuss the hate speech legislation

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bernard Keane looks at the political ramifications of the Bondi shooting, and legal experts Katharine Gelber and Greg Barns discuss the limitations o...

LNL Summer: Tim Minchin on music, fatherhoood, the Internet... and nipples

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Minchin turned fifty this year and just ran a marathon for the first time. He's returned home to Australia, with his new album Time Machine, and ...

LNL Summer: Preventing war in space, plus the rampage of Australia's last outlaws

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

While we've all been distracted with what's happening on Earth, an Australian lawyer has been helping the United Nations to draft the rules of resour...

LNL Summer: Unearthing more of Pompeii, and a Hollywood shark-hunter in 1930s Australia

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Director of Pompeii Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, shares some of the latest discoveries from the buried Roman city, as new areas are ...

LNL Summer: John Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

John Menadue has been at the heart of Australian public life for over fifty years, working for the Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke governments. He oversaw ...

LNL Summer: Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1998, the former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet was arrested on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide. Philippe Sands was called...

LNL Summer: Living rivers, and our obsession with Mars

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Environmental lawyers around the world have successfully made the case that rivers have rights, a movement that renowned science writer Dr. Robert Ma...

LNL Summer: Journalists Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober on seeking truth in Trump's America

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed US journalists and podcast collaborators with The Atlantic Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober join David Marr in-studio to discuss the MAGA women ...

LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist on the trauma in Gaza, and a yarn about wool and war

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on her expertise in mental health and trauma studies, Palestinian psychiatrist, Doctor Samah Jabr, explores how the trauma of displacement an...

LNL Summer: An Indigenous way of seeing the past, plus making shade cool again

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What can we learn from Indigenous perspectives on Australian history? Two historians, one Indigenous and one not, explore new and very, very old ways...

LNL Summer: The feather detective, and the life of Emily Kam Kngwarray

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you left a feather at an American crime scene during the 20th century, chances are that Roxie Laybourne would be called. Laybourne was "The Feathe...

LNL Summer: prison architecture, who invented 'jaywalking', and why keyboards are QWERTY

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Should prison architecture be used for punishment, or could it be used to create hope, instead? 'Jaywalking' is being decriminalised in some US state...

LNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Gerard Brennan served as the 10th Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest judicial position in the country. He was involved in ...

LNL Summer: farewell Laura Tingle plus our love of outdoor cinema

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live Laura Tingle shared her memories of Australian politics and her favourite LNL appearances before she...

LNL Summer: Antarctica; tourist hotspot? And Harriet Walker on Shakespeare's women

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is over-tourism coming for Antarctica? As more and more people travel south for awe and adventure, our guest has some proposals to keep Antarctica pr...

LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly panda quest, plus is AI a con?

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linguistics Professor Emily Bender, warns that the big tech companies who promote AI, with an almost spiritual zeal, may be off the mark. Plus the bi...

LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

20 years on from her famous novel The Secret River, writer Kate Grenville retraces the footsteps of her settler ancestors, and asks what it means to ...

LNL Summer: Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

LNL Summer: A legendary Australian publisher, and saving the beach shack

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australian literature was never the same after McPhee Gribble Publishing, the revolutionary women-owned publishing house. The venture was started in ...

LNL Summer: Geraldine Brooks, Rachel Kushner and Julia Baird at Adelaide Writers Week 2025

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

LNL Summer: Trump's war on journalism, plus Robert Dessaix's chameleonic life

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 h...

LNL Summer: Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of US President Donald Trump's first executive orders was to declare there are only two genders and to ban transgender women from participating i...

LNL Summer: The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new history of the union movement in Australia looks at those often left out of the picture: migrants, women, Indigenous Australians and LGBTQIA+ p...

LNL Summer: Reckoning with the West, and radio propaganda wars in the Middle East

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Omar El Akkad examines what he sees as the moral contradictions of the West in the face of the Gaza war. And historian Margaret Peacock tr...

LNL Summer: How Australia bought Pollock's 'Blue Poles', plus when America went hair crazy

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political reporter Tom McIlroy tells the story of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles - the vast paint-splattered canvas, controversially acquired by the Wh...

Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel farewell 2025

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Marr is joined by Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel to review the monumental year of 2025 - including its weirdest moments - an...

Geoffrey Robertson on war crimes impunity, plus how bush medicine saved Allied soldiers in WWII

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC says the killing of two people who survived a US strike on a speed boat off the coast of Venezuela...

Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt dissect a wild year in US and UK politics

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Late Night Live regulars Bruce Shapiro (USA) and Ian Dunt (UK) reflect on a turbulent, torrid and at times bizarre year in politics on both sides of ...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Indian Maoists surrender and neglected pools

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Henderson looks at the government's control of defence budgets and the blossoming relationship between Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce. In Indi...

Who was the oldest prisoner in history? Plus the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings revealed

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Author and journalist Gideon Haigh uncovers the intriguing tale of Australian man William Richard Wallace - the oldest prisoner in recorded history. ...

Niki Savva on why the 2025 federal election was a political 'earthquake' in Australia

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The veteran Canberra journalist Niki Savva dissects the monumental result of the 2025 federal election. Where has it left both the Coalition in oppos...

What happened to Nauru's riches? Transgender troops fight Trump and antique prosthetics

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nauru briefly had  briefly had one of the highest per-capita incomes on earth, thanks to phosphate mining - so where did all the money go? Transgend...

Anna Henderson's Canberra plus Netanyahu's political survival

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pauline Hanson's burka stunt stymies the Senate while the Labor government is deep in negotiations with the Greens and the Coalition to get changes t...

Simon Winchester on wind: the invisble force that we can't live without

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The acclaimed writer Simon Winchester turns his eye to the wind - the invisible force with the power to sustain, relieve, inspire, irritate and destr...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, climate and slavery justice for Jamaica and feral foxes

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro looks at why Donald Trump has finally agreed to release the Epstein files. After being devastated by yet another hurricane, Jamaica is ...

Helen Garner on Erin Patterson's trial and a lifetime of keeping diaries

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Author Helen Garner sat through the trial of Erin Patterson, who was convicted of murdering members of her family with deadly mushrooms. She reflects...