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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...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, inside Myanmar's civil war, and traffic jams in space

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After the Liberal Party joined the Nationals in ditching net zero, what is the fate of remaining Liberal Party moderates in city seats? A new documen...

Gareth Evans: Australia should do more on nuclear control, plus Joseph Stiglitz warns of 'inequality emergency'

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Russia and the US both threaten resume nuclear testing and China has tripled its stock of nuclear arms, former foreign minister Gareth Evans says ...

Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down

12 Nov 2025

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...

Ian Dunt's UK, police brutality in Brazil, and Australia's earliest computer

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What caused the latest drama at the BBC, and what does it say about the state of British media? Ian Dunt explains. As Brazil tries to present its bes...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's genocidal gold rush and the missing dismissal footage mystery

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberal Party looks likely to drop their net zero policy this week, but what will that do for their base? At the heart of the genocide in Sudan i...

Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal? Plus, the courageous life of 'Weary' Dunlop

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

50 years since the Governor-General sacked sitting Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, do modern Liberal MPs still back the Dismissal? Plus, Peter Fitzsimo...

Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's ballroom blitz, plus an author's win over AI

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New Yorkers have shaken the United States's political establishment and delivered 34-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani a thumping victory in the city...

The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell us

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

U Thant went from being a Buddhist teacher to playing a pivotal role in resolving some of the most dangerous international crises of his time as UN S...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos code

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Henderson looks at the political implications for both the Nationals and the Liberals of the Nats' decision to abandon its net zero policy. Can ...

Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says that rather than ensuring Israel respects the basic human rights and self-determination of the Palestin...

The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new book looks at author Patrick White's startling use of language, his mythic depiction of the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it,...

Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does Ian Dunt think of the King's attempt to eject Prince Andrew from his royal lodgings? Then, in America, Chicagoans have been organising agai...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale?

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Henderson looks at what changes the government is trying to make to environment protection laws and why the Coalition wants to split the bill. H...

The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we look backwards. Gough Whitlam's dismissal didn't come out of nowhere; 1974 and 1975 were years of intense political turmoil and scandal. Pa...

Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquity

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The famous Benin bronzes, looted by the British in 1897, are gradually being returned home to Nigeria. But they won't be on display at Benin City's n...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand?

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro looks at Anthony Albanese's first meeting with US President Donald Trump and whether the critical minerals deal will see Australia beco...

Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital event

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Crikey's Bernard Keane on Barnaby Joyce's decision to quit the Nationals. There's speculation the New England MP may join the One Nation party. Pulit...

Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks

16 Oct 2025

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 ...

Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus Ilan Pappe on Israel's future

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Historian and former intelligence officer Clinton Fernandes says there's method to the apparent madness of the second Trump administration's approach...

Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skies

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt examines the role that the UK played in the Gaza ceasefire, and Keir Starmer crosses a personal Rubicon: he's criticising Brexit in public. ...

Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who speaks Esperanto?

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political editor at Guardian Australia, Tom Mcllroy, on why the government has watered down its superannuation tax plan, the wonders of cloud-watchin...

Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial, plus how our cities lost their shade

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the 51 men convicted men of raping French woman Gisele Pelicot is appealing his conviction, arguing he didn’t know that she hadn’t given h...

Could sanctions on Iran backfire? Plus the Australian father of the bomb

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After attacks from Israel and the United States bombing of a nuclear facility, Iran is cracking down on dissent, while dealing with reimposed sanctio...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Irris Makler on October 7, and New Zealand's crusade on feral predators

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro discusses how long the U.S. government shutdown might last, and why ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are causing t...

Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman is calling on the world's best and brightest to quit their corporate jobs and show some more 'moral ambition', to ...

Doc Evatt and the making of Israel, plus the twisted history of rope

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Doc Evatt, an influential Australian politician and jurist, played a notable role in shaping Israel’s early international standing. As President of...

How Malka Leifer was brought to justice, plus when America went mad for Mars

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new documentary recounts the 15-year struggle of three sisters from Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to bring their abuser and former-he...

Ian Dunt's UK, the right to sing in Afghanistan, and how salmon got to Tasmania

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

UK columnist Ian Dunt surveys the strange world of political party conferences in the UK, plus the emerging role of former PM Tony Blair in plans for...

Mark Kenny's Canberra, ASIC and Stablecoin, and the threads of empire

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has wrapped up his three-day visit to the UK, including an appearance at the UK Labour Party conference. He's told th...

When 29 nations defied the world's superpowers, plus the pioneering SA cop Kate Cocks

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been 70 years since 29 nations of Africa and Asia gathered in Bandung Indonesia in 1955 to forge a path beyond Empire, and lay the foundations f...

Busting myths about young Australian voters, plus the decline of NGOs

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many assumptions are made about the politics and voting habits of young Australians, but what does the data actually say about generational political...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Nepal in the aftermath of revolution, and Ackland on defamation

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The fallout of the Charlie Kirk assassination continues, with dozens of academics fired for their comments and Jimmy Kimmel returning to the air. Kir...

Mark Kenny's Canberra, Trump's corporate clemency, and Muslim-Australian poetry

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The ANU's Mark Kenny on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's performance at the UN General Assembly, how US President Donald Trump is going easy on whit...

Questions over the Australian War Memorial literary prize, and trouble for the CIA

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Australian War Memorial has overruled a decision to award a military history literary prize to Chris Masters’ book, Flawed Hero: Truth, Lie...

The politics of humiliation, plus the billionaire outdoorsman who gave it all away

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australian anthropologist Hassan Gage makes the case that humiliation and its counterpart, dignity, are overlooked motivators of politics, both local...

The UN's report on genocide in Gaza, Donald Trump heads to the UK, and Anguilla's internet jackpot

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a report by a United Nations Commision of Inquiry. One of the key authors of that report, Austral...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the killing of Charlie Kirk, plus why are we keeping QWERTY?

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 Anna Henderson on why both Labor and the Coalition are still grappling with climate targets when our first risk assessment shows urgent action is n...

Germany's Gaza protest crackdown plus solving crimes using feathers

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new film investigates how Germany's desire to never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppressio...

The rise of the Chinese right wing in the US and how memory shapes geopolitics

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The growing appeal of Donald Trump to the right wing Chinese community in the US, and the hidden war for collective memory - how narratives about nat...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, 50 years of independent Papua New Guinea, and the closure of Meanjin

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's soon-to-be-renamed "Department of War" killed 11 people on a boat, saying they were Venezuelan drug smugglers. As Bruce Shapiro says, the kil...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Modi's pivot to China and the death of Aussie gaelic

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Henderson discusses the fall-out from Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments on Indian migration, India's PM Narendra Modi wants a closer r...

Abolishing terra nullius: the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan

04 Sep 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 ...

Behrouz Boochani on Iran's Revolutionary Guard, plus why Trump is targeting libraries

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Behrouz Boochani was locked in Naura for more than half a decade after fleeing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC). Now, that group will be design...

Ian Dunt's UK, the journalists killed in Gaza, and why we're mesmerised by gold

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt looks at Nigel Farage's scare campaign on migration in the UK, Al Jazeera plus' Managing Director, Dima Khatib, speaks out about the huge nu...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Project Esther's antisemitism crackdown, and the dandy as working-class rebel

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liberal leader Sussan Ley condemned the weekend's anti immigration protests, but CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price supported them. Meanwhile the...

Liberal Party lost: can the party of Menzies recover?

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 2025 federal election marked the most significant electoral defeat in the history of the Liberal–National Coalition, with the party reduced to ...

Robyn Williams' 50 years of science shows, and the French philosopher guiding Silicon Valley

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Robyn Williams looks back at fifty years of broadcasting The Science Show on ABC Radio National. Plus, why the tech tycoons of Silicon Valley love th...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, future Palestinian leadership, and Sydney's old street photography

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the USA, Bruce Shapiro on the latest deportation attempts against Kilmar Ábrego García, the FBI raid on John Bolton, and the twentieth anniver...

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's famine crisis, and Australia's missing poet laureate

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Henderson from SBS World News looks at the Nationals' attempt to repeal their net zero emissions target and what that means for the Coalition's ...

A Palestinian psychiatrist on the trauma in Gaza, and a yarn about wool and war

21 Aug 2025

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...

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

20 Aug 2025

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 ...

Ian Dunt's UK, Imran Kahn's defiance in prison, and rebuilding the past

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Columnist Ian Dunt on the UK & European scramble to support Zelenskyy and Ukraine at the White House, after Trump's meeting with Putin in Alaska....

Laura Tingle on Trump & Putin in Alaska, Tuvalu's climate refugees, and why do we have surnames?

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Tingle assesses the meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin and where President Zelenskyy fits in the negotiations. A world-first bilateral ...

How evangelicals transformed Brazil, plus the last letters of French resistance fighters

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new documentary looks at how the evangelical movement began in the US, spread to South America, paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro ...

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

13 Aug 2025

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 ...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, why the Egyptians aren't doing more on Gaza, and deer gone feral

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro looks at the man behind Donald Trump's immigration policy, Stephen Miller. The increasing pressure on Egypt to take action on Gaza. Plu...

Australia to recognise Palestinian statehood, and the first Tasmanians

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australia has announced its recognition of Palestinian statehood, joining a growing number of countries supporting a two-state solution. And historia...

Satyajit Das on the US debt crisis, plus 100 years of Mein Kampf

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

US debt is now at a level that some economists call "the death zone". Donald Trump is hoping his tariffs will help, but Satyajit Das thinks disaster ...

Hiroshima and the new nuclear threat, plus inside London's exclusive clubs

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eighty years since Hiroshima a nuclear expert says deterrence policies are no longer enough to deal with the increasing prospect of nuclear escalatio...

Ian Dunt's UK, can peace last between Thailand and Cambodia? Plus, remembering the mad cow crisis

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt looks at the backlash to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's intention to recognise Palestine. The bombs have stopped on the Thai-Cambodia bord...

LNL's new theme, lessons from the bridge walk, and Ukraine's corruption woes

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After nearly ten years, Late Night Live has changed its tune. Annabel Crabb reflects on the lessons for Australian politicians after the Sydney Harbo...

Future warfare is already here, plus the Chinese survivors of the Titanic

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Israel is using AI to track and target Hamas operatives - and those around them. Ukraine is efficiently deploying cheap drones against the military m...

Unearthing the real Pompeii, plus when Zane Grey went shark-hunting in Australia

30 Jul 2025

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 ex...

Bruce Shapiro's USA, the lost Israeli Left, and Iraq's 'Garden of Eden' marshlands

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro on how the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is haunting US President Donald Trump. Editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, Zvika Klein, on the d...

Annabel Crabb's Canberra, plus Fintan O'Toole on Gaza and the state of global politics

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Annabel Crabb looks at why the Coalition is refusing to condemn the starvation of people in Gaza by Israel and why they are walking away from net zer...

John Hewson says sack the NACC, plus the Roosevelts' giant panda hunt

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Former Liberal leader John Hewson says after two years the National Anti-Corruption Commission has failed in its mission to properly investigate alle...

Starvation in Gaza, China's clean energy boom and Putin's sledgehammer

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Health officials in Gaza say starvation is now killing Palestinians at a faster rate than at any point in the 21-month war. China might be a coal beh...

Ian Dunt's UK, the USA's plans to deport Afghan allies, and the death of the chequebook

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Regular UK commentator Ian Dunt looks at the Palestine Action group's High Court bid against its proscription as a terrorist organisation. The US is ...

Annabel Crabb's Canberra, Saudi drug executions, and Japan's rice shortage

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As parliament returns for the first time since the federal election, Annabel Crabb looks at how Labor will use its large majority. Saudi Arabia is ex...

The decline of history teaching, and abortion through the ages

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Chris Wallace argues the decline in both enrolments in, and the offering of history and other humanities subjects at Australian universitie...

What next when climate litigation fails? And tales of tourists lost in the bush

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Torres Strait Islanders' case against the federal government over responsibility for action on climate change may have been lost, but another sig...

Bruce Shapiro on US politics, Bill Bowtell surveys 40 years of HIV, and the world's richest shipwreck

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump Administration now has the legal green light to dismantle the Education Department; Australia played a leading role in the fight against  ...

Annabel Crabb on Albanese's China trip, Gaza's future, and the genius of feathers

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ABC's chief online political writer, Annabel Crabb, on what Anthony Albanese is hoping to achieve during his visit to China, and unpacking Israel's p...