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Late Night Live farewells Laura Tingle

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live - spanning nine Australian Prime Ministers - Laura Tingle bids farewell to LNL as its political corr...

D-day looms for Woodside's Burrup gas plant, and teaching troubled teens to hunt in the New Zealand wilderness

22 May 2025

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Australia's Commonwealth government is due to make a decision on the proposed 50-year extension of Woodside's gas lease on Western Australia's Burrup...

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

21 May 2025

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

Tariff chaos on American shelves, Ukraine minerals deal and Lake Eyre in flood

20 May 2025

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Trump's constant changes to tariffs are wreaking havoc on US ports, logistics, and the price of goods. Any Russia/Ukraine ceasefire may be at a hig...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, and Harriet Walter re-writes Shakespeare's women

19 May 2025

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7.30 Political Editor Laura Tingle surveys the path ahead for conservative politics in Australia. And from Lady Macbeth to Kate the Shrew - actor Dam...

The Brazilian Marxists claiming unused land, and Australia's Antarctic obsession

15 May 2025

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Journalist Vincent Bevins on the popular Landless Workers Movement of Brazil - an agrarian movement which redistributes unused government land. And e...

Who's still selling arms to Israel? And the legal rights of nature

14 May 2025

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Antony Loewenstein on the countries still supplying arms to Israel. And nature writer Robert Macfarlane asks, is a river alive?

Ian Dunt's UK, Europe's thirsty data centres, and the survival of Indigenous message sticks

13 May 2025

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Ian Dunt unpacks the UK government's tough new plan to reduce migration. With swathes of Europe in drought, could new data centres exacerbate growing...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, US-China trade talks and the art of the courtroom sketch

12 May 2025

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Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

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

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

The destruction of Gaza's universities, and Donald Trump's fantasy maps

07 May 2025

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Cambridge scholars Dr Wesam Amer and Dr Mona Jabril on the destruction of universities in Gaza. Plus, why does US President Donald Trump enjoy meddli...

Bruce Shapiro's America, How Kerala got rich and vale Ted Kotcheff of Wake in Fright

06 May 2025

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Bruce Shapiro critiques Donald Trump's first hundred days in office. Fifty years ago Kerala was one of India’s poorest states, now it's one of the ...

Labor's stunning landslide, plus the hangover from Australia's wine boom

05 May 2025

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Laura Tingle and Niki Savva dissect Labor's landslide victory in the federal election, and examine what went wrong for the Coalition. Plus, writer Ni...

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

01 May 2025

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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...

Australia's biggest tax lurks, and Mexico stares down Donald Trump

30 Apr 2025

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Australia's tax system is unusually generous to the prosperous. Ahead of the Federal election, why is tax reform not on the agenda? And how Mexico's ...

Ian Dunt on UK's gender wars, John Lyons on Ukraine's resistance, and arts funding under pressure

29 Apr 2025

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Ian Dunt looks at how the gender wars have exploded in the UK,  Global Affairs Editor John Lyons take us to a bunker in Kyiv and Brook Turner examin...

Laura Tingle's election, and the year that changed the world

28 Apr 2025

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Laura Tingle counts down to election day, as costings are released and Labor maintains its two-party preferred polling lead. Writer Phil Craig recoun...

Australians in the Spanish Civil War, and when hair was thought to indicate character

24 Apr 2025

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Approximately 70 Australians risked their lives to fight Franco's fascism in the Spanish Civil War, but they are not honoured in Australia. And, whis...

What it's like to be raided by DOGE, and the fearless feminist Beatrice Faust

23 Apr 2025

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A former employee of the US Institute of Peace (USIP) recounts the dramatic days when members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOG...

Laura Tingle's election, the survival of NATO, and the misunderstood pigeon

22 Apr 2025

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Early voting opens on a subdued day in the federal election campaign. Will the 76 year-old security pact NATO survive, despite US President Trump's s...

Taiwan and its chips: the colourful history of this strategically important nation

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Taiwan waits to hear what tariffs the Trump Government will impose on its world-leading computer chips and semi-conductors, we bring you a rollick...

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

17 Apr 2025

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

Pollies and their private interests, and a forgotten hero in forensics

16 Apr 2025

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Sean Johnson from Open Politics says Australia's federal parliament needs to act against MPs who fail to disclose their private interests. And journa...

Harvard defies the White House, Yanis Varoufakis on 'Trump Shock', and Australia's oldest footrace

15 Apr 2025

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The Trump administration's war on universities continues, but Harvard refuses to 'yield'. Political economist Yanis Varoufakis compares Trump's tarif...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the broken promise of religious discrimination reform, and a history of hand gestures

14 Apr 2025

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Laura Tingle recaps the official campaign launches of the major parties, three weeks out from the federal election. Another federal term ends without...

'Sorrow, grief, horror': Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry

10 Apr 2025

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Two decades after The Secret River, Kate Grenville looks back into her family history—this time with fresh questions. What does it mean to live on ...

Antony Green's last election broadcast, and the path ahead for Syria

09 Apr 2025

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Legendary ABC election analyst Antony Green has announced this federal election will be his last in an on-air role. Plus, journalist Nicholas Pelham ...

Bruce Shapiro's Trumpland, Netanyahu's latest scandal, and the death of the interval

08 Apr 2025

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Bruce Shapiro on who is getting rich from Trump's tariffs, Irris Makler on how the Gaza war is playing out inside Israel, plus why the theatre interv...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the Brits baulk on AUKUS, and tariffs in the ancient world

07 Apr 2025

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Can Opposition leader Peter Dutton recover from a policy backtrack? What does the UK's AUKUS review mean for the relationship between the three allie...

John Howard and the 1998 waterfront dispute, plus Peter Rose on life as a literary editor

03 Apr 2025

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An ABC podcast has uncovered new evidence that casts doubt on the Howard governments' claims they knew nothing about plans to sack 1400 wharfies and ...

First Nations resistance in the River Country, and is ignorance always bliss?

02 Apr 2025

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Historian Stephen Gapps reveals the incredible story of frontier resistance warfare in a huge area of the Murray-Darling river system, across many Fi...

Ian Dunt's UK, does the Coalition's gas policy stack up, and Australia's endless rabbit problem

01 Apr 2025

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Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

Laura Tingle's federal election, plus defining antisemitism at universities

31 Mar 2025

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As the election campaign gets underway, Laura Tingle looks at the messaging, who is being effective and what role US President Donald Trump plays in ...

Gaza and the contradictions of the West, and are priests employees of the Church?

27 Mar 2025

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Journalist Omar El Akkad examines what he sees as the moral contradictions of the West in the face of sustained violence in Gaza. Plus, lawyer Judy C...

Sexual violence perpetrators getting younger, and lost in the Amazon for forty days

26 Mar 2025

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Perpetrators of sexual violence are getting younger, and the messaging campaigns aimed at men are only causing a backlash. Jess Hill on why our preve...

Bruce Shapiro's America, Poland digging trenches, and crime in the Antarctic

25 Mar 2025

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Bruce Shapiro on the pressure facing judges, law firms and institutions to either comply with - or resist - US President Donald Trump's executive ord...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, mass protests in Turkiye and Australia's own vernacular

24 Mar 2025

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Laura Tingle on how the major parties have aligned to water down environmental protection laws in the face of further disasters in the Tasmanian salm...

The ethics of posthumous publishing plus the dark side of green cities

20 Mar 2025

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Questions are being asked about whether its ethical to publish author Joan Didion's personal diaries after her death - and without her consent. Plus ...

Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East, and the firebombing of Tokyo

19 Mar 2025

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Historian Margaret Peacock traces the history of radio propaganda in the Middle East from 1940-1960. From the BBC to Radio Moscow, all the big powers...

Ian Dunt's UK, Russia's frozen assets, and Poland confronts its queer history

18 Mar 2025

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Ian Dunt reflects on the role of Britain in a Europe bolstering its defences. Sir William Browder says sanctioned Russian assets should be used to le...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, Satyajit Das on how to survive a trade war, and trolling before the Internet

17 Mar 2025

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7.30 Political editor, Laura Tingle, asks whether Anthony Albanese ever had any chance of escaping Trump's tariffs. Economist and writer Satyajit Das...

The most trusting nation on Earth, and the rise and fall of Trudeau

13 Mar 2025

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The Danes, alongside other Scandinavian nations, are the most trusting people on Earth - trusting of their neighbours, fellow citizens and public ins...

A new age of nuclear peril, and the Caribbean countries lining up to leave the monarchy

12 Mar 2025

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As alliances wobble, wars rage and world leaders talk of rearmament, are we on the precipice of a new nuclear age? Security expert Ankit Panda says o...

Bruce Shapiro's America, the potential of prison architecture, and Queensland's rebellious first female doctor

11 Mar 2025

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Bruce Shapiro is back as measles spreads in Texas, and Columbia University faces drastic defunding from the Trump administration. Criminologist Yvonn...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the origins of DEI, and who really discovered gold in Australia?

10 Mar 2025

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Political Editor Laura Tingle on the potential federal implications of WA's state election result. What are the origins of the DEI initiatives (diver...

Alan Rusbridger on the perils of political journalism, and Robert Dessaix on life, death, sexuality and more

06 Mar 2025

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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 ha...

The State of the World: the rise of Orbán, Trump and Netanyahu

05 Mar 2025

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Has the rise of leaders like Orbán, Trump and Netanyahu finally put paid to the liberal fantasy that fascism, ultra-nationalism and xenophobia were ...

The State of the Self: Have we lost a sense of community in a post pandemic world?

04 Mar 2025

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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 ...

The State of the Nation: has the myth of the 'fair go' been broken?

03 Mar 2025

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Has the myth of the Australian fair-go finally been broken? Are social divides deepening and widening? And in a time of great uncertainty, how does A...

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

27 Feb 2025

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Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on how they use humour to flip the narrative about transgender people, and how to tackle Donald Trump's trans...

The story of Russia through Putin's eyes, and the painting that rocked Australian politics

26 Feb 2025

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Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, renowned historian Orlando Figes, delves into President Vladimir Putin's rationale for war. And we go...

Ian Dunt's UK, NT mining royalties slump and how to rescue a hummingbird

25 Feb 2025

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Ian Dunt on how the UK is reacting to Trump abandoning Ukraine. What happens to NT Indigenous communities when mining royalties dry up? And how to re...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the money behind far-right young voices and the charlatan geologist from WA

24 Feb 2025

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Laura Tingle on the variation in poll results ahead of the election being called, the big money media-training the conservative young faces of the fa...

Calls to audit Welcomes to Country, and who pays for climate disasters when insurance folds?

20 Feb 2025

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 Indigenous Australian theatre and arts director Rhoda Roberts says the backlash against Welcome to Country ceremonies is a return to assimilation. ...

A Catholic Bishop's take on the US Immigration crackdown, and the women who revolutionised Australian publishing

19 Feb 2025

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A growing number of Catholic Church leaders have criticised US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Bishop Mark Seitz from El Paso, Texas,...

Bruce Shapiro's America, Vanuatu deals with multiple earthquakes and are book blurbs just an incestuous love-fest?

18 Feb 2025

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Members of the US Congress are wondering whether President Donal Trump will simply ignore the courts and and precipitate a constitutional crisis. How...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the War Memorial refurbished, and the shipwreck that devastated Darwin

17 Feb 2025

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Laura Tingle looks at what role the independents could play in a minority Coalition government. And a look back at the shipwreck that devastated earl...

Political chaos in South Korea and the poet who broke taboos

13 Feb 2025

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A declaration of martial law in South Korea, lasting six hours, has created the country’s biggest constitutional crisis since the late 1980s, and t...

Life in the shadow of Mussolini and how white supremacy infiltrated the wellness industry

12 Feb 2025

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The small town of Predappio is Italy’s premier neo-fascist tourist site, with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathisers descending on the town ...

Ian Dunt's UK, the economics of degrowth, and how relevant are the Oscars?

11 Feb 2025

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Calls to "stop the boats" have returned to UK Parliament. What is the degrowth movement, and can it really challenge the global economic order? Plus ...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the invention of jaywalking, and unearthing Roman mosaics

10 Feb 2025

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Outrage in parliament as the Opposition shuts down Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during Holocaust speech. Why some US cities are decriminalising jayw...

The wild and talented poet Dorothy Porter and re-thinking privacy

06 Feb 2025

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The late Australian poet Dorothy Porter is best known for her verse novel The Monkey's Mask. But her work ranged across many ouvres. Her early life a...

Trump's plan to 'take over' Gaza, Brazil's feud with tech titans, and Antarctica's tourism boom

05 Feb 2025

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ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons digests US President Donald Trump's extraordinary declaration that the United States will 'take over' the Gaza S...

Bruce Shapiro's America, Belarus’ secret program to undermine the EU, and moral panic over female cyclists

04 Feb 2025

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Bruce Shapiro on Trump's tariff backtrack. How Belarus is weaponising migrants to destabilise the EU. And moral panic over cycling women in Victorian...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, Trump and Netanyahu discuss the West Bank, and Australia's love of cinema

03 Feb 2025

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Peter Dutton's political point-scoring on national security and antisemitism. Will Benjamin Netanyahu get what he wants from the second phase of the ...

America's history of expelling migrants, and factchecking in a "post-truth" world

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

US President Donald Trump’s threatened deportation of up to twenty million immigrants brings back tough memories for Japanese Americans who were de...

Vancouver's fentanyl epidemic plus the lost languages of Tibet

29 Jan 2025

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Vancouver decriminalised possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use in 2023. Then drug deaths sky-rocketed. So did the experiment fail,...

Elon Musk and Nigel Farage fall out, plus can Trump really buy Greenland?

28 Jan 2025

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Ian Dunt on the fall-out between Nigel Farage and Elon Musk. Plus what Greenlanders think of Trump's push to the buy the icy island. 

Australia by numbers, and a history of the beach shack

27 Jan 2025

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As the Australia Day weekend comes to a close, leading social researchers Rebecca Huntley and Anthea Hancocks break down what the latest data says ab...

When child soldiers grow up and April Ashley - glamour model and trans pioneer

23 Jan 2025

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What happens when child soldiers grow up and have children of their own? A new inter-generational study looks at the former child soldiers of Sierra ...

Peter Beinart on being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza, and Coca-Cola's power in China

22 Jan 2025

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While anti-Semitic attacks in Australia and America appear to be on the rise, Jewish journalism professor and author Peter Beinart argues that Israel...

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's America Mark ll and a journalist returns to Syria

21 Jan 2025

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Regular US commentator Bruce Shapiro in an extended segment to talk inauguration and more. And journalist Dima Khatib was on the first commercial fli...

Laura Tingle's Canberra, a fishy deal and eucalypts taking over the world

20 Jan 2025

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Laura Tingle looks at how the major parties spent their summer as the shadow election campaign takes off. A landmark agreement for workers on Pacific...

LNL Summer: Stephen Fry on life, last words and the things he can't do

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Fry (UK) ets candid on storytelling, impostor syndrome, and the things he’s hilariously hopeless at. Wise, witty, and wonderfully self-depr...

LNL Summer: Can copyright protect Indigenous art, and the downfall of the Maharajas

15 Jan 2025

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Since the 1980s, lawyers have used copyright law to protect Indigenous Art, but is it fit for purpose? When India gained its independence, a huge par...

LNL Summer: New Zealand's ethical escort agency, and pen pals across the Iron Curtain

14 Jan 2025

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Antonia Murphy recounts her stranger-than-fiction experience, running an ethical escort agency in New Zealand. And historian Alexis Peris uncovers a ...

LNL Summer: Opus Dei and the banks, plus the million-year history of birdsong in Australia

13 Jan 2025

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The deep connections between banks and the conservative Catholic order, Opus Dei.  Plus how Australia's birds had songs millions of years before the...

LNL Summer: Wy the Dreyfus Affair still matters

09 Jan 2025

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Alfred Dreyfus was an officer in the French Army when he was arrested 130 years ago for treason, convicted and sent to Devils Island for 5 years in s...

LNL Summer: Who were Australia's black convicts and the truth about absinthe

08 Jan 2025

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Santilla Chingaipe tells the stories of the 15 convicts of African descent that came with the first fleet, and the hundreds that followed. How does t...

LNL Summer: A biography of Madrid, and the lives of medieval women

07 Jan 2025

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Australian-born writer and honorary madrileño Luke Stegemann celebrates the remarkable and under-appreciated Spanish capital of Madrid. And a new ex...

LNL Summer: The paradox of passports, plus Harry Houdini's Australian hijinks

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know passports can be ranked, and can be different even within nations?  Patrick Bixby examines the history of passports. Plus what Harry Ho...

LNL Summer: Australia's first novelist revealed plus the race to save the world's islands

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Author Henry Savery is credited with being Australia's first novelist, for his work 'Quintus Servinton', but in his new book author and historian Sea...

LNL Summer: Celebrating First Nations languages, and a neuroscientist gets to know some cattle

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Insights into some of the hundreds of Australian indigenous languages, which continue to evolve. And what can be learnt from spending a lot of time w...

LNL Summer: The UK's poet laureate, and the return of the night parrot

31 Dec 2024

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UK poet laureate Simon Armitage reflects on his Yorkshire upbringing, writing great royal deaths and coronations, and his fear and love for nature. P...

LNL Summer: Ambon pilgrimage and remembering Kosciuscko

30 Dec 2024

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War historian Joan Beaumont makes a pilgrimage to the Indonesian island of Ambon, where hundreds of Australian soldiers died in WWll, and ponders the...

LNL Summer: the year Paris was in ruins plus why we're hooked on salty fish

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Art critic Sebastian Smee on why 1870 was an "annus horribilis" for Paris, but one which produced breathtaking art. Plus, love them or hate them, the...

LNL Summer: Frontline nurses in the AIDS crisis plus the Erm Malley hoax

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the early years of AIDS,  nurses were stigmatised along with their patients. Now, their story has been told. Plus the great Australian poetry hoa...

LNL Summer: Pamela Churchill Harriman, kingmaker plus Balkan food fight

24 Dec 2024

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Writer Sonia Purnell reveals the astonishing life of Pamela Churchill Harriman, one of the most significant women in 20th century politics. Plus why ...

LNL Summer: Guatemalan adoption & Wyballena memorials

23 Dec 2024

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In Guatemala private adoption agencies sent huge numbers of babies overseas - with many of them indigenous. And on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait...

LNL Summer: Searching for the soul

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is the soul? Is it a substance, your conscience or simply a creation of the mind? Most societies and religions have some concept of the soul. Hi...

Exposing Pine Gap, the scam of academic publishing and the brilliance of the notebook

18 Dec 2024

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Des Ball had a long and complicated relationship with Pine Gap, which is explored in a new documentary, we ask whether academic publishing should be ...

LNL Summer: Lobbying in the US and Captain Cooks last voyage

17 Dec 2024

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Brody Mullins investigates how lobbyists have changed politics and society in America and Hamilton Sides tells the story of how and why James Cook's ...

LNL Summer: William Dalrymple on India's Golden Road

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For more than 1000 years, India was a trading powerhouse across the globe - not only of spices, wild animals and gemstones but also of language, phil...

2024 Year in Review

12 Dec 2024

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Chas Licciardello, Sashi Perera and First Dog on the Moon - aka Andrew Marlton - join David Marr to survey the profound and the ridiculous from the y...

What made Cyprus rich, and the secrets of the deep oceans

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A history of Cyprus that's equal parts epic and personal. Plus, Susan Casey on the life that thrives thousands of metres below the surface of the oce...

Bruce Shapiro's America, Syria's uncertain future, and our love of Mars

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Shapiro's take on a remarkable year in American politics - and what to expect in the year to come. What's next for Syria after the stunning fal...

Canberra Politics, Belgium compensation & Bulgarian villages

09 Dec 2024

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Laura Tingle and Niki Savva bring their incisive analysis on the year in politics, why the world is looking at a compensation case playing out in Bel...

Robert Manne's intellectual combat, and a history of sex and Christianity

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Manne is one of Australia’s foremost public intellectuals. His new memoir traces his intellectual roots, and his own political shifts over 4...

The Fairfax dynasty's last hurrah plus what Australia's trees can tell us

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The life of James Fairfax, philanthropist, art collector and heir to the Fairfax media dynasty, told through eleven objects, plus what Australia's an...

Ian Dunt's UK, Bob Hawke and the Balibo Five, and the patron saint of the Internet

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Dunt's final UK report for 2024 looks at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's pre-Christmas political re-set and the Irish election results. Historia...