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

Outrage in parliament as the Opposition shuts down Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during Holocaust speech. Why some US cities are decriminalising jaywalkers, and some remarkable finds of Roman mosaics.

Feb 10, 202554 min

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

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 at home, with violence and bullying at the hands of her well-known barrister father, Chester Porter, is laid bare in a memoir written by Dorothy's sister Josie McSkimming

Feb 6, 202554 min

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

ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons digests US President Donald Trump's extraordinary declaration that the United States will 'take over' the Gaza Strip. Why is Brazil taking on the tech titans and demanding "digital sovereignty"? And with 125,000 visitors last year, has 'overtourism' reached Antarctica?

Feb 5, 202554 min

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

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

Feb 4, 202554 min

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

Peter Dutton's political point-scoring on national security and antisemitism. Will Benjamin Netanyahu get what he wants from the second phase of the ceasefire deal. And cinema indoors and out - Australia has a longstanding cinema tradition.

Feb 3, 202554 min

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

US President Donald Trump’s threatened deportation of up to twenty million immigrants brings back tough memories for Japanese Americans who were deported in World War Two. Plus the New Yorker's head fact checker, Fergus McIntosh.

Jan 30, 202554 min

Vancouver's fentanyl epidemic plus the lost languages of Tibet

Vancouver decriminalised possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use in 2023. Then drug deaths sky-rocketed. So did the experiment fail, or were there other factors at play? Plus Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse regions on the planet, but Mandarin is encroaching and the old languages are disappearing.

Jan 29, 202554 min

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

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.

Jan 28, 202554 min

Australia by numbers, and a history of the beach shack

As the Australia Day weekend comes to a close, leading social researchers Rebecca Huntley and Anthea Hancocks break down what the latest data says about who we are as a nation in 2025. Plus, Anna Clark muses on the history of the Australian beach shack.

Jan 27, 202554 min

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

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 Leone. Plus when a glamorous life is revealed to be a lie.

Jan 23, 202554 min

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

While anti-Semitic attacks in Australia and America appear to be on the rise, Jewish journalism professor and author Peter Beinart argues that Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank have made Jews around the world a target. Plus how Coca-Cola infiltrated academia, and meddled with the science of obesity to protect their profits in America, China and beyond.

Jan 22, 202554 min

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

Jan 21, 202554 min

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

Jan 20, 202554 min

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

Jan 16, 202554 min

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

Jan 15, 202554 min

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

Jan 14, 202554 min

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

Jan 13, 202554 min

LNL Summer: Wy the Dreyfus Affair still matters

Jan 9, 202554 min

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

Jan 8, 202554 min

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

Jan 7, 202554 min

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

Jan 6, 202554 min

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

Jan 2, 202554 min

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

Jan 1, 202554 min

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

Dec 31, 202454 min

LNL Summer: Ambon pilgrimage and remembering Kosciuscko

Dec 30, 202454 min

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

Dec 26, 202454 min

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

Dec 25, 202454 min

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

Dec 24, 202454 min

LNL Summer: Guatemalan adoption & Wyballena memorials

Dec 23, 202454 min

LNL Summer: Searching for the soul

Dec 19, 202454 min

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

Dec 18, 202454 min

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

Dec 17, 202454 min

LNL Summer: William Dalrymple on India's Golden Road

Dec 16, 202454 min

2024 Year in Review

Dec 12, 202454 min

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

Dec 11, 202454 min

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

Dec 10, 202454 min

Canberra Politics, Belgium compensation & Bulgarian villages

Dec 9, 202454 min

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

Dec 5, 202453 min

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

Dec 4, 202454 min

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

Dec 3, 202454 min

Laura Tingle's Canberra, North Korean troops in Russia, and poetry's place in Australia

Dec 2, 202454 min

Why humans think they can subdue nature, and Helen Garner's love of football

Nov 28, 202453 min

Essays that changed Australia, and beware the Christmas creep

Nov 27, 202454 min

Bruce Shapiro's America, Australia's submarine fiasco, and the rise of Britishisms

Nov 26, 202454 min

Laura Tingle and George Megalogenis

Nov 25, 202454 min

Imagining a better Australia, and Lech Blaine's miraculous life

Nov 21, 202454 min

Marcia Langton on truth telling and Sidney Nolan's African paintings

Nov 20, 202454 min

Ian Dunt's UK, who is Barron Trump, and the shark that lives forever

Nov 19, 202454 min

Laura Tingle on the Greens' compromise, and Jon Ronson dissects the politics of conspiracy theories

Nov 18, 202454 min

How Australia writes its war history, and the lives of medieval women

Nov 14, 202454 min