Will King Charles agree to finally release the Palace Letters about the dismissal of Gough Whitlam? Labor MP Andrew Leigh on increasing inequality in Australia. Plus the Moulin Rouge lives on, but has it lost its soul?
Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US Presidential campaign trail. What is nature positivity and should Australia be legislating for it? Is AI a real threat to the future of Wikipedia?
Author Bengt Jangfeldt reveals the brilliance and resilience of the Swedish Nobel family. And Sonia Purnell recounts the astonishing life of Pamela Churchill Harriman - one of the most influential women in 20th Century politics.
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 part of the country was ruled by many local princes or Maharajas. How were they convinced to give up their power to join the new Independent India?
Sri Lanka has elected a new President who is not from one of the elite families who have ruled the country since independence, but who is he? America has a long history of fascination with dictators, but why? And how is there a herd of feral hippos roaming the Magdalena RIver basin in Colombia. All your questions answered on Late Night Live.
The battle for votes in ultra-marginal Georgia, USA. Anglican Bishop Michael Stead on freedom and discrimination in religious schools, and Dr Penny Olsen on why we've been so fascinated with the elusive night parrot.
Laura Tingle on the challenge for Labor in addressing the housing crisis. Israel has killed military leader Hassan Nasrallah, but will it mean the end of Hezbollah? And the world’s richest men might still be trying to outdo each other in space travel, but do the rest of us care anymore?
Human rights lawyer Petra Molnar investigates the growing use of artifiicial intelligence at the world's borders. And Anthony Sharwood on the man behind Australia's highest mountain - the Polish general Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
Ian Dunt reflects on UK Labour's Party Conference, while Jeremy Corbyn forms a new party of his own. Plus, Fintan O'Toole on how populists are weaponising victimhood and self-pity to undermine democracy.
What are the Democrat and Republican ground game strategies in the lead up to election day? How Hong Kong is silencing the pro-democracy movement. And Houdini's visit to Australia.
Karen Middleton, political editor of The Guardian Australia, on Peter Dutton's nuclear power speech today, and the new populism of the Greens. There are nine people vying the top job in Japan. And acclaimed journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert on how much is real in the world of plant 'intelligence'.
Why are rates of suicide in the Australian veteran community so persistently high? And what did the CIA learn from Nazi Germany about psychedelics.
While Wisconsin only provides 10 electoral votes in the US Presidential race, it is one of the key swing states in the upcoming election - how can it be won? There are high hopes for hydrogen in Australia's green energy future, but is it all hype? And could some of the abandoned mass transit systems of North America be revived?
The Public Service Commission is very sorry on behalf of the public service. Journalist Rick Morton updates on the Robodebt findings of the commission, plus more of what he has unearthed. Plus tea - with our without opium - has played a big role in the history and geopolitics of Iran.
Political analyst Niki Savva says if it doesn't change course, Labor is set to lose its majority and become the first one term government since 1931. Two year's on from Mahsa Amini's killing for not wearing her hijab correctly, a new book argues the feminist uprising it sparked in Iran speaks of a significant cultural and generational shift in acceptance of the theocratic state. Plus the precarious world of outback opal mining.
Eric Beecher looks back at some of the media dynasties through history including the Murdochs, how they use and abuse their power. And on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait, restoration work on the Aboriginal settlement Wybalenna has stalled. It is a significant cultural site where many Tasmanian Aboriginal people were sent in 1831. Only 47 survived.
Bruce Shapiro dissects the US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. And art critic Sebastian Smee on how the dazzling light of Impressionism emerged from the darkness of 1870s France.
A six year long inquiry has found that the reasons for London's Grenfell Tower block fire were developing over a 25 year period. Analyst Anatol Lieven argues that recent attacks by both Russia and Ukraine have achieved little. And it's 100 years since the birth of New Zealand writer Janet Frame..
Political correspondent Laura Tingle on Australia's slow economic growth. Journalist Paola Totaro asks why those convicted of financial crimes in the Vatican are not yet behind bars. And Benjamin Law on the power and politics of portrait painting.
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 solitary confinement. His battle for justice divided the population of France and fascinated people across the globe. How much of his persecution can be put down to antisemitism and why is this case still so relevant? Guest: Maurice Samuels, author of Alfred Dreyfus: The man at the centre of the affair (Yale University Press)
Mass protests in Israel indicate a clear dissatisfaction with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the hostage situation, but polls show support for the war on Gaza remains high. Plus the Aussie women who fell in love with America and the freedom it offered them, a century ago.
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, philosophy, religion, mathematics and astronomy. But why is this part of India's history not so well known, and why did its dominance wane about 1200 AD? Guest: William Dalrymple, historian, podcaster and author of The Golden Road How Ancient India Transformed the World (Bloomsbury) For information about WIlliam Dalrymple's tour to Australia in October ...
Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.
In response to the lack of justice for murdered and 'disappeared' Indigenous women, a new grassroots network of specialist family violence organisations has formed - and they're on a mission to make a difference. Should Mount Kosciuszko be renamed?
Journalist Joerg Schmitt solves the mystery of who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Dr Elizabeth Cham on how Australia's trustee companies became large, market-listed entities - and what that means for philanthropy. Plus neuroscientist Gregory Berns on the secret life of cows.
What role is the Arab American vote playing in the US Presidential election so far, particularly in the swing state of Michigan? Plus the Yorkshire lad who became the UK's poet laureate - Simon Armitage.
Laura Tingle on the government's deal to pass CFMEU administration laws, plus changes to the NDIS and aged care. Why Malaysia wants to join the BRICS alliance of middle-power nations. And, the long history of the divisive anchovy.
How did we come to live in a world ruled by - mostly - idiots? And can we fix our struggling democracies by enfranchising children as young as six? Political philosopher David Runciman attempts to pump some adrenaline into our limp and languishing systems. Plus, the staggering beauty and fragility of island ecosystems.
Since the war in Gaza broke out there has been a crisis of censorship in the arts sector around the world, in what the not-for-profit group Freemuse is calling a most alarming moment for freedom of expression. Here in Australia pianist Jayson Gillham had his concerts cancelled after speaking about the killing of journalists in Gaza, and arts organisations have lost millions in funding from donors. So what rights do artists have to express political views? And what should the consequences be?...
President Biden has spoken at the Democratic Convention. Who's fuelling the atrocities in the Sudan? And it's 80 years since the fictitious 'Ern Malley' dazzled with his poetry.
