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INTRODUCING Season Six | Australia, If You're Listening
The sixth season of If You’re Listening tells the story of Australia’s turbulent history with climate change, and what that means for the future.
As w…
3 years, 10 months ago
CHINA | S05 06 - Are the 'drums of war' beating over Taiwan?
For months commentators and politicians in Australia have been talking about one of the most frightening topics imaginable — a war between the United…
4 years, 6 months ago
CHINA | S05 05 - Chinese students: Commodity or opportunity?
When the COVID-19 pandemic caused the shutdown of travel from China, it shone a harsh light on the way Australia treats Chinese students who come her…
4 years, 6 months ago
CHINA | S05 04 - Huawei and the new technology cold war
From humble beginnings in a tiny town whose name means "deep drainage ditch", electrical engineer Ren Zhengfei grew his company Huawei into a global …
4 years, 6 months ago
CHINA | S05 03 - The iron chain between Australia and China
When China rolled out their trade sanctions regime against Australia to try and punish us for a litany of perceived insults, the trade of one commodi…
4 years, 7 months ago
CHINA | S05 Bonus episode - The story behind Bob Hawke’s mysterious Tiananmen Cable
In 1989, five days after tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square in Beijing and brutally ended weeks of protests, the then prime minister Bob Hawke gave a…
4 years, 7 months ago
CHINA | S05 02 - How Tiananmen is being repeated in Xinjiang
For decades Australia has taken the approach that when it comes to China; we can criticise their human rights record without risking our trading rela…
4 years, 7 months ago
CHINA | S05 01 - Xi Jinping: The 'Man of Destiny'
At first glance, Chinese President Xi Jinping's life story seems simple. His father was a high-ranking Chinese government official, and opened doors …
4 years, 7 months ago
INTRODUCING Season Five | China, If You’re Listening
A podcast about how the relationship between Australia and China came to the verge of collapse.
Not long ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping was regular…
4 years, 7 months ago
AMERICA | S04 09 - How Coronavirus destroyed Trump's MAGA promise
When the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake, President Donald Trump's new way of running the country sud…
5 years, 2 months ago