Podcast Episodes

Does the Chinese Embassy look tacky?

When Palestinian statehood is recognised at the UN General Assembly in September, a small office tucked away in a residential street in Canberra will become the official embassy of Palestine. 

This of…

Published on 1 month ago

The blueprint for Palestine

Australia, the UK, France and Canada intend to recognise Palestine as a state at the UN General Assembly in September. But what does that actually mean? 

Well Timor Leste, the small island nation 500k…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Kara drags Matt back down the rabbit hole

After an entire week looking into the Oslo Accords, we still had a residual urge to find out more about Mona Juul and Terje Rod Larsen, the Norwegian couple who were instrumental in brokering that la…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

How Middle East peace plans were hatched in the Norwegian woods

Even the most seasoned negotiators can’t agree on how to bring peace to the Middle East. Everyone agrees that - on a personal level - it’s a problem too big, too old and too entrenched for them to ev…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The nurse on death row in Yemen

Getting accused of murder is never a good thing. But, hypothetically if you are going to get accused of murder, it’s generally for the best that it’s not somewhere like Houthi-controlled Yemen - a pa…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Are the MAGA podcasters right about Epstein?

The internet is flooded with hour-long podcasts about what really happened to Jeffrey Epstein. Until recently, two of the most high profile Epstein conspiracy truthers were MAGA podcasters, Dan Bongi…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Australia's most dangerous home-grown conspiracy theory

So Jeffery Epstein probably wasn’t a Mossad spy. But online conspiracies like this pop up closer to home too. Could Israeli intelligence have been involved in Australia’s most traumatic mass shooting…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Was Jeffrey Epstein a Mossad agent?

The Jeffrey Epstein rabbit hole has opened into a cavernous rabbit abyss and it seems no one is safe. Conspiracy theorists and right-wing podcasters are following a particularly spicy lead: that Epst…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

How to avoid abduction by a Mossad honeypot

Forty years ago, a man named Mordecai Vanunu came very close to exposing Israel’s secret nuclear enrichment facility in a bible group in the heart of Sydney. But before he could speak to journalists,…

Published on 2 months ago

Israel’s not-so-secret nuclear weapons

It’s widely accepted that Israel has nuclear weapons. 

How many? Well, it’s impossible to know because to this day the Israeli government has never officially confirmed or denied that it possesses a n…

Published on 2 months ago