Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStarvation in Gaza, China's clean energy boom and Putin's sledgehammer
Health officials in Gaza say starvation is now killing Palestinians at a faster rate than at any point in the 21-month war. China might be a coal beh…
7 months, 1 week ago
Ian Dunt's UK, the USA's plans to deport Afghan allies, and the death of the chequebook
Regular UK commentator Ian Dunt looks at the Palestine Action group's High Court bid against its proscription as a terrorist organisation. The US is …
7 months, 1 week ago
Annabel Crabb's Canberra, Saudi drug executions, and Japan's rice shortage
As parliament returns for the first time since the federal election, Annabel Crabb looks at how Labor will use its large majority. Saudi Arabia is ex…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The decline of history teaching, and abortion through the ages
Professor Chris Wallace argues the decline in both enrolments in, and the offering of history and other humanities subjects at Australian universitie…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
What next when climate litigation fails? And tales of tourists lost in the bush
The Torres Strait Islanders' case against the federal government over responsibility for action on climate change may have been lost, but another sig…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Bruce Shapiro on US politics, Bill Bowtell surveys 40 years of HIV, and the world's richest shipwreck
The Trump Administration now has the legal green light to dismantle the Education Department; Australia played a leading role in the fight against H…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Annabel Crabb on Albanese's China trip, Gaza's future, and the genius of feathers
ABC's chief online political writer, Annabel Crabb, on what Anthony Albanese is hoping to achieve during his visit to China, and unpacking Israel's p…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
President Trump's war on science, and the value of indigenous history telling
Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes on the impact of President Trump's slashing of science funding. And two historians, one Indigenous (Jackie Huggins) a…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Why the future of Europe depends on the Baltics, plus how might the universe die?
Author and journalist Oliver Moody examines the historic European flashpoint of the Baltics - a group of nine borderland nations that continue to sha…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Ian Dunt's UK, the strange world of biohacking, and the flight of the bogong moth
UK Labour is facing an internal revolt after attempts to cut the welfare budget by more than £5 billion. Bio-hacking is touted as the new secret to l…
7 months, 3 weeks ago