Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan
Sir Gerard Brennan served as the 10th Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest judicial position in the country. He was involved in …
2 months ago
LNL Summer: farewell Laura Tingle plus our love of outdoor cinema
After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live Laura Tingle shared her memories of Australian politics and her favourite LNL appearances before she…
2 months, 1 week ago
LNL Summer: Antarctica, a tourist hotspot? And Dame Harriet Walter on Shakespeare's women
Is over-tourism coming for Antarctica? As more and more people travel south for awe and adventure, our guest has some proposals to keep Antarctica pr…
2 months, 1 week ago
LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly panda quest, plus is AI a con?
Linguistics Professor Emily Bender, warns that the big tech companies who promote AI, with an almost spiritual zeal, may be off the mark. Plus the bi…
2 months, 1 week ago
LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
20 years on from her famous novel The Secret River, writer Kate Grenville retraces the footsteps of her settler ancestors, and asks what it means to …
2 months, 1 week ago
LNL Summer: Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
Leni Riefenstahl has been hailed as one of the greatest directors of all time, even though her most famous films were works of propaganda for Hitler'…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
LNL Summer: A legendary Australian publisher, and saving the beach shack
Australian literature was never the same after McPhee Gribble Publishing, the revolutionary women-owned publishing house. The venture was started in …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
LNL Summer: Geraldine Brooks, Rachel Kushner and Julia Baird at Adelaide Writers Week 2025
Despite the promise that we were “all in it together”, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a flight from sociability. While that escape may have been a reli…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
LNL Summer: Trump's war on journalism, plus Robert Dessaix's chameleonic life
Alan Rusbridger, the former editor in chief of The Guardian UK on Trump's push to silence dissenting voices in the media; and writer Robert Dessaix h…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
LNL Summer: Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump
One of US President Donald Trump's first executive orders was to declare there are only two genders and to ban transgender women from participating i…
2 months, 3 weeks ago