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Should we mourn the death of the chequebook?
Australia will phase out cheque payments and processing by 2030, but most banks and consumers moved on long ago. Cheques have been used for cashless payment around the world for some 350 years. Shoul…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Ian Dunt's UK: pro-Palestine activists banned, and the push to lower the voting age
It started in 2020 as a small activist group, and is now banned under UK terrorism laws. Palestine Action’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, is challenging the British government’s decision in court, calling…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Is Japan really running out of rice?
The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the past year, and the nation's emergency stockpile is dwindling. A poor harvest in 2023 is partly to blame, but Japan is reckoning with much deeper structur…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Annabel Crabb's Canberra: a record-breaking new parliament
As parliament returns for the first time since the federal election, Annabel Crabb looks at how Labor will use its huge majority.
Guest: Annabel Crabb, ABC writer and commentatorPublished on 5 months, 1 week ago
Saudi Arabia's alarming increase in drug executions
A new report by Amnesty International shows a startling surge in drug-related executions in Saudi Arabia since they abandoned their moratorium on capital punishment in 2022. And most of them are fore…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
'Prohibition never works': abortion from Ancient Greece to Roe v Wade
Throughout history, women have found ways to end unwanted and dangerous pregnancies, even in the midst of legal crackdowns and moral panics. From Ancient Greece through early Christendom to modern ti…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The decline of history teaching threatens our future leaders
History Professor Chris Wallace is worried about the decline in both enrolments in, and the offering of, history and other humanities subjects at Australian universities, which she says has resulted …
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Can legal action save the planet? Wins and losses in climate litigation
The Torres Strait Islanders' case against the Federal Government has been lost, with the Australian Federal Court finding the Government does not owe a duty of care to them, to mitigate climate cha…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Alaskan tourist who survived 43 days in WA's Great Sandy Desert
In July 1999, a 33-year old Alaskan tourist named Robert Bogucki dumped his bicycle on the side of a remote desert track in Western Australia, and walked barefoot into the Great Sandy Desert. 43 days…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The world's richest shipwreck - and the fight over its future
New archaeological discoveries continue to be made at the site of the San Jose shipwreck, 600 metres under the sea off the coast of Colombia. Described as the 'world's richest shipwreck', the Spanish…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago