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Back to SearchBruce Shapiro's USA: how Trump has changed America in 2025
Late Night Live regular Bruce Shapiro looks back at a remarkable, often febrile year in US politics, under President Donald Trump's second administration.
Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor at…Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
The uncertain future of Australia's public pools
As the mercury rises for another summer, millions of Australians will flock to the local municipal pool. There are some 1300 public pools across the country. But all is not well for this great Austra…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: a Defence overhaul, a Lodge wedding, plus Hanson and Joyce
The government has taken much greater control of the defence budget and tries to marry defence land acquisitions with their housing targets; Prime Minister Albanese weds his long-time sweetheart and …
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India's Maoist guerillas surrender after fifty year struggle
In the 1960s when counter-culture and unrest was peaking around the world, India's left-wing protest movement took the form of a group of militant Maoists, determined to bring an end to capitalism in…
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Crayons in the desert: the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings of 1945, revealed
In 1945, sixteen Aboriginal men working at Birrundudu Station created 810 crayon drawings, commissioned by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Using this unfamiliar medium, the men documente…
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Bill Wallace: the world’s oldest prisoner, who died at 107 in an asylum in Ararat
In 1925 in Melbourne, two young men were having lunch in a cafe in King Street, Melbourne when one of them lit a cigarette. Another diner confronted them and a brawl ensued outside. The complainer, B…
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Niki Savva on why the 2025 federal election was a political 'earthquake' in Australia
The veteran Canberra journalist Niki Savva dissects the monumental result of the 2025 federal election. Where has it left both the Coalition in opposition, and the Labor party in government? And what…
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Wooden toes, iron hands: the ancient artistry of prosthetics
In ancient times, limb loss was not uncommon, and often deadly. For those that survived - and had money to spend - commissioning a bespoke prosthetic was an opportunity to display one's prestige, val…
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America's transgender troops take Donald Trump to court
In January, US President Donald Trump passed an executive order that banned transgender troops from serving in the American military. Now, several of those service members are taking their fight to c…
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How Nauru got rich
Nauru became rich because it sat on one of the world’s purest and most valuable phosphate deposits — the key ingredient in fertiliser. When Nauruans took control of the mines after independence, mone…
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