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Trump and Albanese’s new friendship
Episode 1701
Anthony Albanese was so chuffed with his meeting with US President Donald Trump that the prime minister joked he’d use Trump’s endorsement in his nex…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Russia can be beaten
Episode 1700
When Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin in Alaska back in August, he rolled out the red carpet, talked up his ability to end the war, but ultimately cam…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The world according to Tony Abbott
Episode 1699
Charlie Lewis writes about politics for Crikey.
He’s been a close observer of Tony Abbott – from his time as a Liberal Party bomb thrower, to his fa…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
This is Alice Springs: Children of the Intervention
Episode 1698
From afar, Alice Springs is a whirlpool of myth and truth. A town with competing interests and few solutions, marked by chaos and decades of governme…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
This is Alice Springs: The coppers
Episode 1697
Police are everywhere in Alice Springs. You see them driving pursuit vehicles and caged vans on the streets, or stationed outside the bottle shop che…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
This is Alice Springs: Mparntwe
Episode 1696
Alice Springs is littered with “For Sale” signs as those who can afford it are packing up and leaving. Punitive government curfews made daily life mo…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Chalmers backtracked on big super balances
Episode 1695
This week, the federal government dramatically re-wrote its signature tax policy.
The changes mean that a small section of people with very high sup…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Why David Pocock was booted from parliament's sports club
Episode 1694
The Australian Parliament Sports Club has been attracting a lot of unwanted attention lately – for registering as a lobbying group, accepting sponsor…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
‘ISIS brides’ and the Aussie kids stuck in Syria
Episode 1693
In a desert camp in northeast Syria, behind razor wire, with thousands of other people, live 12 Australian women and 25 Australian children. They are…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The embassy run by exiles
Episode 1692
When the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021, the country’s embassy in Canberra stayed open.
It’s an embassy in exile – staffed by diplomats fr…
4 months, 3 weeks ago