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The “three shocks” reshaping Australian politics
Episode 2028
Australia has changed in ways our politics is still struggling to understand.
We are now a majority migrant nation. Professional women have overtake…
1 week, 3 days ago
“I feel sick about it”: Tanya Plibersek on the Swans, Scots College and rising misogyny
Episode 2027
Over the past two weeks, allegations of sexual assault involving some of the country’s most powerful institutions – the Swans and Sydney’s Scots Coll…
1 week, 4 days ago
Operation Economic Outcast: Can Trump really isolate Iran?
Episode 2026
As Trump’s war with Iran reaches the six-month mark, the US is increasing its economic pressure – threatening harsher sanctions not just against Iran…
1 week, 5 days ago
The manmade origins of bird flu and the mutations dangerous to humans
Episode 2025
Bird flu has reached a new milestone, crossing over to infect and kill a seal in South Australia.
It marks a new phase of the outbreak, and has spar…
1 week, 6 days ago
The “cult” church accused of paying far-right activists for election stunts
Episode 2024
Last year, the Prime Minister was ambushed in his hotel lobby by far-right figures boasting of being fed “private intel” during the last election cam…
2 weeks ago
The $100,000-a-month market for Trump’s posts
Episode 2023
Donald Trump has found a new way to make money. Trump Media and Technology Group is monetising the president’s social media posts, selling Wall Stree…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
‘You inflicted untold suffering’: the Erin Patterson sentence being appealed
Episode 2022
Almost one year ago, the Supreme Court of Victoria allowed a television camera to broadcast a sentencing for the first time ever – the hearing for co…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
“National shame”: Andrew Wilkie on the government’s gambling reforms
Episode 2021
For more than a decade, Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has been talking about gambling addiction.
His advocacy means he’s become a lightning rod for pe…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Pussy Riot’s Masha on Putin, democracy, and escaping Russia
Episode 2020
In 2022, Masha Alyokhina escaped Russia disguised as a food delivery courier.
She had spent years being arrested, imprisoned and watched by the stat…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Sydney Swans scandal: How should the club, the AFL and the media respond?
Episode 2019
When news broke this week of an alleged sexual assault involving the Sydney Swans AFL team in Melbourne, old faultlines in the way the sport handles …
2 weeks, 5 days ago