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Banks are failing around the world. Could it happen here?
Episode 920
When you think about a bank run, you might think of lines around the block – of regular workers eager to get their hard-earned wages out of a trouble…
2 years, 10 months ago
Why is Australia importing anti-trans activists?
Episode 919
A speaking tour claiming to quote ‘let women speak’ has been at the centre of disturbing scenes across Australia.
Last week in Melbourne, neo-Nazis st…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Weekend Read: Sophie Cunningham on the cost of native logging
Episode 918
Today on the show, author Sophie Cunningham on why we’re still logging native forests.
She begins her story with the last sheafs of white office paper…
2 years, 10 months ago
The dissent in Labor ranks over the US alliance
Episode 917
Australia’s AUKUS deal was meant to have unanimous support, but it has thrown up unexpected challenges for the Labor government — with senior party f…
2 years, 11 months ago
We tried to fit all the NSW scandals into 20 minutes. Here's how far we got.
Episode 916
This Saturday, the longest-reigning Coalition government in the country heads to the polls.
Dominic Perrottet hasn’t been premier of NSW for long, but…
2 years, 11 months ago
The climate protestor who beat a 15-month prison sentence
Episode 915
Last year, Deanna ‘Violet’ CoCo was standing on top of a truck on Sydney Harbour Bridge with a flare in her hand.
She was prepared to be arrested; pre…
2 years, 11 months ago
‘Treating private jets like Ubers’: Inside the Hillsong papers
Episode 914
A few weeks ago, Independent MP Andrew Wilkie stood up in parliament and dropped a bombshell on the Australian megachurch Hillsong.
He tabled a cache …
2 years, 11 months ago
Bob Brown on the fight Tanya Plibersek needs to have
Episode 913
Bob Brown, the founding leader of The Greens, is ready to make a plea to Tanya Plibersek: stand up in cabinet and be a voice against coal and gas.
Whi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Will Albanese and Dutton agree on the $368 billion question?
Episode 912
The AUKUS agreement has brought a rare political sight this week: the government and the opposition are agreeing with each other.
Both major parties s…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why the AUKUS submarines will never arrive
Episode 911
The single biggest defence spend in Australian history was announced this week, with the government committing up to $368 billion over the next 30 ye…
2 years, 11 months ago