The Radio National Hour

National Cabinet has agreed to strengthen gun laws across the country in the wake of the Bondi terror attacks, which has left at least 16 people dead and dozens more injured. But questions remain about how closely intelligence authorities should have been monitoring the alleged murderers, as the attack leaves some Jewish people questioning whether they can now allow their religious identity to be made public. 

FIFA is under fire over the price of tickets to next year’s Football World Cup. In the initial offer today fans are being asked to pay up to 13 thousand dollars for a ticket to the World Cup final. 

The Trump Administration has taken a wrecking ball to America’s science establishment this year, slashing funding for research into cancer, vaccines, climate change and even its prized space agency NASA and the impacts aren’t just confined to the USA. 

The Coalition is poised for a fresh debate over immigration, flagging deportations of unlawful migrants, and an Australian values test. It's an issue that’s emboldened right wing populists and brought violence to the streets of western democracies like Britain, the US and Europe. How can Australia have this debate without importing the divisions? 

Dozens of Australian families have been left homeless after bushfires took hold this weekend in communities and towns across three states. But some homes survived the inferno, so how do we design and build for a fiery future?

America’s latest national security strategy has landed with a thud in world affairs. According to it, Europe is in civilisational decline, China can be managed economically, and immigration is America's major security threat. So where does this all leave Australia - for so long, the deputy sheriff to Washington in our region? 

The anger is growing at pace with the death toll in Hong Kong after fire tore through seven apartment blocks last week. As more details emerge - of the defective building materials that fuelled the inferno and the alarms that were deactivated, there’s also signs Beijing is intent on extinguishing dissent in this grieving community.    

“It’s a beautiful day for fishing”, that was the final message sent by Colombian man Alejandro Carranza Medina to his family, just hours before he was killed in a US strike near Venezuela. America insists he was smuggling drugs, but his family is demanding compensation. 

He once boasted he would stuff cocaine right up the noses of the gringos, but the former Honduran president convicted and sentenced to 45 years for drug trafficking could soon walk out of his Manhattan jail cell with a pardon from Donald Trump. The same US President who’s currently pursuing Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro over his alleged involvement in drug trafficking. The decision has shocked the investigators and prosecutors who worked for years to build their case against Hernandez.  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally asked for a pardon from President Isaac Herzog relating to corruption charges against him. The Prime Minister insists he’s innocent and that the long running trial is is preventing him from governing properly and tearing at Israel's social cohesion.