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This year Peter Dutton has begun to spread doubt about the Voice to Parliament. His question is: where’s the detail?One woman has spent years fleshing out the proposal. Marcia Langton co-authored a report on The Voice, and briefed every party room in Canberra about what the model could look like.Today, Professor at the University of Melbourne Marcia Langton on the details of the Voice to Parliament, and what’s at stake if Australia gets this moment wrong.Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and InstagramGuest: Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Professor Marcia Langton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elon Musk has lost more money than any human being who has ever lived.It’s not because of his purchase of Twitter – well, not directly, anyway. It’s because in the last 12 months, the share price of his other company, Tesla, has plummeted.But why is Elon Musk, the erratic entrepreneur, so intertwined with Tesla? How has the company become an extension of one man’s ideas? And is that healthy?Today, veteran Tesla-watcher and financial journalist, Antony Currie, on the unshakeable faith in Elon.Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram.Guest: Financial journalist for Reuters, Antony Currie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this Weekend Read, chief political correspondent for the ABC’s 7.30 program Laura Tingle, with her piece from the summer issue of The Monthly.It’s called ‘A patch of land’, and in it she writes of the joys of tending and surrendering herself to a native garden, before bidding it a fond farewell after nearly 20 years.Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and InstagramGuest: Chief political correspondent for the ABC’s 7.30 program, Laura TingleBackground Reading: A Patch of LandSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australia’s domestic security agency, ASIO, says right-wing extremism now makes up half of its priority cases. And the far right, while still fringe, has capitalised on division and social media to push its message during the pandemic.So just how big a risk is this movement today? And how did we allow this discredited and dangerous ideology to get a foothold once again?Author Lydia Khalil discusses how counter-terrorism turned a blind eye to the far -right and how we all need to solve that problem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we talk about the most significant events of the last year, the one that might have the biggest impact on humanity actually took place far above the Earth’s atmosphere.Up there, in orbit around earth, is one of the most powerful tools humans have ever had to hunt for the origins of our universe – and for alien life.The James Webb Space Telescope has the ability to look so far and with such clarity that we can get an insight into a period of time that our best scientists have only ever speculated about: the cosmic dark ages.Today, Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University, Dr Alan Duffy on why the last year marked a new beginning for our understanding of the universe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Each year, around a million Australians visit the US . But it's becoming a more dangerous place: firearm murders alone increased by 35% between 2019 and 2020. But you won’t find that statistic in the guidance for Australians travelling to the US. And it’s a risk that disproportionately affects people of colour.Today, author and contributor to The Monthly, Santilla Chingaipe on the travel guidance we rely on for our safety and what it tells us about how race functions in bureaucratic definitions of Australianess.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Misinformation, fear and pain: when Andrew Denton was asked to speak on the topic of euthanasia, he found something that he couldn’t look away from.What started as a single lecture became the biggest political fight of his life.And the last year has seen the fruit of those labours, with every state now having laws to allow people the right to choose to end their life when faced with terminal illness. The territories are well on their way to doing the same.Go Gentle Australia, the organisation he founded, helped change the tide of a debate around death that had been paralysed in Australia for decades.Today, Andrew Denton, on the campaign that changed how Australians will experience the end of their lives and the way it’s changing the care we receive at the end.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, on the Weekend Read, writer and artist Sarah Walker with her piece, “Little Breaks”, from The Monthly.It’s a story of joy and sadness in the ocean. She writes of her time in the water as a beginner surfer, finding glee in shallow breaks. But beyond the break, in the deeper water, there’s also loneliness, isolation and vulnerability.Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and InstagramGuest: Writer and artist, Sarah WalkerBackground Reading: Little BreaksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Anthony Albanese declared victory in last year’s election, one of the first commitments that he made was to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full.While the Uluru Statement from the Heart includes truth-telling and a treaty, a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament is the first step that the government plans to take.If it goes ahead, it will be the first referendum since the republic vote just over 20 years ago.Professor Gary Foley, senior lecturer of history at Victoria University, on self-determination, the lessons we should take from history and his hope for genuine change.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This year has seen an explosion of film and TV releases – as sound stages fill with productions, following the end of lockdowns that threatened the industry.But if you’re like us, this summer you might just be taking a breath and getting a chance to catch-up on the things you missed throughout the last year.So with that in mind, we’ve invited writer and critic Clem Bastow to share some of her favourite releases.She’ll be joined by the editor of The Monthly, Michael Williams, in a discussion that spans teen drama, the church of latter-day saints and yes, a Star Wars series that might just verge on being real prestige TV.We’ve kept it relatively spoiler free, but be warned, there’s a couple of moments we get close to the edge.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.