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Dec 17, 2025 • 6min

5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain

Some of the country's most important First Nations artists - from Albert Namatjira to Aretha Brown and Dylan Mooney - have been brought together for the fifth National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia.Titled 'After the Rain', the exhibition is designed to celebrate intergenerational legacies and cultural warriors of the past, present and future.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 10min

Bondi terror attack raises questions of efficacy and resourcing in intelligence agencies

Guest: Dennis Richardson, Former secretary of the departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs and former director-general of ASIO.Producer: Joe Sullivan
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Dec 17, 2025 • 9min

Coalition responds to mid-year economic update

The Coalition has criticised the government's spending decisions, after it delivered the mid-year economic update.Separately, the Coalition has launched an antisemitism, extremism and counterterrorism taskforce in the wake of the Bondi attack.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 10min

Chalmers declares mid-year budget the most responsible on record

The government has delivered the first comprehensive update to the nation's finances since the federal election earlier this year.It indicates the federal budget's bottom line has been improved by more than eight-billion-dollars over the next four years, when compared to earlier forecasts.Guest: Jim Chalmers, Treasurer Producer: Isadora Bogle
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Dec 17, 2025 • 8min

Teams travel from Israel to provide support at Bondi

As the community begins its long process of recovery from the Bondi terror attack, several volunteer groups have arrived from Israel to lend assistance.One group United Hatzalah, has been helping provide 'psychological first aid' in an effort to help those that experience that attack come to terms with tragedy.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 5min

Chile vote highlights Latin America's growing swing to the right

Chile this week elected its most right-wing president in decades with José Antonio Kast winning a decisive run-off vote on a law-and-order platform focused on crime and migration.Mr Kast's victory mirrors a broader shift across Latin America where voters in countries like Argentina, Ecuador and El Salvador have also backed tougher, conservative leaders - amid fears over security and economic uncertainty.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 7min

Rain and wind turn Gaza's war ruins into deadly shelters

Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to cope after days of heavy rain flooded tent camps and caused war-damaged buildings to collapse, killing at least twelve people, including a two-week-old baby. Health officials say the infant died from hypothermia, while others were crushed when weakened buildings gave way under wind and rain.Guest: Willy Nyeko, emergency co-ordinator at the World Food Program, in GazaProducer: Anne Barker
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Dec 17, 2025 • 7min

Lisa Millar's Summer Reading

Lisa Millar, presenter on Back Roads and the narrator of Muster Dogs, shares her Summer reading list with Melissa Clarke.Currently reading:Long Island -Colm TóibínSummer list:Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy
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Dec 16, 2025 • 8min

Anglicare Australia opens 20 affordable homes for essential workers

Our most essential workers are often the most vulnerable in a red-hot property market.The most recent Rental Affordability Snapshot - from Anglicare Australia - found workers like teachers, nurses, cleaners and those in aged care could only afford between 1 and 3 per cent of rental properties.Now, Anglicare is doing something about it, buying a block of apartments in Sydney and renting them out at affordable rates.The first residents moved in this week - just in time for Christmas.Guest: Rob Stokes, Group Executive of Housing at AnglicareProducer: Clare O'Halloran 
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Dec 16, 2025 • 8min

Dr Norman Swan's Summer Reading

Dr Norman Swan - journalist, physician, and host of Radio National's Health Report - shares his Summer reading list with Melissa Clarke.

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