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Feb 25, 2025 • 54min
Ian Dunt's UK, NT mining royalties slump and how to rescue a hummingbird
Ian Dunt on how the UK is reacting to Trump abandoning Ukraine. What happens to NT Indigenous communities when mining royalties dry up? And how to rescue a hummingbird.

Feb 24, 2025 • 54min
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the money behind far-right young voices and the charlatan geologist from WA
Laura Tingle on the variation in poll results ahead of the election being called, the big money media-training the conservative young faces of the far-right. Plus was Western Australia's first government geologist a genius... or a charlatan?

Feb 20, 2025 • 54min
Calls to audit Welcomes to Country, and who pays for climate disasters when insurance folds?
Indigenous Australian theatre and arts director Rhoda Roberts says the backlash against Welcome to Country ceremonies is a return to assimilation. Plus in 2024, the planet was hit by 58 weather disasters with damages of more than a billion dollars and numerous insurance companies are either folding or limiting what they will insure. So who pays for the damage?

Feb 19, 2025 • 54min
A Catholic Bishop's take on the US Immigration crackdown, and the women who revolutionised Australian publishing
A growing number of Catholic Church leaders have criticised US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Bishop Mark Seitz from El Paso, Texas, says immigrants deserve mercy, not persecution. And happy fiftieth birthday to McPhee Gribble, the small enterprise that changed Australian publishing forever.

Feb 18, 2025 • 54min
Bruce Shapiro's America, Vanuatu deals with multiple earthquakes and are book blurbs just an incestuous love-fest?
Members of the US Congress are wondering whether President Donal Trump will simply ignore the courts and and precipitate a constitutional crisis. How does Vanuatu recover from the double shock of earthquakes and cyclones? And major publishing house Simon and Schuster has banned book blurbs, claiming the practice is part of an "incestuous" system that rewards an author's connections.

Feb 17, 2025 • 54min
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the War Memorial refurbished, and the shipwreck that devastated Darwin
Laura Tingle looks at what role the independents could play in a minority Coalition government. And a look back at the shipwreck that devastated early Darwin in 1875 - the sinking of the SS Gothenburg.

Feb 13, 2025 • 54min
Political chaos in South Korea and the poet who broke taboos
A declaration of martial law in South Korea, lasting six hours, has created the country’s biggest constitutional crisis since the late 1980s, and the life of forgotten Australian poet, Francis Webb.

Feb 12, 2025 • 54min
Life in the shadow of Mussolini and how white supremacy infiltrated the wellness industry
The small town of Predappio is Italy’s premier neo-fascist tourist site, with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathisers descending on the town annually. So how do the locals feel about living in the shadow of Mussolini’s grave? Plus the strange connection between the wellness industry and white nationalism.

Feb 11, 2025 • 54min
Ian Dunt's UK, the economics of degrowth, and how relevant are the Oscars?
Calls to "stop the boats" have returned to UK Parliament. What is the degrowth movement, and can it really challenge the global economic order? Plus how relevant are the Oscars as they near their centenary?

Feb 10, 2025 • 54min
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the invention of jaywalking, and unearthing Roman mosaics
Outrage in parliament as the Opposition shuts down Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during Holocaust speech. Why some US cities are decriminalising jaywalkers, and some remarkable finds of Roman mosaics.