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Apr 3, 2025 • 26min

Peter Rose departs the Australian Book Review after 24 years

After 24 years, the Australian Book Review's CEO and editor, Peter Rose, is stepping down. By the time he leaves, Peter will have edited close to 250 issues, worked with more than 1500 writers and helped shape the national conversation.GUEST: Peter Rose, Outgoing editor and CEO of the Australian Book ReviewPRODUCER: Ali Benton
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Apr 3, 2025 • 26min

Did John Howard approve the 1998 war on the waterfront?

In 1998 wharfies across the country were locked out by men in balaclavas with savage dogs. What followed was the most dramatic industrial confrontation of the age between the Maritime Union of Australia and Patrick Stevedores, led by CEO Chris Corrigan.  The Howard government said they knew nothing about plans to sack the 1400 workers and train a new, non-union workforce in Dubai. But now ABC Radio National’s Rewind has uncovered new evidence that casts doubt on their claims. GUEST: Dr Geraldine Fela –Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University, and producer and series historian of Conspiracy - war on the waterfrontPRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer
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Apr 2, 2025 • 24min

The bliss and the perils of ignorance

Aristotle claimed that all humans want to know. But at the same time, we battle a competing desire to not know. Through history, humanity has been repeatedly compelled to ignore realities, seduced by irrational rumours, magical thinking and preposterous prophets. Are we living in a time of particular ignorance? 
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Apr 2, 2025 • 26min

How First Nations resisted colonisation in the River Country

In his new book Uprising, Stephen Gapps reveals the story of frontier resistance, along a huge area of the Murray-Darling river system - a concerted defence of River Country.
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Apr 1, 2025 • 22min

Australia's rabbit invasion

Australia’s rabbit plague was the fastest colonisation rate for an introduced mammal ever recorded anywhere on Earth. Which is why reports of an emerging plague of rabbits in the Adelaide Hills have locals and scientists worried. GUEST: Mike Letnic, Professor of Conservation biology and Ecosystem restoration, University of New South WalesPRODUCER: Helen Pitt
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Apr 1, 2025 • 22min

Does Peter Dutton's gas policy stack up?

Peter Dutton has made gas policy a central plank of his election pitch, unveiling a plan to reserve domestic gas supply and reduce energy prices.  But he’s yet to release the modelling to back up his claims. Mark Ogge says reserving gas for domestic use is important – but he says new gas projects don’t add to Australian supply, they just enable the export of more gas. And that’s a big problem for the climate. GUEST: Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor, The Australia InstitutePRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer
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Apr 1, 2025 • 12min

Ian Dunt's UK: why did London police arrest activists in a Quaker meeting house?

Questions remain as to why London police arrested six activists in a Quaker meeting house who were planning a protest.  Meanwhile, the conviction of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen for graft in a Paris courtroom has sent shock waves through European politics. Guest: Ian Dunt, columnist with i news, co-host of Origin Story podcast
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Mar 31, 2025 • 10min

Laura Tingle's Election 2025: Dutton falls behind

As the election campaign gets underway, Laura Tingle looks at the messaging, who is being effective and what role US President Donald Trump plays in it all. GUEST: Laura Tingle, 7.30 Political EditorPRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer
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Mar 31, 2025 • 42min

Defining antisemitism on university campuses

Amid ongoing campus protests, and in the wake of a federal inquiry, 39 Australian universities have agreed to a definition of antisemitism to be adopted on campuses nationwide. The definition declares that criticism of Israel can, under some circumstances, be seen as antisemitic. But what are those circumstances? That is being debated on campuses around the world, where definitions like this are seen on one hand as necessary to protect Jewish students, and on the other as a way silencing criticism of Israel.
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Mar 27, 2025 • 23min

Calls for law reform after High Court ruling that Catholic Church is not 'vicariously liable' for abuse

There are calls for law reform after the recent High Court ruling that the Catholic Church is not vicariously liable for the actions of a priest who allegedly sexually abused a child in the 1970s. The court ruled that a priest is not an employee of a church, and therefore the institution is not liable to compensate their victims. Lawyers and advocates say they will take up the issue with all states and territories.Guest: Judy Courtin, lawyer and advocateFull statement in response to the High Court judgement from Bishop Bird (December 2024)

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