Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

It started in 2020 as a small activist group, and is now banned under UK terrorism laws. Palestine Action’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, is challenging the British government’s decision in court, calling the ban "an authoritarian power grab". And at the next general election, the UK will lower the age of eligible voters from 18 to 16 — a reform that will give an additional 1.6 million British citizens the right to vote. Guest: Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcastProducer: Ali Benton

Australia will phase out cheque payments and processing by 2030, but most banks and consumers moved on long ago. Cheques have been used for cashless payment around the world for some 350 years. Should we mourn or welcome their inevitable demise? Guest: Ross Buckley, Scientia Professor of Law at UNSWProducer: Jack Schmidt

The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the past year, and the nation's emergency stockpile is dwindling. A poor harvest in 2023 is partly to blame, but Japan is reckoning with much deeper structural problems in its domestic rice market. Decades of rigid protectionism have created an artificial scarcity, and consumers are feeling the pinch. Guest: Ethan Wu, Asia business and finance editor at The EconomistProducer: Jack Schmidt

As parliament returns for the first time since the federal election, Annabel Crabb looks at how Labor will use its huge majority.Guest: Annabel Crabb, ABC writer and commentator

A new report by Amnesty International shows a startling surge in drug-related executions in Saudi Arabia since they abandoned their moratorium on capital punishment in 2022. And most of them are foreigners. GUEST: Kristine Beckerle, Amnesty's Deputy Regional Director for Amnesty International Middle-East and North AfricaPRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

History Professor Chris Wallace is worried about the decline in both enrolments in, and the offering of, history and other humanities subjects at Australian universities, which she says has resulted in a loss of capacity for historical thinking and of decision-making. What happened to the idea of valuing a well-rounded education?GUEST: Chris Wallace, History Professor, University of CanberraPRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

Throughout history, women have found ways to end unwanted and dangerous pregnancies, even in the midst of legal crackdowns and moral panics. From Ancient Greece through early Christendom to modern times, attitudes to abortion have ebbed and flowed. In the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US in 2022, historian Mary Fissel takes a long view of abortion and its history, concluding that these moments of repression never last. Guest: Mary Fissel, Professor of the history of medicine, Johns Hopkins University, author of Abortion, A History

The Torres Strait Islanders' case against the Federal Government has been lost,  with the Australian Federal Court finding the Government does not owe a duty of care to them,  to mitigate climate change harms. It's the latest in a string of attempts to use the law to steer the Government on environmental issues. The next significant case will be the decision of the International Court of Justice about whether States are responsible for each other's climate harm. Guest: Dr Chris McGrath, Brisbane-based barrister and Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Qld School of the Environment, environmental lawyer who has been involved in multiple climate change litigation cases over the past 20 years Producers: Ann Arnold and Ali Benton

In July 1999, a 33-year old Alaskan tourist named Robert Bogucki dumped his bicycle on the side of a remote desert track in Western Australia, and walked barefoot into the Great Sandy Desert. 43 days later, he was found - emaciated but alive. The new ABC podcast Nowhere Man recounts the thrilling story, tracking down Robert Bogucki to understand why he deliberately walked into this deadly wilderness, triggering a massive search operation and a media circus.Guest: Erin Parke, journalist and producer of Expanse: Nowhere Man

New archaeological discoveries continue to be made at the site of the San Jose shipwreck, 600 metres under the sea off the coast of Colombia. Described as the 'world's richest shipwreck', the Spanish galleon was sunk by the British in 1708, with hundreds of souls aboard and a heavy cargo of gold, silver and jewels from the Americas. But the ship's loot remains contested - with various nations, tribes and even a private salvage company staking a claim. Guest: Ann Coats, Professor of Maritime Heritage, University of Portsmouth