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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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Aussies love to gamble, whether it’s on the horses, down the pokies, at a fancy casino, or, increasingly, betting on their favourite sports team from the ease of our mobile phones. We love gambling so much we lose around $32 billion every year – more than any other country in the world. There’s long been support for putting the brakes on, but it seems our politicians are more addicted to the money than we are. Guest: Quentin Beresford, Adjunct Professor at Sunshine Coast University and author of 'Hooked - inside the murky world of Australia’s gambling industry', published by NewSouthProducer: Catherine Zengerer
'The genocide in Gaza was not committed in isolation, but as part of a system of global complicity.' That's the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese. Her most recent report, “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime” says that rather than ensuring that Israel respects the basic human rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people, Western states - including Australia - have provided, Israel with military, diplomatic, economic and ideological support, even as it weaponised famine and humanitarian aid. And this means we could be at risk of prosecution. Guest: Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967Producer: Catherine Zengerer
The Pope forgave the man who shot him in the stomach. Erika Kirk forgave the assassin who killed her husband, Charlie. But what, exactly, is forgiveness? When we forgive someone, what exactly are we doing?Guest: Professor Lucy Allais, a philosopher at both the University of the Witwatersrand and Johns Hopkins UniversityProducer: Alex Tighe
Patrick White was Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for novels like Voss, The Tree of Man, and The Vivisector. His work explored spiritual isolation, human cruelty, and the Australian landscape, often drawing from his own privileged but tormented life as a gay, asthmatic outsider. Now a new work has been written reflecting on White's startling use of language and his mythic depiction of the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it. Guest: Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor of Modern Greek, University of Sydney, author of "On Patrick White's Dilemmas", published by New South Books. Guest: Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor of Modern Greek, University of Sydney
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, with a strained culture of its own: its practitioners have often been involved in colonial control of native populations. Australia's first anthropology department was founded 100 years ago, at the University of Sydney. A century on, can an academic discipline that has followed in the footsteps of colonisation still shed light on the world?Guest: Dr Michael Edwards, Lecturer in Anthropology at The University of SydneyProducer: Alex Tighe
On the streets of Chicago, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are busy arresting, detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants as part of "Operation Midway Blitz". But communities are finding ways to resist.Guest: Evelyn Vargas, Organised Communities Against Deportation, ChicagoProducer: Jack Schmidt, Ali Benton
King Charles wants Prince Andrew out of the Royal Lodge, UK Conservatives launch an extreme immigration policy and Labour has suffered its first parliamentary defeat in Caerphilly for 100 years, as Plaid Cymru claim victory in the Welsh Parliament by-election.GUEST: Ian Dunt: iNews columnist and regular LNL commentatorPRODUCER: Ali Benton
If AI language models can "learn" human languages, and translate between them, could AI also help us to decode what animals are saying? Off the coast of Dominica, a Caribbean island known for its sperm whale population, some ambitious scientists are trying to find out. Project CETI aims to use advanced robotics and AI to break the barrier of human-animal communication.Guest: Professor David Gruber, Project CETI President and Founder and National Geographic ExplorerProducers: Rebecca Metcalf and Alex Tighe
International investigative journalism outfit ‘Lighthouse Reporter’ found a vast archive of data on the deep web containing thousands of phone numbers, emails and locations of people all over the world. The data came from a little-known surveillance company called First Wap. Headquartered in Jakarta, but run by a group of European executives, First Wap has quietly built a global phone tracking empire for its Altamides program, which has tracked journalists, environmental activists and political dissidents.Guest: Gabriel Geiger, lead reporter for Lighthouse Reports' "Surveillance Secrets' investigation.Producer: Catherine Zengerer
As parliament resumes, Labor has a big bill to push through: changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, which has been widely criticised as no longer fit for purpose and hindering productivity. The bill will establish Australia;s first National Environemnt Protection Agency, but the Greens say they won't support it if it doesn't contain a so-called "climate trigger', which would give the federal Environment Minister more power to scrutinise and control high-polluting projects based on their climate effects. The Coalition wats the bill split in two, with the more contentious parts around environmental controls moved into a separate bill. Guest: Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent | National Press Club DirectorProducer: Catherine Zengerer
Josef Stalin left this earthly realm on March 5, 1953. The circumstances of his death were deeply chaotic – his guards and inner circle were too afraid to open the door to his room, and he was found days later lying on the floor. Stalin’s ghost however, still haunts modern day Russia – from tea-leaf readers to mediums on the internet, there's no shortage of people trying to contact the Soviet dictator on the other side.GUEST: Sheila Fitzpatrick, Emeritus professor at the Australian Catholic University and Author, The Death of StalinPRODUCER: Ali Benton
It was 1974 and Canberra was in turmoil. A young Paul Kelly was the chief political correspondent for The Australian newspaper, and covered the mounting scandals and intrigues. As we near the 50th anniversary of 11 November, 1975, Paul and David look back at the political environment that led to The Dismissal.Guest: Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large, The Australian
Love is the big emotion, the one that drives our literature and our lives. It has done since antiquity. But when the Greeks and Romans wrote about love, did they mean the same things we do today? Is love eternal, or has the concept evolved over time?Guest: Marguerite Johnson, Honorary Professor in Classics at The University of QueenslandProducer: Alex Tighe
The new Museum of West African Art will open in Benin City, Nigeria next month. It was hoped that the new galleries would display the world's most comprehensive collection of Benin bronzes - precious fourteenth Century artefacts looted by the British in the late 19th Century. Bronzes are gradually being repatriated from collections around the world - but not into the collection of the new museum. Guest: Philip Oltermann, The Guardian's European Culture EditorProducer: Jack Schmidt
1After water, sand is the most-exploited natural resource in the world, but its use is largely ungoverned, meaning we are consuming it faster than it can be replaced by geological processes that take hundreds of thousands of years. Making sand from ore could solve the looming crisis.GUEST: Professor Daniel Franks Director, Global Centre for Mineral Security, University of QueenslandPRODUCER: Ali Benton
Suriname is a small Dutch speaking country in South America. It’s been run by a despot racking up debt and oppressing its citizens. But now they’ve elected their first female President who’s promising fiscal transparency, good governance and sustainable development. Meanwhile the impoverished country has discovered oil off its coast and both China and the US are circling like flies. Guest: Zoe Deceuninck, Editor-in-Chief of Parbode, the only Surinamese magazine in the country Producer: Catherine Zengerer
This week, Australia went to Washington. Our PM, Anthony Albanese, met with Donald Trump in the White House, where Trump signed an agreement about critical minerals and took a dig at Kevin Rudd.Guest: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor for The Nation, and Executive Director of the Global Center for Journalism and TraumaProducer: Alex Tighe
Last month, the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne cancelled a scheduled speaking event entitled 'Children and War' amid concerns about staff safety and wellbeing. As reported by Guardian Australia and The Jerusalem Post, the Sydney-based psychiatrist Dr Doron Samuell wrote a letter to the hospital's executive expressing concerns about the potential for 'moral injury' and 'vicarious trauma.' Last year, a similar event featuring Palestinian-Australian doctors was cancelled at Fremantle's Fiona Stanley Hospital. The hospital's namesake is troubled by the cancellations. Guest: Professor Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist and distinguished professorial fellow in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western AustraliaRead Dr Samuell's concerns about the Royal Children's Hospital event as reported in the Jerusalem PostRead responses from Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and Fiona Stanley Hospital, as provided to Guardian Australia
Australia’s National Press Club was due to host Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Chris Hedges on Monday October 20, 2025. But after receiving the outline for his speech, they cancelled the event, saying they "decided to pursue other speakers". Hedges has been a significant critic of the way western media has handled the war in Gaza. Guest: Chris Hedges, author, journalist and presenter of The Chris Hedges ReportEditor's note: The program said APAN (Australian Palestine Advocacy Network) brought Chris Hedges to Australia to present the Edward Said Memorial Lecture, when it was in fact AFOPA (Australian Friends of Palestine Association)
Nationals MP and former leader, Barnaby Joyce has announced he won't run for the seat of New England at the next election. Rumours about that he'll join Pauline Hanson's One Nation, but he is keeping mum. So what's he up to? Bernard Keane looks back at his political career.Guest: Bernard Keane, political editor, Crikey
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brilliant interview, left vrs v left with ad homennum attacks
protests like 13Sept. how many?
what a shame dunt wasn't interrogated like Victoria Coates
I'd like to hear Fintans opinions on the protests in Ireland
a historian who says the pyramids and sphinx are 2000yrs old. DEI in action
Oh dear, David finally has an ethic guest on who doesn't follow the script
Bruce gets it wrong again
The ABC does it again. It manages to find the 1 person on the planet who has anything positive to say about Macron
out of touch.
University of terrorism
savva is not a liberal
another book with a limited circulation, paid for by grants from the taxpayer
fantasy. find someone else with a grip on reality
reality hurts, so shapiro retreats into fantasy.
triumph of optimism over reality in Muhammedan countries
next week the rule of hamas in gaza and how well that worked out.... maybe not on the abc
sava needs medical help
The left just cannot face facts. Women do not have a penis and Harris was hopeless
a wonderful interview a worthy successor to PA
cops hate dv, because the complainer often turn on them when the partner is arrested. added to this in remote communities half the folks are on the perps side. this dv predates captn cook, and its about time the abs started some introspection. stop blaming others