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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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Australia's first political assassination, plus the man who led Japan into war
Journalist Debbie Whitmont revisits the 1994 murder of John Newman MP - a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination - and the man stil...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, six months in a submarine and the ethics of crisis reporting
Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's victory in the Farrer by-election. What does the result say about the growing frustration with the major parties?...
Fintan O'Toole on Trump's brand of 'crazy,' plus how to escape the Taliban
Acclaimed journalist and author, Fintan O'Toole argues Trump’s political power lies in projecting the “right amount of crazy”. Plus how to help an Afg...
Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come up against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, why community radio matters, and an historic Pitcairn Island document returned
Our regular US commentator looks at recent political attempts to use defamation law to silence American media. 2SER, a Sydney community radio station...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Kim Jong Un's comeback and classical marble statues - in colour
Anna Henderson on the Japanese PM's visit and the tragedy of Kumanjayi Little Baby's death in Alice Springs. Plus 2020 wasn’t a good year for North Ko...
Ian Dunt on the King's speech to Congress, plus the scandalous life of Dick Meagher
Ian Dunt looks at King Charles' address to US Congress and the subtle anti-Trump messages within it. Plus, a new biography details the life of Richard...
Pakistan the negotiator, and reporting mass shootings
Why is Pakistan the new deal broker in the US-Iran war? And what do cryptocurrency and critical minerals deals have to do with their new-found role? A...
How war fired up indigenous soldiers, and Japanese espionage - fact or fiction?
Indigenous soldiers who fought in WW felt betrayed when they returned, then formed the first radical Aboriginal political organisation. And, before th...
Who are the British elite today? And a tribute to David Malouf
How the British elite see themselves is not what the data reveals. An historian of medicine, who's mother had polio, is revisiting the experiences of...
NZ PM's leadership struggle, and the Weintraubs Syncopaters' sad end
New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon survives a no confidence vote, but how long can he hang on to the leadership? Plus why the Musician's Union of Austra...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Chernobyl's wildlife thriving and the great convict escape on the Catalpa
Trump contemplates his next move on Iran as the ceasefire deadline looms, while at home his administration is dealing with yet more scandal, this time...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, how best to commemorate war, plus Lake Eyre tourists need fuel
Our regular Canberra correspondent on the latest polling, and Independent David Pocock's new focus on taxing gas. Historian Peter Stanley argues for a...
A Jewish Australian lawyer reckons with state violence. Plus, can corporate scandals be good for the world?
The Melbourne legal scholar Marika Sosnowski spent many years researching violence and the law in Syria. Now she reckons with her own family's proximi...
Ian Dunt's UK, the Colombo plan, and AI publishing scams
Ian Dunt examines what Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary means for the EU and looks at questions around Donald Trump's mental capacity. There once was a...
Jon Lee Anderson on Trump's stranglehold over Cuba, and other maritime chokepoints before the Strait of Hormuz
Cuba's leader is defiant in the face of the country's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, while President Trump hints at inflicting more pain. And t...
Australia's fuel import dependency, gay conservatives backing Trump, plus damaged treasures in Iran
Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republic...
America’s arts in freefall under Donald Trump and Daniel Defoe's secret life before he wrote Robinson Crusoe
Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, recently laid off by Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, antibiotic resistance in India, plus Marralwanga's bark paintings
Bruce Shaprio on the US President's latest ultimatum for Iran. Prof.Assa Doron reveals how India has become the global epicentre for the world's anti...
Robert Reich's America and ten years since the release of the Panama papers
In his new memoir, Former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, traces how the Democrats lost the working class and paved the way for D...
Ian Dunt's UK, and the Shahs and Ayatollahs of Iran
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his plan to address fuel prices. And 'The Shah's party, and the Iranian revolution that followed'. Bob Temple...
Western Australia's GST wins, Israel death penalty for West Bank, and mapping the wilderness
The only Australian state with a budget surplus will get an extra $6.6 billion from Australian taxpayers in the coming financial year, under its speci...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Ash Sarkar critques the modern Left, and should daylight savings be permanent?
The Australian government will halve the fuel excise for three months, as the energy crisis triggered by the Iran war looks set to drag on. UK journal...
The struggle to get aid into the Middle East, plus a great Australian librarian retires
Millions have been made homeless by wars in the Middle East, but with access severely limited, humanitarian agencies are struggling to get aid into th...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Trump’s business in the Gulf, plus the Museum of Failure
Bruce Shapiro on whether Trump now looking for a way-out of the war in Iran, and why the Pentagon has lost its defence of media shut-out rules. Plus t...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, a tribute to Rhoda Roberts, and making floristry more sustainable
The South Australian election result has got the major parties elsewhere scrambling to understand what the One Nation phenomenon means for them. In tr...
Guns and God in the USA, plus fresh scrutiny on weedkiller Roundup
Journalist and author William J. Kole examines how white evangelicals in the United States have fused the gospel and guns - and are standing in the wa...
Ian Dunt's UK, Geoffrey Watson finds the NACC wanting and the power of presidential pardons
Ian Dunt on why UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to be drawn into the "wider war" in the Middle East. Geoffrey Watson reflects on the findin...
The new Nationals' front bench, where Saudi Arabia sits in the Middle East war, and meet veteran protestor Mag Merrilees
Our regular Canberra correspondent Anna Henderson on the new-look Nationals. Saudi Arabia is playing a quiet hand so far in the war. And a longtime ra...
Acclaimed historian and author Antony Beevor on Rasputin, and Elon Musk's facilitation of making fake porn with unauthorised images
The so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle,...
Funding Australian TV, and conspiracy theories in Irish politics
Australian TV now has to compete with social media, on-demand streaming, and, soon, AI. Our government supports the industry, but the amount of Austra...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Christian rhetoric in the US military, and Vanuatu's lost numbering system
Donald Trump's war in Iran is certainly taking the world's attention away from the scandals of his administration, including the firing of former Secr...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Economist journalist Sophie Pedder on President Macron's support for Lebanon, and why the power of the mafia - in multiple cultures - still prevails.
Our Canberra correspondent on Australia's delicate positioning with the Middle East War. Why the French President is passionately arguing for no furth...
Yanis Varoufakis on war and drugs, and 200 years of the State Library of NSW
Yanis Varoufakis, the firebrand economist and former Greek Minister of Finance, joins David for a talk about the Iran war, Trump's tariffs and the new...
Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, the secret life of batteries, and Australia's earliest desert people
What are Israel's ultimate objectives in Iran, Lebanon and the broader Middle East? The veteran journalist and author Gideon Levy joins the show to di...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the US attack on Iran, and when books go bad
Australian Government leaders have been taking a cautious 'let's just wait and see what happens' approach to the war in the Middle East. Bruce Shapiro...
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's State of the Union, Catholic Church High Court loss and do Australian cities have a guaranteed water supply?
Our US political commentator Bruce Shapiro has watched the (very long) State of the Union address. The High Court has found the Catholic Church is li...
Richard Ackland on the antisemitism Royal Commission, the biodiversity of the high seas, and Mawson's scrawled diaries
Richard Ackland discusses the scope and ambitions of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, and the challenges facing the enquiry....
Anna Henderson's Canberra, and Helen Clark on the UN's missing senior women
Chief political correspondent for SBS, Anna Henderson, on the ongoing political wrangling over people who do or do not reflect 'Australian values'.
A review of the Pacific labour scheme in Australia, and rethinking the gay rights movement
The PALM scheme, bringing Pacifika workers to regional Australia to work, has many fans, but significant problems also, a new report finds. Its author...