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Mark
Mar 26, 2024
Loved Phillip and his inspiring guests since I became an adult 40+ years back
Gael Davis
Aug 7, 2023
I'm a poddy and have been for years. Love Phillip and the show. It is so interesting and informative. We travel for extended periods overseas, so your podcasts keep me entertained and enlightened wherever we are in the world. Thank you 😊
Oct 19, 2022
q m
Sep 14, 2019
Mike K
Oct 1, 2018
I've been a fan since the early'ish days of podcasting/on dad audio, I think since about 2005 and the quality hasn't wavered. From topical discussions to more eclectic topics this is a great show and the quality has never wavered
seb
Aug 10, 2018
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America's first president was an aggressive land speculator
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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How the American Revolution drove Britain's colonisation of Australia
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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How tiny gardens can feed the world
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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When the NT introduced world-first euthanasia laws
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Meet the 'vigilante' cactus hunters
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Who will defend Japan?
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump gets more firing power
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Italy has the most forests since the Middle Ages, but it's not an environmental win
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Why France is ditching tech giants Palantir and Microsoft
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Does the Liberal party need a rebrand?
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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On the hunt for the next epidemic
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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How Murdoch's media wields power and punishment
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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Reverse extinction: do we want that?
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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What's next for Lebanon, as UN Peacekeepers prepare to leave?
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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The soccer-playing Anzacs
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Mariana Mazzucato on making economies work for the common good
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: most Australians don't want a 'monoculture'
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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The evolution of Islamic State
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer resigns
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Rediscovered Birrundudu drawings rewrite the timeline of Aboriginal art
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party?
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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The first public zoo: what the world learned from the Paris menagerie
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Being human under the AI advance
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Why First Nations people are dismayed at Brisbane's new Olympic stadium
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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US-India tensions after strikes kill seafarers in Hormuz
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's agenda on the line in Supreme Court
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Trump opens America's doors to white South Africans
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Laura Tingle on why Israel isn't backing Trump's Iran peace deal
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Why do we fixate on the human face?
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Madam War Criminal: 'Serbia's Iron lady' unrepentant at 95
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Soweto: the uprising that changed South Africa
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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The campaign to save PNG's Sepik river from an Australian mining company
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Henry Nowak's murder sparks immigration backlash
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Will Switzerland vote to cap its population?
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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The men who want women to be quiet: America's 'masculinist' movement
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Spam spam spam! Why the luncheon meat is still loved in many countries
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Barcelona's magnificent Sagrada Familia Basilica to be blessed by the Pope
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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The forgotten Timorese boat people
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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The great illicit drug debate: How Australia changed course
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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The psychiatrist who investigated reincarnation
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Is 'Muskism' the new Fordism?
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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How nature is the performance enhancer for Ethiopian runners
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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How Glasgow stopped an immigration raid
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Republicans slam Trump's 'slush fund'
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Why Lord Howe Island is celebrating a cockroach boom
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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What are Syrian refugees returning home to?
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Will the government hold its nerve on tax reform?
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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The young US conservatives trying to redefine environmentalism
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May 28, 2026 |
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Long before 1979: A very different Iran–US relationship
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May 28, 2026 |
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The women at Nuremberg
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May 27, 2026 |
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Janine di Giovanni's reckoning with war criminals
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May 27, 2026 |
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Pedro Sanchez, Spain's defiant PM
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May 26, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Andy Burnham's big gamble, plus what's wrong with British leadership?
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May 26, 2026 |
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Ballerina Anna Pavlova's sensational tour of Australia, 100 years on
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May 26, 2026 |
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Ancient Roman gossip and why it mattered
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May 25, 2026 |
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Does Mamdani offer a 'progressive playbook' for the Left?
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May 25, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Could the Teals form a new political party?
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May 25, 2026 |
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Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi on identity, displacement and home
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May 21, 2026 |
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Satyajit Das on the economic fallout from Trump’s war on Iran
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May 21, 2026 |
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Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin
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May 20, 2026 |
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Who was Blind Freddy?
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May 19, 2026 |
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What made John Safran question the right to offend?
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May 19, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's rush to redistrict the South, as polls slump
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May 19, 2026 |
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Where is Gazan doctor Hussam Abu Safiya?
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May 18, 2026 |
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The joys and travails of translating Shakespeare
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May 18, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: battle lines drawn over tax
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May 18, 2026 |
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Why food traditions matter in times of conflict
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May 14, 2026 |
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Royal commissions in Australia - when have they made a difference?
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May 14, 2026 |
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Fifty years of Australian film at Cannes
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May 13, 2026 |
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Antoinette Lattouf on women who challenged power and won
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May 13, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer on the brink as the King opens parliament
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May 13, 2026 |
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Tojo Hideki, the Japanese wartime leader we know little about
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May 12, 2026 |
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Australia's first political assassination, and the man still behind bars
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May 12, 2026 |
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The trauma trope: can humanitarian journalism do better?
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May 11, 2026 |
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Six months underwater in a submarine
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May 11, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: budget expecations, Farrer fall-out
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May 11, 2026 |
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Laila’s story: how to save a mother and her five daughters from the Taliban
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May 07, 2026 |
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Fintan O'Toole on Trump's madman strategy
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May 07, 2026 |
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What happened to the survivors of Belsen concentration camp?
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May 06, 2026 |
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Netanyahu rivals join forces ahead of Israeli election
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May 06, 2026 |
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An old register forges new relations on Norfolk Island
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May 05, 2026 |
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Keeping the signal alive: 2SER’s uncertain future
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May 05, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Supreme Court weakens voter rights
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May 05, 2026 |
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Colouring the classical past: Mark Bradley and the rediscovery of painted sculpture
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May 04, 2026 |
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The unlikely resurgence of Kim Jong Un
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May 04, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Japan PM's visit, plus Alice Springs mourns
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May 04, 2026 |
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Australian writers celebrate David Malouf - friend, mentor, inspiration
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Richard Meagher was at the centre of early Australian politics. But he had a scandalous past
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: The King's speech to Congress. Will Trump get the message?
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Port Arthur reminds us how the media should cover mass shootings
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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What does Pakistan gain from its role in the US-Iran peace talks?
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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The fear of Japanese espionage in wartime Australia
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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How WWI radicalised Indigenous soldiers
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Silence, stigma and survival: polio in postwar Australia
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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The false stories the British elite tell about themselves
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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The German Jazz band that got stuck in wartime Australia
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Why did New Zealand's PM call a leadership vote on himself?
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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The great escape from WA, on the Catalpa ship
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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40 years on, wildlife is thriving in Chernobyl
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Another Trump cabinet member departs, and FBI's Kash Patel sues The Atlantic
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Does Australia's culture of remembrance need updating?
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pocock piles on gas tax pressure
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Kati-Thanda Lake Eyre is filling up - but will tourists have fuel to get there?
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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What if corporate scandals are actually good for the world?
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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A family reckoning on law and violence in the Middle East
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Dennis Altman's bizarre encounters with AI scam book promoters
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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The forgotten achievements of the Colombo Plan
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Orban's loss a blow for Europe's far right
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Hormuz as a chokepoint of power: the narrow seas that shaped global wars
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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US 'may stop by Cuba' after Iran, says Trump
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Magnificent heritage sites damaged in Iran
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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The gay conservatives out, loud and proud to vote Trump
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Australia's fuel import dependency exposed
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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The making of poet A.D. Hope, Australian literary giant
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Daniel Defoe, writer and spy
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Arts under attack in Trump's America
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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The art of Peter Marralwanga - Old Master and ritual leader
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The antibiotic explosion in India
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Will Trump follow through on his latest Iran threat?
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside down
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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A decade after the leak: The lasting impact of the Panama Papers
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Robert Reich on how the Democrats lost the working class
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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The Shahs and the Ayatollahs - Iran's extreme leaders
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer's plan to address the fuel crisis
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Mapping the wilderness
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Israel to use death penalty for West Bank Palestinians
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Why should WA get so much of the GST?
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Daylight savings forever? Why B.C, Canada has ditched clock changes
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Ash Sarkar's message to the Left - get a grip
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: fuel tax halved, as global energy crisis deepens
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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How the National Library digitises millions of archives, with Dr Marie-Louise Ayres
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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How the Strait of Hormuz closure is threatening aid and food security
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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The museum that celebrates famous flops and failures
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Skyscrapers to sand dunes: Trump’s business ventures in the Gulf
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's America: Is Trump really negotiating with Iran?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The dark side of floristry
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Remembering Rhoda Roberts AO
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: what the SA election result means for the nation
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Research that claimed Roundup herbicide is safe, retracted by US journal
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Evangelical Christians are manufacturing the guns used in mass shootings
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Please explain: Niki Savva, Paul Kelly and Antony Green on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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How US presidential pardons are being used as a political tool
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Not satisfactory at all: Geoffrey Watson on the NACC'S Robodebt findings
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Trump pressures Starmer on Iran war
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Why pensioners are still protesting in their seventies
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Will Saudi Arabia be the winners in the war on Iran?
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Matt Canavan and his Nationals' front bench
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Porn, AI, and the internet: social media's new frontier
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Mystic, manipulator, catalyst: Rasputin and Russia’s Last Tsar
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Psst: the Irish love a conspiracy theory
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Why is it so hard to make Australian TV?
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Lost Vanuatu numbering system
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Armageddon briefings: US Troops told Iran war is 'God’s plan'
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Noem, no more
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Power, crime, and money: the rise of the global mafia
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Why France is backing Lebanon in the Middle East War
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Albanese's call for de-escalation in Middle East
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Australia's oldest continuously used library turns 200
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Yanis Varoufakis on the Iran war, drug charges & cancelling Adelaide Writers' Week
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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In conversation with the UK's Ian Dunt
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Australia's first desert people
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Batteries, and the power they have over us
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, Lebanon, and the broader Middle East
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Behind the bestseller: feuds, failures, and publishing mishaps
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Trump attacks Iran: the view from inside America
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Australia and the Iran war
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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High Court rules the Catholic Church is liable for a priest's abuse
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: the State of the Union address
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Water in 2026: will Australia learn from our mistakes?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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What do Mawson's diaries reveal about the Flinders Ranges in South Australia?
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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A new treaty for the High Seas
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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What can and can't the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion decide?
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: The UN has a woman problem
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: ISIS women and children, One Nation policies, and Australian values
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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The end of the gay rights revolution?
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Immigrant labour from the Pacific: are we getting it right?
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Deflect, distract, deny: how politicians avoid direct answers
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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The return of Germany as a military power
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: is Keir Starmer's leadership is risk?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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How green are green burials?
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Washington tightens grip as Cuba faces mounting crisis
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Democracy for sale: gambling’s grip on politics
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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The music of the stars, with the "founding mother" of asteroseismology
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's voice of freedom, will die in prison
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Liberal leadership
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusion
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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The memes are the politics: Charlie Warzel on Trump's Extremely Online administration
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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An old book, a hidden drawing: how Sydney held the answer to an Italian Renaissance mystery
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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How journalists are tackling three million Epstein files - and what they're finding
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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"A moment of reckoning" - NSW police response to Sydney Herzog protest under spotlight
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Toads most feral: what can Australia do?
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Indonesia and Australia sign a security pact: what are we worried about?
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Bernard Keane's Canberra: A Coalition reunification, even as the Liberals contemplate "non-existence"
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Winnie-the-Pooh: how the gentle bear left a complicated legacy
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Tucker Carlson, the influential broadcaster admired by President Trump
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Trade Secret: Polar Bears for sale in a warming world
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Why is everyone rushing to do trade deals with India?
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt's UK: Anger over Mandelson's Epstein links and a new candidate for Reform
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Peter Drew, the 'AUSSIE' poster artist who wants to engage with young right wing men
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Iran expert says war is likely with the US if Trump gets bored with negotiations
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's America - are the Epstein files another distraction?
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Australia's secret indigenous circus royalty
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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The Rafah crossing reopens, and Isaac Herzog visits Australia
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Littleproud hangs on, One Nation surges, and Parliament returns
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Barry Jones on a life of public service and the state of politics today
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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America's first central banker was a reluctant revolutionary
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The Nationals' impact on the Coalition
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Springtails - the tiniest critters you've never heard of
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Mark Carney was the hero of Davos, but what is he positioning Canada for?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro: is the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota a tipping point?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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We've had 237 Straya Days: what do they say about us?
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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The expansion of Indigenous Protected Areas
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Multicultural Australia under strain
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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How Oscar Wilde was reclaimed by his grandson
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Stephen Miller: the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Ian Dunt on pulling out of Adelaide Writer's Week and the challenge of tackling Trump's increasing threats
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Where does King Charles get his money?
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Bruce Shapiro's America: what's next after Trump's year of chaos?
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Do the hate speech laws go too far?
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Bernard Keane's Canberra: can Albanese get hate speech laws through parliament?
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Tim Minchin on music, fatherhood, the Internet... and nipples
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: The murderous rampage of Joe and Jimmy Governor in 1900 New South Wales
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Cooperating over space resources
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Zane Grey's shark-hunting adventures in 1930s Australia
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Why Pompeii keeps revealing new secrets
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: John Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: A rich man obsessed with Mars? Welcome to the 1890s
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Is a river alive?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Fleeced: a story of wool and warfare
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Samah Jabr on dealing with trauma in Gaza
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Have we forgotten the value of shade?
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: Deep history, an Indigenous way of seeing the past
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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LNL Summer: From Utopia to the Tate - the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: The woman who solved crimes with birds
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: Why do we use the QWERTY keyboard?
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: Is it time to decriminalise jaywalking?
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: How prison architecture can change lives
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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LNL Summer:Australia's love of cinema, indoors and outdoors
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: Farewell Laura Tingle
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: Harriet Walter on what Shakespeare's women might have said
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Is it ethical to holiday in Antarctica?
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: AI. Don't believe the hype
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly hunt for a giant panda
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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LNL Summer: Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
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Dec 18, 2025 |