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#250

Healing the stolen generation and letters from two literary giants

Lorraine and Shaan Peeters are helping to heal the stolen generations and their families with their organisation Marumali. Plus a new book by Susan Wyndham and Brigitta Olubas called "Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters" tells an extraordinary account of two literary luminaries, their complex relationship and the times they lived in. ... Read more

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Johann Hari on the miracle weight loss drugs

Johann Hari explains the health risks and rewards of the new weight loss drugs and looks at the causes of the high demand for these drugs in the affluent west. Brendan Kennedy argues for water rights for native title owners in the Murray Darling Basin. ... Read more

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Satyajit Das on the risks of ecotourism and Bruce Shapiro on the Columbia protests

Bruce Shapiro reports on the latest from the student protests at Columbia University and Satyajit Das shares the conflicting emotions he feels about the amazing wildlife he has seen on his travels and his concerns for their future. ... Read more

30 Apr 2024

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Laura Tingle's Canberra and James Bradley's oceanic love affair

7:30's Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle reflects on a weekend of powerful protests denouncing violence against women. Then, Australian writer James Bradley makes an impassioned plea to save our oceans and the awesome creatures who live there. ... Read more

29 Apr 2024

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29 Apr 2024

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ANZAC day: Remembering Australia's lost generation and the contribution of women in war

Two historians remember those who served in the First World War. Ross McMullin delves deep into lives of three outstanding individuals; each so full of promise, but tragically, their potential would never be realised. Melanie Oppenheimer considers the overlooked role and contribution of women in the mostly male mythologies of the ANZACs. ... Read more

25 Apr 2024

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Yossi Beilin and Hiba Husseini on a possible two state solution plus the Anzac story on the Greek is...

About a year ago, longtime friends lawyer Hiba Husseini and former politician Yossi Beilin released a plan to lay the groundwork for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Plus a documentary on a surprising Anzac history on the Greek island of Lemnos. ... Read more

24 Apr 2024

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24 Apr 2024

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Ian Dunt on the Rwanda deal and Natalie Haynes updates the Greek goddesses

Ian Dunt laments the passing of the Rwanda Bill in Westminster which will allow the deportation of immigrants who arrive by boat to Rwanda. Classicist Natalie Haynes reveals why the Greek goddesses have been much maligned and misunderstood. ... Read more

23 Apr 2024

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23 Apr 2024

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Laura Tingle's Canberra and the transformation of Germany

The transformation of Germany over the last 80 years has been something of a marvel. It’s gone from a shattered guilt-ridden pariah of a country to a bastion of democracy and Europe’s fiscal hero. So how did this metamorphosis occur? Can it be continued in the post-Merkel era? Historian Frank Trentmann joins us to answer these questions, and more. Plus, Laura Tingle examines the PM's trip to Kokoda, and why the Opposition has changed its tune on government powers to regulate online content on social media. ... Read more

22 Apr 2024

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22 Apr 2024

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Indigenous authors are winning awards and selling books. Author Tony Birch explains why.

Author, poet and academic Tony Birch celebrates the success of so many First Nations writers but there is always room for improvement in the publishing industry. From the LNL Archive we hear a conversation with Andrew O'Hagan and Karl Miller recorded in Edinburgh in 2012. ... Read more

18 Apr 2024

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18 Apr 2024

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South Africa's ANC under political threat and saffron under attack from climate change

Nelson Mandela's African National Congress has held power for more than thirty years, but that could soon change. And saffron is the world's most expensive spice, revered as sacred in many cultures. But climate change is making the delicate flower that produces it harder than ever to harvest. ... Read more

17 Apr 2024

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17 Apr 2024

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Trump's day in court and artists challenging history in China

Bruce Shapiro takes us inside Donald Trump's first day in court as a criminal defendant. In China, the Communist Party keeps tight control of the narrative of the history of China. Ian Johnson introduces us to the artists and film makers who are challenging that narrative - at their own peril. ... Read more

16 Apr 2024

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16 Apr 2024

#239

Laura Tingle's Canberra and why free will might be an illusion

7:30's chief political correspondent Laura Tingle unpacks the Lehrmann defamation verdict dominating news headlines, and we speak to neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky who makes the provocative argument that we have no free will, at all. ... Read more

15 Apr 2024

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15 Apr 2024

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Sir John Franklin is honoured in Hobart as the discoverer of the infamous North-West passage through the Arctic, but a closer look at the story examines how much he relied on women's help and Indigenous knowledge. Also, in the age of scrolling, is it history for the chapter? ... Read more

11 Apr 2024

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11 Apr 2024

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Rewildng the Eastern quoll and Newcastle's paedophile ring exposed

Aussie Ark's Tim Faulkner explains why he believes the imminent rewilding of the eastern quoll will be successful this time, after 50 years of extinction on the Australian mainland. Social philosopher Anne Manne tells the harrowing story of the Anglican paedophile ring in Newcastle and the brave group of people who brought it down. ... Read more

10 Apr 2024

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UK politics, koala politics and the long reach of the Spanish Civil War

In the UK, Ian Dunt reports on the pressure building over the sale of arms to Israel, Stephen Long questions the carbon credits NSW is hoping for in order to save the state's koalas and Judith Keene details the legacies of the Spanish Civil War in both Spain and across the globe. ... Read more

09 Apr 2024

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09 Apr 2024

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Bernard Keane's Canberra and David Williamson on our housing crisis

Crikey's Bernard Keane on how the government has responded to the IDF review into Zomi Frankcom's death. Plus, playwright David Williamson tells Phillip why he has come out of retirement to write a play about the housing crisis and the increasing divide between Australia's haves and have-nots. ... Read more

08 Apr 2024

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08 Apr 2024

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Vandana Shiva on ecocide and Henry Grabar on parking

Ecofeminist Vandana Shiva explains the significance of adding ecocide to the list of crimes that the ICC can prosecute. And Henry Grabar makes his case for reducing the number of car parks on our planet. ... Read more

04 Apr 2024

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Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir and computer scientist Leslie Valiant

Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professor and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. Viet's memoir, A Man Of Two Faces, is published by Black Inc. and Viet will be a guest at the Sydney Writer's Festival later this month. What makes humans so unique? Our ability to learn. So says computer scientist and Harvard Professor Leslie Valiant. His new book is called “The Importance of Being Educable” published by Princeton University Press. ... Read more

03 Apr 2024

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Bruce Shapiro on US politics and Anna Funder on Eileen Blair

Bruce Shapiro digs into the history of the 1871 Comstock Act being used to argue against the sale of abortion drugs online. Anna Funder reveals the many ways that George Orwell's wife Eileen contributed to his work during their life together. ... Read more

02 Apr 2024

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02 Apr 2024

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A chat with Jack Thompson

Phillip Adams and Jack Thompson sit down to chat about Jack's career, how he is living with dialysis, his love of Dylan Thomas and his determination to tell the truth about the frontier wars in this country. ... Read more

01 Apr 2024

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01 Apr 2024

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Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project plus the history of ice

Rupert Read helped found the radical climate protest movement, Extinction Rebellion. Now he says a climate movement is needed that the broader public can feel comfortable with. And Max Leonard explains how ice has changed the world from ice-cubes to ice-bergs. ... Read more

28 Mar 2024

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28 Mar 2024

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The crisis on the US border and surrealism turns 100

Years of neglect on immigration policy in the US means that it will be a big issue in the Presidential election later this year. Surrealism was born out of the horrors of World War One and Mark Polizzotti explains why it was so much more than an artistic or literary phenomenon. ... Read more

27 Mar 2024

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27 Mar 2024

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The wild ride that was Dick Tamimi's life: from gold smuggler to gold records

What might a Keir Starmer Labor government might look like in the UK. Ian Dunt reveals all. Dick Tamimi had a wild life as a pilot, gold smuggler and record producer. Julien Poulsen has decided to turn his life into a musical. ... Read more

26 Mar 2024

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26 Mar 2024

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Canberra politics and Timor then and now

Laura Tingle is back with the latest news on Australian politics and Phillip speaks to former First Lady of Timor-Leste Kirsty Sword Gusmao about her decades-long fight to improve life for Timorese women. ... Read more

25 Mar 2024

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25 Mar 2024

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Dutton demolition and victorious Vesuvius

Journalist Lech Blaine unpacks Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's 'battle for the burbs' strategy, and whether his strongman persona will see the Liberals win back enough territory to claim a future victory. Plus how Vesuvius became a magnet for early adventure tourists. ... Read more

21 Mar 2024

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Spies and sleuths

Joey Watson on his investigation into the ASIO nest of cold war moles. And Caitlin Davies on the real life female super- sleuths of the 19th century. ... Read more

20 Mar 2024

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Bruce Shapiro and Shannon Smith on the mysterious Clive Williams

Bruce Shapiro dives into the latest fault lines in American politics and Dr Shannon Smith recounts the previously untold story of Clive Williams; the Australian preacher, teacher and chiropractor who became one of President Soeharto's closest advisors. ... Read more

19 Mar 2024

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Canberra politics, 'Missing' Iraq war documents revealed and Joseph Conrad in Oz

Rachel Withers dishes the latest in Australian politics, and Dr David Lee reveals whether newly released records shed light on how the decision to send Australian troops to Iraq in 2003 came about. Plus, could Joseph Conrad's writing have been heavily influenced by his travels Down Under? ... Read more

18 Mar 2024

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18 Mar 2024

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Unshackled: true convict stories. Easey street murders: a cold case revisited

Historians Tony Moore and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart guide us through [Unshackled] (https://exhibition.unshackled.net.au/themes/) : a multi media touring exhibition that tells a new and different story about convicts, transportation and colonial Australia. Helen Thomas, in her true crime podcast, reviews the evidence in the Easey street murders in Melbourne in the late 1970's ... Read more

14 Mar 2024

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The art of ghost writing and a microhistory of the Edwin Fox

Liam Pieper recounts how he was forced into ghost writing and then found his way out again to write books in his own name and Boyd Cothran studied an unremarkable cargo ship, the Edwin Fox, through the lens of microhistory to tell a wider story. ... Read more

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#250

Healing the stolen generation and letters from two literary giants

#249

Johann Hari on the miracle weight loss drugs

#248

Satyajit Das on the risks of ecotourism and Bruce Shapiro on the Columbia protests

#247

Laura Tingle's Canberra and James Bradley's oceanic love affair

#246

ANZAC day: Remembering Australia's lost generation and the contribution of women in war

#245

Yossi Beilin and Hiba Husseini on a possible two state solution plus the Anzac story on the Greek is...

#244

Ian Dunt on the Rwanda deal and Natalie Haynes updates the Greek goddesses

#243

Laura Tingle's Canberra and the transformation of Germany

#242

Indigenous authors are winning awards and selling books. Author Tony Birch explains why.

#241

South Africa's ANC under political threat and saffron under attack from climate change

#240

Trump's day in court and artists challenging history in China

#239

Laura Tingle's Canberra and why free will might be an illusion

#238

Late Night Live

#237

Rewildng the Eastern quoll and Newcastle's paedophile ring exposed

#236

UK politics, koala politics and the long reach of the Spanish Civil War

#235

Bernard Keane's Canberra and David Williamson on our housing crisis

#234

Vandana Shiva on ecocide and Henry Grabar on parking

#233

Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir and computer scientist Leslie Valiant

#232

Bruce Shapiro on US politics and Anna Funder on Eileen Blair

#231

A chat with Jack Thompson

#230

Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project plus the history of ice

#229

The crisis on the US border and surrealism turns 100

#228

The wild ride that was Dick Tamimi's life: from gold smuggler to gold records

#227

Canberra politics and Timor then and now

#226

Dutton demolition and victorious Vesuvius

#225

Spies and sleuths

#224

Bruce Shapiro and Shannon Smith on the mysterious Clive Williams

#223

Canberra politics, 'Missing' Iraq war documents revealed and Joseph Conrad in Oz

#222

Unshackled: true convict stories. Easey street murders: a cold case revisited

#221

The art of ghost writing and a microhistory of the Edwin Fox