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Costa Georgiadis on how to stop Australia's invasion by feral species

Australia's unique biodiversity, a product of almost 50 million years of glorious evolutionary isolation, is in freefall. The threats are not just the rabbits, the cane toads, the cats and foxes – the common culprits.

Published: ThuThu 16 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Duration: 53 minutes 56 seconds

A new future for Black and White Australia — Thomas Mayo, Margo Neale, David Marr with Natasha Mitchell

Join Natasha Mitchell and guests for a robust conversation about forging a shared future between Black and White Australians through deeper understanding. Indigenous curator Margo Neale thought her nickname was "Abo" when she was a little girl.

Published: WedWed 15 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Duration: 53 minutes 34 seconds

Anne Manne - Crimes of the Cross

For more than half a century, the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle allowed and covered up an extensive network of paedophile priests who sexually abused hundreds of children in their care.

Published: TueTue 14 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Duration: 53 minutes 50 seconds

10,000 puffs — how vapes got the next generation hooked on smoking

Through sinister marketing and loose regulation, the tobacco industry has hooked a whole new generation of kids on smoking. How did it come to this, and will the federal government’s new laws to crack down on vaping actually work?

Published: MonMon 13 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Duration: 54 minutes 3 seconds

What Oppenheimer can teach us about regulating new technologies

What lessons can we learn from J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the nuclear bomb? How should we govern and legislate new technologies that have the power to change the world? Like nuclear technology in the mid of last century, now large…

Published: 9 May 2024Thu 9 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy in a scene from "Oppenheimer."

Duration: 53 minutes 44 seconds

Superpowers and superpeacemakers — your guide with John Lyons, Sam Roggeveen, Ilaria Walker and Natasha Mitchell

Smaller conflicts than those we're witnessing right now have set off world wars.

Published: 8 May 2024Wed 8 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Duration: 53 minutes 23 seconds

Helen Clark on how to build a healthier future for all

We are living in an "age of crises," says former New Zealand prime minister, Helen Clark.

Published: 7 May 2024Tue 7 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark speaks at a desk with a UN flag in the background.

Duration: 53 minutes 30 seconds

Tenacity and two squat houses — how an Australian movement was born for women leaving violence

Women’s refuges are now a central part of our response to family violence, with hundreds operating across Australia. But that hasn't always been the case.

Published: 6 May 2024Mon 6 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Duration: 53 minutes 47 seconds

Donald Trump, American authoritarianism and how journalists should cover it

As Donald Trump makes his case for re-election in 2024, under a cloud of criminal prosecutions, how can journalists better cover such a norm-busting and rule-breaking political figure?

Published: 2 May 2024Thu 2 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Duration: 53 minutes 46 seconds

Jonathan Rosen — friendship, madness and the tragedy of good intentions

New York writer Jonathan Rosen’s memoir The Best Minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions is a story of tenderness, heartache, and horror as he explores the vexed tensions between civil rights, medical power, and the…

Published: 1 May 2024Wed 1 May 2024 at 7:00amwith Natasha Mitchell

Heart reflected in mirror, one red, one grey and broken

Duration: 53 minutes 14 seconds