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Why some people have more luck than others and the most likely path to nuclear war.

Annie Jacobsen describes in chilling detail the steps that might lead to nuclear war and Mark Rank explains why some people are more vulnerable to the vagaries of luck and randomness than others.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds
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This is what nuclear war in 2024 would look like

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev cautioned the world “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Detonation of the nuclear device Ivy Mike during Operation Ivy in the Marshall Islands.
Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds
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How chance and luck profoundly shape our lives

Social class, gender and race are well known as key drivers of life outcomes. But there are also countless ‘ripples of randomness’ that can inexplicably change our direction and shift life’s flow.

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the wheel of fortune
Duration: 25 minutes 26 seconds
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Geoffrey Robinson on Putin and Boyan Slat on The Ocean Cleanup

Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robinson on whether the international community is equipped to respond to war crimes being committed in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds
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Geoffrey Robertson on Putin, Netanyahu and Julian Assange

Pre-eminent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson looks at whether international law is capable of appropriately handling the trial of a head of state like Vladimir Putin, should he ever be charged with the crime of aggression for the war against…

Published: with Phillip Adams

Two old white men
Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds
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Boyan Slat on ambition, obsession and striving for the impossible

Eleven years after launching an ambitious plan to rid the world's ocean of plastics, Dutch inventor and entrepreneur Boyan Slat talks to Phillip Adams about his mission, the challenges and the wins.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Boyan Slat
Duration: 14 minutes 44 seconds
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Trump's policy platform and Russia's water problems

The conservative think tank - the Heritage Foundation - has issued a policy manifesto for 2025. Bruce Shapiro and Emma Shortis give their analysis.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds
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Policies for a Trump 2025 Presidency

The conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has laid down their policy manifesto for a possible conservative Presidency in 2025.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Trump on a red stage at a rally with a roller coaster behind
Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds
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Putin's water problem

Russia’s decaying Soviet era infrastructure and present day neglect are causing huge environmental problems.

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Russia floods
Duration: 23 minutes 39 seconds
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Laura Tingle's budget preview plus how India, Israel and Mexico are connected through spyware

Laura Tingle previews the federal budget and whether Labor can manage to navigate burgeoning cost demands in defence, housing and health and the need to bring down inflation.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds
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Laura Tingle's budget preview: can Labor address inflation, while helping cost of living?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to hand down his third budget - the likely last before the next election.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Katy Gallagher and Jim Chalmers walk on the grass on top of Parliament House
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds
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The shadowy figures that connect Israel, India and Mexico

Coups, assassinations, detentions and disinformation are just some of the tactics that have been used to undermine democracies.

Published: with Phillip Adams

black and white composite of Benjamin Netanyahu, Tomás Zerón De Lucio and Tal Hanan
Duration: 49 minutes 34 seconds
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Should women get extra seats in Pacific parliaments? And Hugh Mackay on a lifetime of observing Australians.

The Pacific has the world’s lowest rate of women’s representation in Parliament, but local women are working to change that, with some innovative - but contentious - approaches to elections.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 4 seconds
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Gender quotas and women's participation in Pacific politics

The Pacific has the world’s lowest rate of women’s representation in Parliament.

Published: with Phillip Adams

A woman wearing traditional PNG dress casts her ballot in a high school in port moresby
Duration: 21 minutes 15 seconds
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Hugh Mackay has been watching us for 60 years

Hugh Mackay is one of Australia's leading social psychologist who examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future in his new book The Way We Are : Lessons from a lifetime of listening - published by Allen and Unwin.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Author and social researcher Hugh Mackay.
Duration: 31 minutes 24 seconds
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Roger Pulvers on Japan and Australia's long relationship and Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito

Japanese Philosopher Kohei Saito makes the case for degrowth communism as the radical transformation required to save our planet. Roger Pulvers looks to the past to understand the future of Australia's relationship with Japan.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds
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Should Australia and Japan be best friends?

At a time when US security feels less assured, should Japan and Australia be forging stronger ties? Japanese author, playwright and translator Roger Pulvers says that while defence is an important arm of our relationship, we should also lean into…

Published: with Phillip Adams

Phillip adams (l) and roger pulvers (r)
Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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Why degrowth communism could save the planet

How did an unknown Marxist scholar sell half a million copies of a book about degrowth communism in his homeland of Japan? And why is a complete transformation of our economic life necessary to save the planet?   Guest: Kohei Saito is an associate…

Published: with Phillip Adams

Kohei Saito
Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds
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Ian Dunt's UK, diplomatic asylum dilemmas and author Robyn Davidson

Ian Dunt reports on the recent UK council elections and how the Tory Party are trying to spin the disastrous results.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds
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Ian Dunt's UK - What can we learn from the local councils election results

Ian Dunt provides his analysis of the disastrous local council elections for the Conservative Party which will likely push back the General Election to late in the year. Guest: Ian Dunt, columnist with the "i".

Published: with Phillip Adams

Lib Dem leader greeted by a dinosaur costume and a sign saying "make this conservative government history"
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds
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The use and abuse of diplomatic asylum in Latin America

Mexico has filed a case against Ecuador in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of violating diplomatic rights after it raided their embassy to arrest former Vice-President, Jorge Glas.

Published: with Phillip Adams

A middle-aged man in a suit with glasses looks back to the camera as he walks into a crowd.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds
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Robyn Davidson's new memoir: Unfinished Woman

Adventurer Robyn Davidson's new memoir brings us the story of her nomadic life of constant travel and reveals an unquenchable curiosity about different ways of seeing the world. Unfinished Woman is published by Bloomsbury

Published: with Phillip Adams

Duration: 27 minutes 3 seconds
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Laura Tingle's Canberra and the murky business of food barons

7:30's Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle on the government's response to the impending ground invasion in Rafah, and what's coming up in the federal budget.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds
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Laura Tingle's Canberra: Gaza ground invasion, budget measures target students and Andrew Giles under pressure

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has weighed in to the use of slogans at pro-Palestinian university campus rallies as a Rafah ground invasion grows closer.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Treasurer Jim Chalmer in the Blue Room for a press conference
Duration: 13 minutes 33 seconds
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Meet the seven mega-rich families running our food systems

The average farmer in America is no longer someone in gumboots mending fences and riding tractors. Barons is the story of seven corporate titans who now dominate the American food system. Many of them are still family-run companies worth billions.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Duration: 41 minutes 48 seconds
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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.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds
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Lorraine and Shaan Peeters on healing the Stolen Generation

Lorraine Peeters, herself a stolen child and survivor of Cootamundra Home for Girls, has spent her life healing herself and others, creating the organisation Marumali which provides culturally powerful training to service providers.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Lorraine Shaan Peeters
Duration: 27 minutes 3 seconds
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Letter writing with Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower

What can two of Australia's literary greats teach us about letter writing? Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham joined Phillip Adams in the studio to discuss an extraordinary new book of letters penned over forty years by novelists Shirley Hazzard and…

Published: with Phillip Adams

Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham stand behind a seated Phillip Adams in the ABC studio. 
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds
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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.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.
Duration: 54 minutes 4 seconds
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Johann Hari and the magic weight loss drugs

Johann Hari discusses the health risks and rewards of the new weight loss drugs.

Published: with Phillip Adams

Johann Hari
Duration: 38 minutes 58 seconds
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Indigenous claims to Murray-Darling water rights

Water rights were promised to Indigenous communities in the Murray Darling Basin a year ago.

Published: with Phillip Adams

A man with green shirt talking talking into microphone about what his
Duration: 12 minutes 28 seconds
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