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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr. This LNL podcast contains the stories in separate episodes. Subscribe to the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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The end of the gay rights revolution?
The LGBTQI rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, but gay author Ronan McRea argues this success seems suddenly fragile...
The end of the gay rights revolution?
The LGBTQI rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, but gay author Ronan McRea argues this success seems suddenly fragile...
Immigrant labour from the Pacific: are we getting it right?
With political rhetoric around immigration firing up again, we look at the great potential, but very real problems, of a temporary migration policy, P...
Deflect, distract, deny: how politicians avoid direct answers
The best political communicators don’t just speak, they position. They don’t just answer, they frame. They don’t just promise, they hedge. A look at...
The return of Germany as a military power
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a Zeitenwende, a “watershed moment”, in the words of Germany’s chancellor at the time. Germany shook itself out of it...
Ian Dunt's UK: is Keir Starmer's leadership is risk?
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's has spruiked Britain's necessity to be closer to Europe, both in defence and economic terms, at the Munich Security C...
How green are green burials?
Knowing that your body is contributing to the growth of a tree or the richness of soil is increasingly attractive. But the healthier climate claims ma...
Washington tightens grip as Cuba faces mounting crisis
Whether former President Donald Trump will strike a deal with Cuba remains an open question, as pressure on Havana intensifies. Trump has signalled th...
Democracy for sale: gambling’s grip on politics
While Australians lose over $31 billion to gambling each year, industry donations to major political parties continue. Over the past decade, millions...
The music of the stars, with the "founding mother" of asteroseismology
Conny Aerts had a hunch, that stars had internal rotation and measuring those rotations could give us rich information about the universe. She was rig...
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's voice of freedom, will die in prison
The Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai will die in prison, after being sentenced to 20 years. Lai is one of the island's most prominent pro-democracy advoc...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Liberal leadership
The new Opposition leader Angus Taylor and deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume are flagging their crisis plan will involve lowering taxes and immigration,...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Coalition leadership
The new Opposition leader Angus Taylor and deputy leader Jane Hume are hinting their crisis plan will involve lowering taxes and immigration, possibly...
Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusion
In his new book, Steven Pinker asks us to look at how group knowledge works. Pinker argues that what drives society is knowing that what we know is wi...
The memes are the politics: Charlie Warzel on Trump's Extremely Online administration
The White House is publishing AI slop images; ICE conducts raids and turns the video into film-style trailers; right-wing influencers are sitting in t...
Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream
Gaza is today in ruins, with over seventy thousand dead and buildings everywhere rendered rubble by the onslaught from Israel since the Hamas attack o...
An old book, a hidden drawing: how Sydney held the answer to an Italian Renaissance mystery
When librarians from the University of Sydney found a sketch and an inscription in the back of a 1497 copy of Dante's Divine Comedy, they called in Re...
How journalists are tackling three million Epstein files - and what they're finding
The Epstein files are so immense that if printed out they would equal two Eiffel towers of paper. So how, exactly, are journalists making sense of the...
"A moment of reckoning" - NSW police response to Sydney Herzog protest under spotlight
The actions of NSW police are being questioned after videos emerge showing violent scenes at the Sydney protest against Israel's President, Isaac Herz...
Toads most feral: what can Australia do?
Cane toads (Rhinella marina) are an invasive species introduced to Australia in 1935 to control agricultural pests. The species spread rapidly and now...
Indonesia and Australia sign a security pact: what are we worried about?
We're now even closer with Indonesia. On 6 February Anthony Albanese signed a security pact with Indonesia's president, Prabowo Subianto, agreeing to...
Bernard Keane's Canberra: A Coalition reunification, even as the Liberals contemplate "non-existence"
Parliament returns for the second half of the sitting fortnight, with the Liberal Party and The Nationals reunited, again. But all is not calm. Libera...
Winnie-the-Pooh: how the gentle bear left a complicated legacy
Winnie-the-Pooh, the Bear of Very Little Brain, has been entertaining children for a century this year, but for Pooh's creator, A. A. Milne, the chara...
Tucker Carlson, the influential broadcaster admired by President Trump
The US commentator Tucker Carlson began his working life as a respected and brilliant writer on a small conservative magazine. He moved to television...
White fur, black market: the illegal trade in polar bear skins
Australian filmmaker Abraham Joffe pulls back the curtain on a reality most people don’t realise: Polar Bears are still legally hunted and sold around...
Why is everyone rushing to do trade deals with India?
After twenty years of negotiations, the European Union has suddenly managed to cut a trade deal with India. Not to be out-done, US President Donald Tr...
Ian Dunt's UK: Anger over Mandelson's Epstein links and a new candidate for Reform
Former UK Labour powerbroker Peter Mandelson is retiring from the House of Lords amid intense scrutiny over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffre...
Peter Drew, the 'AUSSIE' poster artist who wants to engage with young right wing men
Peter Drew's 'Aussie' posters, seen around our cities, have now been copied in Melbourne by someone using a picture of the younger of the two Bondi sh...
Iran expert says war is likely with the US if Trump gets bored with negotiations
Iran’s president has signalled a potential diplomatic shift, saying he has directed diplomats to seek negotiations with the United States as fears of...
Bruce Shapiro's America - are the Epstein files another distraction?
The US Dept. of Justice published over three million additional pages from the Epstein files containing over a thousand references to Donald Trump, as...
Australia's secret indigenous circus royalty
When the Colleano circus family came to town, it was a big deal. Their acrobatic skills took them from Lightning Ridge, to New York and London in the...
The Rafah crossing reopens, and Isaac Herzog visits Australia
Israel reopens the Gaza-Egypt crossing at Rafah, under strict conditions. Plus: on February 8 the Israeli president Isaac Herzog will be arriving in A...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Littleproud hangs on, One Nation surges, and Parliament returns
What is going on with the conservative side of politics? A motion to spill the leadership of the Nationals failed on Monday afternoon, and by the end...
Barry Jones on a life of public service and the state of politics today
"Our politics is dumb and completely short-sighted and personally obsessed." At 93 Barry Jones, former ALP National President, writer and public intel...
America's first central banker was a reluctant revolutionary
Thomas Willing was a merchant trader, America’s first bank president, and its first central banker. Willing bankrolled – and in the process helped sav...
The Nationals' impact on the Coalition
With the National Party leaving the Coalition, and a Nats leadership spill pending, we look at the disproportionate power the Nats have wielded in the...
Springtails - the tiniest critters you've never heard of
Springtails are pretty much everywhere, and all over the world. They are important nutrient recyclers, but not many people know about them.
Mark Carney was the hero of Davos, but what is he positioning Canada for?
When Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped onto the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos , no-one expected him to set the world on fire. H...
Bruce Shapiro: is the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota a tipping point?
On January 24, nurse Alex Pretti was protesting the presence of immigration officers in Minnesota when he was detained and surrounded by Border Patrol...
We've had 237 Straya Days: what do they say about us?
If you looked at Australian history through the lens of a single day — January 26 — what kind of nation would you be looking at? In his new book Matt...