A weekly conversation about politics and current events, international affairs, history, art, books, and the natural world, to illuminate the issues faced by society and explore them in new ways.
Antony Dapiran, lawyer and author of City of Protest, on what's happening on the ground in Hong Kong. Playwright Rory Godbold and Dr Carolyn Johnston, an expert on medical law and ethics…
Professor Tonia Eckfeld on the history of the Qin Dynasty and the NGV's exhibition, Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality. Professor Andrew Walter on the latest in Brexit news, and the Tory party leadership…
Philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith on Stop Being Reasonable, which explores the features and limits of rational argument and what really changes our minds. Dr Chiara De Lazzari on the results of the 2019 European…
Australian political history expert Malcolm Farnsworth on the significance of the federal election results, plus remembering former PM Bob Hawke; ecologists Dr Georgia Garrard from RMIT and Professor Brendan Wintle from the University…
Professor David Walker tells us about his new book 'Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region'. Emma Dawson from Per Capita on the major policy differences between the parties on social security…
Philosopher Peter Singer on utilitarianism, animal liberation, and the ethics of what we eat; historians Dr Heather Sheard and Dr Ruth Lee on Australian women doctors in World War I. And Ben Eltham…
Aussie comedians Annie Louey and Diana Nguyen on their Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows; the Grattan Institute's Dirctor of the Budget Policy and Institutional Reform Program, Danielle Wood explains Labor's franking credits policy…
Historian Dianne Hall on A New History of the Irish in Australia; Photojournalist Darrian Traynor on his new exhibition of photographs of displaced people in Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan; Ben Eltham on federal…
Zoë Coombs Marr joins the program to discuss her upcoming show Bossy Bottom at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Emma Shortis comes in to talk about US politics, and Ben Eltham on the…
Social researcher Rebecca Huntley takes the political temperature of the nation in her Quarterly Essay, Australia Fair, Listening to the Nation. Dr Andrew McGregor discusses French New Wave auteur Claude Chabrol ahead of…
Carolyn Rasmussen discusses her book 'The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambitions', Andrew Walter, Professor of International Relations at Melbourne University provides an update on Brexit. And Professor Greg Barton, Chair of Global Islamic…
New York-based journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher joined Amy in the studio to discuss her book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Revolution in China. Renowned American historian of the Holocaust came in…
Award-winning author Judith Brett came in to talk about her book, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting. Historian Michelle Arrow on her book,The Seventies: The Personal, the…
State politician Fiona Patten on drug reform priorities for the new Victorian Parliament. Professor David Walker on the multifaceted history of Australia's relationship with Asia. New Matilda's Ben Eltham on the latest…
Feminist legend and political economist Marilyn Waring on the limits of GDP, Tim Norton on Australia's controversial encryption legislation. And Ben Eltham on federal politics.
Tim Flannery chats about his latest book, Europe: A Natural History. Plus, New Matilda politics correspondent Ben Eltham delivers the weekly politics wrap.
Professor Andrew Walter gave us an update on Brexit. Writer Paula Matthewson discussed what’s really holding women back in the Liberal Party. Plus Ben Eltham on the latest in federal politics.
Acclaimed Australian writer Fiona Wright on living with a chronic illness and her book The World Was Whole, Emma Shortis on US politics and Simon Lilburn on federal politics.
Graeme Davison, urban historian, discusses his book Hugh Stretton: Selected Writings. Stretton was a prominent public intellectual in Australia and a social democrat. Professor Philomena Murray from the University of Melbourne, on…
Parisian author and journalist Agnès Poirier on Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50. Patrick Mullins on Tiberius With A Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon. Plus Ben…
Author Stuart Kells on his book, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders. Addiction psychiatrist Dr Shalini Arunogiri on the increasing misuse of prescription drugs. Plus Ben Eltham on the Victorian state election results…
Award-winning journalist and ABC legend Kerry O'Brien joined Amy in the studio to discuss his new memoir. Meg Labrum, from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), on Heath Ledger: A…
Emma Shortis on the US mid-term election results, US foreign policy and recent international diplomacy issues. Ed Hill from the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) in East Gippsland on the old growth native forest…
Feminist and writer Anne Summers on her adventurous life; Curator of the University of Melbourne's Herbarium Dr Jo Birch on their newly digitised collection of plant specimens; and Ben Eltham on federal politics.
University of Würzburg Professor Emeritus Jürgen Tautz on The Honey Factory: Inside the Ingenious World of Bees; Australian Academy of the Humanities President Joy Damousi on the federal government’s vetoing of 11 ARC…
