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Exiled Iranian national soccer player speaks out about fate of returning players
One person who understands exactly what the Iranian women's soccer team has been going through this week is Shiva Amini.
A former Iranian women'...
From Adelaide to the Academy Awards
Guido Wolter is a visual effects supervisor from Adelaide, who's earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the film Sinners.
Guido and his team...
Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie on his next act
Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie is about to start a solo tour of Australia.
Bret talked to Saturday Extra about New Zealand politics...
Is Melbourne the world's best city?
Earlier this week, Melbourne topped Time Out's 50 best cities in the world in 2026, beating the likes of New York, Paris, London and perennial rival S...
Oil shock: Iran's leaders inflict pain on the global economy
Nearly two weeks after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, Iran has found a way to inflict pain back on its enemies by stopping international...
Iran is playing 'the long game'. Will it pay off?
Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is "wounded and likely disfigured", according to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. But the regime still re...
The world's longest serving TV news anchor duo
Susannah Carr and Rick Ardon are the world's longest-serving television news anchor duo.
Since 1985, they've read the news together at 7 News Pe...
Why did America decide to go to war with Iran?
US President Donald Trump has demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender", in a dramatic escalation one week into the war he launched with Israel.
Magda Szubanski remembers comedy legend Ted Emery
This week, master of Australian comedy Ted Emery passed away.
He was the maestro behind some of Australia's classic TV comedies: Kath and Kim,...
A 'comeback' after 6,000 years of extinction
A tiny possum with an extremely long finger and a new kind of gliding marsupial have been identified in West Papua.
The two species were only p...
What's behind Trump's fight with an AI company?
Anthropic and the Trump administration had a major falling out last week when the leading AI company requested restrictions on how the military uses i...
How Iran's proxies have been degraded
Iran has spent decades and billions of dollars preparing foreign proxies as part of an alliance system stretching from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria to Yeme...
Can the Iranians outlast the Americans?
As the bombs keep falling on Iran, a big part of the Iranian strategy seems to be based on dragging out the conflict.
The regime knows there's n...
The Last Thing: Caroline Butler-Bowdon
The NSW State Librarian Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon joins Saturday Extra for The Last Thing. She talks about her last great read, last great sporting ma...
How Australian policy innovation influences the UK
Geoff Mulgan, who worked with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, discusses how the Brits have borrowed some of our policy ideas. In a wide-ranging c...
Marianne Williamson on US politics
Marianne Williamson stood for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and 2024.
She rose to national prominence back in the 1980s as a s...
A rare look inside North Korea
The outside world gets few hints at what is actually happening inside North Korea.
But this week, the Workers' Party of Korea is holding its con...
What makes a truly great speech?
Next week marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most era-defining speeches of the post-war years, which Sir Winston Churchill delivered in Fulton,...
What's behind the rise of political violence in Australia?
This week, the prime minister was whisked away from the Lodge in Canberra in response to a security threat. In the wake of the Bondi terror attack and...
Why are so many people Chinamaxxing?
These days, if you want to "become Chinese" on social media, your race doesn't matter.
It's all about wearing slippers inside, drinking hot wate...
Gisele Pelicot seeks to reverse the onus of shame for assault victims
It is one of the most shocking sexual abuse trials the world has seen.
Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and invited at least 70 men into his h...
Cricket legends stand up for imprisoned Imran Khan
A group of former international cricket captains are calling for better treatment of Pakistan's imprisoned former prime minister — and cricket legend...
After Andrew's arrest, what now?
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested this week, so what's next for the former prince and the monarchy?
Controversy surrounds incoming Northern Territory Administrator
This week, the Northern Territory government will swear in a new administrator — it is the highest office in the territory, and the equivalent of a st...
Trump considers initial limited military strike on Iran
President Trump is considering committing the United States to another military campaign against Iran, telling reporters this week that he would decid...
Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs
The US Supreme Court has deemed President Donald Trump's global tariffs illegal.
Trump responded by attacking the court's justices and vowing t...
Reimagining A Winter's Journey for Australia
Acclaimed tenor Allan Clayton and pianist Kate Golla are touring A Winter's Journey, a reimagining of Schubert's Winterreise for Opera Australia and M...
A turning point for protest in Australia?
The police response to those protesting the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog may have marked an inflection point in Australia.
But has th...
Building Zac Efron's zero-waste home
Joost Bakker has been a zero-waste campaigner for more than two decades.
His latest task is building an eco-wonderland home for Hollywood actor...
What the Japanese election means for Australia
Last Sunday's Japanese election may be one of the most consequential in decades, for Japan, the region, and also for Australia.
It was a stunnin...
A big, messy week for the Liberals
It's out with Sussan Ley and in with Angus Taylor, the Liberals' eighth leadership change since John Howard's 2007 defeat.
Fiona Scott looks at...
At Munich, big questions about the rules-based world order
At this year's Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that the rules-based world order "no longer exists". So where a...
Behind the massive lay-offs at The Washington Post
The Washington Post has made widespread lay-offs that will drastically shrink the size of the storied newspaper.
Australia correspondent Michael...
Why One Nation is surging in the polls
Pauline Hanson's One Nation is enjoying the kind of public support it hasn't seen since its formation in the 1990s.
Is this a blip or a more per...
Voguing performers ready to strike a pose
Tonight, dancers will battle it out on the runway in a voguing competition in Melbourne.
Emerging in New York City in the 1980s, the underground...
US politics roundup with Katty Kay and Jon Sopel
A big week in US politics has been capped off by Donald Trump sharing a racist post about the Obamas.
Katty Kay and Jon Sopel join Nick Bryant t...
The impact of Isaac Herzog's Australia visit
Israel's President Isaac Herzog is about to arrive in Australia. He will meet with bereaved families and members of the Jewish community following the...
The Last Thing: Sam Koslowski
Sam Koslowski, the co-founder of the social media news company, The Daily Aus, joins Nick Bryant on The Last Thing.
A messy January in Australian federal politics
January used to be a pretty quiet time in Australian politics, something of a partisan ceasefire. But not anymore.
The women drivers breaking up a boys' club
Old Girls On The Road is a women-led community of classic car owners in Brisbane.
Classic car culture is very male-dominated, so this group off...