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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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Anna Henderson's Canberra, Canada's secession movement, and how GPS really works.
Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state. In oil-rich Alberta, a growi...
How the US became a country for old men, plus the extraordinary encounters of a 1900s cattle station girl
Yale Professor Samuel Moyn argues that the old in the United States have hoarded wealth and power, and that something needs to give. Plus, Australian...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, who's supplying weapons to Sudan, plus the first camera in Australia
Bruce Shapiro asks if US President Donald Trump has betrayed American cattle farmers, after he eased tariffs on foreign beef. Australia sells weapons...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, the Israeli ambassador on Zomi Frankcom, plus the music in our names
One Nation is mopping up after new MP David Farley's 'rookie mistake' on his party's net migration target. Veteran Jerusalem correspondent examines th...
John Cameron Mitchell wants kids to be more punk, plus an apartheid 'native' hospital in Australia
John Cameron Mitchell, American actor, playwright, and film director, directed some of the more outrageous movies of the 2000s, like Hedwig and the An...
Is a classless society impossible? Plus, fresh dirt on the Cambridge Five spies
German philosopher Hanno Sauer argues that class hierarchies are a permanent feature of human societies. So if true equality is elusive, how do we liv...
Ian Dunt's UK, the KPMG scandal, plus 500 years of nightlife
Our regular UK correspondent on the death of former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday. An accounting and ethics expert who has been following the KPMG c...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Jordan stuck in the crosshairs of war, plus Gina Rinehart and the press
Political correspondent Anna Henderson surveys a busy sitting week, with the government eager to pass NDIS reforms. The Kingdom of Jordan, a neighbour...
Inside the world of sovereign citizens plus the magic of night music
Sovereign citizens believe they’ve discovered a hidden legal system that can set them free from the state. The new book Outlawed explores the strange...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Marwan Barghouti to run for Palestinian president and a lost cantata
Bruce Shapiro looks at the fight inside the Democrats between emerging populists and a conservative group called The Third Way. Imprisoned Palestinian...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, the Mecca defence pact, and the history of punctuation
PM Albanese and Opposition Leader AngusTaylor are doing a deal on gambling. Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have just signed a new NATO-like defen...
Peter Garrett on AUKUS and blackbirding: the Australian slavery that nobody stopped
Peter Garrent discusses the testimonies being presented at the crowdfunded AUKUS public inquiry which has so far recieved over 500 submissions, and he...
Bernard Keane on Australia's opportunities, plus wine: the story of civilisation
In his new book, Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane, turns his eye not just to where Australia has gone wrong, but to how we can best position o...
Ian Dunt's UK, boycotting The Odyssey, and the last cats of Kangaroo Island
Ian Dunt on Nigel Farage's planned 'Operation Fortress', stopping all illegal boats. The Odyssey film-makers caused offence in an indigenous-owned reg...
Anna Henderson at Garma, reunifying Cyprus, plus the last butterfly collectors
Anna Henderson recaps an eventful Garma festival in Arnhem Land, which included a blistering speech from Noel Pearson. Is there hope for a reunified C...
Russia's far-right bikies, plus the afterlives of Sarah Baartman
Established in Moscow in 1989, the 'Night Wolves' motorcycle club continues to operate as a powerful propaganda arm of the Putin regime. Plus, the wri...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, controversial weed killer Paraquat, and curly questions in the Census
Our regular US commentator, Bruce Shapiro, looks at how President Trump is caught between pressure at home to get out of the Iran war, and pressure fr...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, how tech is transforming warfare, and the dark side of Route 66
Anna Henderson on Pauline Hanson's discrimination court loss, and Labor rejecting Ed Husic's genocide motion at their national conference. How technol...
How British slave money flowed to Australia, plus Trump's grand designs
Australia likes to think it has no history of slavery, but two-thirds of Australia's colonial governors had links to the slave economy of the British...
One Nation's reinvention, plus the fierce women who built democracy
One Nation is on a transformative mission, intent on professionalising its operation. But can they? Plus the trailblazing, and sometimes gun-blazing,...
Britain's Burnham era begins, the Pentagon's pollution, plus the case for tighter means-testing
Britain has its seventh Prime Minister in ten years as Andy Burnham moves into 10 Downing Street. A new documentary counts the staggering emissions of...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, US attacks in Somalia and Nazi Bunkers
Anna Henderson looks at the government's decision to go on the front foot with their AI policy and how it will play out at Labor's upcoming national c...
Why India is threatening Pakistan's water supply, plus the destruction of olive trees in the West Bank
After a terror attack in Kashmir in 2025, India suspended a key water treaty between the nations, threatening to cut Pakistan’s water supplies off by...
Australia's new treaties in the Pacific, plus do we really want to colonise space?
Australia's new treaties with Fiji and Vanuatu are being hailed as a diplomatic triumph. But how meaningful are they, and are they in the best interes...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, how sustainable is Ikea's wood, and the gossip and scandals of Australia's past
US commentator Bruce Shapiro looks at the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, Trump's attack on New York Times journalists over their Air Force One repor...
Mark Kenny's Canberra, death penalty methods in the US, and why more of us are using subtitles
Canberra columnist Professor Mark Kenny examines Liberal leader Angus Taylor's fresh criticism of One Nation. In Alabama, there's debate over the use...
Jonathan Swan inside Trump's regime, plus Thomas Jefferson's slavery paradox
The hit new book Regime Change offers staggering insights into Donald Trump's second presidency, revealed by New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan...
Ian Dunt on Nigel Farage's future, anti-gay laws in Africa, and the right to safe footpaths in India
UK commentator Ian Dunt joins Late Night Live moments before Reform leader Nigel Farage's fiery resignation as MP. Human rights researcher Larissa Koj...
Mark Kenny's Canberra, the age of manipulation, plus collecting ancient coins
Prof Mark Kenny surveys the Coalition's ongoing struggles to handle the surging popularity of Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Israeli philosopher Assaf S...
Did America's Revolution spur Australia's colonisation?
As the US celebrates 250 years since its Declaration of Independence, what links can we draw between America's Revolution and Australia's colonisation...
When Australia had the world's first euthanasia laws, plus the huge potential of tiny gardens
30 years ago today, the Northern Territory briefly became the first place in the world where eligible patients could access voluntary euthanasia, unti...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Japan's military woes, and vigilante cactus smugglers
Bruce Shapiro on the USA turning 250 and why a new Supreme Court decision means US President Donald Trump will have even more firing powers. Japan is...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, France ditches Palantir, plus Italy's expanding forests
Anna Henderson (chief political correspondent, SBS) surveys the latest polling figures, as the Coalition records a historically low primary vote of 17...
How Murdoch's media wields power, plus the epidemics we've averted
A new book interrogates how Rupert Murdoch's global media empire shapes politics and public opinion in Australia and beyond. Plus, as the current outb...
UN to leave Lebanon, and should we ever bring lost species back to life?
UN peacekeepers will be leaving southern Lebanon after 40 years of service in the region, which dismays former peacekeeper, Professor Ray Murphy. Plus...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, economist Mariana Mazzucato on the common good, and Australia's first soccer match
After Pauline Hanson declared Australia should be 'monocultural', Coalition leader Angus Taylor has refused to commit his support for a multicultural...
Ian Dunt on Keir Starmer's resignation, plus the rise and fall of Islamic State
After months of political pressure, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has resigned. Late Night Live's UK correspondent, Ian Dunt, joins the show fo...
Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party? Plus, the drawings that rewrite Aboriginal art history
A new tell-all book recounts the colourful escapades of adult industry lobbyists Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, in the lead up to the formation of the...
Anna Goldsworthy on being human in the era of AI, plus the wonders of the Paris Menagerie
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is making writer and musician Anna Goldsworthy feel both more human - valuing what it is that differentia...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, the Indian sailors killed by the US, and First Nations anger at Brisbane Olympic site
Bruce Shapiro on the Iran-US deal, and where Benjamin Netanyahu sits within that. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure to confront Do...