Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
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Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
A war breaks out, a leader emerges, a revolution unfolds. How did it happen, and what are the implications for you? Award-winning journalists Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald are joined by two new hosts, former foreign correspondent Kylie Morris and journalist Latika Bourke in London. Every da...
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'If you're weak you'll get invaded': Poland prepares for war with Russia
On the frontline with Russia, Poland is now spending a massive $90 billion on defence, bolstered by a loan from the EU and multinational forces from E...
Is Russia's time as a dominant power coming to an end?
Russia has crossed the threshold of losing more soldiers than it's able to mobilise. Some troops are paying their commanders to get a spot at the back...
Indonesia Rising: The struggle to reclaim history
Indonesia declared independence from Dutch rule in 1945, sparking a violent revolution. It was the first country to do so in the wake of World War II...
If Australia can't trust the US, can it trust Japan?
There’s an important meeting in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s diary.
On Monday, Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, will to...
The Iran trap: No peace no war
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth denies Trump's war on Iran has hit a "quagmire", but the reality on the ground tells a different story. With an ongo...
Why is the US so prone to political violence?
On Saturday evening a gunman attempted to storm the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington DC.
The act of politica...
The AI arms race: How the US and China are fighting for the future
Artificial intelligence is reshaping power, cyber security and geopolitics, but can anyone really control it? From the US-China AI arms race to Taiwan...
Indonesia Rising: How do you ban social media on an archipelago?
On this episode of Global Roaming's mini-series, Indonesia Rising, Hamish returns to Jakarta to speak to Indonesian communications minister Meutya Haf...
Anzac special: Finding peace in a time of war
On the eve of Anzac Day, the Global Roaming team comes together to discuss war, peace and what Australia's national day of remembrance means as confli...
What happened to the ICC case against Benjamin Netanyahu?
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes....
Is a global recession inevitable?
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is sending shock waves through the global economy. Supply chains are in disarray, inflation is surging and oil pri...
The President vs the Pope: How Trump's 'holy war' is stoking old rivalries
Trump's AI-generated image of himself as the Pope has drawn harsh criticism. He also called the Pope “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,”...
Indonesia Rising: Can Australia keep up with our neighbour's rapid growth?
Australia's close neighbour is changing before our eyes. By mid-century, Indonesia is forecast to become the world’s fourth largest economy – imagine ...
Keir Starmer is ‘fed up’ and so are the British. Is the UK doomed?
Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting global headwinds and now the war in the Middle East have hit the British hard. So with some of the world's hig...
How Hungary Trumped Orbán
Péter Magyar has beaten Viktor Orbán in Hungary's election, ending 16 years of autocratic rule. Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians celebrated in the...
Peacemaker or playmaker? Where China stands on Trump's war in the Middle East
The war in the Middle East is sending shock waves through global supply chains, so where does this leave economic superpower China? Will it emerge as...
Is Israel using Lebanon to sabotage peace in the Middle East?
The ink hadn't even dried on the initial US-Iran ceasefire last week when Israel launched an unprecedented bombardment on Lebanon's capital, Beirut. <...
A Matter of Facts: Wikipedia co-founder on freedom of speech vs disinformation
Is Wikipedia a relic of a more utopian version of the internet? Or is it the citizen-led antidote that we need?
In the final episode of Global R...
Could Australia and Asia supply our own energy and cut out the Middle East?
The Middle East conflict has triggered a reckoning in global energy supplies.
So as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touches down in Singapore f...
Can Cubans survive under Trump's fist?
The war in Iran has aroused worldwide fears: what happens if a country runs out of oil? Because of severe US restrictions, Cuba has faced that reality...
Trump and the Iran ceasefire: what happens next?
A ceasefire is declared after Donald Trump agrees to a two-week pause in attacks on Iran, contingent on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. But is...
Soft power, hard lesson: what can Australia learn from unhappy Asian students?
Australia's education system is one of our most successful export industries, worth an estimated 54 billion dollars. But as perceptions that our unive...
A Matter of Facts: How mainstream media lost public trust
In our previous Matter of Facts mini-series episodes, we covered why our brains are vulnerable to misinformation, and how disinformation is affecting...
How to fight back against disinformation?
On Global Roaming, Hamish and Geraldine consider how we fight back against disinformation. It's another instalment in their companion mini-series to...
The lives of Australian diplomats: what it's like to be on the front line of world politics
Today, a special episode recorded at the Manly Writer's Festival 2026 where Geraldine speaks to three highly experienced diplomats -- Ian Kemish AM, D...
Greater Israel: Is Netanyahu pursuing an expansionist dream?
As the war in the Middle East rages, Israel is waging offensives on multiple fronts. The state is pounding Iran and Beirut with missiles and drones. G...
Is Trump already past the point of no return in Iran?
Iran has withstood US and Israel's offensive more effectively than those who attacked it had expected. They've made the most of geography - and shown...
Will Japan be pulled into defending the Strait of Hormuz?
President Trump’s campaign to pull allies like Australia and Japan into defending the Strait of Hormuz is growing more urgent by the day. Japan's paci...
AI-generated content in political campaigns: how far will we let this go?
Disinformation accelerated by AI is affecting democracies worldwide at an extraordinary pace. Governments overseas are wielding it against their own c...
Is it time to ditch Australia's 'good doggy' diplomacy?
With a rogue United States causing havoc in the Middle East, is it time for Australia to abandon its 'good doggy' approach to US foreign policy?
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Are you there Australia? It's me, South East Asia
How much do we Australians really understand South East Asia? Australia has long prioritised neighbours further north when it comes to our strategic a...
William Dalrymple: Why we shouldn't tear down statues
In a broad-ranging conversation, Hamish Macdonald speaks to historian and host of the hit podcast Empire William Dalrymple about the pitfalls of tryin...
Is Australia as vulnerable as we think we are?
The world is getting more dangerous. The closure of the Straight of Hormuz has sent shock waves around the world. The price of oil has skyrocketed and...
The Matter of Facts: Why our brains are vulnerable to disinformation
To celebrate Hamish Macdonald's new television series The Matter of Facts, we'll be taking a deep dive into the global ramifications of mis- and disin...
These are Iran's emerging power players
With Ali Larijani killed, and the whereabouts of the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei unknown, who is calling the shots in Iran?
Iranian-Ame...
Is cultural heritage an overlooked casualty of war?
With thousands dead and millions displaced in Iran, the humanitarian price of the US-Israel war will be steep. But there's another priceless casualty...
How Iran became Trump's 'Operation Epic Folly'
The so-called Operation Epic Fury isn't working according to Trump's plan, if he has one at all. Now, as Iran's blockade Strait of Hormuz threatens th...
Is Australia inadvertently funding Russia's 'war machine'?
There's no way Australia could possibly be supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, right? According to Ukrainian MP Anastasia Radina, think again.
Your Call: The history of China the CCP would rather not tell
Our inbox at Global Roaming is chockers with requests to take a closer look at China's history. So this episode, we're sharing a Sydney Writer's Festi...
Is this the next nation in Putin's sights?
The Baltic nation of Estonia knows a little about what Russia is like.
One of Russia's closest neighbours, they were part of the Soviet Union u...