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How Australia came to embrace its animals

July 07, 2022 12:20 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB

The beloved koala was originally called the New Holland sloth. To the first European colonists, Australian wildlife was bewildering at best. But over the past two centuries a host of scientists and enthusiasts have transformed our relationship with the continent's animals.

Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange and free speech

July 07, 2022 12:05 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MB

One of the most significant whistleblowers of our time, 91-year-old Daniel Ellsberg, whose leak of the Pentagon Papers exposed US government lies and helped end the Vietnam War, speaks out in defence of Julian Assange and free speech. He argues that the only way for Julian Assange to get out of Belmarsh Prison, even to live, is for the Australian government to advocate now on his behalf.

The power of prison radio in giving voice to the voiceless around the world

July 06, 2022 12:15 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

The first ever international prison radio conference has just been held in Norway, bringing together representatives of prison radio shows from 19 countries, including Australia, where Indigenous people continue to be grossly over-represented in prison populations.

NAIDOC week on NITV

July 06, 2022 12:05 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MB

What to watch on NITV this NAIDOC week. SBS Director of Indigenous Content outlines some of television you can catch on NITV and SBS on demand this week - from crime thriller True Colours to the documentary series Off Country and Big Mob Brekky.

The Koori Mail's flood leadership recognised

July 05, 2022 12:40 - 13 minutes - 12 MB

The Lismore-based national newspaper, the Koori Mail, is Australia's only fully indigenous owned and managed paper. When Lismore was flooded in March, the Koori Mail staff went above and beyond. That's now been recognised with a NAIDOC award for Innovation. 

The importance of protesting anti-protest laws

July 05, 2022 12:20 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB

As climate and environment protest action steps up in the wake of more floods on the East Coast of Australia, state governments are cracking down on protesters with new laws in NSW and Tasmania.

Bruce Shapiro's America: Supreme Court v. the environment

July 05, 2022 12:05 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB

Gun rights, abortion, now the environment. The US Supreme Court has curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate carbon pollution, slowing America's ability to deal with the climate crisis.

The surprising history of women in Hollywood

July 04, 2022 12:40 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

The #MeToo movement revealed the very ugly side of Hollywood's misogyny with hundreds of claims of sexual harassment and assault made not just against Harvey Weinstein but many other men working in the industry. What is surprising is that the film industry started out with many women filmmakers. It was only once the industry really started to make money that were women pushed aside. Can they now muscle their way back into more positions of influence? ...

Plight of the Honeybee

July 04, 2022 12:20 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MB

NSW authorities are racing to stop the deadly varroa mite from spreading across borders and wiping out the country’s European honey bees. Will the arrival of the varroa destructor on our shores prompt a deeper conversation, about strengthening the resilience of our bee populations and perhaps even finding ways to live with the mite?

Richard Tanter's Canberra

July 04, 2022 12:05 - 16 minutes - 15 MB

The Prime Minister is heading back to Australia after his attendance at the NATO Summit in Madrid, and a visit to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Albanese’s European tour has been widely touted as a success, but there are concerns Australia’s new closer relationship with NATO could present us with some difficulties to navigate.

The importance of the ABC archives

June 30, 2022 12:20 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MB

In its 90 years, the ABC has collected the sounds and sights of Australia from the centre of power in Canberra to the most remote Indigenous communities, documenting both everyday life and the moments that changed Australia. Now the ABC has announced that 58 staff may lose their jobs. Two archivists explain the importance of the ABC archive and the skills archivists bring to their profession that cannot be replaced.

John Pickup's brilliant ABC career

June 30, 2022 12:05 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

John Pickup started his career at the ABC in the mailroom in Sydney, but quickly moved on to the sound effects department. He worked in television on the first broadcast as well as on the Melbourne Olympic Games. But he returned to his first love radio and went to on to work across the country in places like Broken Hill, Darwin and Mackay. To mark the 90th birthday of the ABC, he shares just some of the many stories from his brilliant ABC career. ...

A remote Greek island celebrates new fame

June 29, 2022 12:40 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB

One of the lesser known Greek islands is Kalymnos, on the eastern side of the Aegean. Last weekend the island had a significant event – the launch of a Greek language edition of a book that was first published in English in 1955.  The local population has only recently learnt of the existence of 'Mermaid singing', an account of life on Kalymnos. It was written by Australian author Charmian Clift, who spent time there with her husband George Johnst...

Myanmar on the brink

June 29, 2022 12:20 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MB

As Myanmar descends deeper into a violent and brutal civil war, the plans by the military junta to execute two pro democracy figures, and place former leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in solitary confinement is likely to inflame popular uprising against its rule.

Ian Dunt's UK

June 29, 2022 12:05 - 10 minutes - 9.88 MB

The Scots' news push for independence, the Tories cop a hiding in two byelections and the Northern Ireland protocol bill passes the House of Commons.

Colonial landscape photography

June 28, 2022 12:40 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB

In the era of fervent settlement activity around the Pacific rim - Australia, New Zealand, California - landscape photographers were key to the colonial exercise, a new book argues.  They showed usually empty landscapes devoid of indigenous people.  They contributed to prospective settlers’ interest in new lands.  And they built an emotional attachment to places.  This all strengthened the settler sense of territorialism.  ...

Shareholder activists demand more transparency from Japan’s biggest energy companies

June 28, 2022 12:20 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB

A record shareholder action is underway in Japan as major energy companies face climate-focussed resolutions demanding more transparency around how they will reduce their emissions.

Bruce Shapiro's America: The end of Roe

June 28, 2022 12:05 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB

Women have taken to the streets across the 'land of the free' after the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision eliminating the constitutional right to protection that had existed for nearly 50 years. Bruce Shapiro discusses what the controversial ruling means not only for American women, but for American democracy.

In memory of Frank Moorhouse

June 27, 2022 12:40 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MB

Australian author and essayist Frank Moorhouse died on the weekend. He was author of 18 books over his long and illustrious career and won the Miles Franklin award for his book Dark Palace which was the second book in what was known as 'The Edith Trilogy'. The series followed the life of career diplomat Edith Campbell Berry from her work at the League of Nations in the 1920s to her later career in Canberra. In this interview Frank and Phillip discuss ...

Pandemic profiteers: Who's getting rich while the poor get poorer?

June 27, 2022 12:20 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB

Recent reports by Oxfam have revealed that the wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. They also estimate that a new billionaire was created every 30 hours during the pandemic, while a million people could fall into extreme poverty at same rate in 2022. Tackling these unprecedented levels of inequality will require the courage to 'break free from the narrow straitjacket of extreme neoliberalism'. ...

George Megalogenis' Canberra

June 27, 2022 12:05 - 14 minutes - 12.8 MB

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Madrid for the Nato summit, but how will he navigate the tension between the G7's push-back against China's influence in the world and Australia's economic relationship with the global powerhouse?

The wild history of animal conservation

June 23, 2022 12:20 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

The modern conservation movement only really began in the late 19th century and since then, has gone through many shifts in its quest to protect animals. It's history is filled with equally passionate and flawed figures.

Serhii Plokhy on nuclear disasters and the likelihood of another Chernobyl

June 23, 2022 12:05 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB

The eminent Harvard historian says we came inches from disaster when Russian forces shelled a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. In a timely new book he looks at the history of nuclear accidents and the near inevitability of another Chernobyl, and argues that we must remember this history when contemplating the future of the industry.

Australianness on our screens

June 22, 2022 12:40 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

When is locally made and funded film and television ‘Australian’ enough?  And who decides?

Australia's nuclear submarines

June 22, 2022 12:20 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB

Australia is acquiring eight nuclear powered submarines from the United States under AUKUS. The agreement is still being worked out but what are the pros and cons of stepping across the nuclear threshold?

Rewilding the Grey Wolf

June 21, 2022 12:40 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MB

Fairy tales tell us the wolf is a bad guy who wants to eat you. But following the rewilding of the Grey Wolf into Yellowstone National Park and some US states, the canis lupus is back, but not everyone’s happy.  

Pacific reset

June 21, 2022 12:20 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB

Australia needs to reset its whole engagement with the Pacific, and a set of papers released today steps out how that might be done. The papers, from Australian think tank AP4D, cover climate change, economy, digital and security.

Bruce Shapiro's America: Heading for recession?

June 21, 2022 12:05 - 13 minutes - 12 MB

If you think Australia's economy is looking worse for wear, the picture in the United States looks even bleaker, and the 'r' word is being tossed around - recession. Meanwhile, Trump's vice president Mikle Pence has been painted a hero at the third round of the Watergate-style hearings into the January 6 Capitol riots.

Soldiers and Aliens - the overlooked men of the Australian army’s employment companies during World War II

June 20, 2022 12:40 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

Four thousand Australian soldiers in World War II who signed up for service never fired a weapon. They were called ‘aliens’ or ‘enemy aliens' - non-British subjects who, despite being passionate about wanting to fight Hitler, had to battle for the right to fight for Australia against the Nazis.

Tackling wage theft

June 20, 2022 12:20 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB

Across the globe, migrant workers are more likely to get underpaid but various states and cities are introducing new laws and innovations to solve the problem.

The man who told the world about Auschwitz

June 16, 2022 12:20 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB

How is it that most of us have not known the name of a man who broke out of Auschwitz as a 19 year old, and was able to tell the world about the terrible, terrible things that were happening there.  He was Rudolf Vrba, although he was born Walter Rosenberg.  A new book, instantly a bestseller, tells his story. It's described by historian and author Antony Beevo as 'an immediate classic of Holocaust literature'. 

Rethinking journalism with Margaret Simons

June 16, 2022 12:05 - 26 minutes - 24 MB

Journalist and academic Margaret Simons reveals why she is more depressed about the state of Australian journalism now than at any other point during her 40-year career, and what an overhaul of our press might involve.

Black Carbon in the Arctic

June 15, 2022 12:40 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

Inaugural Shackleton Medal winner Dr. Heïdi Sevestre ‘reads’ glaciers from one of the world’s global warming tipping points.

The perilous work of being a writer in Afghanistan

June 15, 2022 12:20 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, life for writers and journalists has become increasingly risky. PEN International has helped many escape the oppressive regime, but ultimately these writers want to be home.

Tribute to missing journalist Dom Phillips

June 14, 2022 12:40 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB

Dom Phillips, the Brazil-based British journalist who is missing in the Amazon, feared murdered, was a much appreciated guest on this program. He appeared twice.   Dom has disappeared with his Brazilian colleague, Bruno Pereira.  Some of their belongings have been found.  Dom was writing a book about saving the Amazon.  His Brazilian mother-in-law, Maria Lucia Faria, has implored the public to not let Dom’s death be in vain.   Keep the spotlight ...

Pacific trade

June 14, 2022 12:20 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

From coconuts to call centres, and kava to clothing: is it greater trade with the Pacific that's needed, rather than aid? Might more investment and trade be the key to strengthening Pacific island nations, and Australia's ties with the region? We discuss what’s possible, and what’s stopping more trade commitments.  

Bruce Shapiro's America: The Jan. 6 Hearings

June 14, 2022 12:05 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB

Devastating testimony from some of Trump's former top officials reveals what occurred on Election Day 2020, but it remains unclear whether Trump knew his election claims were false, or was convinced they were true. The point could be a lynchpin in any future prosecution.

The plight of Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake

June 13, 2022 12:20 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MB

It’s one of the world’s most important, and miraculous, lakes; the lifeblood of the ancient Kingdom of Angkor and the millions of people who still subsist on its floodplains. Yet Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake is dying and, with it, a way of life. 

What happened to the Liberal Party of Menzies?

June 13, 2022 12:05 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB

The federal election has been said to have plunged the Liberal Party into an 'existential crisis', after it lost a number of its heartland seats. In this discussion we go right back to 1944 to look at the party that Sir Robert Menzies founded, to discover where and how the Liberal Party has strayed from its roots, and what the future might hold for Australia's most successful political party.

Archaeologists digging into Egypt's past

June 09, 2022 12:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs and 100 years since the British archaeologist Howard Carter found King Tutankhamen’s tomb filled with all those bewitching treasures in the Valley of the Kings. To celebrate, three Ancient Egyptian scholars dust off their boots and down tools to discuss their incredible discoveries and what life is like as a contemporary archaeologist. ...

Do books have powers beyond the words they hold?

June 08, 2022 12:40 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MB

In a wonderful book, Emma Smith explores the many functionalities that books have held through the ages, as props, tools for propaganda, as construction materials and even as shields. She explores the idea that books do have their own "bookhood" beyond the words inside them.

Data leak reveals more evidence of Uyghur incarcerations

June 08, 2022 12:20 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

A huge data leak, being called the ‘Xinjiang Police Files’, has revealed details of thousands of Uyghurs locked up in so-called re-education camps in Xinjiang.

Indigenous News with Dana Morse

June 08, 2022 12:06 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to hold a referendum on the Voice to Parliament in his first term. Where will this process start? And can the Federal Government learn anything from the reconciliation and treaty processes that have already begun in Victoria.

Budapest: between East and West

June 07, 2022 12:40 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

Throughout history the centre of gravity in Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted between East and West - culturally, politically, emotionally.

Bougainville mining companies jostling for access to gold and copper

June 07, 2022 12:21 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

As Bougainville inches its way closer to independence from Papua New Guinea, mining companies from around the world are manoevering to get first dibs on the rich seams of gold and copper on the island. A new report has found that some mining companies are making payments to local landholders, to strengthen their prospects. And that two different companies recommended to the new Bougainvillean government that mining rights be issued to offshore comp...

Bruce Shapiro's America: Jan 6 hearings - another Watergate?

June 07, 2022 12:05 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MB

The public hearings of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol begin this week, eight days before the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal that led to the hearings that revealed the 'Smoking Gun' tape and brought down Nixon. Could the Jan 6 hearings make as big of a splash?

Rachel Kennedy, 19th century brumby hunter and all-round trailblazer

June 06, 2022 12:40 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

So many historical accounts have missed extraordinary women, whose lives have not been celebrated in the way they should have been.  But a feisty Australian character has been unearthed. Rachel Kennedy belies many of the stereotypes of her time.  She was a 19th century brumby hunter, nurse, bushrangers’ ally, and 'troublemaker for good'.

Oliver Bullough on Britain's addiction to dirty Russian money

June 06, 2022 12:20 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

The war in Ukraine has exposed the extent to which Russian money has infiltrated the UK. When did Britain start to become the world’s ‘butler’, servicing wealthy elites without asking questions? Oliver Bullough exposes how Britain’s lip service to fair play and the rule of law has long belied a more sinister reality.

Canberra Politics with Bernard Keane

June 06, 2022 12:05 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB

Bernard Keane discusses the challenges facing the new Labor government including gas prices, industrial relations and mending relationships in the Pacific and now Indonesia

Imperial vs Metric: The hidden history behind Boris' measurement crusade

June 02, 2022 12:20 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

In a rather unusual move, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to bring imperial units of measurement back into British shops as a gift for the Queen on her platinum jubilee. Behind this provocative proposal is a rich history of measurement and how it has been used for centuries as a means of making sense of our world.

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