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From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture, Late Night Live puts you firmly in the big picture.
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Ian Dunt's UK, Mexico's anti-machismo president and preserving the Wollemi pine
Ian Dunt on the first fortnight of the UK election campaign, how Mexico's new President, Claudia Sheinbaum, will take on its machismo culture and thirty years after its discovery, how the Wollemi pine is coping with modernity.
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Laura Tingle's Canberra and Australia's ongoing fight for equality
7:30's Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle is back with Phillip to discuss the latest immigration scandal to shake up politics, and historians Michelle Arrow and Leigh Boucher look at Australia's long fight for equality on the basis of sexuality and gender, from the 1970's to today.
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The autocrats teaming up with MAGA politicians and the Greek communists "rescued" by Stalin
Anne Applebaum on the connections between Russian and Chinese autocrats and the Trump Republicans seeking to discredit liberalism. Plus how Joseph Stalin secretly organised to evacuate 12,000 Greek communists after the Greek Civil War, and send them to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Primatologist Jane Goodall and Rwanda under the spotlight
Jane Goodall is most well know for her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania, but she is currently in Australia explaining why she has hope for the climate. Michela Wrong has been researching the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and questions why the west continues to support him.
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Bruce Shapiro explains what an upside-down US flag means.
In Bruce Shaprio’s America, Donald Trump’s hush money trial is almost over and what’s going on with the upside- down US flag? Exiled activist Ma Thida on Myanmar’s civil war.
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Bernard Keane's Canberra plus Clive Hamilton on privilege
Bernard Keane looks at how the government is navigating the challenges of reconciliation, hate speech, the war in Gaza and the path to net zero. Plus Clive Hamilton asks why Australia accepts says the privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful - which he says cause widespread harm.
Customer Reviews
Staying afloat in the turgid waters of misinformation
there are so many things in the world I would never know or never have learnt about if I didn’t listen to Philip’s incisive interviews with such diverse and learned people on such a breadth of topics! Thankyou Phillip! (and team!) (And yes, Bruce once a week again would be great)
More Shapiroettes please
Bring back Bruce to once a week.
Listening to Bruce and Philip giggle about Donald’s indictments was an important part of my week
How I measure my days with LNL
A companion on my late night, late afternoon and more recently at-anytime drives, P Adams has enabled me to pursue a peripatetic occupation.
Years of driving to work at all hours has been rewarded with heart pounding theme tunes, great guests and of course my favorite Renaissance man.
Thanyou