Late Night Live - Full program podcast

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Late Night Live - Full program podcast

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.

  1. 19 HR AGO

    The State of the Nation: has the myth of the 'fair go' been broken?

    Has the myth of the Australian fair-go finally been broken? Are social divides deepening and widening? And in a time of great uncertainty, how does Australia see itself in the world? Bob Carr, Rick Morton and Rebecca Huntley join David Marr in front of a live audience at Adelaide Writers Week.

    54 min

  2. 4 DAYS AGO

    Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump

    Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on how they use humour to flip the narrative about transgender people, and how to tackle Donald Trump's transgender ban - by focusing on compassion for the people who want to oppress them.

    54 min

  3. 5 DAYS AGO

    The story of Russia through Putin's eyes, and the painting that rocked Australian politics

    Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, renowned historian Orlando Figes, delves into President Vladimir Putin's rationale for war. And we go back to 1970s Australia and America, when the Whitlam Government paid a record sum for an abstract expressionist painting - Blue Poles. There was an outcry, and the government would pay a political price as well.

    54 min

  4. 6 DAYS AGO

    Ian Dunt's UK, NT mining royalties slump and how to rescue a hummingbird

    Ian Dunt on how the UK is reacting to Trump abandoning Ukraine. What happens to NT Indigenous communities when mining royalties dry up? And how to rescue a hummingbird.

    54 min

  5. 24 FEB

    Laura Tingle's Canberra, the money behind far-right young voices and the charlatan geologist from WA

    Laura Tingle on the variation in poll results ahead of the election being called, the big money media-training the conservative young faces of the far-right. Plus was Western Australia's first government geologist a genius... or a charlatan?

    54 min

  6. 20 FEB

    Calls to audit Welcomes to Country, and who pays for climate disasters when insurance folds?

    Indigenous Australian theatre and arts director Rhoda Roberts says the backlash against Welcome to Country ceremonies is a return to assimilation. Plus in 2024, the planet was hit by 58 weather disasters with damages of more than a billion dollars and numerous insurance companies are either folding or limiting what they will insure. So who pays for the damage?

    54 min

  7. 19 FEB

    A Catholic Bishop's take on the US Immigration crackdown, and the women who revolutionised Australian publishing

    A growing number of Catholic Church leaders have criticised US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Bishop Mark Seitz from El Paso, Texas, says immigrants deserve mercy, not persecution. And happy fiftieth birthday to McPhee Gribble, the small enterprise that changed Australian publishing forever.

    54 min

  8. 18 FEB

    Bruce Shapiro's America, Vanuatu deals with multiple earthquakes and are book blurbs just an incestuous love-fest?

    Members of the US Congress are wondering whether President Donal Trump will simply ignore the courts and and precipitate a constitutional crisis. How does Vanuatu recover from the double shock of earthquakes and cyclones? And major publishing house Simon and Schuster has banned book blurbs, claiming the practice is part of an "incestuous" system that rewards an author's connections.

    54 min
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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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  • Years Active
    2005 - 2025
  • Episodes
    1.1K
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