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25/11/2025

Australia-Solomons police deal sees little progress

Australia and Solomon Islands have made little progress on a $190 million package to expand the Pacific nation's police force. The high-profile initiative was announced more than a year ago but Solomons' Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele says the two countries still haven't signed a pact to implement the deal.

25/11/2025

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47 min
21/03/2025

Coventry becomes first woman and first African to lead IOC

Kirsty Coventry, the Zimbabwe Sports Minister and Olympic gold medallist, has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and first African to get the biggest job in world sports.

21/03/2025

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10 min
14/03/2025

Canada announces more US tariffs as trade war with Trump deepens

As America's biggest source of imported steel and aluminium into the US, Canada has announced retaliatory tariffs on some 21-Billion dollars worth of U.S. goods. It's a fight led by the country's new prime minister Mark Carney, a political novice with economic gravitas and steely determination to win against Donald Trump's tariff war and his repeated threat of annexation.

14/03/2025

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11 min
18/07/2025

Climate change turned sea urchins into a pest, scientists are finding a solution

Warming oceans are pushing marine life out of familiar habitats, and as the long-spined sea urchin migrates south to Victoria and Tasmania it is wreaking havoc on ecosystems and commercial fisheries. Where climate change has created a pest, scientists, designers and divers are finding solutions. New research promises to turn sea urchin shells into fabric dye, potentially solving an environmental problem and resolving a challenge for commercial divers.

18/07/2025

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8 min
20/06/2025

Saudi Arabia's move to dominate global sport

Over the past decade, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has poured billions of dollars into global sport, hugely influencing the governance and growth of football, golf, boxing and tennis. In 2034, the once closed-off Kingdom will host the world's most-viewed sporting event — the men's FIFA World Cup — all part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's grand plans to modernise the country. But what is the benefit of sport to Saudi Arabia? And what is sport's role in influencing global politics? GUEST: James Montague, journalist and author of Engulfed: How Saudi Arabia Bought Sport, and the World

20/06/2025

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12 min
02/05/2025

Battle for key Victorian seat of Goldstein

Polls have opened in Melbourne's bayside electorate of Goldstein where there'll be a highly anticipated rematch between Teal independent MP Zoe Daniel and Liberal candidate Tim Wilson.

02/05/2025

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6 min
20/06/2025

Iran insists on right to enrich uranium as European talks fail

European officials have lined up behind the Trump administration’s demand that Iran stop its uranium-enrichment program, increasing pressure on Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was in Geneva for the talks. So far, Iran is refusing to end uranium enrichment or negotiate with the US unless Israel halts its attacks on the country. Meanshile, Presdient Trump has said that he will decide whether the U.S will join Israel’s attacks within two weeks to give time for negotiations to work.

20/06/2025

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17 min
04/04/2025

Trump tariffs dominate federal election week one

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has outlined a plan to respond to the Trump administration's 10 per cent tariff on Australian imports. Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said he would have sought a better deal. The issue dominated the end of week one of the 2025 federal election campaign.

04/04/2025

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20 min
13/06/2025

Virgin Airlines float to boost the shrinking ASX

Virgin Australia is returning to the Australian stock exchange, a rare listing on the ASX and an opportunity for everyday investors. Over recent years several big companies have left the exchange to go into private ownership. Now, the corporate regulator ASIC has introduced measures to streamline new listings, in an attempt to revitalise the ASX.

13/06/2025

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9 min
25/04/2025

The big issues that the election 2025 has ignored

Not for the first time this century, the federal election has been noteworthy for its smallness and lack of policy ambition, an accusation levelled at both major parties. A week before the election, Saturday Extra speaks to three political analysts about what big issues the campaign has downplayed and ignored.

25/04/2025

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17 min

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