Ali Benton

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton

September marks the start of a new academic year at universities in the Gaza Strip. But tens of thousands of higher education students are unable to continue their studies for the second year in a row due to the destruction of their campuses, and the ongoing war. GUEST: Dr. Wesam Amer, Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University, Occupied Palestinian Territory. Visiting researcher and Cara/SRF fellow at Cambridge University, UK.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt |Ali Benton

On the day of his second inauguration, Donald Trump pulled out his big black Sharpie and scribbled out the Gulf of Mexico, renaming it the 'Gulf of America'.  Restoring Names that Honour American Greatness was the title of his executive order.  Donald Trump’s fantasy maps – from annexing Canada and Greenland, to claiming the Panama Canal– have been widely ridiculed.  But Trump is one of a number of world leaders challenging the cartographic status quo.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton

With roughly 35 million people, Kerala, sits along India’s southwestern tip on the Indian Ocean. Fifty years ago, it was one of India’s poorest states, but now is one of the richest. How did it happen? • GUEST: Tirthankar Roy, Professor in Economic history, at the London School of Economics.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton

Australian wine exports have dropped to a twenty-year low. So what is happening to the market? And why are people vetoing the vino? Plus David's tribute to the great Australian pastime,"goon of fortune".

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton

The National Library of Australia is asking people across the country to keep hold of materials from the 2025 election campaign to go towards its political ephemera collection. The collection contains over forty thousand items and stretches back to 1901.