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3 days ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton
It’s just over two months since an earthquake hit Myanmar, where more than three thousand people died. Just after the earthquake, the country's Military Junta, declared a temporary ceasefire to help the recovery effort. That ceasefire has now been extended, but the wider concern is China's political agenda in the region.
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4 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Ali Benton
There has a been fresh wave of violence in Port-au-Prince in Haiti since the beginning of this year.
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6 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Ali Benton
Right now, there are 902 billionaires in the US and almost half of the representatives in Congress are millionaires. Described as ‘the comfort class’ by writer, Xochitl Gonzalez, the group is so out of touch with people living from pay-check to pay-check, that their perspective may no longer be relevant in America. GUEST: Xochitl Gonzalez, is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the author of the novel Olga Dies Dreaming and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Ali Benton
In 2016, Spanish civil engineer and avid scuba diver, Carlos Mallo Molina quit his job to protest the plans for a huge recreational boat and ferry terminal in Tenerife. Thanks to his relentless efforts, the project was scrapped in 2021. Now, in 2025, Carlos has been honoured with the Goldman Prize — the environmental world’s equivalent of a Nobel. GUEST: Carlos Mallo Molina, civil engineer, environmental activist and CEO of global marine conservation organisation, InnoceaniaPRODUCER: Ali Benton
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton
One of the world's oldest surviving cookbooks is a collection of recipes from ancient Rome called De Re Coquinaria (“On the Topic of Cooking”). Whether it be braised flamingos, stuffed door mouse or roast parrot, Roman elites spared no expense when it came to fine dining. • GUEST: Christopher D Parkinson, PhD Candidate in Classics at the University of Melbourne
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton
Amid reports of possible ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine, there are concerns about the minerals deal that the US has recently signed with Ukraine. Some have described it as a diplomatic win, but how much scope is there to the agreement?
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton
At 1.5 million members, Brazil's landless workers movement organises the country’s poor to take unused land from the rich, settle, and farm it. Critics call it illegal squatting. Supporters say it's civil disobedience.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton
In the last decade, courts around the globe have granted legal personhood or explicit rights to rivers, largely driven by environmental activism. In his new book, “Is a River Alive?” renowned nature writer Dr Robert Macfarlane, tracks the progress of that movement, in addition to visiting some of the world’s most pristine (and not so pristine) environments. GUEST: Dr Robert Macfarlane, Professor of literature and the Environmental humanities at Cambridge University. PRODUCER: Ali Benton
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
