David Marr

Australia

Host, Late Night Live at ABC Radio National

Not really.

Articles

Laura Tingle's Canberra: Labor's factional power plays - ABC listen

3 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Catherine Zengerer

Laura Tingle looks at Labor's new front bench, and why key MPs like Ed Husic and Mark Drefyus were sidelined. Plus the re-positioning inside the Coalition ahead of their leadership ballot.
Laura Tingle's Canberra, US-China trade talks and the art of the courtroom sketch

3 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr

7.30 Political Editor, Laura Tingle, on the fallout from Labor's reshuffle. The US and China cut a deal on tariffs. Plus a courtroom sketch artist shares an inside look at the job.
China and US trade breakthrough

3 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

The United States and China's unexpected agreement to roll back tariffs on each other’s goods for an initial 90-day period has buoyed global markets. China specialist and economist Zongyuan Zoe Liu analyses the significance of the agreement, and looks at how China has prepared itself for any future setbacks.
The sketchy future of the courtroom artist

3 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr

Erin Patterson's mushroom murder trial in regional Victoria is being followed by millions around the world. With no photography allowed in the courtroom, the only image the public has seen of Patterson on trial is a hand-drawn illustration produced by a courtroom sketch artist. What is it like to work as a courtroom sketch artist in 2025? How has the role changed, and will it survive into the future?
Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids

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

The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman is calling on the world's best and brightest to quit their corporate jobs and show some more 'moral ambition', to build a better world. And botanical hysteria in Victorian England. How wealthy orchid fanatics sent hunters around the world in search of the ultimate bloom.
Plant hunters: the 19th century orchid mania

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

'Plant hunting required cunning, resilience, and a seemingly unshakeable sense of entitlement to the resources of other nations.’ An account of the hunt for a particular 'lost orchid' captures the Victorian obsession with newly discovered orchids from the far reaches of the globe, and the false narratives they built around their 'achievements'.
The destruction of universities in Gaza

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.
Donald Trump is not the only leader meddling with maps

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.
The destruction of Gaza's universities, and Donald Trump's fantasy maps

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

Cambridge scholars Dr Wesam Amer and Dr Mona Jabril on the destruction of universities in Gaza. Plus, why does US President Donald Trump enjoy meddling with the world map?
Bruce Shapiro's America: Trump's first 100 days - how much damage has been done?

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

Bruce Shapiro looks at the highlights of Donald Trump's first hundred days in office. From tariffs to deportations, attacks on academia, minorities and the LGBTQIA community, to jokes about the pope, to destabilising the global economy and threatening the US's tourist industry. Plus how the US courts are curtailing his deportation agenda. GUEST: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for THE NATION; executive director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University