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6 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Isabelle Summerson
Election day is looming at a time when events beyond our borders are shaping the debate as much as the politicians are. The major parties have avoided discussion of foreign policy, despite the need for new policies and partnerships for this uncertain time.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Isabelle Summerson
What is Beijing thinking as it watches Western governments grapple with the chaos created by the US? Does China view the fracturing of long-standing US alliances and trading relationships as an opportunity, or do they share the concerns about what is coming? Guest: Zhou Bo, Senior Colonel (Retired) in the People’s Liberation Army, author of Should the World Fear China?
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Isabelle Summerson
Donald Trump's view on tariffs is inspired by the 'Gilded Age' of US history, when the federal government drew much of its income from taxes on foreign imports. Now some of America's closest allies have been slapped with tariffs and there are growing concerns about the risk of a trade war. Guest: Justin Wolfers, professor of public policy and economics at the Gerald R.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Isabelle Summerson
The Irish rockstar is fired up as he claims his life's work is being ripped apart by the new US administration. In this passionate and surprising conversation Sir Bob discusses cuts to aid budgets in the US and UK, what Australia should be doing to stand up to Donald Trump and why he no longer listens to music.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Linda lopresti |Isabelle Summerson |Jessie Kay |Julian Morrow
This week's Summer Season episode revisits the night before the launch of NASA's Challenger, and the story of the engineers who tried to stop the launch for the very reason it exploded. On The Year That Made Me, the CEO of Animals Australia and a champion for animal welfare for the last four decade - Glenys Oogjes.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Linda lopresti |Isabelle Summerson |Jessie Kay |Julian Morrow
This week's Summer Season episode features the new national newspaper for Australia's 44,000 prisoners - About Time. We'll look at the long history of Australian prison publications. On The Year That Made Me, Philip Thompson - Afghanistan war veteran turned Shadow Minister for Defence and Defence Personnel.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabelle Summerson
Should a parliament be made up of society’s best and brightest? Or is it better to have a parliament that is truly representative? That question is an age-old debate among political scientists, and they can now examine that it more closely with a massive new database of democratically elected parliaments covering almost 20,000 politicians worldwide. The Global Leadership Database is a snapshot of the educational backgrounds and previous occupations of lawmakers worldwide.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabelle Summerson
Supermarkets in the UK and Germany have pulled products on their shelves of a scandal erupted over tomato purees that appear to contain tomatoes grown in China’s Xinjiang province using forced labour. A BBC investigation found several supermarkets selling products labelled as Italian tomato puree, despite evidence that they also contained tomatoes from China. All of the supermarkets have carried out internal investigations and all reject the BBC's claims.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabelle Summerson
He served for Australia as a soldier and as a special advisor to the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. He has served on tours in active conflict zones from East Timor to Iraq and Afghanistan and in the corridors of power in Australia and the United States over decades. Today he is a Professor at both UNSW Canberra and Arizona State University.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabelle Summerson
No matter where you are, if someone near you stubs their toe or bangs their elbow, it is likely that the interjection you will hear will have an ‘ah’ sound in it. New research from the field of linguistics focusing on interjections related to pain, joy and disgust in over 130 different languages has uncovered similarities for pain interjections, though not for joy or disgust.
