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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.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
Ted Kotcheff, director of the 1971 Australian cult classic Wake in Fright has died at the age of 94. David Stratton pays tribute to the Canadian director who captured a distinctly Australian horror story on screen.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
Ian Dunt looks at the fallout from the UK Supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, why Labour's push to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords has stalled and the Ukraine peace talks are off track. • GUEST: Ian Dunt, columnist with the “i”, co-host of the Origin Story podcast
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
The small town of Stawell in regional Victoria is busy preparing for the 143rd running of the Stawell Gift - Australia's richest and oldest footrace. The history of th Gift is full of drama, intrigue, and occasional controversy.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
Harvard University will not 'yield' to demands from the Trump administration to roll-back diversity initiatives and 'root out' activists, despite threats of $9bn USD in withdrawn federal grants. Meanwhile, another pro-Palestinian student from Columbia University has reportedly been detained by immigration authorities. • Guest: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor for the Nation, Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has acknowledged that his proposal to compel Canberra-based public servants working from home to return to the office was a mistake. But as past elections have shown, there is still plenty of time to recover from a blunder.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
Global markets are reeling in response to US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, but the tariff itself is nothing new. The ancient Romans applied duties to imports from the East - including incense, spices and jewels - designed to generate vast amounts of government revenue. But Roman tariffs also created problems - from price inflation to the emergence of black markets.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 31: Quaker Meeting House stands in London, England. The arrests of six female Youth Demand activists from the Quaker Meeting House in central London have drawn widespread condemnation. London Police arrested the Gaza protest planners on the evening of 28th March, along with raids at other London addresses and in Exeter. Paul Parker of Quakers in Britain said the raid "clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest."
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
An alleged physical assault at the South African Antarctic research station SENAE IV has underlined how these extreme, isolated work environments can become hotbeds of stress and human conflict. • Guest: Dr Hanne Nielsen, Senior Lecturer in Antarctic Law and Governance at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | David Marr |Jack Schmidt
The prestigious American law firm Paul Weiss is under fire for negotiating a deal with the Trump administration to avoid losing lucrative federal contracts. Meanwhile, Columbia University is also negotiating with the administration to unfreeze $400 million worth of federal funding. • Guest: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor with The Nation, Executive Director with the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma
