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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Jessie Kay |Belinda Sommer |Nadia Mitsopoulos
The last time WA went to the polls, it was described as the most one-sided election in Australian history. The party took 53 out of 59 lower house seats. How much has changed from last time? And what will the result tell us about the upcoming federal election? Guest: Nadia Mitsopoulos, former state political reporter and current host of ABC WA Mornings.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Siobhan Marin |Jessie Kay |Annabelle Quince
Between Elon Musk’s questionable “hand salute” and Germany's far-right party doubling its share of votes, it feels like there are a lot of red flags in global politics. How are far-right leaders weaponising fears? Are their extreme beliefs becoming more mainstream? And what could happen next? Guest: Annabelle Quince, host of Rear Vision.
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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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Nov 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessie Kay |Linda lopresti
The stories of the so called Dunera boys is on show at the NSW State Library. They were a group of two thousand plus boys and men, mostly Jewish refugees who’d fled to Britain to escape Nazi persecution, only to be deemed enemy aliens and shipped to Australia on the military ship Dunera in September 1940 and held in internment camps in Hay, Orange and Tatura.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessie Kay
What happens to our digital legacies after we die and what needs to be done to safeguard those digital identities against cybercrime? That's a discussion topic at this year's upcoming Australian Cyber Conference in Melbourne.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Linda lopresti |Jessie Kay
The eldest son of the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr was only ten years old when his father was killed in 1968. Since then Martin Luther King III and his wife Arndrea Waters King have made it their life mission to continue the legacy of the civil rights icon. In this extended interview, we speak with the Kings about another Trump presidency, the black vote and how to move America forward. Guests: Martin Luther King III & Andrea Waters King, Chair and President of the Drum Major Institute.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessie Kay
Peter FitzSimons is a household name. He's a former Wallaby, a journalist and a writer - having written over 27 books. On The Year That Made Me, he divulges his relationship with a woman 15 years his senior in France, how his writing career started, and his time as a building site labourer. Guest: Peter FitzSimons, journalist and columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald and author.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessie Kay
Mackenzie Arnold shot to fame in August of 2023 after the Matildas beat France 7-6 in the World Cup quarter final. She was the goal keeper during the nail-biting penalty shoot-out. She now plays for Portland Thorns FC in the United States. In 2020, she publicly announced she was experiencing bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and needed hearing aids.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessie Kay
Daphne Caruana Galizia was car bombed in 2017. At the time, she was working on the Panama Papers, following a trail of corruption through high profile people in Malta. Paul Caruana Galizia, Daphne's son, is the keynote speaker of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, giving a speech on the topic of speaking the truth. His new book is called 'A Death in Malta'. Guest: Paul Caruana Galizia, journalist and author of 'A Death in Malta'.
