Ross Richardson

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Richard Girvan |Ross Richardson |David Le May

The ghost people arrived by boat. They never left. But the stories of first encounters and what came next live large, 250 years later, in First Nations families and communities. An ambitious journey to reclaim the names and stories disappeared by Captain James Cook, but never lost. A deeply personal excavation of herstories and the women wrenched from their Country by colonial sealers. A Polish freedom fighter and the fight for the mountain that bears his name.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Ross Richardson |David Le May

If democracy is the will of the people, what does this federal election result say about Australia? In his election night victory speech, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australians had voted for Australian values, claiming these were fairness, aspiration and opportunity for all. But is this right message we should take from the election result? This conversation was recorded live at the 2025 Melbourne Writers Festival in partnership with The Wheeler Centre.

2 weeks ago | comedy.co.uk | Ross Richardson

Love British Comedy Guide? Support our work by making a donation. Find out more There are some television shows that simply exist, flickering across screens for a limited time, offering fleeting amusement before fading into the vast archive of broadcast history.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Ross Richardson |Richard Girvan |David Le May

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has said “a lot of the corporate world has become culturally neutered” and that it needs more “masculine energy”? Has it and does it? At Meta, he recently shut down initiatives that promote equity and diversity in his workplace. In the USA, so has Ford, Mcdonalds, Walmart, and the Trump administration. But in Australia, less than 5% of CEOs in private companies are women and the gender pay gap is slow to budge.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Richard Girvan |Ross Richardson |David Le May

Are we living through a key turning point in world history? How do we make sense of this present moment, and what's on the horizon? Trump's trade wars, long-held alliances dismantled, the deadly conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the rise and rise of AI, the tech oligarch takeover, China's military build-up, NATO's demise, and much more. It's a confusing time. Four seasoned analysts and journalists with their finger on the pulse join Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell to share their prognoses.