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1 week ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Lucia Stein |Marc Fennell |Taryn Priadko
By Lucia Stein, Marc Fennell and Taryn Priadko for No One Saw It Coming, ABCEarly on the morning of 21 August, 1911, a brazen thief dressed as a museum employee entered the Louvre in Paris without raising an alarm. The building was only open to staff when the Italian man entered the famous Salon Carré, scanned the wall of priceless artworks and walked up to a portrait of a smiling woman.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Lucia Stein |Taryn Priadko
There is no shortage of critics in the debate over AUKUS, the controversial trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The radical plan masterminded by the then prime minister Scott Morrison in 2021 saw the dumping of a $90 billion deal with France for 12 conventional-powered submarines, in favour of nuclear-powered submarines from either the UK or the US.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Taryn Priadko
Geraldine and Hamish ask Donald Trump’s longest serving national security advisor whether there is method to what seems like madness in President Trump’s foreign policy announcements, and they get a message for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Guest: Ambassador John Bolton - served as national security adviser under US President Donald Trump for 17 months and is the author of "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir".
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Taryn Priadko
Like it or not, we all have a stake when Americans head to the polls in November. So what would a Harris or Trump presidency mean for the global economy, conflicts in the Middle East and Europe, and an increasingly powerful China? Guest: Edward Luce - US national editor, Financial Times. RECOMMENDATIONS:Geraldine: Secret Documents Show Hamas Tried to Persuade Iran to Join Its Oct. 7 Attackby Ronen Bergman in The New York TimesHamish: The World from Down Under by George Negus.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Taryn Priadko
In the final instalment of our New Frontlines mini-series, we look at the ideological fault-lines that are dividing countries from within. Identity, values and fears are being weaponised by those on the political extremes, and it's working. Guest: Margaritis Schinas - the European Commission vice president for Promoting our European Way of Life.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Rafael Epstein |Taryn Priadko
Iran talks a big game, but in the last two weeks Israel has dealt some serious blows to the ‘axis of resistance’, while Tehran has done little to deter Netanyahu from going even further. Is the balance of power in the Middle East swinging away from Iran and towards Israel? Or is there more going on inside Iran than meets the eye?
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Taryn Priadko
Exploding pagers, attacks on underwater gas pipelines and deepfake videos - we’ve entered a terrifying new realm of hybrid warfare, where the aim is to sow discord deep within our democracies. But how do you fight a war that isn’t really a war, against an invisible enemy? We visit a centre in Finland where they are urgently trying to find the answers to that question. Teija Tiilikainen - Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Taryn Priadko
As the war in Ukraine spills into Poland, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski makes an impassioned call to countries around the world to wake up to what he sees as Putin's true imperialist intentions. RECOMMENDATIONS:Geraldine: America’s Role in the World Is Hard. It Just Got Much Harder.Thomas Friedman in The New York Times. Hamish: Take Me To Your Leader Season 3: Dictators & Demagogues on ABC Listen App. VOTE FOR US:Love the pod?
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Taryn Priadko
We kick off this Global Roaming mini-series by looking at the ways wars will be fought in the future. From drones to electronic warfare and even social media, war today looks completely different to what it did even a decade ago. Russia’s war on Ukraine is providing a breeding ground for testing and innovation of new weapons, but are we in Australia prepared for any of this? Do we need to be? Guest: Dr Jack Watling - Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Geraldine Doogue |Hamish Macdonald |Taryn Priadko
Sure, we have great beaches, but when it comes to forging strong economic and security ties, Australia isn't exactly the country that Asian nations are turning to... Guest: Dr Kyung-wha Kang – President and CEO of the Asia Society; South Korea’s 38th Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017 to 2021) under President Moon Jae-in. RECOMMENDATIONS:Geraldine: Kiss the Future documentary - SBS On DemandHamish: Zhou Enlai: A Life - review in London Review of BooksVOTE FOR US:Love the pod?
