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UK commentator Ian Dunt joins Late Night Live moments before Reform leader Nigel Farage's fiery resignation as MP. Human rights researcher Larissa Kojoue says many African leaders are outlawing homosexuality because they don't want to seem 'Western'. And an Indian Supreme Court ruling establishes that is a human right to walk safely on a footpath
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Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news, co-host of Origin Story podcastLarissa Kojoue, African human rights researcher with Human Rights WatchRishi Aggarwal, activist and founder of the Mumbai Walking Project -
Prof Mark Kenny surveys the Coalition's ongoing struggles to handle the surging popularity of Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Israeli philosopher Assaf Sharon studies how states coerce and manipulate their citizens. Plus, a look inside one of Australia's premier ancient coin collections.
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Professor Mark Kenny, Director of the Australian Studies Institute at ANU, host of the Democracy Sausage podcastAssaf Sharon, Israeli philosopher. Co-author of 'Captive minds: a study of manipulation' (Harvard Uni Press)Peter Edwell, Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies at Macquarie University -
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As the US celebrates 250 years since its Declaration of Independence, what links can we draw between America's Revolution and Australia's colonisation? Plus, the 'Indian' world of George Washington: founding father and aggressive land speculator.
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Professor Kate Fullagar, historian at ACUProfessor Colin G. Calloway, historian at Dartmouth College, author of The Indian World of George Washington -
30 years ago today, the Northern Territory briefly became the first place in the world where eligible patients could access voluntary euthanasia, until the laws were scuttled at the federal level. Former Chief Minister Marshall Perron reflects on the political fight. Plus, with a third of the world's fertilisers held up in the Strait of Hormuz, a new book reminds us of a time when cities where far more self-sufficient, growing their own food in tiny gardens.
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Marshall Perron, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (1988-1995)Kate Brown, author of Tiny gardens everywhere, a history of urban resilience -
Bruce Shapiro on the USA turning 250 and why a new Supreme Court decision means US President Donald Trump will have even more firing powers. Japan is struggling to recruit people to its militar as its population ages. Plus the booming global trade in rare succulents and cacti across the Mexican border.
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Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. Tom Le, Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College, CaliforniaCharlie McCann, Features Writer, the Economist 's long-reads section, 1843 -
Anna Henderson (chief political correspondent, SBS) surveys the latest polling figures, as the Coalition records a historically low primary vote of 17 per cent. Why is the French government ditching the services of American tech firms Palantir and Microsoft? Plus, Italy now has more woodland than farmland. As Italians abandon rural village life, trees are sprawling into forgotten fields.
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Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBSOcéane Herrero, reporter, POLITICO, in ParisAntonio Brunori, Secretary General of PEFC Italy (Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) and editor of “Ecodelleforeste.it” magazine -
A new book interrogates how Rupert Murdoch's global media empire shapes politics and public opinion in Australia and beyond. Plus, as the current outbreak of Ebola in DRC grows, an annual report reminds us of the epidemics we've successfully averted.
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Andrew Robb and Matthew Ricketson, co-authors of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch's Media Wields Power and PunishmentAmanda McClelland, global health director, Resolve to Save Lives -
UN peacekeepers will be leaving southern Lebanon after 40 years of service in the region, which dismays former peacekeeper, Professor Ray Murphy. Plus, "de-extinction" - the controversial science of reviving vanished species - raises myriad ethical and environmental questions.
Guests:Ray Murphy, former UN peacekeeper with UNIFIL in Lebanon and Professor with the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of GalwaySadiah Qureshi, Chair of Modern British History, University of Manchester. Writer and historian of science, race, and empire -
After Pauline Hanson declared Australia should be 'monocultural', Coalition leader Angus Taylor has refused to commit his support for a multicultural Australia. International economist Mariana Mazzucato urges a whole new approach to economics which prioritises the common good. Plus Australia's passion for soccer goes back further than you might think.
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Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBSMariana Mazzucato, author of ‘The Common Good Economy - A New Compass”. Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College LondonIan Syson, author of The Game that Never Happened; The Vanishing History of Soccer in Australia -
After months of political pressure, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has resigned. Late Night Live's UK correspondent, Ian Dunt, joins the show for breaking analysis on what's ahead for British Labour. Plus, what happened to Islamic State since the fall of their caliphate in 2019?
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Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentator
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A new tell-all book recounts the colourful escapades of adult industry lobbyists Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, in the lead up to the formation of the Australian Sex Party. Plus, a new book celebrates the rediscovery of some 800 beautiful crayon drawings, made by Indigenous stockmen on Birrundudu Station NT, 80 years ago.
Guests:
Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, co-founders of the Australian Sex Party
Dr John Carty, Professor of Museum and Curatorial Studies at the University of Adelaide ; Robert McKay, Djaru man and collaborator on the Birrundudu project
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The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is making writer and musician Anna Goldsworthy feel both more human - valuing what it is that differentiates us from algorithms - and simultaneously worried about the capacity of AI to reduce human agency. And, established in 1793, the Paris zoo captured the essence of enlightenment thinking, where science, spectacle, and shifting ideas about animals came together in one place.
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Bruce Shapiro on the Iran-US deal, and where Benjamin Netanyahu sits within that. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure to confront Donald Trump after US strikes killed three Indian seafarers in the Strait of Hormuz. And why First Nations people in Brisbane are upset by the siting of Brisbane's key Olympic venue.
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Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor of The Nation; executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaShruti Pandalai, India Chair, Lowy Institute Ray Kerkhove, Adjunct Associate Professor of Histsory, University of QLD -
ABC's Global Affairs editor, Laura Tingle returns to Late Night Live, to examine Israel's response to the US-Iran peace deal. Can it hold? And Donald Trump's decision to welcome white South Africans as refugees has become one of his most controversial immigration moves, raising questions about who qualifies for protection and whether politics is shaping refugee policy. Plus why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?
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Laura Tingle, ABC Global Affairs EditorLoren Landau, Professor of Migration at Oxford, and chair, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Associate Professor Gordana Rasic, Head of Mosquito Genomics, QIMR Berghofer -
Biljana Plavšić became the only woman convicted for mass atrocities in the Bosnian War. Still alive, in her 90s, a Bosnian-Australian law professor meets her face to face. And cultural historian, Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti explores the ways humans have interpreted faces and how they have shaped our ideas of morality, social hierarchy and psychology.
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Olivera Simic, Professor in Law, Griffith University and the author of, Madam War Criminal Biljana Plavšić, Serbia’s Iron Lady
Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti, Professor of Modern History at King’s College London, and the author of ‘The Face: A Cultural History’.
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When a proposed mine threatens Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, the Sepik people resist the mine on their own terms, but will they succeed? And fifty years since the Soweto uprising, how South Africa has reckoned with its past.
Guests:
Emmanuel Peni, director of the PNG NGO Project Sepik, and co-Producer of the film.Theonila Roka Matbob, former PNG MP from Bougainville and winner of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize. Professor Noor Nieftagodien, Head of the History Workshop at the University of the WitwatersrandSeth Mazibuko, activist, former teacher and one of the original student leaders in the 1976 uprising -
Ian Dunt on the continued fallout over the death of 18 year old Southampton University student Henry Nowak. In the US, a radical movement known as ‘masculinism’ wants to repel the advances of feminism. And this weekend (June 14), Switzerland will vote on a referendum proposal to cap its population at 10 million. But it remains unclear how such a “cap” would work, particularly in a nation with large companies that rely on skilled migrant labour.
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Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentatorHelen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic Mercedes Ruehl , Switzerland and Austria correspondent for the Financial Times -
Against the odds, the exterior of Antoni Gaudi's extraordinary Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona is finished, and Pope Leo will bless the newly completed final tower on the centenary of the famous architect's death. Plus, why Spam is considered a luxury good in Korea and is a beloved staple across Asia and the Pacific. The answer lies with the US military.
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Professor Mark Burry, Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology's School of Design and Architecture, and Senior Faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Kelly Spring, food historian, co-presenter of the Hungry Historians podcast and author of ‘SPAM: a global history’ (2025, Reaktion/New South) -
Teenage vaping, pill testing, injecting rooms, medicinal cannabis and the opioid crisis: a look at Australia's efforts to manage illicit drug use. And the little boat of East Timorese asylum seekers that strained Australia's relationship with Indonesia.
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Professor Des Manderson., Director of the Centre for Law, Arts and Humanities at the ANU. Author of 'High time: how Australia changed its mind about illegal drug use' (Black Inc Books)Associate Professor Vannessa Hearman, historian, Curtin University. Author of ‘The Good Sea: the journey of Tasi Diak and the Politics of Refugee Protection in Australia’ (MUP) Jose da Costa, Timorese-Australian writer, film director, actor, who was onboard the Tasi Diak -
Elon Musk looks set to become the world's first trillionaire when his company SpaceX goes public on the stock exchange. A new book asks if we're living in an age of 'Muskism'. Plus, the story of Dr Ian Stevenson, the distinguished 1950s psychiatrist who become a leading figure in the controversial field of 'parapsychology'' where he tried to prove the existence of consciousness after death.
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Ben Tarnoff, writer and technologist, co-author of Muskism: A guide for the perplexedJesse Bering, professor of psychology at University of Otago, author of The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist’s Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul - Visa fler
