• Trump, tariffs and the rocky road ahead.
    Apr 14 2025

    Former Australian Ambassador and Cabinet Minister Arthur Sinodinos joins us to discuss Trump's tariff plan.

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    22 mins
  • ‘History will judge us harshly’
    Apr 17 2024

    War with China is a small but not negligible risk, says former Defence mandarin Mike Pezzullo. But Australia wasted more than a decade in preparing and equipping itself to face the danger

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    46 mins
  • A generals catastrophe
    Mar 15 2024

    Myanmar’s generals have broken the state, says Nicholas Coppel – in 3 years they’ve caused civil war, economic collapse, a transnational crime wave and millions of internal refugees. China always preferred Aung San Suu Kyi and is even unhappier now

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    26 mins
  • Hamas: buried, not dead
    Mar 6 2024

    What’s left of Hamas is dug in beneath ruined Gaza. But Israel can’t obliterate their influence on Gaza's future, bleak as that might be, says Rodger Shanahan

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    36 mins
  • The Man in the Room
    Feb 26 2024

    Obama administration intelligence insider Robert Cardillo on China, North Korea, the Middle East and the night Osama bin Laden was killed

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    46 mins
  • Against the Wolf Warriors
    Feb 18 2024

    Shingo Yamagami confronted China’s Wolf Warrior diplomats. Denounced by Beijing, controversial in Canberra and even Tokyo, he’d do it all over again

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    31 mins
  • Aid: who pays, who benefits
    Jun 13 2023

    Alexandre Dayant, whose team tracked $298bn of development aid flows into Southeast Asia, describes the region’s needs and its financiers’ expectations. China is key ...

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    25 mins
  • Timor-Leste’s Sunrise future
    Jun 1 2023

    Xanana Gusmao, likely Timor-Leste’s last leader from the ‘1975 generation’ that won freedom, is driven to harness his tiny nation’s future to Greater Sunrise gas. Michael Leach explains why it’s a critical mission

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    33 mins