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2865 - Advance Australia Fair? Is "trickle-down racism" damaging social cohesion?

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2865 - Advance Australia Fair? Is "trickle-down racism" damaging social cohesion?

Thu, 12 Nov 2026
2864 - The Witches at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas - Lucianne Tonti, Emma Quilty, Caroline Tully with Natasha Mitchell

Wed, 11 Nov 2026
2863 - AI data centres — exploring the boom and the backlash

Tue, 10 Nov 2026
2862 - The Odyssey — a nearly 3,000-year-old myth we can’t stop retelling

Mon, 09 Nov 2026
2861 - The meaning of loss — whether it devastates you or saves you

Thu, 05 Nov 2026
2860 - Get neurospicy with The Bachelorette's Osher Günsberg and Kill Your Boomers author Fiona Wright

Wed, 04 Nov 2026
2859 - Rupture — Niki Savva and Waleed Aly on how our politics is being transformed

Tue, 03 Nov 2026
2858 - The end of neoliberalism? A guide to Trumpian world-making

Mon, 02 Nov 2026
2857 - Does fuel reduction burning make us safer?

Thu, 29 Oct 2026
2856 - In 2046 women run the world — what's changed?

Wed, 28 Oct 2026
2855 - The stigma of obesity and what it means for your healthcare

Tue, 27 Oct 2026
2854 - Gut health: Is the food on your plate quietly rewriting your brain chemistry?

Mon, 26 Oct 2026
2853 - Wrapped? Or Warped? How the internet changed music criticism

Thu, 22 Oct 2026
2852 - What stops you from becoming homeless? 2026 Australian Homelessness Conference with Natasha Mitchell and guests

Wed, 21 Oct 2026
2851 - Clive Myrie on what Africa taught a foreign correspondent about our common humanity

Tue, 20 Oct 2026
2850 - Bringing Brett Whiteley's studio back to life — with Wendy Whiteley

Mon, 19 Oct 2026
2849 - The ethics of transhumanism

Thu, 15 Oct 2026
2848 - AI, art, and staying human - is creativity at a crossroad? Evelyn Araluen, Steve Tolz, Kirra Pendergast

Wed, 14 Oct 2026
2847 - China's one-child policy and a true tale of abduction, adoption and separated twins

Tue, 13 Oct 2026
2846 - Amitav Ghosh and Luke Kemp on learning from collapsed empires

Mon, 12 Oct 2026
2845 - Eddie Woo asks — should AI be in the classroom? With Leslie Loble

Thu, 08 Oct 2026
2844 - You Must Take Part in Revolution — journalist Melissa Chan and artist-in-exile Badiucao

Wed, 07 Oct 2026
2843 - Bones, CSI, X-Files step aside — here come the real forensic scientists

Tue, 06 Oct 2026
2842 - George Megalogenis on the three shocks reshaping Australian politics

Mon, 05 Oct 2026
2841 - The legacy of Jane Goodall —from chimp whisperer to changing how science understands primates

Thu, 01 Oct 2026
2840 - The future of ageing — what will growing old be like in 2076?

Wed, 30 Sep 2026
2839 - Can we change the future by reimagining it?

Tue, 29 Sep 2026
2838 - Lyse Doucet —The history of Kabul’s finest hotel tells the history of a nation

Mon, 28 Sep 2026
2837 - It's an ancient Hindu poem, so why does The Ramayana still resonate?

Thu, 24 Sep 2026
2836 - Why literary giants like Margaret Atwood, Nobel laureate Han Kang and Amitav Ghosh wrote books that will never be read in their lifetime

Wed, 23 Sep 2026
2835 - When you trust social media influencers more than your GP — what can only go wrong?

Tue, 22 Sep 2026
2834 - Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem and her conversations with the teenagers who've studied it

Mon, 21 Sep 2026
2833 - ABC National Forum — migration and the kind of country Australia wants to be

Thu, 17 Sep 2026
2832 - Buying and Selling the Poor at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas — Rick Morton, Mark Considine, Emily Roy with Natasha Mitchell

Wed, 16 Sep 2026
2831 - Helen Garner reflects on five decades of writing — an ABC Radio National Top 100 Books countdown special

Tue, 15 Sep 2026
2830 - Why Diego Bonetto wants you to eat weeds

Mon, 14 Sep 2026
2829 - Feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem with Natasha Mitchell and guests on travels that transformed them

Thu, 10 Sep 2026
2828 - Are kid's books too moralistic, worthy, or 'woke'? Andy Griffiths, Hilary Rogers, Tamuz Ellazam for Radio National's Top 100 Books

Wed, 09 Sep 2026
2827 - Inside the life of Elizabeth II with royal biographer Robert Hardman

Tue, 08 Sep 2026
2826 - Tech activist Cory Doctorow says the internet's been enshittified. So is it too late to save it?

Mon, 07 Sep 2026
2825 - John Brack once painted his children. Now his adult daughter tells her story of life with the famous artist

Thu, 03 Sep 2026
2824 - Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones and why all great music is a threat

Tue, 01 Sep 2026
2823 - Roman Krznaric on why the history of human solidarity offers us radical hope, even now

Wed, 02 Sep 2026
2822 - Stephanie Alexander with Adam Liaw on 30 years of The Cook's Companion

Mon, 31 Aug 2026
2821 - Mick Herron, Suzie Miller and Benjamin Law on great adaptations — from the page to the stage to the screen, and back again

Thu, 27 Aug 2026
2820 - Should social media be banned for over-16s too!? The 2026 Beaker Street Festival Great Debate

Wed, 26 Aug 2026
2819 - Kerry O'Brien on the perfect storm destroying our politics — with Richard Flanagan

Tue, 25 Aug 2026
2818 - Why Oz Harvest's Ronni Kahn wants you to join the "Order of the Teaspoon" to end food insecurity and waste

Mon, 24 Aug 2026
2817 - Protecting Australia’s native plants

Thu, 20 Aug 2026
2816 - Indigenous speculative fiction takes on the apocalypse — with Canadian sci-fi Indiginerd Chelsea Vowel

Wed, 19 Aug 2026

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