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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr. This LNL podcast contains the stories in separate episodes. Subscribe to the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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Why did two Australian hospitals cancel Gaza-related speaking events?

Why did two Australian hospitals cancel Gaza-related speaking events?

Last month, the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne cancelled a scheduled speaking event entitled 'Children and War' amid concerns about staff safety...

2025-10-20 14:30:00 0:14:48
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Bernard Keane's Canberra: What is Barnaby Joyce up to?

Bernard Keane's Canberra: What is Barnaby Joyce up to?

Nationals MP and former leader, Barnaby Joyce has announced he won't run for the seat of New England at the next election. Rumours about that he'll jo...

2025-10-20 14:00:00 0:12:34
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Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club

Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club

Australia’s National Press Club was due to host Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Chris H...

2025-10-20 14:00:00 0:23:39
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Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks

Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks

Tim Minchin turned fifty this year and just ran a marathon for the first time. He's returned home to Australia, with his new album Time Machine, and h...

2025-10-16 14:00:00 0:54:32
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A way forward for Israel

A way forward for Israel

Israeli-British historian Ilan Pappé, warns that political fractures in Israel are wider than ever. In his new book, he highlights the 2022 right-wing...

2025-10-15 14:15:00 0:27:47
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The strategy behind Trump's foreign policy chaos - and where it leaves Australia

The strategy behind Trump's foreign policy chaos - and where it leaves Australia

While Donald Trump’s presidency might seem chaotic from the outside as the US appears to be retreating from its former role as a global superpower, in...

2025-10-15 14:00:00 0:26:08
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Come fly with me: women in aviation

Come fly with me: women in aviation

Commercial aviation really took off after World War Two. Many countries established their own national airlines and women became an integral part of t...

2025-10-14 14:30:00 0:20:27
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Madagascar has its own Gen Z protesters

Madagascar has its own Gen Z protesters

A military coup is underway in Madagascar after nationwide protests triggered by chronic power and water outages, poverty and government corruption. T...

2025-10-14 14:15:00 0:19:02
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Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer in Egypt, and the word on Brexit

Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer in Egypt, and the word on Brexit

Ian Dunt looks at the UK's role in the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, and examines why British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is slamming Brexit.

2025-10-14 14:00:00 0:14:23
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Esperanto: what happened to the language of optimism?

Esperanto: what happened to the language of optimism?

With a common tongue, could the world solve its problems? In 1887, a Polish eye doctor tried to answer that question by creating a new, easy-to-learn...

2025-10-13 14:30:00 0:22:16
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Are cloud patterns changing with the climate?

Are cloud patterns changing with the climate?

Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of an organisation called the Cloud Appreciation Society, which boasts thousands of members online. His passion has...

2025-10-13 14:15:00 0:21:42
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Labor waters down its super tax plan

Labor waters down its super tax plan

The treasurer has reworked the government's stalled superannuation tax plan, in an effort to push it through the parliament. New polling paints a sorr...

2025-10-13 14:00:00 0:13:53
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LNL update: Irris Makler on the Gaza peace process

LNL update: Irris Makler on the Gaza peace process

Journalist Irris Makler returns to Late Night Live in the wake of Israel, Hamas and the negotiating parties reaching an agreement on the 'first phase'...

2025-10-10 07:00:00 0:25:47
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Have we forgotten the value of shade?

Have we forgotten the value of shade?

On a warming planet, heatwaves are proving increasingly deadly. But in the cities where most of us live, shade can be hard to come by. In ancient time...

2025-10-09 14:30:00 0:25:59
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Consent on trial: inside the Gisele Pelicot case

Consent on trial: inside the Gisele Pelicot case

Gisele Pelicot became a feminist hero when she waived her right to anonymity after being drugged and raped by her husband and at least fifty other men...

2025-10-09 14:00:00 0:26:11
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Oliphant: the Australian behind the bomb

Oliphant: the Australian behind the bomb

Sir Mark Oliphant hasn't had a billion-dollar movie made about him, but — according to the author Roland Perry — maybe he should have. Oliphant was an...

2025-10-08 14:15:00 0:26:33
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Sanctions and bombing pushing Iran towards China

Sanctions and bombing pushing Iran towards China

In June Israel launched a surprise 12 day long attack on Iran. The US joined in, damaging much of their nuclear infrastructure and large parts of Tehr...

2025-10-08 14:00:00 0:27:31
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Predator-Free by 2050: New Zealand’s high-stakes bid to reclaim its natural heritage

Predator-Free by 2050: New Zealand’s high-stakes bid to reclaim its natural heritage

New Zealand has an ambitious mission to become predator-free by 2050, aiming to eradicate all invasive species—such as rats, stoats, and possums—that...

2025-10-07 14:30:00 0:18:24
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How two years has changed Israel and Gaza

How two years has changed Israel and Gaza

Two years on from Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7th, Israel and Gaza are irrevocably changed. Journalist Irris Makler reflects on the profound so...

2025-10-07 14:15:00 0:20:39
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump turns troops on "enemy within"

Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump turns troops on "enemy within"

US President Donald Trump is determined to deploy the National Guard in more American cities to support deportation efforts, but a Trump-appointed jud...

2025-10-07 14:00:00 0:12:46
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Plant hunters: the 19th century orchid mania

Plant hunters: the 19th century orchid mania

'Plant hunting required cunning, resilience, and a seemingly unshakeable sense of entitlement to the resources of other nations.' An account of the hu...

2025-10-06 14:30:00 0:25:46
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Rutger Bregman wants you to stop wasting your talents and show some 'moral ambition'

Rutger Bregman wants you to stop wasting your talents and show some 'moral ambition'

Dutch historian and writer Rutger Bregman is good at making wealthy people uncomfortable. In 2019, he called out the billionaires at Davos for their t...

2025-10-06 14:00:00 0:26:42
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The twisted history of rope

The twisted history of rope

Rope weaves together the fascinating story of one of humanity’s oldest inventions — a simple twist of fibres that literally held the world together. F...

2025-10-02 15:15:00 0:22:19
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The Australian who was key to the creation of Israel

The Australian who was key to the creation of Israel

IN 1947, Herbert Vere "Doc" Evatt was Australia's external affairs minister and the appointed chair of the United Nation's Ad-Hoc Committee on the Pal...

2025-10-02 15:00:00 0:28:59
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A rich man obsessed with Mars: welcome to the 1890s

A rich man obsessed with Mars: welcome to the 1890s

At the turn of the 20th century, one American became obsessed with the idea of life on Mars, and carried his obsessions into a public movement that ma...

2025-10-01 15:15:00 0:25:52
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Surviving Malka Leifer: a decades-long struggle for justice

Surviving Malka Leifer: a decades-long struggle for justice

The new documentary Surviving Malka Leifer reveals the inside-story of the Malka Leifer saga, when three sisters from Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox Jewis...

2025-10-01 15:00:00 0:25:11
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The man who brought salmon to Tasmania

The man who brought salmon to Tasmania

In the mid-1800s, Tasmanian sheep farmer James Youl embarked on a fanciful mission, to transport live Atlantic salmon eggs from the northern hemispher...

2025-09-30 15:30:00 0:19:08
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Nila Ibrahimi: a girl's right to sing in Afghanistan

Nila Ibrahimi: a girl's right to sing in Afghanistan

When Nila Ibrahimi was 13 and living in Kabul, the local government banned girls from singing. She sang anyway, and was part of a protest movement tha...

2025-09-30 15:15:00 0:19:54
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Ian Dunt's UK: British Labour conference, Farage in the polls and Tony Blair

Ian Dunt's UK: British Labour conference, Farage in the polls and Tony Blair

Ian Dunt explores the political culture surrounding the UK’s party conference season, considers whether Reform’s Nigel Farage has become the default O...

2025-09-30 15:00:00 0:13:09
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Threads of Empire: history's most coveted carpets

Threads of Empire: history's most coveted carpets

For centuries, carpets have been coveted by shahs, emperors, conquerors and chieftains. Historian Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories of twelve fascin...

2025-09-29 15:30:00 0:18:34
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ASIC licenses a stablecoin for the first time. Wait... what's a stablecoin?

ASIC licenses a stablecoin for the first time. Wait... what's a stablecoin?

ASIC, the Australian financial regulator, has licensed a stablecoin for the first time in its history. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency, and w...

2025-09-29 15:15:00 0:17:42
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Mark Kenny's Canberra: Albanese champions Australia's role on the world stage

Mark Kenny's Canberra: Albanese champions Australia's role on the world stage

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on his way home after announcing Australia's intention to run for a position on the UN Security Council at his spee...

2025-09-29 15:00:00 0:15:18
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Why people loved - and feared - Adelaide's first policewoman, Kate Cocks

Why people loved - and feared - Adelaide's first policewoman, Kate Cocks

Kate Cocks was a formidable woman. Appointed to the South Australian Police Force in 1915 at the age of 40, she was given the same salary and powers o...

2025-09-25 15:30:00 0:23:52
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Bandung 1955: when the Global South united to prevent war between China and the US

Bandung 1955: when the Global South united to prevent war between China and the US

The 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia, was an historic meeting of 29 Asian and African nations - the largest gathering of non-European nations the...

2025-09-25 15:00:00 0:24:13
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What happened to NGOs?

What happened to NGOs?

In the 1990s, NGOs (non government organisations) delivered more official development assistance than the entire U.N. system. Now, increasing anti-NGO...

2025-09-24 15:15:00 0:23:54
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What the data actually says about young Australian voters

What the data actually says about young Australian voters

When Australians went to the polls in May's federal election, Generation Z and Millennials outnumbered baby boomers at the ballot box. What does this...

2025-09-24 15:00:00 0:27:35
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How privacy law is taking over from defamation suits

How privacy law is taking over from defamation suits

Journalist and former presenter of Media Watch, Richard Ackland, looks at how Australia's privacy laws are being used in place of expensive defamation...

2025-09-23 15:30:00 0:19:14
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Where does Nepal go from here?

Where does Nepal go from here?

A flash revolution toppled Nepal's government earlier this month, as protests from young people over a social media ban quickly escalated into violenc...

2025-09-23 15:15:00 0:17:12
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: More Kirk fallout tests America's commitment to free speech

Bruce Shapiro's USA: More Kirk fallout tests America's commitment to free speech

Returning: Jimmy Kimmel. Not returning: the dozens of academics fired for comments on Charlie Kirk. America's love of free speech is being tested by K...

2025-09-23 15:00:00 0:14:32
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Donald Trump is letting US corporations off the hook - Public Citizen report

Donald Trump is letting US corporations off the hook - Public Citizen report

US President Donald Trump was elected on a law and order platform, but consumer and public affairs watch organisation, Public Citizen, Trump’s adminis...

2025-09-22 15:00:00 0:15:33
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