Office Hours: How Will Trump’s War Be Viewed by Midterm Voters?

Will Republican candidates be penalized by the war's failure?

250 Years On, Can Democracy Hold? (with Joanne Freeman)

Joanne Freeman is a historian, author, and renowned professor at Yale, where she specializes in early American politics and political culture. She joins Preet ahead…

Grattan on Friday: Now’s the time to renovate multiculturalism, elevating ‘interculturalism’

Amid the heated debate around multiculturalism there is a strong case for a reset of multicultural policy to make it more resilient in a changing…

The life and death of Ladi Olubunmi, 41, Tiktok moderator

What drove a Nigerian woman to upend her life and move to Africa’s Silicon Savannah?

‘Kenya’s Gen Z beat the tax bill. Now we’re coming for the ballot box’

Two years after Kenya’s Gen Z uprising forced President William Ruto to withdraw the Finance Bill, organiser Ahmednoor Haji explains how protesters won – and…

East Asia’s biotech autonomy push is already stunting innovation

The US-China technology rivalry is expanding into biotechnology, with export controls and investment restrictions opening a new front in strategic competition. East Asia’s push for…

Caps are coming for domestic uni places, but the government also wants to grow student numbers. Can this work?

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has introduced a bill under which universities face new caps on their domestic student numbers.

Opinion: New Colorado law to recycle EV batteries is a model for rest of nation to follow

Senate Bill 3 provides comprehensive framework for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries

6-25-2026 Thursday News List

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Coalition blames tax reform for social cohesion decline

Measures to scrap negative gearing and pare back capital gains discounts have passed parliament despite strong resistance.

Breaking the algorithm: why AI will never master diplomacy

Today, foreign ministries across the world are drowning in information — news reports, intelligence assessments, social media posts, satellite imagery, economic data, speeches and diplomatic…

Was Venezuela struck by an earthquake ‘doublet’? Here’s what we know so far

The two deadly earthquakes happened just 39 seconds apart, but were seismologically distinct.

Barnaby Joyce owes me a beer

Barnaby Joyce stole my beer. More importantly, Pauline Hanson is trying to steal the Australian soul with her moronculturalism.

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jenny McAllister on ‘confronting but necessary’ NDIS reforms

The NDIS minister joined the podcast to discuss the government’s reforms – and what the changes mean for 160,000 Australians .

Bird flu is deadly for backyard chickens – and even cats. A vet expert explains

Domestic pet owners, particularly those with chicken flocks, should be on alert for signs of this highly infectious virus.

315: The People V. Todd Blanche

In this episode of Sisters Sidebar, Jill Wine-Banks and Joyce Vance answer listener questions on the Trump-IRS lawsuit settlement, the War Powers Resolution, posthumous prosecutions,…

The political painting that is still on trial in South Korea

In a Seoul courtroom in March this year, a prosecutor read out charges against Jeon Seung-il, a former art student, from an indictment first written…

Copland Dance Episodes: Americana music, contemporary dance and the Australian Ballet

In Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes, dancers of The Australian Ballet move through 22 episodes to music by legendary American composer Aaron Copland.

This Was Completely Unexpected!

Afghanistan’s economy is broken. The Taliban is why

Afghanistan finds itself in a complex and dire economic predicament. Nearly five years after the Taliban returned to power, the South Asian nation continues to…