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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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From courtroom dramas to miscarriages of justice, to how the law affects you — and so much more. The Law Report is your accessible guide to the big legal stories unfolding in Australia and across the world.
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Artificial Intelligence has suddenly gone from the fringes of science to being everywhere. So how did we get here? And where's this all heading? In this new series of Science Friction, we're finding out.
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AM is Australia's most informative morning current affairs program. With key political interviews and stories about the Australian way of life, AM sets the agenda for the nation’s daily news and current affairs coverage.
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Radio National Fictions is the ABC's place for creative audio fiction from Australia's best writers and emerging creators. We deal in the hilarious, the gritty and sometimes the dystopian. Think of it as movies for your ears.
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Do you ever feel dizzy when you think about the incomprehensible scale of space? We call that feeling Cosmic Vertigo. Welcome to a head-spinning conversation between two friends who study the sky for a living.
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Humourist and historian David Hunt and ABC 702’s Dom Knight take on Australian history and uncover the characters, events and a cat that you won’t find in the regular history books. This is not history for the faint-hearted.
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Fresh Off the Field is an ABC sports show, bringing you Pacific-focused content from in country professionals. Every Thursday we’ll catch you up on the latest sporting news happening in your own backyard.
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RN Breakfast daily stories separated out for easy listening. RN Breakfast is the program informed Australians wake up to. Start each day with comprehensive coverage and analysis of national and international events, and hear interviews with the people who matter today—along with those who'll be making news tomorrow.
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Rising healthcare costs, increasing insurance premiums, and decreasing care - this is the current state of our healthcare system. The pharmaceutical industry continues to make empty promises by masking patients symptoms and providing a false sense of hope. "Dr. Hotze's Wellness Revolution" is a paradigm shift in the way we look at modern medicine and gives listeners hope to get to the root cause of their symptoms, naturally. Steven F. Hotze, M.D., is the founder and CEO of the Hotze Health & ...
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Shooting The Past brings you Australian history through a new lens. Each episode features a historical event or era, and starts with a single photograph and the question; what is going on in this picture?
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Rum, Rebels & Ratbags is history not for the faint-hearted. Historian and author of 'Girt' David Hunt and ABC Radio Sydney's Dom Knight uncover the characters and events left out of your high school history class.
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Hindsight is the only program on Australian radio devoted exclusively to social history. It offers new perspectives on well-known aspects of the past and brings to light those stories long-ignored on the public record. The memories of ordinary Australians are woven into complex, credible and satisfying documentaries. Hindsight is published every Sunday.
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Moral philosopher and writer Raimond Gaita wrestles with the moral and ethical dimensions of the Israel-Gaza war to try to make sense of the incomprehensible. The Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture, "The Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World" was recorded at the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne on May 8, 2024. Speaker Raimond…
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One in six older Australians have faced elder abuse over the last year but experts say that doesn't reflect the reality that many people don't want to report abuse or understand if they're being abused. That's a challenge the government is trying to overcome with a new campaign to increase community awareness of elder abuse. Guest: Robert Fitzgeral…
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There are two types of people in the world - those who know and love the song Wuthering Heights - and the rest. But for fans of Kate Bush - and one of her most famous song - there's no hope she'll ever tour Australia as she simply doesn't perform. Instead, there's the "Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" that has taken off around the world and become …
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The International Court of Justice also said Israel should evacuate existing settlements, stop building new ones and pay reparations to Palestinians who've lost land and property. The court's opinion is not legally binding, but it does carry political and legal weight, marking the first time the ICJ has delivered a position on the legality of the 5…
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The race for the White House has now dramatically changed. The US election will be held on November 5th and Joe Biden's decision not to contest at the ballot, leaves the Democrats scrambling to confirm who their candidate will be. Meanwhile, the Republicans hold momentum after Donald Trump formally accepted his party's nomination last week. Guest: …
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In the wake of the news that US President Joe Biden will not contest the November Presidential election, there's one big question that remains, who will be the Democrat nominee? Vice President Kamala Harris has Mr Biden's endorsement, but other top Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, haven't been so quick to show the same support. G…
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In motor racing, Oscar Piastri has become just the fifth Australian to win a Formula One race. In the AFL, Brisbane won a thriller at the 'Gabba yesterday to re-confirm its premiership credentials. And in the NRL, back from injury, Nathan Cleary was quick to remind everyone of his brilliance as Penrith beat the Dolphins in golden point time yesterd…
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US President Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential race and has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his preferred nominee. With just over 100 days until the November election, this means a major campaign pivot for the Democrats. Guest: Donald Betts, former US Democrat Senator.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The world went into shock on Friday when a server update caused a massive outage and spread the blue screen of death at airports, media organisations, shops and banks. Businesses are still recovering from the outage, while overnight CrowdStrike - the company that caused it - is rolling out a final repair. Guest: Clare O'Neil, Home Affairs and Cyber…
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Joe Biden's decision to step down comes 107 days until the US election, leaving the Democrats with very little time to choose who will take the top spot on their ticket. Mr Biden has endorsed 59-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, but It comes less than a week after the Republicans had their national convention where Donald Trum…
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The reverberations of Joe Biden's decision to end his presidential re-election campaign are only beginning to be felt across the Western World. Australia will be keeping a close eye on who the Democrats choose to follow in his footsteps as the Presidential nominee, given the ongoing relationship between the two countries and the strengthening of mi…
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Australian athletes have started bumping into the athletes' village in Paris, with the opening ceremony less than a week away. 460 athletes will wear the green and gold in 33 sports but do so in a country which is wrestling with its political future, facing security threats and aiming to hold events in the Seine River. Guest: Anna Meares, Australia…
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Over the weekend, Israeli air strikes on the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah killing at least three and wounding dozens more. Now it's the Houthis promising to retaliate, raising the prospects of tit for tat escalations which could plunge the region into war. Guest: Hisham Al-Omeisy, Senior Yemen Advisor with the European Institute of Peace Producer:…
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US President Joe Biden has announced he is standing down from his re-election campaign to allow someone else to run as the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 election. In a statement, he said it had been the greatest honour of his life to serve as president. Guest: Michael Starr Hopkins, Democratic strategist who worked on Barack Obama and…
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While America was founded on lofty ideas – like democracy, equality and freedom – it’s was also shaped and continues to be shaped by political violence. The history of political violence in America from the time of slavery through to the assassination attempt on Donald trump.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Dr Shellie Morris is returning to the National Indigenous Music Awards, this time, to perform with strong cultural women from Borroloola. Then, Noongar and Yawuru writer and academic Elfie Shiosaki has created a poetry collection that draws on the long memory of her Country. Plus, for Word Up, community broadcaster Henry Augustine takes you to Nyul…
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Dr Shellie Morris AO discusses the her latest album Waralungku; which carries forward a ten-year legacy of writing songs with “strong cultural women” of Borroloola. She also reflects on the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) as she prepares to perform at the 2024 ceremony, and looks back at her Female Artist of the Year win from 2004.…
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As Western Australia approaches the bicentennial year of the colony, Noongar and Yawuru writer and researcher Elfie Shiosaki explores her Country's memories of colonial violence in her collection of poetry Refugia. She discuss the relationship between her research and her writing, and how she’s able to shape her ideas into themes.…
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It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun fires off one of the strangest, most audacious events to mark Australia's bicentennial year, the Great Australian Camel Race. People came from all around the world to take part in a feat which spanned over 3000km, as camels and humans endured scorching heat, flooding rains and serious sickn…
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The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are to be combined as one in 2026. So how do you start a new university? You could look at the most successful universities and see what makes them great. Stanford University, just south of San Francisco amid Silicon Valley in one of the great universities. Its graduates have created …
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Kate Evans and Jonathan Green with guests Pip Williams and Sarah Bailey read Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs, Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword, Valeria Usala's A Woman in Sardinia and Jean-Baptiste del Amo's The Son of Man. Australian fiction, novels in translation, secrets and violence, cities and regions, queer love and emotional truths, an…
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Scientists in China say they have developed the world's smallest and lightest solar-powered aerial vehicle. It's apparently lighter than a sheet of paper and can fly independently for up to an hour. Guest: Dr Jonathan Webb, ABC Science Editor Brainteaser (answer in the audio): Which word is the odd one out?OVERWEIGHTTENTATIVEFEMININE TELEPHONE For …
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The Australian Council of Social Services says $17 billion in Gross Domestic Product could be generated, if low-income houses were upgraded with simple insulation measures, and rooftop solar. ACOSS commissioned a report by Deloitte which shows insulation, draught proofing, curtains, window shades and a shift from electric appliances could save hous…
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Deep in the rainforests of south-east Peru, the Mashco Piro are believed to be the largest uncontacted tribe on Earth, but they've recently been seen more and more on the banks of a nearby river. Logging concessions have squeezed their territory in the last twenty years, but the images showing dozens of tribe members could help overturn that. So wh…
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The Queensland government is defending its youth justice policies amid accusations from carers and insiders that children are being held in conditions akin to abuse. There are reports that children as young as 14 - including one with the mental capacity of a five year old - are being placed in isolation rooms in the state's police watch houses. It …
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