Best Rex Rogers Podcasts (2025)

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The Glorious Parable of the Prodigal Son 9:36

4d ago9:36

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The parable of the prodigal son is found in the New Testament book of Luke, chapter 15. It is "glorious" because it clearly conveys a Christian message of redemption, second chances, and hope. God is there, always, waiting and wanting us to return to him for restoration, blessedness in this life, and eternal life with him. If he or she is still liv…

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: James Curran on Trump, Ukraine, shifting tectonic plates, and a bigger Australian defence bill 27:52

1d ago27:52

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Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA The Trump presidency is turning much of the world order on its head. Tne United States president is arm-twisting Ukraine, playing nice with Russia, and using protection as an economic and political weapon. The Australian government is pessimistic about escaping American tariffs on aluminium and steel when a decision is announced n…

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Chinese warships, a dirt file and a firming election date: election special episode with Amanda Dunn and Michelle Grattan 18:55

7d ago18:55

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Chinese warships, a dirt file and a firming election date: election special episode with Amanda Dunn and Michelle Grattan Mentioned in this episode: Listen to Scam Factories on The Conversation Weekly 🔎 search for The Conversation Weekly Scam Factories takes you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal scam compounds. We meet the people lured into the indust…

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Ep 52: Maj Jason Attinger: USAF PJ & A-10 Pilot 1:16:10

7d ago1:16:10

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Send us a text My guest today is a U.S. Air Force Major, whose remarkable career spans both special operations and combat aviation. He spent over a decade as a Pararescue specialist (PJ), leading high-profile rescue missions in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming the Director of Training for the PJ program. Driven by his passion for flight, he tra…

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Ep 33: Mark Aguilar-Police Detective Veteran 1:11:30

7d ago1:11:30

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Send us a text In this episode Matt talks with Mark Aguilar, a current Police detective working in a an elite tactical surveillance unit. Listen in as Mark recounts his 28-year law enforcement journey and the lessons learned along the way. From patrol in south central L.A. to celebrity personal security details and to the pinnacle of the tactical s…

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Tom Rogers on helping voters spot election lies 24:20

9d ago24:20

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We're joined today by Tom Rogers, recently retired as Electoral Commissioner. As commissioner, Rogers oversaw three federal elections and the Voice referendum.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tom Rogers calls for national digital literacy campaign and more civics teaching 24:20

9d ago24:20

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Mick Tsikas/AAP We see the political parties’ frantic election campaigns, but behind the scenes the Australian Electoral Commisison is working just as hard. An often overlooked part of Australia’s democracy, the AEC is vital in ensuring our elections are both efficient and fair, a task full of challenges. We’re joined today by Tom Rogers, recently …

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Preserving First Amendment Freedoms 9:54

11d ago9:54

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The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights, though ratified in 1791, codify our most essential foundational ideals: freedom of religion and freedom of speech. These ideals define what this nation is about. What has been disconcerting is the increasing number of incidents in which these ideals have been stressed, attacked, even reje…

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Danielle Wood on how to trim back housing regulations 24:18

16d ago24:18

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We talk to productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood about the housing challenge, as well as Australia's parlous productivity performance generally.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Danielle Wood on how to trim back housing regulations 24:18

17d ago24:18

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Lukas Coch/AAP Housing supply in Australia will be a key battleground in the election campaign. With home ownership more and more out of reach for young and not so young Australians, red tape and low productivity are strangling the builder industry just when it needs to be stepping up. The productivity Commission, the government’s independent think…

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Is Education the Forgotten Purpose of Public Schools? 9:57

18d ago9:57

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Here I remember my days in public schools at a time when my fellow students and I were blessed with good teachers who taught and parents who supported them. Now we're in a much different situation, one reason President Donald J. Trump is considering closing down the U.S. Department of Education. I spent 35 years teaching and as an administrator if …

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David Littleproud on US tariffs, a government-owned Rex, and the Nationals’ identity 30:31

23d ago30:31

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Joining us on this podcast is Nationals leader David Littleproud to talk about the upcoming election and how he's "joined at the hip" with Peter Dutton.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: David Littleproud on US tariffs, a government-owned Rex, and the Nationals’ identity 30:28

24d ago30:28

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Diego Fedele/AAP With the election only months away, the Labor government finds itself suddenly battling with the Trump administration for an exemption from new US tariffs on steel and aluminium. The opposition has supported the effort, but it also claims a Coalition government would be better place to deal with Donald Trump. Joining us on this pod…

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Birthright Citizenship, Blessings, Inalienable Right, But for Whom? 9:51

25d ago9:51

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Birthright citizenship, and its troublesome by-product birth tourism (internationals are gaming the system fraudulently), emerges in discussions about immigration. President Trump has already issued an executive order seeking to suspend birthright citizenship, and this has produced reactions re what’s constitutional ala the 14th Amendment, what’s m…

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Tariffs, climate & the rules based order: what the Trump presidency means for Australia 26:27

1M ago26:27

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We're joined by John Blaxland and Richard Holden to talk about the impact of global uncertainties will have on Australia.By The Conversation

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DEI Is DOA 9:29

1M ago9:29

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DEI, "diversity, equity, and inclusion," has become something of a religion of the left in the last twenty years. Add to this that this approach to human resources has been accepted, adopted, promoted, demanded in a near tsunami in American education, corporations, and under Joe Biden, government. Problem is, this approach does not ultimately help …

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: John Blaxland and Richard Holden talk about what Trump will mean for Australia 26:26

1M ago26:26

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Lukas Coch/AAP As Australia gears up for the election, the incoming government’ Labor or Coalition, will face global challenges, geo-political and economic, especially with Donald Trump starting to impose tariffs on selected countries including China, To discuss where Australia is placed to meet new circumstances we’re joined by two experts. John B…

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Albanese discusses a second term with the youth vote in mind 47:14

1M ago47:14

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Anthony Albanese joins us on the podcast to discuss ongoing issues in Australia, his experience in the top job and his pitch to voters for this years election.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Albanese dumps Nature Positive legislation and considers shrinking the electoral reform bill 47:14

1M ago47:14

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dumped – for the second time – the government’s controversial “Nature Positive” legislation, which had run into strong opposition from the Western Australian Labor government. Albanese, speaking on The Conversation’s Politics podcast ahead of a fortnight parliamentary sitting starting next week, said there was no…

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Ep 51: Matt Klein- NYPD Detective (Ret) and Battle Tribe Founder 38:53

1M ago38:53

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Send us a text In this episode I welcome Army combat veteran Matt Klein to the show! Matt is a retired NYPD Forensic sketch artist who used his artistic gifts and abilities to help solve multiple high-profile homicide and assault investigations. After his time in the military and law enforcement, Matt founded his creative project Battle Tribe! His …

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Deportation of Illegal Immigrants 9:48

1M ago9:48

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Millions of immigrants have been allowed by the Biden Administration to come into the United States across the southern border, unvetted, illegal in numbers and lack of process, some even flown clandestinely in night flights to cities that did not ask for them. Now the Trump 2.0 Administration is closing the borders and initiating a process of mass…

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Insurance Cannot Replace the Irreplaceable 9:48

2M ago9:48

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Like many of us, I've been periodically watching reports on the Los Angeles area wildfires and thinking about them more often. Clearly these historic and horrific fires leave in their wake human tragedies too numerous to count. Peoples' lives are or will be forever changed. More than property, per se, I've been thinking about what insurance cannot …

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Meme-ing and Demeaning Scripture 9:47

2M ago9:47

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Memes have become a near universal experience of contemporary life, at least for anyone who spends any time at all on any social media platform. They are print visuals, usually containing some caption that makes a humorous, poignant, insightful, political, or maybe even snarky message. The memes then "go viral" as we say, being proliferated on the …

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Hopes for the New Year 10:00

2M ago10:00

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Some people make New Year's resolutions. While I don't make resolutions, I'm not against the practice. I do, though, have a number of hope(s), plural, for the new year, what I believe can, should, or even must happen for the USA to flourish. I'm not recommending something new as much as a rediscovery and recommitment to the ideals that made America…

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Review of "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness 9:35

2M ago9:35

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This podcast is a review of "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness" by Jonathan Haidt. It is a scholarly book focused upon the emergence of smartphones in 2007, coupled with the Internet and social media, that the author argues is responsible for a skyrocketing increase in adolescent me…

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Ep 50: Rex Ingram- Police Chief 1:44:24

2M ago1:44:24

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Send us a text In this episode I welcome our first Police Chief to the show, Chief Rex R. Ingram from the Caldwell Idaho police department. He has an extensive background from his 17 years at LAPD, where he worked on gang enforcement teams, a human trafficking task force, plainclothes operations, and patrol watch commander in some of LA’s toughest …

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Celebrating Christmas Traditions 9:42

2M ago9:42

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Christmas is celebrated worldwide via thousands of traditions that have been developed over the past two thousand years since the first Nativity in Bethlehem. Scripture does not tell us how to practice or celebrate Christmas, but it gives us room to honor God in myriad ways that fit our culture. It's interesting to study the development of such tra…

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"I don't do coy": Treasurer Jim Chalmers + Angus Taylor on the budget blues 44:35

3M ago44:35

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Appropriately, we finish our podcast for 2024 talking to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and his shadow, Angus Taylor because, as the saying goes, "it's the economy, stupid!"By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Chalmers says the budget’s better than it was; Taylor says it’s much worse than it should be 44:35

3M ago44:35

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Lukas Coch, Mick Tsikas/AAP Appropriately, we finish our podcast for 2024 talking to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and his shadow, Angus Taylor because, as the saying goes, “it’s the economy, stupid!” This week’s mid-year budget update showed Australia’s economy in poor shape and the buget’s trajectory mired in a decade of red. Chalmers acknowledges the p…

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Elections, Dodging a Bullet, Sovereignty of God 9:29

3M ago9:29

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The 2024 US Presidential election is in the books with Donald J. Trump the overwhelming winner. From the earliest days, I was not a Trump fan, but I gradually changed not because he's some kind of knight in shining armor but because the other side is so given to false and threatening values, so anti-American - not just patriotically but in their id…

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For Mark Dreyfus, antisemitism is very personal 37:16

3M ago37:16

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Mark Dreyfus joins the podcast to talk about his family's story of fleeing Nazi Germany, his own and his community's experience with antisemitism, and his reaction to criticism of the government.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: For Mark Dreyfus, antisemitism is very personal 37:15

3M ago37:15

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Mick Tsikas/AAP The attack on the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne and another car torching in Sydney have dramatically heightened political tensions over antisemitism. Amid criticism the government has been too slow to act in the past year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this week announced an Australian Federal Police taskforce to combat anti…

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Rainbows, Sexual Choice, Christian Teaching 9:51

3M ago9:51

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It's impossible to avoid seeing rainbows in the marketplace, not usually depictions of natural or real rainbows but symbols of the LGBTQ+ movement. While not everyone in this movement agree on all points, it is indeed a movement because so many agree on the foundational points, that is, sex or gender, sexuality, and sexual expression are all the pr…

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Populism, tribalism and partisanship": Simon Birmingham's parting reflections 37:35

3M ago37:35

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Simon Birmingham joins the podcast to talk about the highs and lows of his time in politics and the Liberal Party, as well as to share his biggest regret and a couple of anecdotes.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Simon Birmingham on Liberal moderates, regrets, and Donald Trump 37:34

3M ago37:34

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Lukas Coch/AAP Opposition Senate leader and former senior minister in the Coalition government Simon Birmingham has announced he will quit parliament. Birmingham, one of the few remaining moderates in the Liberals’ ranks, is shadow foreign minister. Now , aged 50, he’s defecting to a (yet to be announced) commercial job. He joins the podcast to tal…

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Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out 9:08

3M ago9:08

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Some of you, like me, may have had a mother that quoted that verse to you when you were a kid: "Be sure your sins will find you out." Either way, it is all the more relevant and certainly true in what now is a Cyber Age where we are under near constant surveillance and where we as a culture if not individually continuously post about ourselves in s…

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From 'drill, baby, drill' fears to hope: why COP wasn't so bad for climate boss Matt Kean NEW 24:59

3M ago24:59

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Head of the CCA former New South Wales Liberal treasurer Matt Kean, joins the podcast to talk about COP, Australia's energy transition, and the challenge of preparing that advice on the 2035 target.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean says ‘put more solar panels on commercial rooftops’ 24:58

3M ago24:58

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STEVEN MARKHAM Steven Markham/AAP The just-ended COP-29 in Baku, and the election of Donald Trump, have put the global response to climate change in the spotlight. Meanwhile back home, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen this week reported Australia is on track to meet its 2030 target to reduce emissions as part of the Paris Climate Agreement. But …

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"Thanks Giving" During Thanksgiving 9:08

3M ago9:08

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Thanksgiving is a rare precious tradition that combines Christian theology and the best of Americana. It's a special time when gratitude can be expressed for family, friends, a blessed nation, and a loving Lord. In a time when angst, anomie, division, deception, social disintegration, and political rancor seems to reign supreme, we need a time of r…

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The argument for reducing "big money" in elections: Special Minister of State Don Farrell 27:02

4M ago27:02

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On this podcast we are talking with Special Minister of State Don Farrell about the changes to political donation laws and the criticisms.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Special Minister of State Don Farrell on getting ‘big money’ out of elections 27:01

4M ago27:01

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Mick Tsikas/AAP The government says it will take “big money” out of election campaigns – or, more realistically, curb it – with its legislation imposing donation and spending caps and real-time disclosure. But crossbenchers and other critics are up in arms, about the effect on small players and the fact the package is being rushed through parliamen…

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The Unique American Experience and Christianity 9:53

4M ago9:53

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America has called the "First New Nation," a "Great Experiment," and a Christian nation. Each of these phrases have been the source of extensive historical research. Whatever your preference, clearly biblical Christianity made an enormous impact upon not onlly the United States but Western Civilization. The USA, God be praised, is still a land wher…

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"One of the worst bills ever": Shadow Minister David Coleman on proposed misinformation laws 23:40

4M ago23:40

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A brief summary of this episodeBy The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: shadow communications minister David Coleman says misinformation legislation ‘one of the worst bills ever’ 23:39

4M ago23:39

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Mick Tsikas/AAP The government has embarked on a raft of new online safety measures aimed at protecting Australians from the excesses of misinformation and social harm online. However, these policies have been met with backlash. Experts criticise the plan to enforce an age limit of 16 on social media access. Both the federal opposition and several …

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What Robinson Crusoe Teaches Us About Adversity 8:49

4M ago8:49

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Adversity is a fact of life. Everyone at every level of society experiences adversity, and indeed, if they have not, they just haven't lived long enough. The fictional Robinson Crusoe, a character and story developed by Daniel Defoe and published in 1719 tells his shipwrecked alone on a deserted island for many years and how Crusoe moved from cursi…

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Independent Helen Haines says the NACC has had 'disappointing start', and the government is pork barrelling 24:49

4M ago24:49

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Independent MP Helen Haines, who holds the Victorian seat of Indi, has long focused on integrity issues, and she joined us on the podcast.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent Helen Haines says the NACC has had ‘disappointing start’, and the government is pork barrelling 24:48

4M ago24:48

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Lukas Coch/AAP Trust in politicians is at an all-time low, not only in Australia but across the world. Now more than ever, people are demanding a higher standard for our elected officials. The row over flight upgrades and the Qantas lounge has reinforced distrust. So has the strong criticism of the head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, P…

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Are Nation States Legitimate? 10:00

4M ago10:00

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Ever wonder why we have nation states in the world, and are they legitimate? Why do nations even bother to maintain borders? Scripture repeatedly references nations. The English word is translated from Hebrew or Greek, meaning people groups who might speak the same language, follow the same religion, or live in the same area, a somewhat broader def…

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Bruce Wolpe says personal relations between Trump and Albanese would be 'rocky' 22:55

4M ago22:55

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To discuss the state of the contest and what comes next, we're joined by Bruce Wolpe, senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.By The Conversation

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Bruce Wolpe says personal relations between Trump and Albanese would be ‘rocky’ 22:55

4M ago22:55

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John Locher/AP Days from the US presidential election, the polls are showing the outcome of the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remains a nail biter. With the United States our closest ally, the result could have potential implications for Australia in areas such as climate change policy, defence and the economy. If there is a Trump vic…

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