Australian filmmaker Tom Zubrycki on how the Australian documentary industry is changing.

An exploration of the role that population has played in shaping the modern world, and what it could reveal about the future.

John Sawers, former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service discusses the problems Brexit brings with national security issues.

In the wake of the damning final report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, could we see a shift in the core ideologies that have long underpinned Australia's big banks and businesses?

Professor Raphael Grzebieta, who has just been awarded a prestigious international award for his 30 years of transport safety research and leadership, offers a controversial but evidence-based blueprint for reducing road fatalities and injuries.

Just like the Middle East before it, Australia is being 'desertified', but we can turn that around, argues Charles Massy.

The resignations from MUP last week should be understood within the broader context of publishing constraints, competition and collaboration.

US President Donald Trump and the leader of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn may not be antisemitic but their words and actions are enabling an increase in antisemitism.

After being passed in haste, Australia's landmark encryption legislation is attracting international attention. Does it have the potential to undermine phone security for us all?

Four decades after Iran's watershed Islamic Revolution, its echo effects continue to be felt around the world.

Historian Peg Fraser explores the aftermath of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in the small settlement of Strathewen, northeast of Melbourne.

A new AI Group report into the tertiary education system decries 'an overall lack of policy and governance'.

We canvass some of the possible collateral damage that may result from Kenneth Hayne's attempts to clean up the banking sector and put customers first.

With only one in ten households reported to have direct access to safe water, and 98% of Gaza's water unfit for human consumption, the water situation in Palestine has reached a state of emergency.

With reports surfacing that women's-rights activists detained in Saudi Arabia have been subjected to torture, the kingdom is once again finding itself the subject of international scrutiny.

Large numbers of protestors across Sudan are calling on the President, Omar al-Bashir to step down because of corruption and a weakening economy.

Journalist and writer Paul Daley shares his reflections on national identity and how we need to re-think as a nation how we celebrate Australia, not for its conflicts but for country.

This month's A Foreign Affair discussion Brexit, Putin's alliances, China's space race and attacks in Afghanistan.

Because of what is now seen by some as a loophole, or weakness, in the Fair Work Act, Merivale and an unknown number of other employers in a range of industries around Australia have been able to continue using old enterprise agreements to pay staff less than award rates.

With a Senate Committee on Electric Vehicles due to report next week, could Australia's long-awaited electric car revolution finally be upon us?

Leading Israeli water conservationists have a timely visit to Australia as questions are asked about our river system management.

What one man had to weigh up when eliminating some of his 35,000 books

Growing up in Broadmeadows was tough, but researching its history has shed new light for this author.

How free expression and freedom of the press are under attack in an era of fake news and populism with foreign correspondents Peter Greste and Salil Tripathi.

It seems that US President Donald Trump is only part of the explanation for the burgeoning of constructive, productive alliances between democracies across the globe.

A Foreign Affair discusses events in the month of February including resignations and deaths of political leaders in African states; China and US and President Donald Trump and Poland controlling history.

Historian Grace Karskens on reconnecting the early history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River with the landscape.

Harvard University professor of philosophy Michael Sandel discusses why his moral dilemma discussions have such currency in China.

A new book recounts developments in Aboriginal archaeology, and the insights that have emerged about ancient Australia.

The Cooks River is a tributary of Botany Bay in the south-east of Sydney. A new book traces the rivers history, by its environmental history.

The writings of literary giants such as Albert Facey, Dorothy Hewett and Jack Davis shape a history of West Australia's wheatbelt region.

A new genre in history combining the environment with emotion focussing on particular regions of Australia.

A discussion about world events on A Foreign Affair.

In a true story thriller, two Norwegian journalists have written the story of the round-the-world pursuit of an illegal fishing ship by an activist ship. They also investigated the international money trail behind illegal fishing.

Research has shown that inequality has a negative impact on almost everything, from public health, education, obesity, mental health and social mobility. Now new research suggest the psychological effects of material and economic inequality can be profoundly damaging.

Australia faces the challenge of having a reasoned and fair debate about immigration.

Once a prosperous power in the Middle East, Egypt's development has been mired by corruption, leaving it a nation on the brink of collapse.

We speak to the investigative journalist attempting to unravel the intricate web of corruption enabling the super rich to rule the world.

Two intensive care specialists are concerned that the wishes of the dying are not being prioritised when it comes to critical medical decisions.

Germaine Greer discusses recent developments in the debates over menopause, in her only Australian radio interview about the updated version of her groundbreaking 1991 book The Change.

Gordon Corera used declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. He discovered a tragic story about a small group of Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks.

What's not working in modern democracy and can democratic politics survive the current malaise.

Poet Nancy Campbell spent seven years living in artists residences connected with research institutions, learning and writing about ice.

Some of America’s think tanks are bravely crossing the ideological divide, and working together to come up with what they hope will be some innovate policy solutions.

According to the Australian Constitutional Values Survey, between 2008 and 2017, trust in the federal government has plummeted from almost 82% to 49%.

French economist Thomas Picketty with a number of economists and former politicians have published a manifesto they hope will save Europe.

A report by public health researchers gives insights into how the gambling, alcohol and tobacco industries go about their political influencing.

How a team of researchers are reconnecting and preserving the once prominent Economic Botany Collections in Kew Gardens and other institutions from around the world.

A discussion about honour, why it matters and what has happened to it?

Are the long, drawn out Brexit negotiations and violent protests in France, isolated events or representative of wider global under-currents?