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Thursday 7 Dec 2017
All the news - fake and real - that happened this year and what it meant.
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Wednesday 6 Dec 2017
India's great novelist Amitav Ghosh investigates our inability to deal directly with the crisis presented by climate change
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How climate change is reshaping the Aussie Summer.
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How the Trump Administration’s upcoming nuclear posture review will make the world a much more dangerous place.
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Tuesday 5 Dec 2017
A wrap up of an extraordinary year from America with Bruce Shapiro
Music Played: 'Endless Flight' by Gustavo Santaolalla
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The stories behind the sad and depressing place names around the world.
Music Played: 'Indaco' by Ludovico Einaudi
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'I like the word commission. It signals that the ABC was one of those peculiarly Australian institutions, the statutory authority. And I think we underrate the importance and value to liberal democracy of the arm’s length statutory authority which the ABC has always been.' Ken Inglis.
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Monday 4 Dec 2017
The government gets a much needed boost; Tim Wilson proposes, Sam Dastayari in serious strife.
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla Cordon de Plata
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There are currently three groups claiming to be the Government of Yemen, complicating an already disastrous humanitarian crisis affecting, so far, over 20 million people.
Music: Olafur Arnalds, So Far featuring Arnor Dan
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Melbourne's Pentridge Prison is being redeveloped - but should its history be papered over with cafes and apartments?
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Thursday 30 Nov 2017
Federal government announces Royal Commission into banking, superannuation and financial services
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The poor showing for the LNP in Queensland set off recriminations from some National MP's. But is a demerger the solution?
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In the 1960s student presses were hugely outspoken and hugely influential
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Wednesday 29 Nov 2017
Ian Dunt on what's happening in Little Britain
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What will the victory of Emmanuel Macron, political disruptor, mean for the political direction of France, and Europe as a whole?
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Can the information revolution transform North Korea?
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Tuesday 28 Nov 2017
Can President Trump get his tax reforms through Congress this week?
Music played: 'Flight from the city' by Johan Johansson
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John Curtin: 'a very, very normal nice human being'.
Music played: 'Quel Che Resta' by Ludovico Einaudi
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Is there an emerging civil war being waged by Salafists on Sufis?
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