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Anna Henderson's Canberra, economist Mariana Mazzucato on the common good, and Australia's first soccer match
Jun 23, 2026
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Ian Dunt on Keir Starmer's resignation, plus the rise and fall of Islamic State
Jun 22, 2026
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Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party? Plus, the drawings that rewrite Aboriginal art history
Jun 18, 2026
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Anna Goldsworthy on being human in the era of AI, plus the wonders of the Paris Menagerie
Jun 17, 2026
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Bruce Shapiro's USA, the Indian sailors killed by the US, and First Nations anger at Brisbane Olympic site
Jun 16, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 |  Anna Henderson's Canberra, economist Mariana Mazzucato on the common good, and Australia's first soccer match | After Pauline Hanson declared Australia should be 'monocultural', Coalition leader Angus Taylor has refused to commit his support for a multicultural Australia. International economist Mariana Mazzucato urges a whole new approach to economics which prioritises the common good. Plus Australia's passion for soccer goes back further than you might think.Guests:Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBSMariana Mazzucato, author of ‘The Common Good Economy - A New Compass”. Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College LondonIan Syson, author of The Game that Never Happened; The Vanishing History of Soccer in Australia | — | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | Ian Dunt on Keir Starmer's resignation, plus the rise and fall of Islamic State | After months of political pressure, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has resigned. Late Night Live's UK correspondent, Ian Dunt, joins the show for breaking analysis on what's ahead for British Labour. Plus, what happened to Islamic State since the fall of their caliphate in 2019? Guests:Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentatorGreg Barton, Chair In Global Islamic Politics, Deakin University | — | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party? Plus, the drawings that rewrite Aboriginal art history | A new tell-all book recounts the colourful escapades of adult industry lobbyists Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, in the lead up to the formation of the Australian Sex Party. Plus, a new book celebrates the rediscovery of some 800 beautiful crayon drawings, made by Indigenous stockmen on Birrundudu Station NT, 80 years ago. Guests:Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, co-founders of the Australian Sex PartyDr John Carty, Professor of Museum and Curatorial Studies at the University of Adelaide ; Robert McKay, Djaru man and collaborator on the Birrundudu project | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | Anna Goldsworthy on being human in the era of AI, plus the wonders of the Paris Menagerie | The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is making writer and musician Anna Goldsworthy feel both more human - valuing what it is that differentiates us from algorithms - and simultaneously worried about the capacity of AI to reduce human agency. And, established in 1793, the Paris zoo captured the essence of enlightenment thinking, where science, spectacle, and shifting ideas about animals came together in one place. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | Bruce Shapiro's USA, the Indian sailors killed by the US, and First Nations anger at Brisbane Olympic site | Bruce Shapiro on the Iran-US deal, and where Benjamin Netanyahu sits within that. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure to confront Donald Trump after US strikes killed three Indian seafarers in the Strait of Hormuz. And why First Nations people in Brisbane are upset by the siting of Brisbane's key Olympic venue. Guests: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor of The Nation; executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaShruti Pandalai, India Chair, Lowy Institute Ray Kerkhove, Adjunct Associate Professor of Histsory, University of QLD | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | Laura Tingle on Israel's response to the US-Iran deal, Trump vs South Africa, and Google's mosquito hunt | ABC's Global Affairs editor, Laura Tingle returns to Late Night Live, to examine Israel's response to the US-Iran peace deal. Can it hold? And Donald Trump's decision to welcome white South Africans as refugees has become one of his most controversial immigration moves, raising questions about who qualifies for protection and whether politics is shaping refugee policy. Plus why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?Guests: Laura Tingle, ABC Global Affairs EditorLoren Landau, Professor of Migration at Oxford, and chair, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Associate Professor Gordana Rasic, Head of Mosquito Genomics, QIMR Berghofer | — | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | 'Serbia's Iron Lady' unrepentant for war crimes, plus how humans read faces✨ | war crimesBosnian War+4 | Olivera SimicDr. Fay Bound-Alberti | Griffith UniversityKing’s College London | — | Biljana PlavšićBosnian War+5 | — | 54m 33s | |
| 6/10/26 | Saving the Sepik river, and remembering the Soweto uprising✨ | environmental activismindigenous rights+3 | Emmanuel PeniTheonila Roka Matbob+2 | Project Sepik | Papua New GuineaSouth Africa | Sepik RiverPapua New Guinea+5 | — | 54m 33s | |
| 6/9/26 | Ian Dunt's UK, America's 'masculinist' movement, and could Switzerland cap its population?✨ | masculinismfeminism+4 | Ian DuntHelen Lewis+1 | AtlanticFinancial Times+1 | United KingdomUnited States+1 | masculinismfeminism+5 | — | 54m 19s | |
| 6/8/26 | Finishing La Sagrada Familia, plus why people still love Spam✨ | architecturefood history+3 | Professor Mark BurryKelly Spring | SpamSwinburne University of Technology+2 | BarcelonaKorea+2 | Sagrada FamiliaSpam+5 | — | 54m 33s | |
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| 6/4/26 | How Australia changed course on drug policy, and the forgotten boat people of East Timor✨ | drug policyasylum seekers+5 | Professor Des MandersonAssociate Professor Vannessa Hearman+1 | Centre for Law, Arts and HumanitiesANU+3 | East TimorAustralia+1 | drug policyEast Timor+8 | — | 54m 19s | |
| 6/3/26 | Is Muskism the new Fordism? Plus, the maverick psychiatrist who studied life after death✨ | Muskismparapsychology+4 | Ben TarnoffJesse Bering | SpaceXMuskism: A guide for the perplexed+1 | — | MuskismElon Musk+5 | — | 54m 30s | |
| 6/2/26 | Bruce Shapiro's USA, an Ethiopian philosophy of running, and a Glasgow protest gives hope✨ | politicsrunning+4 | Bruce ShapiroFelipe Bustos Sierra+2 | The NationGlobal Centre for Journalism and Trauma+2 | GlasgowKenmure Street+1 | Republican backlashDonald Trump+5 | — | 54m 04s | |
| 6/1/26 | Mark Kenny's Canberra, Syrians return home and Lord Howe Island cockroaches✨ | politicsSyria+3 | Mark KennyKholoud Helmi+1 | Australian Financial ReviewEnab Baladi+4 | Lord Howe IslandSyria | politicsSyria+3 | — | 54m 33s | |
| 5/28/26 | When America admired Iran, plus what are conservative environmentalists fighting for?✨ | U.S.-Iran relationsconservative environmentalism+3 | John GhazvinianGaby del Valle | Harper's MagazineAmerica and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present | — | U.S. Iran relationsconservative environmentalists+4 | — | 54m 32s | |
| 5/27/26 | Reckoning with war crimes, plus the women at the Nuremburg trials✨ | war crimesjournalism+4 | Janine di GiovanniNatalie Livingstone | The Reckoning ProjectThe Nuremberg Women | UkraineGaza+2 | war crimesNuremberg trials+8 | — | 54m 26s | |
| 5/26/26 | Ian Dunt's UK, Spain's defiant PM, and Pavlova's tour of Oz | Ian Dunt surveys the unfathomable political turmoil in the United Kingdom, as a monumental by-election looms for Andy Burnham, the key Labour rival of embattled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Journalist Maria Ramirez examines the left-wing Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. a defiant political voice on the world stage. Plus, it's been 100 years since Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova first toured Australia, captivating audiences across the country.Guests:Ian Dunt, columnist for i-news, cohost of Origin Story podcastMaria Ramirez, journalist for elDiario, SpainEmma Sandall, Australian dance artist, producer, writer | — | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bhaskar Sunkara on the Left in America, plus why ancient Roman gossip mattered | Anna Henderson looks at how likely it is that independents like the Teals could form a new centrist party. Does the success of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani herald a new era of popular Leftist politics in America? US socialist Bhaskar Sunkara surveys the future. And far from being worthless trivia, the gossip of Ancient Romans revealed a lot about the society and politics of the time. Guests: Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS World NewsBhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazineCaillan Davenport, Professor of Classics and head of the Centre for Classical Studies at ANU. | — | ||||||
| 5/21/26 | Satayjit Das on how the war in Iran has rocked global markets, plus queer Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi on finding home | Global financial analyst Satyajit Das looks at how the double whammy of Trump's economic warfare and the war on Iran is playing out here and around the world. Writer Tareq Baconi reflects on life growing up as Palestinian refugee in Jordan, coming to terms with being gay. Guests: Satyajit Das, global financial analystTareq Baconi, Hamas expert and author of Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir | — | ||||||
| 5/20/26 | Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin | Roddy Doyle reflects on a lifetime telling the stories of working-class people in Dublin, with themes of domestic violence, unplanned pregnancy and life in the IRA. Guest: Roddy Doyle, author of The women behind the door, published by Penguin Random House. Roddy is in Australia for Sydney Writers' FestivalProducer: Catherine Zengerer | — | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | Bruce Shapiro's USA, John Safran on when offending goes too far, and was Blind Freddy real? | Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republicans' shaping of South Carolina's congressional districts, in an effort to win the November mid-terms. John Safran's new documentary for SBS explores the notion of offence, and what can and cannot be said in Australia today. A new book says he may have been an aristocratic Aussie trooper. Guests:Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for The Nation, executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaJohn Safran, satirist, documentary maker, journalist, and authorAdrian Mitchell, author of ‘Blind Freddy: the Pottinger Attainment’ (Wakefield Press) | — | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | Anna Henderson's Canberra, and translating Shakespeare | Anna Henderson looks at why the government remains unpopular despite popular support for changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax in the budget.Dr. Guy Shalev, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, on why the IDF continues to hold fourteen Palestinian doctors in detention, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. And Daniel Hahn discusses the art and the magic of translating Shakespeare into other languages, and the difficulties of getting those puns to land. Guests: Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political CorrespondentDr. Guy Shalev, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights, IsraelDaniel Hahn, author of ‘If This Be Magic - The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation’, published by Allen and Unwin | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones | There have been 141 royal commissions in Australia since Federation, but not all of them have brought about meaningful policy change. Plus, a new book tells the stories of people who have struggled to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violence.Guests: Michael Mintrom, Professor of public policy at Monash UniversityMichael Shaikh, author of The Last Sweet Bite: when war changes the menu | — | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | Ian Dunt on Starmer's demise, Antoinette Lattouf on women who win, plus 50 years of Australian film at Cannes | Ian Dunt on the political demise of Keir Starmer: even if he hasn't yet resigned, Ian says, he's already dead. How Antoinette Lattouf found inspiration in the stories of other Australian women who challenged power structures when she was fighting her own case against the ABC. And Australia is celebrating fifty years at the Cannes film festival, so why are there no Aussie films in competition this year?Guests: Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcast Antoinette Lattouf, journalist and author of Women Who Win John Doggett-Williams, freelance video journalist and documentary maker | — | ||||||
| 5/12/26 | Australia's first political assassination, plus the man who led Japan into war | Journalist Debbie Whitmont revisits the 1994 murder of John Newman MP - a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination - and the man still behind bars, Vietnamese refugee and political aspirant Phuong Ngo. Plus, a new biography of Hideki Tojo challenges assumptions about Japan's ruthless wartime leader. Guests:Debbie Whitmont, journalist and author of The Man Who Couldn't Wait: The true story of Australia's first political assassinationDr Peter Mauch, historian and author of Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General | — | ||||||
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