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Is mahjong having a moment?
May 22, 2026
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Tasmania's budget: a fiscal precipice?
May 22, 2026
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Australian activist claims of abuse while attempting to deliver aid
May 22, 2026
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Tenant Creek home offers a solution to Indigenous housing crisis
May 22, 2026
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| 5/22/26 |  Is mahjong having a moment? | Mahjong is being revived by a younger generation who want to reconnect over the game they grew up watching their families play.And they've taken matters into their own hands by starting new Mahjong social clubs around Australia. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Tasmania's budget: a fiscal precipice? | This week in Tasmania, the minority Liberal government has delivered a budget to cut the state's debt and deficit.Tasmanian budgets don't usually make national front-page news, but a new paper argues that the apple isle's finances and its older demographics warrant a closer look, offering insights for other states. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Australian activist claims of abuse while attempting to deliver aid | This week, Israel's security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video of himself waving a large Israeli flag and appearing to taunt activists, who are shown kneeling, their heads on the ground and their hands zip-tied behind their backs.The members of The Global Sumud Freedom Flotilla are claiming they were abused by Israeli forces, after their ships were intercepted in international waters on Monday while attempting to deliver aid to Gaza.This claim has been denied by Israel's ambassador to Australia, Hillel Newman.Zack Schofield, one of 11 Australian activists who joined the flotilla, spoke with Saturday Extra from Istanbul. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Tenant Creek home offers a solution to Indigenous housing crisis | In Tenant Creek, a new bespoke home designed by its occupants is the envy of town.With wide balconies, solar panels, and architecture that accommodates cultural relationships, the house stays cool through the devastating heat of a Central Australian summer.It's a far cry from the overcrowded, unbearably hot homes that have become the norm across many remote Aboriginal communities.The house was designed by Tenant Creek elder Norman Frank and his wife Serina in partnership with local doctor-turned housing justice advocate Simon Quilty. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Will President Trump's Republican primary wins undermine their midterm chances? | This week President Trump demonstrated that his grip over the Republican party is tighter than ever.In Republican primaries, Donald Trump's hand-picked candidate Ed Gallrein defeated seven-times elected incumbent Thomas Massie in Kentucky.While in Washington, the Justice Department granted President Trump and his family immunity from inquiries into their tax affairs.The concession came as Trump settled his $10 billion lawsuit against the tax office with a deal that establishes a $1.8 billion fund that could be used to pay January 6 Capitol rioters. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | How did Putin's summit with Xi compare with Donald Trump's visit? | The Russian national anthem rang out across Tiananmen Square in Beijing this week to welcome President Vladimir Putin back to the Chinese capital.The two day summit between Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping included a flurry of joint announcements and obvious camaraderie.Joseph Torigian unpacks the substance and the symbolism of the summit - how did it differ to President Donald Trump's visit last week? | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | The ABC's new AI reporter on how this tech is changing the world | Depending who you ask, AI could be pushing humanity towards its downfall or helping to create some sort of tech utopia.Whatever you think of AI, it's a disruptor that's changing the way individuals, businesses and governments do things.And in a sign of just how big the AI moment is, the ABC has created a role of national AI technology reporter, which was filled this week by former Crikey journalist and associate editor Cam Wilson. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | Is the budget as historic as the government claims? | This week Jim Chalmers claimed that the federal budget is the most ambitious in decades, and the one to end generational inequity. From across the generational divide, we speak with an older journalist and a younger journalist. Are some young Australians actually the biggest losers from this budget, and is this budget as historically significant as the treasurer says? | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | National recognition for trio of Sydney architects | This week, Durbach Block Jaggers Architects won the Australian Institute of Architects' highest honour – the Gold Medal.Neil Durbach, Camilla Block and David Jaggers have been working together for more than two decades, and the award recognises their "extraordinary body of built work" over this time. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | What happens if international students stop coming to Australia? | International students have been a boon for Australia's higher education institutions and the Australian economy more broadly.But amid changing migration politics and overseas competition for international student dollars, arrivals are slowing. That's raising questions about the dependency of this sector on these students. | — | ||||||
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| 5/15/26 | Trump Xi summit concludes | US President Donald Trump left Beijing after a two-day summit with President Xi Jinping, saying he had struck "fantastic trade deals, great for both countries", but few details have emerged on what the two superpowers agreed.Both sides hailed a reset in relations - Sarah Beran unpacks the optics and progress of the talks. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | Latest on UK leadership struggle | Westminster is witnessing the kind of prime ministerial instability which Canberra went through not so long ago, with Sir Keir Starmer facing yet another leadership crisis, which this time could be terminal.It follows Labour's catastrophic performance in local council elections in England and parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales. One of his most senior Cabinet secretaries, the former Health Secretary Wes Streeting, has resigned, and penned a stinging resignation letter — they are something of an art form in Britain — calling for Keir Starmer to go. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Is One Nation set for a big by-election win? | The major political parties in Britain are reeling from nationwide local election results which have underscored the rise of the populist right, and in particular Reform UK. As voters head to the polls in Farrer for today's by-election, will Australia become part of that global story?Plus, the 2026 Federal Budget is days away. Will we see some big reforms and big thinking? | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Sarah Wilson on giving up hope and living truthfully in a collapsing world | Sarah Wilson has a knack for tapping into the mood of the times.With headlines dominated by climate catastrophe, fertility decline, nuclear threat, and the rise of authoritarianism, not to mention trad wives and AI, she has an overwhelming sense that the world is out of balance.In her new book, I Eat The Stars, she explores how we continue to live as tender-hearted humans in amidst these tumultuous shifts. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | India becomes Australia's top source of migration | For the first time since records began, England is no longer Australia's top overseas country of origin.New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics found people born in India now make up the largest proportion of those born overseas.Two guests who were born in India and now call Australia home tell us about this growing community. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Donald Trump heads to Beijing for a high-stakes meeting | Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are set to meet in Beijing next week, where the two leaders will discuss trade and technology.The Middle East conflict will also loom large, and both powers will seek to use it for leverage. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Thomas Wright on great power rivalries in this volatile historic moment | Thomas Wright, one of the Biden administration's top national security advisers, explains how great power rivalries are playing out during the Iran war.He argues that Donald Trump's prosecution of the Iran war is a reminder that the president is willing to take big risks on issues that he believes could build a unique legacy. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | Anthony Albanese on his second term in a turbulent world | This weekend marks one year since Anthony Albanese defied expectations and won a second term in a landslide.In this time, both Australia and the world have changed: War in the Middle East, cost of living pressures, the rise of One Nation. The prime minister discusses domestic issues and the place of Australia in the era of 'America first' and general global upheaval. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | PNG artist Ngaiire building bricks and mortar music school for emerging artists | Moving between the mountains of Papua New Guinea and Sydney, musician Ngaiire leads a kind of double life - cooking by fire and living off grid one day and returning to the rat race the next. After building a 20 year music career and touring the globe, Ngaiire is now building a music school in her home village to give young Papua New Guinean artists the chance she never had: to hone their craft in the highlands they call home. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | As the US turns 250, is it time for a reset? | Opening our series on 250 years since American independence, we feature historian Jill Lepore, an expert in the US Constitution who tells the stories of ordinary people who have struggled to change the country's founding document. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | How King Charles became a 'Trump whisperer' | This week, Charles III became the first British king to address a joint meeting of US Congress.It was one part of his trip across the Atlantic, coming at a time when there are noticeable cracks developing between the US and UK.So as the US turns 250 this year, what's the state of the 'special relationship'? | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | The Last Thing: Tim Ayliffe | Tim Ayliffe is a journalist-turned-thriller writer.He joins Saturday Extra for The Last Thing, where he talks through his last great reads and a book launch he recently attended (with a very personal connection). | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | Do we need a more diverse Anzac Day? | The significance and meaning of Anzac Day has waxed and waned over the decades.In the late-1960s and 1970s, many thought they were witnessing the demise of Anzac Day, as veterans of World War I passed away and Australia's military involvement in Vietnam was so contentious.From the 1980s onwards it has revived, and has essentially become the country's de facto national day.Now many recent migrants have fresh experiences of war, and yet their experiences aren't part of Anzac Day. Does the Anzac legend need an update to stay relevant? | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | Deborah Mailman finds her 'happy place' in Warwick Thornton's new film | One of Australia's most loved actresses is back on the big screen with the release of Warwick Thornton's latest feature, Wolfram.The film tells the story of child labourers forced to work in mines, and is based on the experience of Warwick Thornton's grandmother. Deborah Mailman stars as Pansy, a mother grieving her estranged young children on Central Australia's brutal colonial frontier.From the fiery Alex Irving in Total Control, to her knockout performance in The Sapphires, this is a quieter side of Deborah Mailman we haven't seen before. | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | Who wants 'the most impossible job in the world'? | It's been called "the most impossible job in the world".Amid wars, the threat of climate change, and other global crises, who wants to be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations? So far, there are four declared candidates. | — | ||||||
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