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Big events have always had the power to shape elections: from John Howard and the Tampa affair, to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
And it doesn’t get much bigger than a foiled attempt to bring down a plane mid-flight.
One week on from the Flydubai incident, details are continuing to filter out about the co-pilot accused of stabbing his colleague in an effort to crash the Tel Aviv-bound plane.
And as investigations continue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been front and centre – with the country’s election just weeks away.
Today, Middle East correspondent for The Economist, Gregg Carlstrom on what we know about what happened on Flydubai flight 1073 and whether Netanyahu could use it to help him get re-elected.

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Guest: Middle East correspondent for The Economist, Gregg Carlstrom
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Angus Taylor has promised “the biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country” – vowing to cut net overseas migration to one hundred thousand for two years if he wins office, slashing Australia’s temporary migration intake by 650 thousand over four years.
Temporary graduate visas would be scrapped and new international students capped at 240 thousand. Australia’s humanitarian intake to be halved at ten thousand a year.
In a press conference which saw classic Coalition slogan “stop the boats” make a comeback, a new catch cry made an appearance as Angus Taylor tried to out muscle Labor and One Nation – promising to “raise the standards and reduce the numbers”.
Today, Director of the Migration Hub at ANU, Professor Alan Gamlen on what the Coalition’s drastic cuts would actually mean for Australia, why this debate is happening now, and the dangers when migration rhetoric reaches fever pitch

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Guest: Director of the ANU Migration Hub, Professor Alan Gamlen
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The United States is once again tightening its grip on Cuba.
New travel and economic restrictions are adding to a brutal oil blockade that has already pushed the country deeper into crisis, leaving Cuba increasingly isolated both politically and economically.
But behind the decades of hostility between Washington and Havana, there’s a human cost that can be easy to lose sight of.
Power cuts stretch through the night. Food and medicine are scarce and millions of people are struggling with water shortages.
Today, SBS reporter for Dateline, Colin Cosier takes us inside Cuba, where he travelled undercover to document what life has become for the people caught up in an age old power struggle.

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Guest: SBS reporter Colin Cosier
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Last week, Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham stood in front of the Labour Party conference and promised to break politics as usual.
In an emotional speech, he took aim at privatisation, austerity and Brexit, arguing that Britain’s departure from the European Union had done more harm than good.
Alastair Campbell was in the room and he sees Burnham’s speech as part of a much bigger political moment, as populist parties gain ground, America redraws its alliances and China is asserting more power abroad.
For countries like Britain and Australia, that means old assumptions about political leadership, alliances and global power are being tested all at once.
Today, former Tony Blair adviser and the co-host of The Rest Is Politics, Alastair Campbell, on how centre-left leaders can respond to the rise of populism, and what a shifting global order means for countries like Australia.

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Guest: Co-host of The Rest is Politics Alastair Campbell
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If you listen to podcasts, and let’s be honest, there’s a fair chance that you do, it’s likely that you’ve heard ads for a thing called Better Help.
It’s an app offering flexible, affordable therapy whenever you need it. Kind of an “Uber for therapy”.
Since we first brought you this story two years ago, app-based therapy has continued to grow – and now AI chatbots are increasingly being used for mental health support too.
So are we actually better off with BetterHelp and apps like it?
Today, we’re returning to our conversation with clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Ahona Guha, on the Uberfication of mental health care – and why a gig economy for psychologists isn’t the answer to our struggling mental health system.
This episode first aired in August, 2024

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Guest: Clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Ahona Guha
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