Late Night Live — Full program podcast

Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republican backlash to Donald Trump's so-called IRS slush fund. How Ethiopian runners win over performance enhanced athletes and a protest in Glasgow took over Kenmure Street, and stopped immigration officers in their van. 
Guests:
Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with the Nation, Executive Director at the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma
Felipe Bustos Sierra, Director Everybody to Kenmure st plus Tabassum Niamat, Executive Director, Bowling Green Together Community Centre and Kenmure St protester
Michael Crawley, social anthropologist at Durham University, UK and marathon runner.

A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, and Mark Kenny says political parties can't agree on how to respond. Meanwhile the government is bogged down in budget backlash. Millions of Syrians forced to flee the brutal Assad regime are now returning home, but with much of Syria destroyed what’s left to return to? Plus insect life on Lord Howe Island has significantly increased since the eradication of invasive rodents in 2019. 
Guests:
Prof. Mark Kenny, Director of the Australian Studies Institute, host of Democracy Sausage podcast
Kholoud Helmi, Syrian journalist and Managing Director of Enab Baladi news publications’s Daraya edition 
Maxim Adams, PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, co-lead in a new study with the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, published in Biological Invasions

Historian and author John Ghazvinian argues that the past fifty years of hostility between the U.S. and Iran are an exception in a much longer relationship marked by fascination, cooperation, and mutual admiration. And an American journalist embeds with a group of young Republican conservationists, to try to pin down what they really value. 
Guests
John Ghazvinian, historian, former journalist and author of America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
Gaby del Valle, journalist, article in Harper's Magazine about the American Conservation Coalition

Veteran war correspondent Janine di Giovanni has set up a project that trains journalists and researchers to gather evidence that can be used to prosecute war crimes in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and Syria. And the women who played a critical role behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials.
Guests: 
Janine di Giovanni, war correspondent, CEO and co-founder of The Reckoning Project
Natalie Livingstone, author, The Nuremberg Women, At the trial that brought the Nazis to justice

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 podcast
Maria Ramirez, journalist for elDiario, Spain
Emma Sandall, Australian dance artist, producer, writer