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Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state. In oil-rich Alberta, a growing separatist movement is asking a once unthinkable question: should the province leave Canada and become an independent country? Plus, how GPS (Global Positioning System) now underwrites everything from rideshares to traffic light systems, international banking and supply chains.
Guests:
Anna Henderson, Chief Political Correspondent, SBS
Andrea Lawlor, Associate Professor in political science, at McMasters University, Ontario, Canada
Katherine Dunn, author, Little Blue Dot: How the Global Positioning System Shaped the Modern World

Yale Professor Samuel Moyn argues that the old in the United States have hoarded wealth and power, and that something needs to give. Plus, Australian historian Tom Griffiths corroborates the extraordinary encounters of a 1900s white cattle station girl, Alice Duncan-Kemp, who learned from Indigenous Mithaka people in outback Queensland. 
Guests:
Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Yale University, author of 'Gerontocracy in America: how the old are hoarding wealth and power - and what to do about it' (2026)
Tom Griffiths, historian and author of 'Alice's dreaming' (2026)

Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore traces 125 years of war, revolution, upheaval and revival in the Middle East. From the final days of the Ottoman Empire to to the current Iran-US conflict, Simon's new book The Cauldron examines the forces, characters and calamities that have shaped the region.
Guest: Simon Sebag Montefiore, writer and historian
Producer: Ali Benton

Bruce Shapiro asks if US President Donald Trump has betrayed American cattle farmers, after he eased tariffs on foreign beef. Australia sells weapons to the United Arab Emirates, but could those weapons be ending up in Sudan? Plus, the story of the first camera that made it to colonial Australia in May 1841. 
Guests:
Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for The Nation, executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma
Andrew Bartlett, President of Australians for War Powers Reform and former Democrats and Greens Senator for Queensland
Elisa DeCourcy, writer and curator, author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia, Melbourne University Press

One Nation is mopping up after new MP David Farley's 'rookie mistake' on his party's net migration target. Veteran Jerusalem correspondent examines the work of the Israeli ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman, after an IDF report found that no one would be held criminally liable for the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues in Gaza in 2024. Plus, composer and host of The Music Show Andrew Ford ponders the musical qualities of our names and nicknames.
Guests:
Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS
Irris Makler, freelance journalist, veteran Jerusalem correspondent
Andrew Ford, composer and host of The Music Show on Radio National