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Our regular US commentator, Bruce Shapiro, looks at how President Trump is caught between pressure at home to get out of the Iran war, and pressure from Israel to stay in it.  Plus why use of the agricultural weed killer Paraquat has just been allowed to continue in Australia, despite being banned in many other countries. And this year's Census is getting more personal. 
Guests: 
Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma
Sarah Rogers, Associate Professor in Geography, University of Melbourne
Liz Allen, demographer, ANU

Anna Henderson on Pauline Hanson's discrimination court loss, and Labor rejecting Ed Husic's genocide motion at their national conference. How technology is transforming modern warfare and creating a new global arms race. Plus, one hundred years on, LNL looks at the dark side of Route 66. 
Guests: 
Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent | National Press Club Director
Steve Feldstein, author of Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare
Dr Daniel Milowski,  author of 'Route 66 and the Formation of a National Cultural Icon: Mother Road to Mythic American Byway'

Australia likes to think it has no history of slavery, but two-thirds of Australia's colonial governors had links to the slave economy of the British Empire. A new book, Legacies of British Slavery in Australia and New Zealand reveals how slave money shaped the colonies. Plus, veteran architecture critic Paul Goldberger examines what Donald Trump's building agenda says about his politics, power and legacy.
Guests: 
Professor Zoe Laidlaw, historian, University of Melbourne, co-editor with Sally Lydon of 'Legacies of British Slavery in Australia and NZ'
Paul Goldberger, former architecture critic for The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and the author of 'Why Architecture Matters.'

One Nation is on a transformative mission, intent on professionalising its operation. But can they? Plus the trailblazing, and sometimes gun-blazing, women who built democracy around the world - they’re all fierce, all feminists, but not all of them were progressives.
Guests: 
Jordan McSwiney, Senior Research Fellow, Canberra University, who specialises in right wing politics
Paula Bartley, historian and author of 'Trailblazers, the first women elected to government’, published by Polity.

Britain has its seventh Prime Minister in ten years as Andy Burnham moves into 10 Downing Street. A new documentary counts the staggering emissions of US military operations globally. Plus, is Australia becoming a nation of handouts for the rich? A leading economist makes the case for tighter means-testing.
Guests:
Naomi Smith, commentator and CEO of Best for Britain
Abby Martin, journalist and director of Earth's Greatest Enemy
Professor Robert Breunig, director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU