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Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republicans' shaping of South Carolina's congressional districts, in an effort to win the November mid-terms. John Safran's new documentary for SBS explores the notion of offence, and what can and cannot be said in Australia today.  A new book says he may have been an aristocratic Aussie trooper. 
Guests:
Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for The Nation, executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma
John Safran, satirist, documentary maker, journalist, and author
Adrian Mitchell, author of ‘Blind Freddy: the Pottinger Attainment’ (Wakefield Press)

Anna Henderson looks at why the government remains unpopular despite popular support for changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax in the budget.Dr. Guy Shalev, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, on why the IDF continues to hold fourteen Palestinian doctors in detention, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. And Daniel Hahn discusses the art and the magic of translating Shakespeare into other languages, and the difficulties of getting those puns to land. 
Guests: 
Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent
Dr. Guy Shalev, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights, Israel
Daniel Hahn, author of ‘If This Be Magic - The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation’, published by Allen and Unwin

There have been 141 royal commissions in Australia since Federation, but not all of them have brought about meaningful policy change. Plus, a new book tells the stories of people who have struggled to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violence.
Guests: 
Michael Mintrom, Professor of public policy at Monash University
Michael Shaikh, author of The Last Sweet Bite: when war changes the menu

Ian Dunt on the political demise of Keir Starmer: even if he hasn't yet resigned, Ian says, he's already dead. How Antoinette Lattouf found inspiration in the stories of other Australian women who challenged power structures when she was fighting her own case against the ABC. And Australia is celebrating fifty years at the Cannes film festival, so why are there no Aussie films in competition this year?
Guests: 
Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcast 
Antoinette Lattouf, journalist and author of Women Who Win 
John Doggett-Williams, freelance video journalist and documentary maker

Journalist Debbie Whitmont revisits the 1994 murder of John Newman MP - a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination - and the man still behind bars, Vietnamese refugee and political aspirant Phuong Ngo. Plus, a new biography of Hideki Tojo challenges assumptions about Japan's ruthless wartime leader. 
Guests:
Debbie Whitmont, journalist and author of The Man Who Couldn't Wait: The true story of Australia's first political assassination
Dr Peter Mauch, historian and author of Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General