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Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent organisation of gay conservatives that continues to support US President Donald Trump. Plus, amid reports of damage to cultural heritage sites in Iran, Australian archaeologist John Tidmarsh reflects on the beauty of damaged and destroyed sites across the Middle East region. 
Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent organisation of gay conservatives that continues to support US President Donald Trump. Plus, amid reports of damage to cultural heritage sites in Iran, Australian archaeologist John Tidmarsh reflects on the beauty of damaged and destroyed sites across the Middle East region. 
Prof. Mark Kenny, former national affairs journalist and Director of the Australian Studies Institute, ANU
Ed Williams, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, USA
Dr John Tidmarsh, archaeologist and tour leader

Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000) was one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. His first collection was not published until he was 48 years old, but its release cemented his reputation as the pre-eminent Australian poet of his time. The literary scholar Susan Lever knew Hope, and has written the first biography of his life - from rural Tasmania, to the halls of Oxford, and the heights of Australia's literary scene.
Guest: Susan Lever, author of A.D. Hope - A life, published by LaTrobe
Susan's recommended reading:
The Coast of Cerigo
Moschus Moschiferus. A Song for St Cecilia's Day
An Epistle: Edward Sackville to Venetia Digby
Imperial Adam
The Death of the Bird
Inscription for a War
The Return of Persephone

Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America, and the story of Daniel Defoe's secret life as a spy, against Scottish independence, in the early 1700s, before he became the author of the famous 'Robinson Crusoe'.
Guests:
Sebastian Smee, writer and art critic, formerly with The Washington Post
Marc Mierowsky, author of 'A spy amongst us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the plot to end Scottish Independence' (Yale University Press)

Bruce Shaprio on the US President's latest ultimatum for Iran.  Prof.Assa Doron reveals how India has become the global epicentre for the world's antibiotic resistance problem. And anthropologist Luke Taylor celebrates the artistic legacy of the late Peter Marralwanga, the master bark painter of West Arnhem Land. 
Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director at the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma, Contributing Editor with The Nation
Professor Assa Doron, anthropologist at Australian National University, co-author of A world of resistance: India and the global antibiotic crisis (with Alex Broom), Harvard University Press
Luke Taylor, anthropologist and co-author of Peter Marralwanga: Painter of the Djang of Western Arnhem Land (with Ivan Namirrkki), ANU Press

The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn paints a vastly different picture of this country, its people, politics and ambitions. 
Guest: Henry Reynolds, historian and author of Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down