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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

Anna Henderson looks at how likely it is that independents like the Teals could form  a new centrist party. Does the success of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani herald a new era of popular Leftist politics in America? US socialist Bhaskar Sunkara surveys the future. And far from being worthless trivia, the gossip of Ancient Romans revealed a lot about the society and politics of the time. 
Guests: 
Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS World News
Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine
Caillan Davenport, Professor of Classics and head of the Centre for Classical Studies at ANU.