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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 Australian 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

Anna Henderson looks at the government's decision to go on the front foot with their AI policy and how it will play out at Labor's upcoming national conference. The Guardian investigates a US air strike in Somalia which killed and injured 12 civilians, including children. Plus the Nazi bunker that could be destroyed to make way for a block of flats in Berlin.
Guests:
Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent with SBS
Mohamed Gabobe, freelance reporter in Mogadishu.
Dr. Caroline Sharples, Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Roehampton, UK.

After a terror attack in Kashmir in 2025, India suspended a key water treaty between the nations, threatening to cut Pakistan’s water supplies off by building a series of hydro-electric dams which can divert water away from Pakistan. Pakistan has threatened nuclear retaliation if it goes ahead. Plus in the West Bank Israel has stepped up the bulldozing of olive groves, which the IDF claims is a security measure.
Guests:
Michael Kugelman, senior fellow for South Asia at the Atlantic Council, and writer of Foreign Policy magazine’s weekly South Asia Brief.
Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian author, poet and human rights lawyer

Australia's new treaties with Fiji and Vanuatu are being hailed as a diplomatic triumph. But how meaningful are they, and are they in the best interests of the wider Pacific? And a philosopher's take on why the push for the New Space Age, when humans will someday be living, working, and vacationing in space, is a mistake.
Guests: 
Joanne Wallis, Professor of International Security,  Adelaide University.  Co-author, with Jack Corbett, of ‘Neighbours: Australia and the Pacific’ (La Trobe)
Ben Bramble, lecturer in philosophy at the Australian National University and a mission specialist at ANU’s Institute for Space. Author of ‘Lunacy - Ten False promises of the New Space age’ (NewSouth)

US commentator Bruce Shapiro looks at the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, Trump's attack on New York Times journalists over their Air Force One reporting, and how the US's latest attacks on Iran are being seen ahead of the November primaries. Plus a new documentary by Danish journalist Tom Heinemann investigates Ikea's claims that it's wood from a Romanian forest is sustainable. And 'The dead can't sue', a cheeky new ABC podcast about the scandals and gossip from Australia's past.