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Anna Henderson reveals an Australian doctor from Perth who worked in ISIS medical centres could face the death penalty in Iraq. She and David also discuss antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal's report which has  called out what Segal describes as "progressive antisemitism", and whether One Nation will run a candidate against Nationals leader Matt Canavan in the Queensland seat of Capricornia. Plus Singapore is threatening to prosecute companies responsible for some of the worst fires in years in neighbouring Indonesia, as the region grows increasingly frustrated with a persistent, toxic smoke haze. And the latest craze for billionaires - purchasing dinosaurs rare fossils.
Guests
Anna Henderson, SBS, Chief political correspondent, SBS.
Sean Tseng, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) at National University Singapore
Conor O'Keeffe, Science Journalism Fellow, ABC.
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After President Lula de Silva's comeback election victory in Brazil, his defeated opponent Flavio Bolsonaro vanished from the country. What now lies ahead for the giant South American nation, under the 81 year-old Lula? Plus, a new biography explores the complexities of Geoffrey Bardon, the white Australian school teacher who became a key figure in the contemporary Indigenous art movement of the 1970s, while battling his own demons. 
Guests: 
Deborah Barros Leal Farias, Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales
Kitty Hauser, author of 'Art Mania: Geoffrey Bardon and the Painting Men of Papunya', Giromondo Press
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Correspondent Irris Makler joins Late Night Live as the votes are tallied after Israel's election - with a deadlock looking increasingly likely. Plus the story behind the European lawyers, who fled to Australia after World War Two.
Guests:
Irris Makler, veteran Middle East Correspondent
Katherine Biber, historian and Professor of Law, University of Technology, Sydney
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UK journalist Ian Dunt previews PM Andy Burnham's first budget, plus a new book analyses published and unpublished polling data to understand how and why the 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum failed to win the majority support of the Australian public. 
Guests:
Ian Dunt, columnist for i-news, co-host of Origin Story podcast
Professor Murray Goot, Macquarie University and Professor Emeritus Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University, co-authors 'The Year Our Voice Broke' (2026)
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Anna Henderson discusses the ongoing debate over the connection between the tone of political rhetoric and real world acts of violence, since the attack on Independent MP Helen Haines, plus whether the government's use of algorithms in aged care assessments shows it has learned the lessons of Robodebt. France’s debt is mounting, its governments are paralysed and public anger is spilling into the streets. As the political centre falters, far-right leader Marine Le Pen is waiting to capitalise. Plus, bones are an extraordinary record of human life, holding clues to our histories, our societies and the ways we die. From forensic science to Europe’s vast ossuaries, what can the dead tell us about the living?
Guests:
Anna Henderson, Chief Political Correspondent, SBS
James Waterhouse, BBC Paris Correspondent
Carla Valentine, author, The Language of Bones