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PM Albanese and Opposition Leader AngusTaylor are doing a deal on gambling. Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have just signed a new NATO-like defence pact which commits each country to respond in the event of an attack on the other. So what are the implications for the Gulf conflict? Plus, from hieroglyphs to hashtags, the hidden history of punctuation and the tiny marks that have shaped how we communicate.
Guests: 
Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent | National Press Club Director
Professor Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University
Florence Hazrat, author, On the Mark

Peter Garrent discusses the testimonies being presented at the crowdfunded AUKUS public inquiry which has so far recieved over 500 submissions, and heard from former PMs and ministers. Plus decades after Britain abolished slavery in its colonies, Australia was using Pacific island workers to harvest sugar, with many essentially held captive.
Guests:
Peter Garrett, Lead Commissioner, AUKUS public inquiry, former Labor Minister
Ryan Butta, author of 'Blackbirding: a reckoning with the Australian Slave Trade'

In his new book, Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane, turns his eye not just to where Australia has gone wrong, but to how we can best position ourselves to navigate the triple threat of Trump, China and AI. Plus the eight thousand year history of wine - from Georgia to the present day.
Guests: 
Bernard Keane, political editor, Crikey, and author of ‘Seize the Moment - Australia’s real opportunities in an unstable world,’
Kathleen Burk, Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary history at University College London and author of  Wine, A global history

Ian Dunt on Nigel Farage's planned 'Operation Fortress', stopping all illegal boats. The Odyssey film-makers caused offence in an indigenous-owned region that Morocco claims as its own. And the push to rid Kangaroo Island of cats, both feral and pet.
Guests: 
Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news, co-host of Origin Story podcast
Sarah Yerkes, North Africa specialist and senior fellow with the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peac
Michael Pengilly, Mayor of Kangaroo Island

Anna Henderson recaps an eventful Garma festival in Arnhem Land, which included a blistering speech from Noel Pearson. Is there hope for a reunified Cyprus, amid planned UN talks? Plus, why butterfly collectors are a dying breed.
Guests:
Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS
Dr. Erol Kaymak, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Eastern Mediterranean University
Emil Leth Beiter, Danish writer and critic