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Late Night Live — Full program podcast

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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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    Western Australia's GST wins, Israel death penalty for West Bank, and mapping the wilderness

    31/03/2026 | 53 mins.
    The only Australian state with a budget surplus will get an extra $6.6 billion from Australian taxpayers in the coming financial year, under its special GST deal. Israel's parliament has passed a law that makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who have been found guilty of killing Israelis. Australia's wilderness has just been mapped for the first time in 40 years, and it's estimated to have shrunk by more than 20 percent.
    Guests: 
    Shane Wright – Senior Economics Correspondent for the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. 
    Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative
    James Watson, Professor of Environmental Science, University of QLD
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    Anna Henderson's Canberra, Ash Sarkar critques the modern Left, and should daylight savings be permanent?

    30/03/2026 | 54 mins.
    The Australian government will halve the fuel excise for three months, as the energy crisis triggered by the Iran war looks set to drag on. UK journalist, commentator and self-identified communist Ash Sarkar offers her critique of the modern liberal-Left, and its tendency to fall into culture war traps that do not serve people's material needs. Plus, why has the Canadian province of British Columbia decided to ditch seasonal clock changes, and embrace daylight savings time year round? 
    Guests: 
    Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS News
    Ash Sarkar, journalist at Novara Media, author of Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
    Maurice Katz, video journalist with CBC, Vancouver
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    The struggle to get aid into the Middle East, plus a great Australian librarian retires

    26/03/2026 | 54 mins.
    Millions have been made homeless by wars in the Middle East, but with access severely limited, humanitarian agencies are struggling to get aid into the region. Plus, the National Library of Australia's departing General-Director Marie-Louise Ayres reflects on a decades-long career at this cherished public institution, where she's overseen the digitisation of millions of precious Australian archives. 
    Guests:
    Susanne Legena, CEO of Plan International Australia
    Mat Tinkler, CEO Save the Children Australia 
    Marie-Louise Ayres, departing Director-General, National Library of Australia
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    Bruce Shapiro's USA, Trump’s business in the Gulf, plus the Museum of Failure

    24/03/2026 | 54 mins.
    Bruce Shapiro on whether Trump now looking for a way-out of the war in Iran, and why the Pentagon has lost its defence of media shut-out rules. Plus the New York Times has investigated  Donald Trump’s private business footprint in the Gulf, and found luxury real estate, golf courses, and high-profile partnerships. And why we should celebrate failure. 
    Guests:
    Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. 
    Eric Lipton, Investigative reporter, New York Times
    Dr Samuel West, Clinical psychologist and founder, Museum of Failure
  • Late Night Live — Full program podcast

    Anna Henderson's Canberra, a tribute to Rhoda Roberts, and making floristry more sustainable

    23/03/2026 | 53 mins.
    The South Australian election result has got the major parties elsewhere scrambling to understand what the One Nation phenomenon means for them. In tribute to the late Rhoda Roberts, we replay an interview she did with David Marr on the 'Welcome to country' backlash. Plus the downsides of pretty flowers, and what the industry is doing to clean up its act.

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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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