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Corporations can cause enormous harm, yet the law often struggles to hold them to account. Law professor Penny Crofts argues that horror helps us understand the scale of corporate wrongdoing. Plus how a British art dealer looted Cambodia’s ancient treasures during the Khmer Rouge era, and sold them to the world’s most prestigious museums and collectors.
Guests:
Penny Crofts, Professor of Law at UTS, co-author of Corporate Harm: A Horror Story with Honni van Rijswijk
Matthew Campbell, author The man who stole the gods

There's been a big Tory reshuffle, a bloody one. Our UK politics commentator Ian Dunt analyses what's behind it. And Jeff Sparrow on the radical, socialist, unionist life of Australian poet and writer Lesbia Harford. 
Guests: 
Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcast
Jeff Sparrow, journalist, writer, editor, author of the biography 'Somewhere Here the Future's Hid - the Extraordinary Life of Lesbia Harford’ (Monash University Publishing)

Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state. In oil-rich Alberta, a growing separatist movement is asking a once unthinkable question: should the province leave Canada and become an independent country? Plus, how GPS (Global Positioning System) now underwrites everything from rideshares to traffic light systems, international banking and supply chains.
Guests:
Anna Henderson, Chief Political Correspondent, SBS
Andrea Lawlor, Associate Professor in political science, at McMasters University, Ontario, Canada
Katherine Dunn, author, Little Blue Dot: How the Global Positioning System Shaped the Modern World

Yale Professor Samuel Moyn argues that the old in the United States have hoarded wealth and power, and that something needs to give. Plus, Australian historian Tom Griffiths corroborates the extraordinary encounters of a 1900s white cattle station girl, Alice Duncan-Kemp, who learned from Indigenous Mithaka people in outback Queensland. 
Guests:
Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Yale University, author of 'Gerontocracy in America: how the old are hoarding wealth and power - and what to do about it' (2026)
Tom Griffiths, historian and author of 'Alice's dreaming' (2026)

Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore traces 125 years of war, revolution, upheaval and revival in the Middle East. From the final days of the Ottoman Empire to to the current Iran-US conflict, Simon's new book The Cauldron examines the forces, characters and calamities that have shaped the region.
Guest: Simon Sebag Montefiore, writer and historian
Producer: Ali Benton