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The history of 50 years of activism, from marriage reform and women's refuges, to AIDS and HIV funding, and even the Mens Shed movement is the subject of a new book: Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia. Co-authors and guests: Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow Co-Authors: Barbara Baird Robert Reynolds

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles is under further pressure after having to admit the government is not in fact using drones to surveil former detainees. A proposed seat distribution in Victoria had some Liberals hoping Josh Frydenburg would run again, while others (including Frydenburg himself) were not so keen. Guest: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30

At the end of the Greek civil war 12,000 communists were secretly evacuated from Albania to the USSR and resettled in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Stalin orchestrated the move to hide them in freighters where they were forbidden from coming up for air until they reached the Black Sea. The combatants were resettled in former POW camps and many were not allowed to return to Greece until an

Anne Applebaum makes the argument that there is a global campaign by autocratic countries like Russia and China to discredit democracy and liberalism. MAGA supporters are also being influenced by propaganda campaigns on issues like Ukraine and COVID and are also starting to believe that democracy and human rights are not worth fighting for. Guest: Anne Applebaum, staff writer at Th

Bob Rogers landed his first job in radio as a panel operator in Melbourne in 1942. He became an announcer at 7HO in Hobart in 1949 and he's still behind the microphone in 2012, now as the morning presenter on Sydney radio station 2CH. He talks about the history of commercial radio in Australia and his part in it.

In the 1960's Jane Goodall became a household name for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees in Tanzania. Now, at 90 years old, she has travelled to Australia to inspire people to take action to slow down climate change. Guest: Dr Jane Goodall - primatologist and anthropologist; UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute. She is currently in Australia for he

It's now 30 years since the Rwandan genocide that saw almost one million citizens die in just 100 days in likely the fastest genocide in history. Soon Rwandans return to the polls where it's almost guaranteed that President Paul Kagame, the leader now for 20 years, will be re-elected. Despite a dire human rights record and the assassination of perceived critics and enemies, at home

Author and pro-democracy activist Ma Thida was imprisoned by the military junta in Myanmar for daring to oppose the regime. Her latest book is a rare glimpse inside the murky world of a country where the internet is frequently cut off and dissidents murdered in cold blood. Guest: Ma Thida, activist and author of ‘A-maze: Myanmar’s Struggle for Democracy, 2011-2023’, published

A US Supreme Court judge had the American flag flying upside down outside his house. What does this signify and does it threaten the integrity of the Supreme Court? Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.

Clive Hamilton says the privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful in Australia are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down the scale to distortions in the labour market when elites use their networks to secure plum jobs. Guest: Clive Hamilton, academic and author of ‘The Privileged Few’ (co-authored wit