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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr. This LNL podcast contains the stories in separate episodes. Subscribe to the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena
Former NSW Premier and former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr and his wife Helena were almost inseparable. When she suddenly died, while...
High Court rules the Catholic Church is liable for a priest's abuse
A NSW man who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a priest in the late 1960’s when he was 13, has won his High Court battle over liability, but had...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: the State of the Union address
US President Donald Trump has just given his State of the Union address, saying America is winning so much they don't know what do. But who believes h...
Water in 2026: will Australia learn from our mistakes?
Australia's last big drought was from 2017 to 2019; a relatively short drought, but a vicious one. Water storage levels in Sydney dropped by 50% in ju...
What do Mawson's diaries reveal about the Flinders Ranges in South Australia?
As well as his Antarctic work, the explorer Sir Douglas Mawson had a deep interest in the Flinders Ranges. A team has been working for years to deciph...
A new treaty for the High Seas
Ocean advocates call it 'the most exciting thing that's happened this century'. The lawless High Seas have a new international Treaty - the UN's High...
What can and can't the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion decide?
As the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion gets underway, legal writer Richard Ackland discusses what the Commission can and can't co...
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: The UN has a woman problem
A new report from the group GWL voices (Global.Women.Leaders) has highlighted the scarcity of women at the top of international organisations, across...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: ISIS women and Australian values
As the debate continues over what to do about the Australian ISIS women and children in Syria, Anna Henderson discusses the current political obsessio...
The end of the gay rights revolution?
The LGBTQI rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, but gay author Ronan McRea argues this success seems suddenly fragile...
The end of the gay rights revolution?
The LGBTQI rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, but gay author Ronan McRea argues this success seems suddenly fragile...
Immigrant labour from the Pacific: are we getting it right?
With political rhetoric around immigration firing up again, we look at the great potential, but very real problems, of a temporary migration policy, P...
Deflect, distract, deny: how politicians avoid direct answers
The best political communicators don’t just speak, they position. They don’t just answer, they frame. They don’t just promise, they hedge. A look at...
The return of Germany as a military power
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a Zeitenwende, a “watershed moment”, in the words of Germany’s chancellor at the time. Germany shook itself out of it...
Ian Dunt's UK: is Keir Starmer's leadership is risk?
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's has spruiked Britain's necessity to be closer to Europe, both in defence and economic terms, at the Munich Security C...
How green are green burials?
Knowing that your body is contributing to the growth of a tree or the richness of soil is increasingly attractive. But the healthier climate claims ma...
Washington tightens grip as Cuba faces mounting crisis
Whether former President Donald Trump will strike a deal with Cuba remains an open question, as pressure on Havana intensifies. Trump has signalled th...
Democracy for sale: gambling’s grip on politics
While Australians lose over $31 billion to gambling each year, industry donations to major political parties continue. Over the past decade, millions...
The music of the stars, with the "founding mother" of asteroseismology
Conny Aerts had a hunch, that stars had internal rotation and measuring those rotations could give us rich information about the universe. She was rig...
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's voice of freedom, will die in prison
The Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai will die in prison, after being sentenced to 20 years. Lai is one of the island's most prominent pro-democracy advoc...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Liberal leadership
The new Opposition leader Angus Taylor and deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume are flagging their crisis plan will involve lowering taxes and immigration,...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Coalition leadership
The new Opposition leader Angus Taylor and deputy leader Jane Hume are hinting their crisis plan will involve lowering taxes and immigration, possibly...
Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusion
In his new book, Steven Pinker asks us to look at how group knowledge works. Pinker argues that what drives society is knowing that what we know is wi...
The memes are the politics: Charlie Warzel on Trump's Extremely Online administration
The White House is publishing AI slop images; ICE conducts raids and turns the video into film-style trailers; right-wing influencers are sitting in t...
Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream
Gaza is today in ruins, with over seventy thousand dead and buildings everywhere rendered rubble by the onslaught from Israel since the Hamas attack o...
An old book, a hidden drawing: how Sydney held the answer to an Italian Renaissance mystery
When librarians from the University of Sydney found a sketch and an inscription in the back of a 1497 copy of Dante's Divine Comedy, they called in Re...
How journalists are tackling three million Epstein files - and what they're finding
The Epstein files are so immense that if printed out they would equal two Eiffel towers of paper. So how, exactly, are journalists making sense of the...
"A moment of reckoning" - NSW police response to Sydney Herzog protest under spotlight
The actions of NSW police are being questioned after videos emerge showing violent scenes at the Sydney protest against Israel's President, Isaac Herz...
Toads most feral: what can Australia do?
Cane toads (Rhinella marina) are an invasive species introduced to Australia in 1935 to control agricultural pests. The species spread rapidly and now...
Indonesia and Australia sign a security pact: what are we worried about?
We're now even closer with Indonesia. On 6 February Anthony Albanese signed a security pact with Indonesia's president, Prabowo Subianto, agreeing to...
Bernard Keane's Canberra: A Coalition reunification, even as the Liberals contemplate "non-existence"
Parliament returns for the second half of the sitting fortnight, with the Liberal Party and The Nationals reunited, again. But all is not calm. Libera...
Winnie-the-Pooh: how the gentle bear left a complicated legacy
Winnie-the-Pooh, the Bear of Very Little Brain, has been entertaining children for a century this year, but for Pooh's creator, A. A. Milne, the chara...
Tucker Carlson, the influential broadcaster admired by President Trump
The US commentator Tucker Carlson began his working life as a respected and brilliant writer on a small conservative magazine. He moved to television...
White fur, black market: the illegal trade in polar bear skins
Australian filmmaker Abraham Joffe pulls back the curtain on a reality most people don’t realise: Polar Bears are still legally hunted and sold around...
Why is everyone rushing to do trade deals with India?
After twenty years of negotiations, the European Union has suddenly managed to cut a trade deal with India. Not to be out-done, US President Donald Tr...
Ian Dunt's UK: Anger over Mandelson's Epstein links and a new candidate for Reform
Former UK Labour powerbroker Peter Mandelson is retiring from the House of Lords amid intense scrutiny over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffre...
Peter Drew, the 'AUSSIE' poster artist who wants to engage with young right wing men
Peter Drew's 'Aussie' posters, seen around our cities, have now been copied in Melbourne by someone using a picture of the younger of the two Bondi sh...
Iran expert says war is likely with the US if Trump gets bored with negotiations
Iran’s president has signalled a potential diplomatic shift, saying he has directed diplomats to seek negotiations with the United States as fears of...
Bruce Shapiro's America - are the Epstein files another distraction?
The US Dept. of Justice published over three million additional pages from the Epstein files containing over a thousand references to Donald Trump, as...
Australia's secret indigenous circus royalty
When the Colleano circus family came to town, it was a big deal. Their acrobatic skills took them from Lightning Ridge, to New York and London in the...