Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
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Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
A war breaks out, a leader emerges, a revolution unfolds. How did it happen, and what are the implications for you? Two award-winning journalists with decades of experience reporting on major world events, Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald join forces for a fresh conversation about global news...
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Have Zelenskyy's allies gone cold on the war in Ukraine?
As the four-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine looms, finding a diplomatic end to the conflict is more unlikely than ever. With Trump's...
How Marco Rubio became MAGA's friendly face in Europe
At last year's Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance shocked the world with his fiery attack on Europe. This year, when Secretary of Sta...
Prof Brian Cox on whether Elon Musk owns the moon
As Artemis II prepares for launch, our first trip near the moon since the 1970s, a successful voyage could bring a lunar colony closer to reality. But...
Your Call: Japan's 'Iron Lady' and Thailand's 'Cannabis King'; Indonesia commits troops to Gaza
With Indonesia becoming the first nation to commit soldiers to Trump's "Board of Peace", Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue put the spotlight on so...
What does Trump actually want from Iran?
As Trump continues nuclear talks with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rushed to Washington to influence any potential deal. But am...
Is it time to hide the nukes?
The nuclear umbrella has a few holes in it now a key treaty between Russia and the USA has expired. Some fear the end New START might trigger a nuclea...
Why Greenland is only the start of the battle for the Arctic
Ice is melting. Seas are rising. Even anthrax is emerging out of the permafrost. But the climate crisis is changing more than the environment. The Arc...
Does Martin Luther King III still have a dream?
Martin Luther King III was ten years old when his father, the hero of the modern US civil rights movement, was assassinated for his advocacy against r...
Your Call: Is global security at a turning point?
With the Munich Security Conference looming and Washington firmly in focus, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue put your questions to the big issues...
Was Epstein running a Russian spy operation?
A Russian spy? Secret kompromat? The latest Epstein file drop, the most comprehensive since the notorious sex offender's death, has us questioning eve...
Who profits from Sudan's 'endless' civil war?
It's the biggest humanitarian disaster in the world right now, yet few outside the conflict are aware of it. But Sudan's brutal civil war, which has d...
Is Trump's Iran intervention all armada, no action?
As nuclear talks begin between the Islamic Republic of Iran and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump's armada of ships off Iran's coast are proving a...
Why Team USA is bringing their own ICE to the Winter Olympics
With the Winter Olympics about to kick off in Milano-Cortina, the news that Team USA will be joined by officers from the US Immigration and Customs En...
Your Call: Herzog's Australia visit, and explaining Trump's behaviour
Hamish and Geraldine dig into the questions you actually want answered.
From how to break out of our political and cultural echo chambers, to ma...
Is Xi Jinping's military purge the ultimate act of palace intrigue?
With the purging of another top general, China's President Xi Jinping has ripped a hole in the People's Liberation Army leadership. Only two of his ni...
Why the United Nations is a better bet than Trump's 'Board of Peace'
The former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has spent his working life on the frontline of humanitarian crises - from the "catastrop...
Can Canada lead the middle powers away from Trump?
Standing ovations are rare at Davos, the annual World Economic Forum conference. But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney tore the roof down with a spe...
Japan's PM takes her tough talk on China to the polls
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is a China hawk, and if she wins February's snap election, she'll use that mandate to prepare for conflict over...
Your Call: Should we join NATO; Is Trump making bank off Venezuela & is this Australia's greatest strategic vulnerability?
The 24 hour international news cycle often leaves us with more questions than answers, so in this episode of Global Roaming Hamish and Geraldine will...
What's really behind the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK
When UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer came to power in 2024, he was seen as a safe, if slightly boring, pair of hands. Now, UK Labour is threatened by t...
Is Cuba next?
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, the Caribbean island has been a geopolitical plaything of t...
Is NATO done for?
The cornerstone of NATO is that an attack on "one of us" is an attack on "all of us". But what happens when the alliance is threatened by one of it's...
Why China is backing Myanmar's "sham" election
Myanmar's election ends this weekend, but there'll be no prizes for guessing the outcome. It's the first time the junta has held elections since the 2...
How close is revolution in Iran?
Even after weeks of protests, the Iranian regime looks like it has a firm grip on power and its unclear whether Trump will follow through on threats o...
Getting Lucky... Again: Michael Stutchbury's Economic Wake Up Call
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
Getting Lucky... Again: Lydia Khalil - Tackling New Security Threats
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
Getting Lucky... Again: Alan Finkel - Fixing the Rocky Road to Net Zero
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
Getting Lucky... Again: Peter Varghese - Re-thinking Australian foreign policy
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
Getting Lucky... Again: Hannah Ferguson - Making Caring Cool
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
When Global Conflict Came to Bondi
After Sunday's horrific terror shooting at Bondi Beach, Geraldine Doogue joined Hamish Macdonald at Bondi Pavilion to reflect on what this moment mean...
2025: A Hinge Year for Global Affairs?
From huge diplomatic fallouts, to political assassinations, to historic jewellery heists, 2025 has been a HUGE year for international news. Hamish and...
Russell Crowe: The Power of Speaking Across Divides
In this bonus episode of Global Roaming with Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue, one of Australia's most beloved actors Russell Crowe speaks about...
William Dalrymple: Why We Shouldn't Tear Down Statues
In a broad-ranging conversation, Hamish Macdonald speaks to historian and host of the hit podcast Empire William Dalrymple about the pitfalls of tryin...
Presents — Unravel: Huntsman
The ABC's biggest investigative true crime podcast Unravel has just dropped their new season, Huntsman, and it's already rocketing up the podcast char...
The dark motivations behind Trump's war on Venezuelan 'narco-terrorists'
What began as targeted strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats has now turned into the largest military build-up in the Caribbean since the 1989...
The Simple Idea that Could Save Democracy
Australia does elections pretty well - in fact, we might be the world's hottest ambassador for democracy. But according to former Australian Electoral...
Beth Jones: The Ambassador that inspired 'The Diplomat'
If you thought Netflix's hit series The Diplomat was pure fiction, think again…
According to creator Deborah Cahn the show was inspired by a rea...
The Hidden Hands Shaping the BBC Crisis
Geraldine has returned from London where she had a front row seat as the BBC was engulfed in it's biggest crisis in decades. She joins Hamish for a co...
Is Zohran Mamdani a Blessing or a Curse for Democrats?
This week democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian Mayor, beating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo...
Trump or Xi: Who Blinked First?
It may have been the most significant hour and forty minutes in global geopolitics this year...
If the highly anticipated summit between Preside...