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With a focus on international politics and business, Geraldine Doogue talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Plus, the architecture of data centres, obstacles to downsizing and a groundbreaking solar project.
Plus, new entrants to Australian aviation, why the US is still our best bet and the July edition of the Pick.
Kim Ghattas on Saudi Arabia's positioning for a new role in international diplomacy, what's happening to commercial property valuations and the war inside Reddit.
Plus, fears of a violent election in Myanmar election and the spy balloon hysteria on A Foreign Affair.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
More than 14,000 classified documents relating to John F Kennedy's assassination remain locked up. There's a push to have them released.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Saturday Extra talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
And we have a panel from the Festival from Dangerous Ideas exploring American Decadence - has this great country entered a decline it can not recover from?
And we have a panel from the Festival from Dangerous Ideas exploring American Decadence - has this great country entered a decline it can not recover from?
Plus, Australia's China Odyssey through the prism of prime ministers who have handled relations with Beijing since Whitlam in 1972.
With a focus on international politics and business, Geraldine Doogue talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.
Plus, where the next waves of migration might take us; John Denton, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, on the role of business in tackling some of the world's biggest problems; and Politicians' Picks - three politicians join us with their recommendations for reading, watching and listening this summer.
And a history of appeasement analogies in defence rhetoric; Plus, can our gum trees withstand climate change?
Plus, the geopolitics influencing the unrest in Solomon Islands, the future of Australia's casinos, and the rascals and rebels who shaped the modern tax system.
Plus, Anne Applebaum on the Belarus-Poland border crisis; developing and protecting Australia's critical technologies; the tricky science of trigger warnings; and the rise of female share investors.
Plus, how unshakeable is President Xi Jinping's power? Veterans pull in the harvest, and charting the relationship between two cultures in Western Australia.
Plus crisis looms in Ethiopia and our November edition of The Pick: things to read, watch and listen to.
Plus, the aims of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the plan to get one million Australians into tech jobs and Peter FitzSimons on Australia's greatest unknown explorer.
Plus, political and religious developments in the Middle East, the politics of net zero in the regions and Gillian Tett on using anthropology more flexibly.
Plus, supply chain woes as we head towards Christmas and what to watch and listen to this month.
Plus, a farewell to Gladys Berejiklian, Lin Hatfield Dodds on systems leadership and steering Australia's oldest charity The Benevolent Society, where you can go to build your digital skills and the history of radio as a tool of female empowerment in Australia.
Plus, are children orphaned by Covid-19 being left behind? And Australia's changing role in the Pacific.
Plus, the fight to stop Silicon Valley giants from dominating the Australian electronic payments sector. And, recommendations for entertaining and enlightening things to read, watch and listen to this month.
Plus, will Pakistan come to regret helping the Taliban to victory? Tales of hope from the pandemic, and what's behind the sudden boom in golfing.
Plus, the 70 year history of the Australian Financial Review, and how discuss Covid with civility.
Plus, Iran tackles challenges at home and abroad with a new conservative president; and recommendations for reading, watching and listening this month.
The story behind the founding of Afterpay, a reflection on the Beirut explosion and David Miliband's thesis on "The Age of Impunity".
Plus, what it will take to manufacture mRNA vaccines in Australia, a short history of war, and looking back and forward on the 75th anniversary of the Australian National University.
Plus, Professor Ian Hickie on protecting your mental health in lockdown, and the achievements of Vera Deakin, daughter of Alfred.
Plus, reflections on the messaging and measures employed when Sydney's Covid outbreak moved to its multicultural South West, and what policy lessons the Nordic countries might hold for Australia.
Plus, Crown casino bombshells, an update on the Covid situation in India, the incredible true story of the women who took on ISIS, and recommendations for reading, watching and listening.
Plus, Hungary vs the EU, and the superhero spreading the vaccine message in the Northern Territory.
Plus, the future of virus research, bushfire recovery 18 months, and a setback for Australia's Asian Renewable Energy Hub, in WA.
Plus, the looming elections in war-torn Ethiopia; Whether the Northern Ireland Protocol could provoke a crisis in UK-EU relations and undermine the Good Friday Agreement; And the long history of women walking.
Plus, what the AFP-FBI sting Operation Ironside might mean for surveillance, and an update on East Timor, Bernard Collaery and Witness K.
Also, veteran diplomat and Middle East specialist, Martin Indyk, in our Diplomacy series. And The Pick - recommendations for your reading, listening and watching.
Also, meet departing US Consul General to Sydney, Sharon Hudson Dean. And Islamic State in Africa - a growing concern.
Plus, what the next steps might be following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and why we should be paying close attention to major geopolitical shifts taking place in the Arctic.
Also, how foreign aid and DFAT fared in the Budget. And the future of diplomacy with former diplomat John McCarthy, in the first of a four part series.
With Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia on the rise, we look at parallel experiences in Canada and the US; Two economists discuss the reforms they'd like to see in Tuesday's Budget to lift Australia's economy out of its productivity slump; Journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland on the possibility that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about to lose his post; Whether the Public Service serves all Australians; and choices in restoring historical monuments.
Fears of further human rights restrictions in Cambodia, how is Africa dealing with the pandemic, how will economies change after this crisis, AFA discusses China, the US and Australia's foreign diplomacy and Mike Ladd with an ANZAC poem.