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EPISODE · Mar 4, 2026 · 55 MIN

Is Trump's way of war the final nail in the rules based order's coffin?

from The Radio National Hour · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Rules were meant to be broken right? But what if they're the framework for a global order that’s endured for more than 80 years, preventing liberal democracies from going to war against each other and generally cooperating for the good of all humankind. As the US and Israel continue to pound Iran with bombs, does the rules based order still even exist?Fifteen thousand strip searches are conducted in Australian prisons every month. But the contraband detection rate is less than 1%, so why are we still subjecting people to this invasive and often traumatising practice?  It was the radio shock-jock partnership that polarised Australia - after nearly three decades of dishing up sex, smut and misogyny for breakfast, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O have finally broken up. So was the Melbourne's audiences good taste or the deserting advertisers that brought them down?  

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