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Between the Lines — 236 episodes
The fabrication that was “Russia-gate”
The debate on reparations for the African slave trade
What can today’s China learn from the Cultural Revolution?
The most powerful woman in North Korea
The one-sided attitude of the media toward the Ukraine war.
A look back at the world in 2023
How did China corner the green energy market?
Eliot Cohen on Israel, Ukraine, Trump and the US-Australia relationship
Ukraine says it fears the conflict is fast becoming a 'sideshow'
Can former British PM David Cameron save the Sunak government?
From wine and lobster to human rights and trade pacts: The PM's trip to China
Are the US Republicans incapable of governing in Washington?
John Mearsheimer on Israel, Russia-Ukraine and the US pivot to Asia
The Voice has been silenced - why did it fail so badly?
Israel faces its September 11 – but can it destroy Hamas?
Conrad Black on Murdoch, Trump, Trudeau and Cancel Culture
Rupert Murdoch: Supremacy, scandal and succession
Republican political strategist Karl Rove on a Trump-Biden rematch
Is a "woke" assault undermining the history of the West?
The Voice is cracking - can the Yes vote be salvaged?
Did a bitter 1968 US election set the tone for the future of American politics?
Is time running out for Ukraine to win the war?
The rise and fall of ISIS: Could it make a comeback?
Almost 21 since the Bali terror attacks - is radicalisation again on the rise in Indonesia?
The Gerontocracy and the 2024 presidential poll
Don't write off Ukraine's counter-offensive
Is democracy dead in Thailand? and historian Geoffrey Blainey's views on the Uluru Statement from the Heart
Are a series of European uprisings 175 years ago still leaving their mark?
Has a 17-year-old Brisbane schoolboy got the answer to our energy woes? and the long shadow of China's Cultural revolution
Is Vladimir Putin out for the count? A new strain of Covid is on the way - but do we care? and the latest on the Voice to Parliament.
Are net zero emissions by 2050 realistic? The events behind the U.S. decision to drop the A-bomb on Japan and avoiding the recession we don't have to have.
Could China's meddling in Canadian politics bring down Justin Trudeau? Tony Abbott on the Libs demise & The Voice and why Trump and Johnson lost high office for similar reasons.
Is Ukraine's fight also Australia's fight? North Korea's nuclear ambitions and its border crackdown and Gough Whitlam's foreign policy, 50 years on.
Is American support for Ukraine waning? The Russia-gate lie and how the media fell for it and what would a Trump comeback mean for Australia?
Why support is waning for The Voice, Syria's Assad coming in from the cold and the fight to free Hong Kong's billionaire pro-democracy activist, Jimmy Lai
Albo's report card, Thailand election shock and the life and times of US statesman, George Shultz
Israel turns 75. The Suharto legacy. The campaign against British colonialism.
Australia’s head of state? Trump, Fox and the crisis in the American right. Remembering Allan Gyngell.
Australia becomes more American. A bad idea - Biden’s 2024 bid. A nuclear power accident waiting to happen
Macron’s Europe. A conservative backs The Voice. Why DeSantis took on Disney.
The Voice: a debate. Is the Liberal party doomed?
A new low for American politics. Don't 'sensitise' children's literature.
Macron’s France. Iraq bounces back. Sport and Australia’s soft power advantage in the Pacific
Responding to a rising China. The Republican party’s divide over Ukraine. Australia’s economic outlook
Why was there a war against Saddam in 2003. South Africa in a geo-politically polarised world.
The US and its great power rivals. Are Australia's neighbours ready for AUKUS? The UK lockdown files.
China's population decline. Afghanistan after the US withdrawal. Is it a public debate or a culture war?
The earthquake and its geopolitical consequences. Are the UN's Sustainable Development Goals achievable? Jimmy Carter's foreign policy.
Israeli - Palestinian prospects for peace. A liberal's lament. The writer and cultural appropriation.
Groupthink and Ukraine. Resistance in Myanmar. Europe's energy war with Russia
Britain three years after Brexit. The Liberal party quandary. Remembering diplomat Richard Woolcott
Jacinda Ardern's legacy, is a Ukrainian victory against Russia inevitable and is there a political future for Tony Abbott?
Best of 2022; Against an Indigenous voice to parliament. How Britain beat France in the race for Australia. Setting the record straight on the ‘mad’ King George III
Best of 2022; John Howard’s 'Sense of Balance'. What Osama bin Laden’ declassified personal papers reveal
Best of 2022; Australia’s China challenge, a short history of the Soviet Union and the new space race
Best of 2022; 804 days in an Iranian prison, Francis Fukuyama’s liberalism and Kevin Rudd on Sino-US relations.
Best of 2022; What demography tells us about geopolitics. Lionel Shiver speaks her mind and Ron DeSantis vs Disney
A turbulent year in international relations, Indonesia's morality laws and China’s spies and subterfuge
Federal politics 2022, the legal cannabis paradox and why the future for feminism is conservative.
Prospects for Pakistan’s Imran Khan and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, also David Kemp on Australian liberalism.
Peter Costello on the Australian economy, what happened at COP 27 and problems with the EU's asylum system
Xi, Putin and the West, Iranian women resist and countering China’s Belt and Road
The US midterms, superconductors are the oil of the digital age and Malaysia goes to the polls.
Can the world agree on carbon reduction at COP 27? What demography tell us about geopolitics and what's wrong with identity politics
Rifts, divisions and the future for centre right parties, and how women in Iran have had enough
Kevin Rudd on Xi’s China, Jonathan Sumption sees real threats to democracy and the shift in Swedish politics
Geopolitics, the view from Washington and Japan, Also anti woke warrior Lionel Shriver
Four big events that shaped and changed our world.
Putin raises the stakes over Ukraine, a green leap forward and setting the record straight on King George III
What’s behind Europe’s energy crisis? And is Australia’s connection to Britain fading?
What might happen when a progressive new King has to work with a very conservative new PM.
David Flint on the Queen, the Monarchy and why renewed calls for an Australian republic will not succeed.
John Howard on a Sense of Balance and why concerns about the inevitability of China surpassing the U.S are misplaced.
Geopolitics with John Bolton. Australia's economic outlook.
Australia’s China challenge. Dame Leonie Kramer's biography. The future of welfare
Between The Lines
Against the Voice. Geo-politics hampers energy transition
The West’s war in Ukraine. Malcolm Turnbull: Australia, China, and U.S relations. The Albanese agenda.
Insurrection in the US. Silencing critics in the Philippines. Investigating war crimes in Ukraine.
2015 attack on France. Our jungle origins. Russia's polar ambitions.
Japan mourns Shinzo Abe, the housing and homelessness crisis in the United States, and solutions to growing homelessness in Australia.
Australia is ill-prepared for the new reality of climate disasters and the growing crisis in Sri Lanka
What Australians think about foreign policy. How effective are UN Peacekeepers. PNG elections.
Jan 6th attack testimony. Commonwealth heads meet in Rwanda. The view from the Pacific.
Ukraine’s bid for EU membership. Too many regional strategic groups. The state of Florida vs Disney
The PM’s visit to Indonesia. Boris survives. Watergate and the Jan. 6th insurrection.
Ukraine's MP Kira Rudik. Australia's covert action. The myth of primitive communism.
U.S politics and fault lines. Diplomacy and grand Asia Pacific tours. Congestion and conflict in space.
Bin Laden's secret letters. Testing times for Lebanon.
Marcos return to power. Afghanistan failed and now forgotten. Geopolitics and Eurovision.
(Rpt) John Howard. Home Affairs - too big ? China, nationalism & WW2.
Revolution and the U.S constitution. The Koala manifesto. How Hitler lost the war.
Election 2022. Strongmen and autocrats. 804 days in an Iranian prison.
North Korea. 21st century enlightenment. USSR: a short history
Francis Fukuyama's liberalism and its discontents. Kevin Rudd's China, the US and an avoidable war.
Global consensus on Ukraine? China’s foothold in the Solomons. Britain vs France and the colonisation of Australia
Alexander Downer on Ukraine 2022. Max Hastings’ Cuba 1962. A global economic outlook.
The West re-energised. Putin's war in Syria. Malcolm Fraser's foreign policy.
Backlash: Pacifist nations rearm
It’s all about Ukraine
John Bolton on Putin. Misogynist attacks on conservative women. Nixon’s 1972 China visit.
American power over extended. Albanese's political prospects. The bombing of Darwin. A tribute to P.J O'Rourke.
Myanmar post-coup. Churchill reassessed. Cartoonist Bill Leak's Bio.
Scott Morrison’s foreign policy. China in the Pacific. How the pandemic changed us.
The Russia-Ukraine crisis, an unflattering portrait of Boris Johnson and the 2022 federal election
Niall Ferguson on the 'politics of catastrophe'
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the Cold War migrants of Russia
Josh Frydenberg on Andrew Peacock; and Chris Bowen on political 'charlatans'
Nicolle Flint MP on her career-ending mistreatment in politics; and how 'cancel culture' threatens democracy
Prime Minister John Howard evaluates his time in office
What next for US-China relations?
Anne-Marie Slaughter on The Biden doctrine, restoring faith in democracy and remembering Pearl Harbour
Thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and why the far-right is moving away from climate change denialism
Will US-led inflation affect Australian interest rates? And China's handling of the disappearance of Peng Shuai
The Trump- Russia collusion 'hoax' and the US- China deal to combat climate change
India and Australia strengthen ties in the face of a rising China
COP26: how will the world agree to slash emissions?
Alan Tudge on the challenges of teaching Australian history, and mounting evidence of the Wuhan coronavirus lab leak
COP26 - can we really stop relying on fossil fuels? And the legacy of Colin Powell
What now for post-Merkel Germany? And a bipartisan approach to China relations
Should vaccine passports be mandated? And the Philippines' strained relationship with China
How do Westminster and Washington justify AUKUS? And Anthony Albanese's working-class rugby league roots
In defence of the AUKUS alliance, and meet the generation who will inherit the fallout from COVID
Our first Indigenous MP and North Korea's 'zero cases' of COVID
Who does America blame for the mess in Afghanistan? And how COVID has exposed a splintering of our Federation
ISIS-K challenges the Taliban; and Philip Ruddock on the 20 year anniversary of the Tampa crisis
Defending the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Paul Wolfowitz on the 20-year war as the Taliban reclaims Afghanistan
What will the global economy of the 2020s bring for developing countries? And the history of unsung 'true believers' of the Labor Party
The Southeast Asia COVID crisis worsens, and the 'Wuhan lab' theory
Do COVID lockdowns help or hurt the community?
China: friend or foe?
The 'toxic time bomb' of Australia's climate and energy policy; and is nuclear energy part of the solution?
The Taliban’s march to Kabul; and how Australia can 'manage its relationship' with China
On the 50th anniversary of Gough Whitlam's delegation to China and Henry Kissinger's secret mission
More change of leadership in Tehran and Jerusalem; and Myanmar: a human rights disaster
Jonathan Dimbleby on 'Operation Barbarossa' and how Hitler lost the war
America: revolution, constitution and how they helped save the iconic Australian koala
What does the next generation think about Australia’s China policy?
China's pledge to battle climate change; and political realignment in the UK
Has Modi failed India?; and expanding our digital relationships with south-east Asia
100 days of Joe Biden; and the 'unmitigated disaster' of the Bay of Pigs
Pat McGorry on the 'missing middle' of funding for mental health; and why things look good for post-COVID economic recovery
300 years of prime ministership: the good, the bad and the ugly
Bangladesh- 50 years of independence; and how Trump accelerated the polarising of politics
Could Syria be the new Lebanon?; Labor and the WA landslide; and is Putin reviving the 'iron curtain'?
Why Australians chose liberalism over socialism; and will 'Megxit' prove to be worse than Brexit?
How will Labor win back its 'working class' voters?; and was the 'Arab Spring' ever going to deliver democracy to the Middle East?
China steps up threats to reclaim Taiwan; and why we need to start respecting Russia
Egypt and the Arab Winter; and can the military get away with another coup in Myanmar?
Can Australia and China learn to get along?
Indigenous support for Australia Day; and Trump is gone. Now what?
Is Home Affairs too big?; also Rana Mitter on China's new nationalism
The French history behind Lebanon’s problems; challenging the prisoners of war narrative; remembering Brent Scowcroft
Turnbull's legacy, and 75 years after Hitler's death: who did he really see as the enemy?
Shinzo Abe resignation and Catherine Belton on the Navalny poisoning, Belarus and Putin’s people
Elaine Pearson on free speech at UNSW and Hiroshima 75th anniversary
Working towards 'Utopia' in 2021; and with the rise of China, what next for the US?
2020: the year in review
How to move forward with China; and should Beethoven be 'cancelled?'
The legacy of September 11, 2001
Is Boris Johnson on political life support?; and the case against a Royal Commission into media diversity
Donald Trump is finished, but will 'Trumpism' prevail?; and de-bunking the myth of royal interference with Gough Whitlam's dismissal
America remains bitterly divided; and Macron's attempt to balance faith with freedom of speech
Trump's achievements in the Middle East; and why James Baker is 'the man who ran Washington'
NZ election: why voters chose 'health over wealth'; and the rise of socialism in the time of COVID
How COVID has worsened modern slavery; and is America breaking its own rules?
The Trump 'clown-verse' continues; and China's unrealistic green energy goals
Has Scott Morrison spent too much?; and can China rise peacefully?
Does Asia prefer Trump over Biden?; and why isolating Russia doesn't make sense
Why our economy remains stronger than others; and yes, Trump can still win the US election
What does South East Asia want from the US and China?; and Robert Draper’s To Start a War
Biden picks Kamala Harris; and should we revive manufacturing in Australia?
Australian independence at the Ausmin talks; Thatcherism and Reagonomics: lessons for economic recovery?
Liberals pushing back against cancel culture in the US; the withering of the US-South Korea alliance
Covid missteps in the UK, Will Putin be president for life? And, genocide denialism in Srebrenica
Muscling up to China and 25 years since Srebrenica
Remembering Owen Harries and Hamilton the musical
Understanding the border dispute between India and China, and the Gillard-Rudd leadership coup ten years on
Geoffrey Blainey on the vandalism of historic statues, and the geopolitics of Coronavirus conspiracies
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and a trifecta of troubles in the US
How did America get to its current state? And a look behind the mask of Antifa in Australia
Why the US should absolutely not lead a new Cold War against China. Plus, meet two Indigenous sceptics of symbolic reconciliation
Australia's balancing act with China, and the woman who became chief of staff to the Prime Minister at 22
Kevin Rudd on anarchy in the post COVID-19 world order, and could stable democracy be a reality in Iraq?
Is the Swedish model a death sentence? And, does Australia need a post-Covid economic partnership with the US, Japan and India?
Economics of coronavirus recovery, and Alexander Downer on China
Boris Johnson's COVID leadership, and Margaret Thatcher's legacy
Duterte's coronavirus response, plus Australian PMs and power
Singapore’s coronavirus advice to Australia, and Max Hastings on the Dambusters
Viral economics and, is this the end of globalisation?
COVID-19, Trump and China, and the ALP’s election fiasco
Kishore Mahbubani: COVID-19 won’t stop China’s rise
Malaysia’s Game of Thrones, and three new cases of political interference in New Zealand
What happens if Uncle Sam goes home? And, French politics with The Economist’s Sophie Pedder
A Pacific compact to counter China’s rise; And, does appeasement deserve its bad rap?
Jokowi visit: can good neighbours become good friends? Andrew Stone on why we need radical economic reform
Caucus chaos, Bloomberg's cash splash and Trump's acquittal
Does killing Soleimani really change anything in the Middle East? And, are China and Russia becoming BFFs?
Has China lost Taiwan?; The man who mapped the world
Convict Colony- the first few months of white Australia
China and the US- Should Australia choose trade or security?
How Winston Churchill defeated Nazism despite his 'black dog'
Reviewing the 'unlosable election' and why we no longer need NATO
American foreign policy regrets and the mis-spent earnings of a millennial
2019- the year in review
Are we paranoid of China? And why our approach to homelessness is all wrong
Does Australia face a 'cold peace' with China? And how the Liberals became the 'surprise party' of 2019
Australia's very own Brexit and how to be a dictator
Where to now for Labor? And will the UK get Brexit for Christmas?
Now that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, what next for ISIS? And 75 years of the Liberal Party
Joe Biden advisor on why Australia should play a larger leadership role in the Indo-Pacific
Why this human rights activist was banned from visiting China, and when philanthropy tackles the jobs of government
Why Trump's impeachment is a bad idea and remembering Jacques Chirac's opposition to the invasion of Iraq
Iran's 'exploratory violence' and will PM Trudeau be de-throned?
The China dilemma: will it spoil Scott Morrison's meeting with Trump? And American-style philanthropy
Boris' battle for Brexit and Zimbabwe after the death of Mugabe
When will China stop persecuting ethnic Uighurs?
Why not nuclear energy? And the anniversary of East Timor independence
The resurgence of anti-Semitism; and are we witnessing the 'end of Europe'?
It's time to tell the truth about indigenous affairs, and why the world should embrace Brexit
How Kim Jong Un is 'playing' President Trump
Who is Boris Johnson?
The world reacts as Iran increases its nuclear power; and the aftermath of the Versaille Peace Treaty
Is socialism still relevant in 2019?
The deification of Israel Folau and winning the 'vegan vote'
Has Trump broken the 'rules-based international order'?
One month after the unlosable election; and why we no longer need NATO
30 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, how strong is Australia's relationship with China?
Theresa May leaves number 10; and insights into the 'quiet Australian'
Federal election: how did we get it so wrong?
Election 2019: even some conservatives think we need a Labor government
Political narcissism and the soft diplomacy of beekeeping
Exporting democracy, Brexit and the anniversary of Thatcher
Prime Ministers Ben Chifley and Robert Menzies
Netanyahu wins again and Australia's changing relationship with China