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Prominent Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has received death threats and been shunned by some of his best friends for his coverage of Israel’s operations in Gaza. Yet he continues to strive to report fearlessly on the war and the toll it’s taking on both Gaza and Israel.  

An underwhelming budget, Ex Senior Tory Lee Anderson joins Reform party and former PM Theresa May to leave parliament.

Former Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis discusses his long relationship with Australia, the latest from Greece and Europe as well as the ongoing influence of America on our foreign policy, on Europe and on the Middle East.

Guest: Yanis Varoufakis, economist, author and founder of Diem25

Amy Remeikis brings the latest issues from Canberra which in an effort to be green, are recycled. Nuclear energy, the demise of the ute and the Liberal Party's ongoing women problem. 

Guest: Amy Remeikis, Political Reporter, The Guardian

This International Women's Day while debate rages about the latest gender pay gap figures, LNL looks back at the women of Australia's history who led the fight for better wages and conditions, writing letters, leading protests and strikes, taking on male-dominated jobs and challenging our governments and our biggest employers to do better. 

Guests: 

Sally McManus, Secretary of the ACTU

Wil Stracke, Assistant Secretary at the Victorian Trades Hall Council and Tik Tok star

Robynne Murphy, former steel worker, union delegate and producer and director of the documentary “Women of Steel”

This story contains an excerpt from the film FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A History of Women and Work in Australia by Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver & Jeni Thornley, 1983.

Guest Presenter Kylie Morris is also PRIMER's gendered violence reporter. 

Do doctors really make the worst patients? Beloved Australian writer Peter Goldworthy was forced to reflect on this, and a lot else besides, when he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma - a cancer of the bone marrow - in 2018.

The march to the 2024 Presidential elections continues apace with the Super Tuesday primaries and Supreme Court deliberations. Bruce Shapiro unwraps all the latest from the USA.

Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. 

As Bob Brown heads into his 80th year, he talks to Phillip about a life of activism on forests, fish farms and the role independents might have in the upcoming Tasmanian election. He also talks about his work in East Timor and Tibet, and why he wants a statue of forgotten Tasmanian opera singer, Amy Sherwin. 

Guest: Former Greens Leader and Senator Bob Brown

Youth crime is once again on the political agenda in several Australian states and territories in the lead up to elections. Matt Noffs - grandson of the trailblazing Reverend Ted Noffs and CEO of the Ted Noffs Foundation challenges prevailing narratives on youth crime, punishment and drug use and considers how to break these cycles - for the good of young people and the community. 

Guest: Matt Noffs, CEO Ted Noffs Foundation

Maritime security and responding to the climate and energy challenge shape up as the key issues of the ASEAN leaders summit, with Foreign Minister Penny Wong warning of the most confronting set of circumstances in decades. Plus why the Dunkley by-election got so nasty, and what it says about campaign tactics.

Guest: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30

Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee has often been described as an outspoken darling of the Left. She describes herself and her famous family as posh left-wingers. Her latest book, part memoir, part social history traces her family's high profile links to social justice and other left-wing causes while exploring the guilt of coming from privilege. 

Guest: Polly Toynbee, journalist, author.

Polly Toynbee will be appearing at the Adelaide Writer's Week, to talk about, An Uneasy Inheritance, my family and other radicals which is published by Allen and Unwin /Atlantic Books.

Oxford historian Peter Frankopan sits down in the studio with Phillip Adams to discuss his life, why we need to shift our Western-centric way of thinking and how history informs the moment of global chaos we find ourselves in.

Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian leader alive and has been hailed as their version of Nelson Mandela. Barghouti is seen as the only person who could bring the two factions of Fatah and Hamas together, to create a sustainable governing structure. But Barghouti has been in prison in Israel for murder for the last twenty-two years.

Guests: 

Sophia Scott – Co-director, Tomorrow's Freedom

Sawsan Asfari – Producer, Tomorrow's Freedom

Tomorrow's Freedom is screening at the Palestinian Film Festival 

In 2012, a school bus crashed on a neglected road in the West Bank killing six children and one teacher. One of the children was five year old Milad Salama. Journalist and author Nathan Thrall spoke to his father Abed, and through his story he reveals the difficulties and dangers of daily life for Palestinians in the West Bank.

Guest: Nathan Thrall, author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (Hachette)

For more information on Nathan Thrall's appearance at the Adelaide Writer's Festival click here. 

Opium had long been used sparingly in India and China as a valuable and useful medicine. When Britain's dependency on Chinese tea created a balance of trade problem, the East India company turbo-charged the opium industry and found an infinitely expanding market for opium in China.

Guest: Amitav Ghosh, author of Smoke and Ashes: Opiums Hidden Histories (Hachette)

More headaches for Rishi Sunak after by-election loses and Tory MP Lee Anderson suspended. Also, chaos and the Gaza motion in the House of Commons last week. 

Naomi Smith: CEO, Best for Britain

Belly or oriental dancing can be traced back to the Ottoman empire, when it was performed by both women and men.

Even now, it’s not uncommon to see men wiggling their hips in private, at weddings or other family functions. 

However, public performances have really been the domain of women until recently. 

Now male belly dancing is enjoying a comeback.

Guests:

Rachid Alexander

Chris of Melbourne

Journalist and former LNL correspondent Margo Kingston returns to reflect on how the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the late 1990's ultimately led to the split in the Coalition which has now manifested as the number of Teals and other independents in the Australian parliament. She also looks at the poltical influence of "Advance" and what effect they may have on the Dunkley by-election. 

Guest: Margo Kingston, journalist and author. 

Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest has challenged political parties to step up their action on renewables, telling them to stop "bickering", but what's in it for him? How much will it cost to bring in the necessary reforms to higher education? And why cost-of-living is the only issue that counts in the Dunkley by-election, despite Advances attempts persuade voters otherwise.

Guest: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30

In the Middle Ages, the rich were expected to use their fortunes as ‘private barns of money’, helping local communities through plague, famine or war. Economic historian Guido Alfani asks whether 21st-century billionaires have a moral duty to contribute to the common good.