Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

It's an incredibly dangerous time to be a journalist, whether you are reporting from one of the world's many conflict zones or from seemingly democratic countries. Three of the world's great press freedom advocates join Phillip Adams to discuss why this moment is so particularly challenging for journalists and how freedom of the press can be better protected. 

Professor Marcia Langton pays tribute to Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG and talks openly to Phillip Adams about why she feels the Voice referendum failed and where the conversation needs to move now. 

Guest: Marcia Langton - Professor of Australian Indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne. She was a Co-chair of the Voice Co-Design Senior Advisory Group, along with Professor Tom Calma. 

Laura Tingle looks at Nemesis - the Turnbull years, what Yang Hengjun's death sentence could mean for our relationship with China, and whether the Liberals will be snookered into supporting the stage three tax cuts legislation as parliament resumes.  

Guest: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30

Social historian Ebony Nilsson tells the remarkable life story of Vladimir Mishchenko who became Bill Marshall - an ASIO spy.

As prominent Australians call for a détente with China, former banker Satyajit Das looks at the history of de-globalisation and whether the so-called BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) could de-couple from the American dollar and create their own trade network. 

Guest: Satyajit Das, former banker and author of A Banquet of Consequences Reloaded and Fortunes Fool: Australia’s Choices.

 Digital natives are discovering the different reading experience that magazines provide.

More than a million people marched in Germany after an investigation revealed the far right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had secret meetings to discuss a “master plan” to “re-migrate” migrants to North Africa. Further revelations have shown how deep the Neo-Nazi networks are not just in the far right but also the mainstream parties of Germany.

Guest: Ann-Katrin Müller, Political Editor, Der Spiegel

James Ward has been fascinated by the mundane for many years, and has written a book entirely about stationery, examining the stories behind the stuff we have littered across our desks and inside our pencil cases - from paperclips to post it notes and everything in between.

Guest: James Ward, author of Adventures in Stationery – A journey through your pencil case

This interview was originally broadcast on 5 May 2015.

For the first time in 50 years, two Australian psychiatrists have been given permission to treat two of their patients with psychedelic drugs.

This follows the TGA approving the use in a clinical setting of MDMA and psilocybin.

Guests:

Dr Eli Kolter, Psychiatrist, Medical Director, Malvern Private Hospital

Claire, Client 

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's battle with Tory rebels.The latest on his Rwanda Bill and his electoral prospects for 2024.

Guest: Ian Dunt, Commentator and columnist for iNews  

A  trip to the Wessel Islands in north-east Arnhem land has uncovered the location where ancient African coins from the island of Kilwa in Tanzania were found in the 1940's. Since the story went viral in 2014, many people have tried to solve the mystery of how they got there.

Guests:

Mike Owen, Historian and Co-founder, PastMasters.

Michael Hermes, Archaeologist and consultant to PastMasters

Crikey's political editor Bernard Keane talks about the ABC's explosive new political docuseries 'Nemesis', what Scott Morrison's political legacy might be and whether the Stage 3 tax cut reforms represent a breach of voters' trust. 

In an engaging address given at this year's Byron Writers Festival, pioneering historian Henry Reynolds covered living in Townsville in the 1960s, the importance of local history, the extraordinary racial gaps in Australia's early history telling, discovering the truths of frontier violence, his friendship with Eddie Mabo, and why the outcome of the Voice referendum will affect Australia's international standing. Archival audio from the ABC has been added to the recording of the talk.

Early in 1907 the French newspaper ‘Le Matin’ announced plans for the most audacious motor race yet. It was to be an epic test, not only of human endurance but also the technological capacity of the newly-invented car.

From elaborate gastro-diplomacy to famines orchestrated by the state, this is the history of modern Russia as you’ve never heard it before – told through the lens of food.

Guest: Witold Szabłowski - Polish journalist and author of What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork published by Penguin Random House

The war in Ukraine is about to head into it's third year. With military supplies in Ukraine dwindling and the future flow of Western aid far from guaranteed, is now the time to start thinking about a negotiated agreement? 

Guests:

Anatol Lieven - Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Michael Kimmage - Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and a Non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The Republican presidential primaries have begun, but as the list of candidates shrinks are they a waste of time? Is it inevitable that the race for the Presidency will be between Donald Trump and Joe Biden? How have both parties ended up with these candidates to offer to the US public?

Guests:

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

James Fallows, journalist and author. His newsletter is called Breaking the News.

The relationship between politics and pubs started very early in Australia's colonial history as the pub provided a rare and welcoming place for workers to meet. This continued over the years as people continued to meet in pubs to discuss ideas and strategies to move Australia forward, including during the years of the Sydney Push.

Guests: Alex Ettling, social historian and editor of Knocking the Top Off: A People's History of Alcohol in Australia (Interventions)

Wendy Bacon, journalist, academic and activist and contributor of the essay 'Critical Drinking with the Sydney Push' 

The Prime Minister has called his MPs back to Canberra early to discuss a likely change to the promised stage three tax cuts as the government feels the pressure to address the cost of living crisis. But that's not the only crisis on its hands - there's a severe shortage of affordable housing, mortgage stress, the escalating cost of climate disasters and energy security risks thanks to global wars.

Guests:

Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30

Sean Kelly, weekly columnist at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

In the year 68AD, the death of Emperor Nero precipitated a year of coups and civil war that saw four Caesars in succession rule the Roman Empire. But from the chaos emerged a 70-year era of unrivalled peace, power and prosperity known as the Pax Romana - when the Empire reached the heights of its predatory glory. 

Guest: Tom Holland, historian and author of Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age. Co-host of The Rest is History podcast. 

Originally broadcast 10th August, 2023