Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

LNL stories separated out for listening. From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture, Late Night Live puts you firmly in the big picture.

Episodes

The assassination of Shinzo Abe

July 11, 2022 • 16 mins
The people of Japan have been shocked by the assassination of former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. Still an enormously influential figure in Japanese politics, he is also being mourned across the globe as a great international leader. Political violence is rare in Japan, but Japan expert Roger Pulvers puts this assassination in an historical context.
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Bye Bye Boris

July 11, 2022 • 17 mins
After surviving years of political scandals, Boris Johnson has finally succumbed to pressure to resign as British Prime Minister, after over 50 government ministers quit their posts in protest. Is this really bye-bye Boris? If so, what kind of Britain does he leave in his wake?
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Bernard Keane's Canberra

July 11, 2022 • 16 mins
While Crikey's Bernard Keane has welcomed the decision to drop the prosecution of Witness K's lawyer Bernard Collaery, he says there is unfinished business which should be the subject of a federal ICAC.
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How Australia came to embrace its animals

July 7, 2022 • 20 mins
The beloved koala was originally called the New Holland sloth. To the first European colonists, Australian wildlife was bewildering at best. But over the past two centuries a host of scientists and enthusiasts have transformed our relationship with the continent's animals.
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Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange and free speech

July 7, 2022 • 31 mins
One of the most significant whistleblowers of our time, 91-year-old Daniel Ellsberg, whose leak of the Pentagon Papers exposed US government lies and helped end the Vietnam War, speaks out in defence of Julian Assange and free speech. He argues that the only way for Julian Assange to get out of Belmarsh Prison, even to live, is for the Australian government to advocate now on his behalf.
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The power of prison radio in giving voice to the voiceless around the world

July 6, 2022 • 40 mins
The first ever international prison radio conference has just been held in Norway, bringing together representatives of prison radio shows from 19 countries, including Australia, where Indigenous people continue to be grossly over-represented in prison populations.
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NAIDOC week on NITV

July 6, 2022 • 10 mins
What to watch on NITV this NAIDOC week. SBS Director of Indigenous Content outlines some of television you can catch on NITV and SBS on demand this week - from crime thriller True Colours to the documentary series Off Country and Big Mob Brekky.
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The Koori Mail's flood leadership recognised

July 5, 2022 • 13 mins
The Lismore-based national newspaper, the Koori Mail, is Australia's only fully indigenous owned and managed paper. When Lismore was flooded in March, the Koori Mail staff went above and beyond. That's now been recognised with a NAIDOC award for Innovation. 
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The importance of protesting anti-protest laws

July 5, 2022 • 22 mins
As climate and environment protest action steps up in the wake of more floods on the East Coast of Australia, state governments are cracking down on protesters with new laws in NSW and Tasmania.
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Bruce Shapiro's America: Supreme Court v. the environment

July 5, 2022 • 15 mins
Gun rights, abortion, now the environment. The US Supreme Court has curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate carbon pollution, slowing America's ability to deal with the climate crisis.
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The surprising history of women in Hollywood

July 4, 2022 • 18 mins
The #MeToo movement revealed the very ugly side of Hollywood's misogyny with hundreds of claims of sexual harassment and assault made not just against Harvey Weinstein but many other men working in the industry. What is surprising is that the film industry started out with many women filmmakers. It was only once the industry really started to make money that were women pushed aside. Can they now muscle their way back into more ...
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Plight of the Honeybee

July 4, 2022 • 17 mins
NSW authorities are racing to stop the deadly varroa mite from spreading across borders and wiping out the country’s European honey bees. Will the arrival of the varroa destructor on our shores prompt a deeper conversation, about strengthening the resilience of our bee populations and perhaps even finding ways to live with the mite?
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Richard Tanter's Canberra

July 4, 2022 • 16 mins
The Prime Minister is heading back to Australia after his attendance at the NATO Summit in Madrid, and a visit to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Albanese’s European tour has been widely touted as a success, but there are concerns Australia’s new closer relationship with NATO could present us with some difficulties to navigate.
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The importance of the ABC archives

June 30, 2022 • 14 mins
In its 90 years, the ABC has collected the sounds and sights of Australia from the centre of power in Canberra to the most remote Indigenous communities, documenting both everyday life and the moments that changed Australia. Now the ABC has announced that 58 staff may lose their jobs. Two archivists explain the importance of the ABC archive and the skills archivists bring to their profession that cannot be replaced.
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John Pickup's brilliant ABC career

June 30, 2022 • 36 mins
John Pickup started his career at the ABC in the mailroom in Sydney, but quickly moved on to the sound effects department. He worked in television on the first broadcast as well as on the Melbourne Olympic Games. But he returned to his first love radio and went to on to work across the country in places like Broken Hill, Darwin and Mackay. To mark the 90th birthday of the ABC, he shares just some of the many stories from his brilli...
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A remote Greek island celebrates new fame

June 29, 2022 • 21 mins
One of the lesser known Greek islands is Kalymnos, on the eastern side of the Aegean. Last weekend the island had a significant event – the launch of a Greek language edition of a book that was first published in English in 1955.  The local population has only recently learnt of the existence of 'Mermaid singing', an account of life on Kalymnos. It was written by Australian author Charmian Clift, who spent time there wi...
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Myanmar on the brink

June 29, 2022 • 18 mins
As Myanmar descends deeper into a violent and brutal civil war, the plans by the military junta to execute two pro democracy figures, and place former leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in solitary confinement is likely to inflame popular uprising against its rule.
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Ian Dunt's UK

June 29, 2022 • 10 mins
The Scots' news push for independence, the Tories cop a hiding in two byelections and the Northern Ireland protocol bill passes the House of Commons.
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Colonial landscape photography

June 28, 2022 • 17 mins
In the era of fervent settlement activity around the Pacific rim - Australia, New Zealand, California - landscape photographers were key to the colonial exercise, a new book argues.  They showed usually empty landscapes devoid of indigenous people.  They contributed to prospective settlers’ interest in new lands.  And they built an emotional attachment to places.  This all strengthened the settler sense of territorialism. 
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Shareholder activists demand more transparency from Japan’s biggest energy companies

June 28, 2022 • 14 mins
A record shareholder action is underway in Japan as major energy companies face climate-focussed resolutions demanding more transparency around how they will reduce their emissions.
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