Episodes

  • Censorship and the ongoing fallout from the Venice Biennale saga

    Censorship and the ongoing fallout from the Venice Biennale saga
    Mar 3 2025
    Just last month, artist Khaled Sabsabi told Full Story he never imagined he’d be picked as Australia’s representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Days later, he was unceremoniously dropped by Creative Australia. The abrupt move set off a series of recriminations and left the art world reeling. Nour Haydar tells Reged Ahmad how it all unfolded and why the move has left many outraged about the precedent it sets
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    28 mins
  • How Trump unleashed chaos in science

    How Trump unleashed chaos in science
    Mar 2 2025
    In his first month in office the US president has thrown science in the US into chaos, delaying projects and casting the future of research funding and jobs into doubt. To understand everything that has happened in the month since he took office and what its impact could be, Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Prof Harold Varmus, a Nobel prize winner and former director of the National Institutes of Health under Bill Clinton
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    22 mins
  • Back to Back Barries: Trump, the great disrupter

    Back to Back Barries: Trump, the great disrupter
    Feb 28 2025
    This week, in Guardian Australia’s new politics podcast, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine events that disrupt election campaigns – and there is no greater disrupter than Donald Trump. Also on the table: bulk-billing policy, questions about Peter Dutton’s share purchases and the political reaction to China’s live-fire drills.
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    32 mins
  • Newsroom edition: Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and their attacks on the media

    Newsroom edition: Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and their attacks on the media
    Feb 27 2025
    This week the Trump administration announced that it would be the White House, not the independent journalists’ association, that decides who gets to cover the president up close. The unprecedented move comes as the Associated Press continues to be barred from the Oval Office and Air Force One, after it refused to follow Trump in renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. And just yesterday, Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post declared that only opinions that support ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets’ would be welcome in the pages of his newspaper. Bridie Jabour talks with editor-in-chief of the Guardian Katharine Viner about the increasing threat to press freedom in the wake of these attacks on the media
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    16 mins
  • Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine

    Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine
    Feb 26 2025
    Within a month of returning to the White House, Donald Trump has upended decades of American foreign policy on Russia and Ukraine – and his unpredictable rhetoric and abrupt policy changes have also raised questions about US support for Taiwan against China, leaving people on the island on edge. The Guardian’s correspondent in Taipei, Helen Davidson, tells Nour Haydar what we know so far about Trump’s stance on Taiwan – and what’s at stake
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    21 mins
  • The religious sect members who killed Elizabeth Struhs

    The religious sect members who killed Elizabeth Struhs
    Feb 25 2025
    Last month, 14 adult members of Australian religious sect the Saints were found guilty of the manslaughter of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs. Today they are due to be sentenced for their crimes. Queensland state reporter Andrew Messenger, tells Reged Ahmad about why insulin was withheld from the eight-year-old type 1 diabetic, and what we know about the sect
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    23 mins
  • Could you live without money?

    Could you live without money?
    Feb 24 2025
    Jo Nemeth has lived without money for 10 years. When Guardian Australia published her story last month, some readers were critical of her decisions and described her as a ‘bludger’. Jo speaks to Reged Ahmad about living and working in a nine-person household, the importance of community and the limits of moneyless living You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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    24 mins
  • Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine?

    Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine?
    Feb 23 2025
    Jonathan Freedland speaks to veteran US diplomat Kurt Volker and the Guardian’s US live news editor Chris Michael about Trump’s efforts to bring Putin back into the fold You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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    31 mins