Plus, Gillian Tett on using anthropological tools to drive better policy.

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The hollowing out of the public service and the politics of net zero in the regions

Plus, recommendations for reading, watching and listening in October.

Afghan arrivals start their new lives in Australia and the notorious British spy George Blake

Plus, Lin Hatfield Dodds on systems leadership and steering Australia's oldest charity The Benevolent Society, CEO of Good Things Australia Foundation Jess Wilson provides practical advice on where you can go to build your digital skills and Catherine Fisher, author of Sound Citizens: Australian Women Broadcasters Claim their Voice, 1923–1956 examines how a cohort of professional women broadcasters, activists and politicians used radio to improve women’s status in Australia from the introduction of radio in 1923 until the introduction of television in 1956.

Ian Goldin on building a better post-pandemic world

As the Chinese Communist Party gears up for 20th Party Congress in 2022, Beijing is implementing sweeping changes across a host of industries and parts of society. Is there a common motive, a ‘red thread’, running through these changes?

A Foreign Affair: China, and Australia in the Pacific

Plus, Lebanon's crumbling healthcare system and improving adult literacy in Australia.

Life after 'Mutti': Germany farewells Angela Merkel

Two decades after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the memories of those terrible events still loom large in the national psyche. On the 20th anniversary of September 11, three American commentators from across the political spectrum reflect on the cultural legacy of September 11, and the lasting impacts it has had on the United States.

The legacy of 9/11 and the enduring appeal of Roger Federer

Plus, what to read, watch and listen to in September.

Journalist Nick Bryant reflects on life at a crossroads

Plus, stories of hope and humanity during the pandemic.

70 years of ANZUS and the golfing boom

The ethics of mandatory vaccination; Rebellion in Cuba and 70 years of the Australian Financial Review

Plus, Evie Wyld reads her poem 'Floorboards', and we get some recommendations for reading, watching and listening in August.

Alan Rusbridger on why the pandemic is good for journalism; Where are all the political biographies of women?

Plus, reflections of an Australian writer who survived the Beirut port explosion a year ago.

The story of Afterpay and David Miliband on the Age of Impunity

Southeast Asia has quickly become the region hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with many countries that successfully held off the pandemic last year now suffering from the spread of the Delta variant. The domestic social, economic and political ramifications could be significant, and they come at a time when the region is of growing geopolitical significance to the US and China. Guests: Emma Connors, Southeast Asia correspondent for the Australian Financial Review; Dr Huong Le Thu, senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and a non-resident fellow with the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Michael Wesley, Deputy Vice Chancellor, International, at the University of Melbourne.

A Foreign Affair heads to Southeast Asia, a short history of war, and 75 years of the ANU

After 15 years at the helm of AustralianSuper and a career in superannuation going back to 1994, Ian Silk reflects on what the incredible growth of industry super funds might mean for the future of the sector and for Australia's economy as a whole.

Ian Silk on the past and future of superannuation; Nordic policy lessons and growing up in the Wimmera.

Plus, recommendations for reading, watching and listening this month.

The battle to break up Big Tech, and the women who took on ISIS and won

Founded in 1921 by 13 men inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party now has 92 million members and is undoubtedly the most powerful political party in the world. Leading Sinologists Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London; Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and Linda Jaivin, the author of The Shortest History of China discuss the extraordinary rise of Chinese Communist Party, the philosophy that underpins it, and where it might lead China next.

100 years of the Chinese Communist Party; and a productive indigenous partnership

Making sense of a changing world, Extra with Geraldine Doogue explores the risks and possibilities of big shifts in power, puts events with our neighbourhood and overseas into context and explains how this affects Australia’s place within our wider world.

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