Shashi Tharoor on how post-colonial nationalism in India has been perverted under Prime Minister Modi and Paul van Reyk looks at what the history of food in Australia tells us about ourselves.

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Shashi Tharoor on Indian nationalism and Paul van Reyk on Australia's food history

The realities of PNG's Covid situation in the provinces are emerging. Development plans in the NT are creating controversies over water. And UK writer Alice Hattrick has been examining mystery illness - an experience she knows well.

Pacific update, Northern Territory water pressures, and insights into mysterious illnesses

Bruce Shapiro looks back over the achievements of Colin Powell, Tony Kevin looks back at the sinking of the SIEV-X twenty years ago and Ross Barnett discusses the risks and rewards of bringing the woolly mammoth back to life.

Colin Powell's legacy, the sinking of the SIEV-X, recreating the woolly mammoth

Laura Tingle has the latest on Canberra politics, Lucie Newsome discusses why sons are favoured to inherit the family farm and journalists Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson examine the disappearance of a man from a tiny outback town.

Laura Tingle's Canberra, farm succession and lost in Larramah

What happened in 1911 when many brilliant minds of the era like Marie Cure and Albert Einstein meet at a conference in Brussels and what we can learn from ancient civilisations about how to live with nature.

When Einstein meets Curie at the Solvay Conference and the complexity of ancient civilisations

The UK's early response to Covid has been condemned, but life now under Covid is relatively 'normal'. Lech Blaine's Quarterly Essay looks at elites' misuse of the larrikin identity.

Ian Dunt's Britain, and Lech Blaine on Australian larrikins

Bruce Shapiro on the journalists who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, Andrew Quilty and Nadene Ghouri report on the latest from Afghanistan and Tom Wright tells the story of Leonard Francis, the scandalous US Navy contractor.

Bruce Shapiro, update from Afghanistan and "Fat Leonard" sings

Amy Remeikis on the latest from Canberra, Tim Buckley looks at the consequences of Australia not engaging at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow and Gerhard Toews examines the legacy of dissidents sent to Gulag camps.

Canberra politics, Glasgow talks and prosperity in the Gulags

Evan Osnos looks at three cities in America to investigate the increasing polarisation of the country that was already happening before President Trump inflamed the situation and Alec MacGillis talks about the huge influence Amazon has in increasing inequality in America and reducing quality of life.

America's increasing inequality and polarisation with Evan Osnos and Alec MacGillis

Wilcannia's covid disaster was featured on the front page of The Washington Post. Asteroids have had major impacts in the long ago past, and there will be more to come. More information is only now emerging about Victoria's convicts.

Indigenous update with Amy McQuire, asteroids past and future, and Victoria's convicts

Laura Tingle discusses the controversial resignation of Gladys Berejiklian, Ben Noble on the threat Alexei Navalny poses to Putin, and Lisa Sullivan previews the McCubbin exhibition at the Geelong Gallery in Victoria.

Laura Tingle on the Berejiklian exit, Ben Noble on Alexei Navalny and Lisa Sullivan on Frederick McCubbin

Gillian Mears, in a program-length feature interview, is frank, funny and flirtatious as she discusses her life, family, work and facing death.

Gillian Mears, novelist and euthanasia advocate

Bernadette Brennan discusses her biography of the brilliant but enigmatic author, Gillian Mears.

Bernadette Brennan on her biography of Gillian Mears

There are some pressure points in the Australian/UK relationship, and the UK is dealing with a major fuel crisis. Plus, a feature interview with journalist Bronwyn Adcock, who has written a scarifying account of the bushfire on the NSW coast that she and her family lived through, and the opportunities that were missed, to prevent or limit the damage.

Ian Dunt's Britain, and lessons from a devastating bush fire

Bruce Shapiro on yet another possible government shutdown, how the military use and misuse social media and facing the opposing problems of malnourishment and obesity across the warming globe.

US politics, the military's use of social media and the state of food in the world

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