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In Melbourne, few names carry the weight of Mick Gatto.
For decades, he’s been known as a survivor of the gangland wars, a man whose influence has stretched from the city’s underworld into the heart of the construction industry.
This week, police raided his home. Gatto and his wife were arrested, then released without charge. He says it was all over a driving infringement. Police say they’re investigating alleged financial offences.
But the raid has landed in the middle of a much larger fight over corruption, intimidation and alleged underworld influence inside Victoria’s building sector.
Today, investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, on Mick Gatto, corruption in the construction industry, and the reckoning now facing the state’s Big Build.

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Guest: Investigative reporter for The Age and SMH, Nick McKenzie
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29 women have been killed in Australia so far this year - most allegedly by their intimate partner. Their names sometimes hit the headlines, but often not. And even then, the outrage seldom lasts.
We’ve known for a long time that Australia has a problem with violence against women. Little seems to work to change the statistics. For some advocates - a Royal Commission is the only chance at making a difference.
A petition calling for that - now sits at more than 110-thousand signatures.
Today, writer and advocate Jess Hill on whether it will ever happen, and what it could achieve, if it did.

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Guest: Writer and advocate, Jess Hill
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For decades Pauline Hanson has been on the fringe of politics. Sometimes mocked, often ignored, occasionally courted.

Even from that position she’s been influential: her presence can be felt in our immigration policies, dating back to Howard.
But her power and her popularity have never been greater than they are today. A recent poll has one Nation as the most popular party in the country, surpassing Labor in primary support.
So just how possible is an Australia governed by One Nation?
Today, host of The Conversation’s The Making of One Nation podcast, Ashlynne McGhee, on the party’s popularity and what it will try to do with it.

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Guest: Making One Nation podcast host, Ashlynne McGhee
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Five years on from COVID, a new report has found the world is even more vulnerable to new pandemics than it was before.
The report, by a body linked to the World Health Organisation, has been released as the world grapples with Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, as well as one of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks on record.
The report found that, despite advances in vaccines and diagnostics, climate change, armed conflict and misinformation are undermining global preparedness.
Today, Professor Sharon Lewin from the Doherty Institute, on the risk of a large-scale disease outbreak and what we should be doing to prepare for it.

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Guest: Doherty Institute Director, Professor Sharon Lewin
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The world is facing a series of large-scale crises – war, declining democracy, climate catastrophe.
So, is it all a sign that our civilisation is reaching its limits – and that our economic and political systems are nearing collapse?
That’s the question Australian author Sarah Wilson has been interrogating for the last three years for her new book, ‘I Eat The Stars’.
Today, writer Sarah Wilson on what happens when the systems that hold us together begin to fray all at once – and what the future looks like after civilisational collapse.

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Guest: Author Sarah Wilson
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