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ABC's Global Affairs editor, Laura Tingle returns to Late Night Live, to examine Israel's response to the Iran/US peace deal. Can it hold? And Donald Trump's decision to welcome white South Africans as refugees has become one of his most controversial immigration moves, raising questions about who qualifies for protection and whether politics is shaping refugee policy. Plus why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?
Guests: 
Laura Tingle, ABC Global Affairs Editor
Loren Landau, Professor of Migration at Oxford, and chair, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.  
Associate Professor Gordana Rasic, Head of Mosquito Genomics, QIMR Berghofer

Biljana Plavšić  became the only woman convicted for mass atrocities in the Bosnian War. Still alive, in her 90s, a Bosnian-Australian law professor meets her face to face. And cultural historian, Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti explores the ways humans have interpreted faces and how they have shaped our ideas of morality, social hierarchy and psychology.
Guests
Olivera Simic, Professor in Law, Griffith University and the author of, Madam War Criminal Biljana Plavšić, Serbia’s Iron Lady
Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti, Professor of Modern History at King’s College London, and the author of ‘The Face: A Cultural History’.

When a proposed mine threatens Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, the Sepik people resist the mine on their own terms, but will they succeed? And fifty years since the Soweto uprising, how South Africa has reckoned with its past.
Guests: 
Emmanuel Peni, director of the PNG NGO Project Sepik, and co-Producer of the film.
Theonila Roka Matbob, former PNG MP from Bougainville and winner of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize. 
Professor Noor Nieftagodien, Head of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand
Seth Mazibuko, activist, former teacher and one of the original student leaders in the 1976 uprising

Ian Dunt on the continued fallout over the death of 18 year old Southampton University student Henry Nowak. In the US, a radical movement known as ‘masculinism’ wants to repel the advances of feminism. And this weekend (June 14), Switzerland will vote on a referendum proposal to cap its population at 10 million. But it remains unclear how such a “cap” would work, particularly in a nation with large companies that rely on skilled migrant labour. 
Guests:
Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentator
Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic 
Mercedes Ruehl , Switzerland and Austria correspondent for the Financial Times

Against the odds, the exterior of Antoni Gaudi's extraordinary Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona is finished, and Pope Leo will bless the newly completed final tower on the centenary of the famous architect's death. Plus, why Spam is considered a luxury good in Korea and is a beloved staple across Asia and the Pacific. The answer lies with the US military. 
Guests: 
Professor Mark Burry, Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology's School of Design and Architecture, and Senior Faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. 
Kelly Spring, food historian, co-presenter of the Hungry Historians podcast and author of ‘SPAM: a global history’ (2025, Reaktion/New South)