From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture, Late Night Live puts you firmly in the big pict...
Aristotle claimed that all humans want to know. But at the same time, we battle a competing will for ignorance. Through history, humanity has been repeatedly seduced to ignorance by irrational rumours, magical thinking and preposterous prophets. Are we living in a time of particular ignorance?
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How First Nations resisted colonisation in the River Country
In his new book Uprising, Stephen Gapps reveals the story of frontier resistance, along a huge area of the Murray-Darling river system - a concerted defence of River Country.
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Australia's rabbit invasion
Australia’s rabbit plague was the fastest colonisation rate for an introduced mammal ever recorded anywhere on Earth. Which is why reports of an emerging plague of rabbits in the Adelaide Hills have locals and scientists worried. GUEST: Mike Letnic, Professor of Conservation biology and Ecosystem restoration, University of New South WalesPRODUCER: Helen Pitt
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Does Peter Dutton's gas policy stack up?
Peter Dutton has made gas policy a central plank of his election pitch, unveiling a plan to reserve domestic gas supply and reduce energy prices. But he’s yet to release the modelling to back up his claims. Mark Ogge says reserving gas for domestic use is important – but he says new gas projects don’t add to Australian supply, they just enable the export of more gas. And that’s a big problem for the climate. GUEST: Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor, The Australia InstitutePRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer
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Ian Dunt's UK: why did London police arrest activists in a Quaker meeting house?
Questions remain as to why London police arrested six activists in a Quaker meeting house who were planning a protest. Meanwhile, the conviction of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen for graft in a Paris courtroom has sent shock waves through European politics. Guest: Ian Dunt, columnist with i news, co-host of Origin Story podcast
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