Australia’s Milkshake song has been knocked out of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, but the show must go on. Who are the favourites and what are this year’s big controversies?
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How significant is Australia's new look parliament?
It’s usually journalists who write the first draft of history, but Saturday Extra is turning to two of Australia’s foremost political historians to weigh in on the big events that shaped the week: from the new look majority-female Albanese cabinet to Sussan Ley being voted in as the first female Liberal Party leader.
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Mushroom murder trial puts Morwell in global spotlight
Media vans, journalists, camera crews, lawyers and mushroom experts have all descended on the Victorian regional town of Morwell for the triple murder case that's known as the mushroom trial. It centres on Erin Patterson, who’s accused of deliberately poisoning four relatives with death cap mushrooms served in a beef wellington dish in July 2023. Some of the world’s biggest news organisations have been covering the trial, putting the sleepy town under the global spotlight.
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NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman on Trump's Gulf Tour
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, there's been a flurry of seismic events. There was the president’s shock proposal for a US takeover of Gaza, the infamous Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian president Vlodomyr Zelensky and now a remarkable tour of the Gulf, announcing a lifting of sanctions for Syria. In this wide ranging interview with Saturday Extra, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and journalist Thomas Friedman analyses Donald Trump's motivations, possibilities and objectives.
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Optimism in war-torn Syria after lifting of US sanctions
US President Donald Trump's announcement this week that the United States will ease wide-ranging sanctions on Syria sparked celebrations in the capital, Damascus. Syrians are hopeful for relief after years of impoverishment by civil war and restrictions. The sanctions were a major obstacle to Syria's economic recovery and post-war reconstruction, and their lifting can bring much-needed investment to the country.
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