The Radio National Hour

Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.

Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.

It’s one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States for the second time, but the 47th version is very different to the 45th.

Today parliamentarians came together to remember the 15 people slain as the sun set over Australia’s most iconic beach on December the 14th last year. But as debate begins over the political response to the Bondi attacks, will MPs be able to summon the same unity? And we hear from the aunty of the youngest victim of the atrocity, 10-year old Matilda.

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.
Today, Pulitzer Prize winning founder of the website PolitiFact Bill Adair on the golden age of lying in American politics 
Also, as Tasmania’s salmon industry struggles to maintain its social licence amid mass mortality events Canada says it will ban open net  salmon farms altogether.
And, reflections of twenty years in the music business with Australian singer-songwriter Josh Pyke.