Episodes

  • Inside the Islamic State prisons the west is trying to forget

    Inside the Islamic State prisons the west is trying to forget
    Mar 9 2025
    Michael Safi travelled to north-east Syria to speak to IS foreign fighters imprisoned there. He discovered that a change in the US administration, and USAid funding cuts, means there is a growing fear of prison breaks
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    37 mins
  • Back to Back Barries: how to rescue a recession election

    Back to Back Barries: how to rescue a recession election
    Mar 7 2025
    This week, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry go back to the future to look at how history has given us an insight into what to expect in 2025 – and what lessons Anthony Albanese can learn from Bob Hawke.
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    34 mins
  • Newsroom edition: why life for women and men is still not equal

    Newsroom edition: why life for women and men is still not equal
    Mar 6 2025
    In the past 20 years men have not increased the amount of housework they do, despite women’s workloads increasing. While they’re at work, women are still earning less than men. And as these inequalities continue to play out, Donald Trump’s assault on diversity and inclusion programs threatens to spill over into Australia. Bridie Jabour talks with editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor, head of newsroom Mike Ticher, and national news editor Josephine Tovey about the gender pay gap, and why life for women and men is still not equal
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    22 mins
  • How do we close the orgasm gap

    How do we close the orgasm gap
    Mar 5 2025
    We all deserve pleasure, so why don’t cisgendered women feel entitled to it? The orgasm gap shines a light on not only why strict social norms trap both men and women in unfulfilling sex lives, but how our current sex-positive era may not deliver the sexual liberation women have been waiting for. Guardian Australia lifestyle editor and the author of All Women Want, Alyx Gorman, explains to Reged Ahmad why too many women are having mediocre sex – and what can be done to fix it
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    25 mins
  • Trump v Zelenskyy and the 10-minute tirade that changed the world

    Trump v Zelenskyy and the 10-minute tirade that changed the world
    Mar 4 2025
    The US is pausing military aid to Ukraine, days after the US president, Donald Trump, clashed with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the Oval Office. Washington DC bureau chief David Smith tells Nour Haydar why the withholding of US military support is a ‘devastating blow’ to Ukraine and what it means for a changing international order
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    21 mins
  • Censorship and the ongoing fallout from the Venice Biennale saga

    Censorship and the ongoing fallout from the Venice Biennale saga
    Mar 3 2025
    Just last month, artist Khaled Sabsabi told Full Story he never imagined he’d be picked as Australia’s representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Days later, he was unceremoniously dropped by Creative Australia. The abrupt move set off a series of recriminations and left the art world reeling. Nour Haydar tells Reged Ahmad how it all unfolded and why the move has left many outraged about the precedent it sets
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    28 mins
  • How Trump unleashed chaos in science

    How Trump unleashed chaos in science
    Mar 2 2025
    In his first month in office the US president has thrown science in the US into chaos, delaying projects and casting the future of research funding and jobs into doubt. To understand everything that has happened in the month since he took office and what its impact could be, Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Prof Harold Varmus, a Nobel prize winner and former director of the National Institutes of Health under Bill Clinton
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    22 mins
  • Back to Back Barries: Trump, the great disrupter

    Back to Back Barries: Trump, the great disrupter
    Feb 28 2025
    This week, in Guardian Australia’s new politics podcast, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine events that disrupt election campaigns – and there is no greater disrupter than Donald Trump. Also on the table: bulk-billing policy, questions about Peter Dutton’s share purchases and the political reaction to China’s live-fire drills.
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    32 mins