Late Night Live - Separate Stories Podcast

Investigative journalist Sally Hayden discovered acts of murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, and persecution in Libyan refugee detention centres which the UN Human Rights Council found ‘may amount to crimes against humanity'.

Why is the UK Government planning to sell Channel Four and what has Keir Starmer achieved in his two years as the leader of the opposition.

Dr Emma A. Jane discusses her darkly comic memoir 'Diagnosis Normal'

Emmanuel Macron became President of France in 2017 in a shock victory that overturned political conventions in France. By claiming the centre, he has pushed other political parties further to the left and right. Has he done enough to retain the trust of the people and remain President of the Republic?

It's been a week of historic developments, with a group of New York City Amazon workers voting to form a union and anti-lynching legislation being passed after 200 attempts across 100 years.

After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, members of the Communist Party of Australia could now support the war against Hitler and for a brief moment they too could be patriots. The legacy of this golden era can still be felt in Australia today, despite their loss of influence in modern politics. Historian Stuart Macintyre documented the rise and fall of the Communist Party of Australia in his last book before he died in November 2021.

Following Timor-Leste's presidential election on the 19th of March, Nobel laureate and former president Jose Ramos-Horta looks set to make a comeback. But with no candidate achieving 50% of the vote in the first round, a run-off election is due to be held on the 19th of April. In the meantime, the country's future hangs in the balance.

Will the budget's cost of living measures be enough to convince voters to re-elect the government? Or will Labor's aged care and wages promises cut through? And how damaging will the ongoing NSW pre-selection drama be for the Liberals in NSW?

For centuries, art censorship was a top-down phenomenon. Popes, kings and dictators got to decide which artworks were politically deviant, blasphemous or obscene. But today, thanks to art activists and social media campaigns, art censorship is beginning to happen from the bottom-up. 

There are plenty of platforms and voices currently criticising the ABC, but as it begins its 90th year, where are the voices recognising what the ABC achieves not only as a media organisation but also as a cultural institution.

Barely five years into her public life, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a household name not just in the United States, but around the world. A new biography traces her phenomenal rise and the effect that her polarising presence in Washington has had on both the left and the right.

The Australian government is increasingly worried about China establishing a military presence in Solomon Islands. Meanwhile development agencies say Australia has dropped the ball on aid to the Pacific and meaningful action on climate change. So will additional measures announced in the federal budget be enough to re-secure our position in the region?

Whether it be Saint Peter standing at the Pearly gates, Dante’s raging Inferno or the Taoist netherworld of hungry ghosts, images of the afterlife are deeply ingrained in the human psyche. Phillip takes a tour through heavens, hells and phantasmagorical lands of the dead envisioned throughout history.

There are reports Russia has been engaging a private security organisation called The Wagner Group to beef up its forces in Ukraine. But Russia is not the only state to engage in such tactics, which can be used to lower official casualty rates and deflect responsibility for acts of war.

President Biden escalated his rhetoric concerning Russia during a visit to Europe over the weekend, while back in the U.S. revelations have continued to surface around the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Historian Joan Beaumont recalls what it was like for Australians living through the dark and foreboding years of the Great Depression.

Pakistan’s prime minister and former cricket celebrity Imran Khan faces his biggest political challenge yet, with a no-confidence motion tabled today which could see Khan ousted from power before the end of his five-year term. What’s behind the political turmoil, and what are the odds that Imran Khan will survive this challenge?

Cost of living pressures, fuel excise cuts and big spending on infrastructure and defence will be key features of Treasurer Josh Frydenburg's fourth budget, but where is the money coming from, and will the government's spend be enough to win them an election?

Astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the Galileo Project he has set up to monitor for interstellar objects and unidentified aerial phenomena. He also explains his theories about Oamuamua which he believes is an interstellar object from a civilisation in another galaxy.

Many scandals have emerged about Australian soldiers' behaviours in recent international conflicts.   In the US, one of the most controversial military figures is Eddie Gallagher.  He was a Navy SEAL, and a Special Operations Chief, who was accused and acquitted of murdering a badly wounded young Islamic State prisoner in Mosul, in northern Iraq, in 2017.  A new book looks at that man, and the military culture he was operating in. It asks broader questions about what should be permissible in war, and who is setting the standards.