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As Joe Biden takes the reins in the US, the legacy of Donald Trump continues to cast a shadow across the world. Today, Richard Cooke on how the ideas and policies that came to define Trump found a welcome home in Australia.

Guest: Writer for The Monthly and The Saturday Paper Richard Cooke.

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After five years on Manus Island, Imran Mohammad was resettled in Chicago. He says arriving in America was one of the happiest days in his life. But the coronavirus shutdown has brought back memories of detention and isolation.

Guest: Writer and Rohingya refugee Imran Mohammad.

Background reading: Resettled refugees in Covid-19 lockdown in The Saturday Paper

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From thunderstorm asthma to the increasing prevalence of infectious disease, a warming planet is already making us more sick. In the final part of this series, we investigate how climate change puts us more at risk of disease. Today, Climate change will kill you, part three: sickness. 

Guest: Contributing editor to The Monthly, Paddy Manning.

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Australian author Heather Morris has made millions selling books about the Holocaust. But the people she writes about are in many ways unrecognisable, to their families and the historical record. Investigative journalist Christine Kenneally on the dangers of falsifying history.

Guest: Author and investigative journalist Christine Kenneally.

Background reading: The fabulist of Auschwitz in The Monthly

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In 2011 the Queensland town of Grantham was inundated with rain, causing flash flooding. It had a devastating impact on the town’s residents. But events like this are predicted to become more common, as the planet warms leading to more extreme weather events. Today, Climate change will kill you part two: flood.

Guest: Contributing editor to The Monthly, Paddy Manning.

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For decades, students in Footscray in Melbourne’s West, have been taught in Vietnamese alongside English, in line with the suburb’s long-standing heritage. But now, the program is under threat. Today, André Dao on why we value some languages more than others, and what it says about where Australia sees its place in the world.

The audio of Professor Alan Crookshank in this story is from the Earshot series “Tongue Tied and Fluent.”

Guest: Contributor to The Monthly Andre Dao.

Background reading: A minor language in The Monthly

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From bushfires and heat, to floods, and the increasing severity of disease, Australians are already feeling the impacts of a warming planet. In this new series, journalist Paddy Manning investigates the link between climate change and human health, and tells the stories of those who have become some of the first casualties of the climate crisis. Today’s episode is part one: heat. 

Guest: Contributing editor to The Monthly, Paddy Manning.

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Four times as many questions plus two times as many guests equals more laughs than it’s possible to quantify. In this final episode of The Saturday Quiz, two teams of returning guests - Zoë Coombs Marr and Kate Jinx, and Sarah Snook and Dave Lawson - go up against each other in the ultimate battle of general knowledge. How does Dave’s expert category of “colours” fare against Zoë’s encyclopedic mastery of Xena: Warrior Princess? And what is better quiz preparation: Staying up late on a Sunday night in a different time zone, like Sarah? Or singing Christmas carols in the car on a long drive, like Kate?

Guests: Zoë Coombs Marr, Kate Jinx, Sarah Snook and Dave Lawson

In the paper:

Zoë Coombs Marr and her stand-in stand-up Dave in The Saturday Paper

Sarah Snook talks Noël Coward and HBO in The Saturday Paper

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Twelve months ago the eastern half of the country was blanketed in smoke and our Prime Minister was nowhere to be seen. Since then the pandemic has seen a big bounce in Scott Morrison’s approval ratings. But with an election predicted for next year, will it be enough? Today, Paul Bongiorno on how federal politics played out in 2020, and what’s coming next.

Guest: Columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno.

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The federal government has proposed new laws that would give federal police the power to spy on Australian citizens. But the decision contradicts the government’s own review into national intelligence. Today, Karen Middleton on the controversial expansion of national security laws.

Guest: Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton.

Background reading: AFP’s new power to spy on Australians in The Saturday Paper

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