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Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Marlon Williams spent five years on his latest album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, which is entirely in the Māori language. The release coincides with the current New Zealand coalition government limiting the use of the Indigenous language in the public service, and the suspension of three MPs who performed a Māori haka in protest of a bill which has been criticised as reversing Indigenous rights. Marlon Williams speaks to Reged Ahmad about singing in his first language on the international stage, and performs a song from the album in the Guardian Australia studio You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport

In the lead-up to Anthony Albanese’s trip to the G7 summit in Canada, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss the Pentagon’s Aukus review as well as the two countries’ contrasting views on sanctions on Israeli politicians. Also in this episode: will Tasmanian voters punish Labor for pushing them into another election? And what did trade unionist Bill Kelty say to Bob Hawke that made him cry?

The US Department of Defense has announced a review of the Aukus submarine deal, just days before Australia’s prime minister is due to meet Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Canada. Political reporter Josh Butler tells Nour Haydar what this means for relations between the two countries and why it throws Australia’s defence strategy into doubt

A Guardian Australia investigation reveals the government inertia behind the suicide crisis in Australian jails. Dozens of inmates have killed themselves in the past two decades using ligature points that authorities knew about, but failed to remove. Reporters Ariel Bogle and Christopher Knaus speak to Reged Ahmad about why the warnings are still being ignored and what it will take to stop these preventable deaths

Millions around the world watched Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad as she documented online her life under Israeli attack after 7 October 2023. Now she has released a memoir: a collection of diary entries, recounting living under siege and her love for her homeland. She speaks with Nour Haydar about life during and after fleeing the war You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport

Donald Trump’s decision to deploy 2,000 national guard troops against demonstrators protesting against widespread immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles has been criticised as the ‘act of a dictator’. Washington DC bureau chief David Smith tells Nour Haydar why the US president’s attack on the protests is a diversion from his feud with billionaire Elon Musk You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport

Three years ago, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series Listen to the whole series here: theguardian.com/mita

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry take a look under the hood of the week in Australian politics. They examine the Albanese government’s response to US requests to increase defence spending, the extended fall out from the North West Shelf licence approval and the continuing pressure on the Liberal party – this time at the state level

After nearly a month of hearing experts, witnesses and police officers testify, this week Erin Patterson herself took to the stand. Patterson is facing three charges of murder and one of attempted murder – after she served a beef wellington lunch laced with death cap mushrooms – at her house in regional Victoria in 2023. She’s pleaded not guilty to those charges. Justice and courts reporter Nino Bucci takes Reged Ahmad through some of the key moments of her evidence, as she tells her side of the story

The Albanese government wants to increase the tax on super balances above $3m. The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, says it is a modest change but there have been countless articles and columns warning of the economic havoc it could wreak and the impact this would have on the retirement savings of young Australians. Nour Haydar speaks to the national news editor, Josephine Tovey, and the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, about what will happen if Labor pushes forward with the reform