Bruce Shapiro on the latest from America, Libya's newly-elected interim government and Russian migration to Australia during the Cold War.

So often the complex issue of justice is viewed through the legal prism of criminal, distributive or procedural justice. But Dr Rowan Williams and Mary Zournazi argue that justice needs to confront individuals' suffering as well as the deep patterns of violence and denial in society.

Phillip Adams sits down for a wide ranging discussion about Australia, its democracy and its future.

Tess Newton Cain surveys the issues, politics and people of the Pacific. Stan Grant discusses his new book With the Falling of the Dusk: A Chronicle of the World in Crisis. Background Briefing journalist Alex Mann previews his report on white right wing extremists.

Bruce Shapiro has the latest from the US, Journalist Farid Farid and International Chamber of Shipping's Guy Platten discuss the Suez saga and Alexander Bell's misguided war on sign language and deaf culture.

Amy Remeikis from the Guardian on Canberra politics, Andrew Quilty reports on the Afghan perspective on the Brereton Report and Hal Whitehead on sperm whales.

The growing popularity of 'Doughnut Economics', and the story of rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa.

Ian Dunt on the Scottish election, Mustafa Qadri on the millions of migrant workers in the Gulf and bringing artist A H Fullwood back to life

Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US, journalist and author Gavin Esler on how Britain ends and we remember writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi.

Against a backdrop of reports of lewd behaviour in Parliament House - Laura Tingle reviews the week in national politics. PNG's health system struggles as COVID cases soar. The stories of two overlooked members of an 1872 expedition to Cape York as told by their descendants.