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Cuba is still on the USA's State Sponsors of Terrorism list and the cost to its economy is huge. Plus the true identity of Australia's first novelist revealed in a new biography - including how he ruined his own brilliant career. 

Cultural critic Roxane Gay on dissent, anger, and why despair is a luxury. Plus 200 years after martial law was declared against the Wiradjuri people of the Bathurst region, elders gather to reflect on this pivotal moment in Australia's history. 

Journalist Haggai Matar considers what Israelis aren't hearing about the war in Gaza and Carol Rosenberg takes us inside 'Gitmo' to reveal why chances of it closing anytime soon are slim. Plus, 'weird' has become the word of the US election, but where did the word come from, and why is it such an effective insult?  

Australia has signed up to a revamped AUKUS agreement, which will allow the submarine deal to be cancelled with as little as a year's notice. Plus, an extraordinary effort to map Australia's First Nations langauges. 

Maori rights are being whittled away by the new conservative government in New Zealand and in Guatemala private adoption agencies sent huge numbers of babies overseas - with many of them indigenous. 

Bruce Shapiro on whether Tim Walz is the right pick for Kamala Harriss's running mate, the epic Murdoch court battle for the succession of the empire, and the mammoth task of writing women and Indigenous Australians into our official Dictionary of Biography. 

Ian Dunt says the term 'anti-immigration protests' is woefully insufficient to describe the outbreak of violence in the UK. He says what occurred was a pogrom, an attempt to attack, and in some cases murder, people with black and brown skin.  The US military has revealed soldiers subjected to blasts have the highest suicide rates. And the 17th century Olympic Games - for poets. 

At the annual Garma Festival, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he remained committed to Makarrata. But what exactly does that mean? Laura Tingle and David Marr discuss. Then, we get an update on what's happening in Senator Linda Reynolds' defamation trial against Brittany Higgins with Richard Ackland. And finally, Ulbe Bosma tells us why the history of sugar is anything but sweet... 

What is the soul? Is it a substance, your conscience or simply a creation of the mind? Most societies and religions have some concept of the soul. Historian Paul Ham has looked at how the idea has changed through history and across cultures. 

Guest: Paul Ham, author of The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin Random House)

Venezuelan election of Maduro prompts violent protests, what the oil and gas industry really knew about global warming and celebrating James Baldwin's writings on politics, Black America and sexuality.