'The Age' columnist George Megalogenis gives us the lowdown on PM Albanese's NATO attendance, Labor's bad luck with economic timing, and Victoria's new Ministry. A new billionaire was created very 30 hours during the pandemic, according to Oxfam. And a wide-ranging 2011 interview with Frank Moorhouse, who has just died.

Eminent Harvard-based Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy warns that nuclear accidents are a constant threat, as history tells us. And a very different history - the people who shaped the wildlife conservation movement.

Tess Newton Cain with the latest on the Pacific, Marianne Hanson and Alan Kuperman discuss Australia's nuclear submarine program and Sandy George takes on Australianness on screen.

Whispers of a looming recession in the United States are generating similar fears Down Under. Plus, a new report outlines how Australia can re-define its relationship with the Pacific. And the battle royale taking place in the United States between wolf lovers and haters.

The makeup of the Senate is now confirmed, with the addition today of some first-timers. Countries around the world are coming up with innovative ways of tackling migrant labour exploitation. And the thousands of non-British citizens - 'aliens' - who served in WW2, but were not to fire a weapon.

Journalist and academic Margaret Simons reveals why she is more depressed about the profession now than at any other point during her 40-year career, and what she thinks it might take to re-invent and improve our press. And British broadcaster and writer Jonathan Freedland on the first Jew to escape Auschwitz so that he could tell the world what was happening.

The latest on the 11th-hour intervention in the UK's Rwanda asylum plan and the Northern Ireland Protocol saga, the international efforts to rescue journalists and writers from the Taliban, and inaugural Shackleton Medal winner Dr. Heïdi Sevestre on 'black carbon' in the Artic Circle, and what it means for us all.

We unpack the first two days of the public hearings of the committee investigating the Capitol riot on January 6th 2021. Then, what will it take to prioritise trade over aid in the Pacific? Plus, a tribute to friend of the program, missing journalist Dom Phillips.

In the wake of the federal election, are there lessons for the Liberal Party in its Menzian roots? And, a miraculous lake and an ancient way of life in Cambodia are facing a perfect storm of problems.

Ancient Egyptian scholars Karin Sowada, Dimitri Laboury and Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek dust off their boots and down tools to discuss their incredible discoveries and what life is like as a contemporary archaeologist.