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.

ABC Federal Reporter Dana Morse talks to the post election world for Indigenous Australia, Yaqiu Wang explains the Xinjiang police files data leak and Emma Smith encourages you to think about the functionality of books as well as the words inside.

As the House committee hearings into the January 6 Capitol riot begin, Bruce Shapiro compares and contrasts them to the Watergate hearings. A new report looks at mining company behaviour on Bougainville, as everyone jostles to benefit from the rich seams of copper and gold. And Victor Sebestyen takes us back through the rich history of Budapest.

Bernard Keane on the week in Canberra politics, Oliver Bullough explains how the UK became a butler to the world, and Jeff McGill on Rachel Kennedy - a colonial brumby hunter.

Lech Blaine's cover story for The Monthly takes us on the frenetic Australian election campaign ride. And as Britain considers re-introducing imperial measurements, we look at their international history.