Late Night Live — Full program podcast

Re-examining Australia's 1999 military intervention in East Timor; and the history of the encyclopaedia - from ancient Greece to online Wikipedia.

Guests: 

Craig Stockings, Australia’s official historian of military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor. Professor of History at UNSW Canberra and author of ‘Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999-2000'

Simon Garfield, journalist and author of All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia

We discuss the latest news from Southeast Asia, how The East African Crude Oil Pipeline is disrupting lives and ecosystems in Uganda and the invention that forever changed our relationship with fish: the aquarium.

Ian Dunt on how Rishi Sunak is handling the UK's economic woes, why Peru is entering its eighth week of deadly protests and Edward Brooke-Hitching takes us on an unconventional tour through the oddities of art history.

Laura Tingle reviews the political history of arts funding. Meanjin's editor Esther Anatolitis and First Nations artistic director Wesley Enoch dissect the nation's new cultural policy. Historian Susan Broomhall shares the story of 'Lady' Maud Williams, the founder of an iconic Australian apple variety

Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

Bruce Shapiro on California's tragic mass shootings. The history of individualism in America, and the educational legacy of violin teacher Shinichi Suzuki, founder of the Suzuki method. 

Labor struggles to get political agreement on the Voice, where the war in Ukraine could head in 2023 and why cork is making a comeback. 

Correction: It was incorrectly stated in the segment ‘Laura Tingles’ Canberra’ that the 1967 referendum gave Aboriginal people the right to vote and citizenship, as well as the right to be included in the Census. Only the latter point is correct.

John Farrow is the enigmatic, Australian born, Oscar-winning filmmaker who went to the very top in Hollywood, but obscured his past from all who knew him. Coral Browne began her life in 1930's Melbourne and went on to Hollywood fame, known for her outrageous private life and fabulous persona. 

Tracey Holmes brings us three incredible stories: of the first woman to circumnavigate the world, an African American diver uncovering the lost ships of the transatlantic slave trade and the great female artists worthy of celebration.