It's invisible, it drives us crazy, and we couldn't live without it: the wind has been a constant presence for all of history, and was one of the first things people ever wrote about. What is it about this invisible force that captures our imagination? How have humans mastered the wind? And how has it humbled us?

• Guest: Simon Winchester, journalist and author of The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
• Producer: Alex Tighe

25 years in the making, the Australian publication Quarterly Essay has reached its 100th edition. Editor Chris Feik shares how QE was born, and how it comes together four times a year.

• Guest: Chris Feik, editor

Seventy years after foxes were first introduced to Australia in 1870, they had managed to spread across the continent. For the first time, their colonisation of the continent has been mapped.

• GUEST: Dr Sean Tomlinson, Lecturer at the School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Jamaica was devastated when Hurricane Melissa hit. Hundreds of thousands of homes were flattened, and whole towns were destroyed by one of the most powerful storms on record. Recovery will take years. For the people of the Jamaica the increasing ferocity of global warming is just another wave of punishment from rich Western countries. This week, a delegation from the Caribbean is meeting with the UK government to discuss the intersection between reparations for hundreds of years of slavery and payment for the damage wreaked by climate change.  

• Guest: Natricia Duncan, Caribbean correspondent, The Guardian UK 
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer

Bruce Shapiro joins Late Night Live as the US Senate approves the release of the Epstein documents, after a confounding backflip from the US President, Donald Trump.

• Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor at the Nation; Executive Director at the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma

Author Helen Garner sat through the trial of Erin Patterson, who was convicted of murdering members of her family with deadly mushrooms. She reflects on coming face to face with a murderer, her love of the courts, her faith and what happens when people have to face the consequences of their actions. 

Guest: Helen Garner, co-author of The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial, with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, published by Text. And How to end a story — collected diaries 1978 to 1998

Note: Erin Patterson is appealing her convictions, claiming there was a "substantial miscarriage of justice" during her trial.  

Space is big... but not infinite. The area around the Earth is populated by thousands of satellites and a million pieces of space debris, and those objects could stay in orbit for decades. Adding to the complexity, since 2019 there's been a growth-spurt in the number of satellites being sent into space. Is it possible to avoid a catastrophic build-up of junk in orbit that could make space unusable?

• Guest: Professor Aaron Rosengren, space engineer from the University of California, San Diego
• Producer: Alex Tighe

As Myanmar prepares for its first elections since the military junta took over in 2021, a new documentary from Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has revealed some of the horrific measures being used by security forces to maintain control, including forced conscription and interrogation centres where it is claimed that detainees are often tortured to death. The tactics are seeing people flee the country, and and the number of soldiers deserting the army is on the rise. 

• Guest: Fiona Macgregor, senior producer of Myanmar Exposed, a series of reports by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit.
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer

As the Liberal Party joins the Nationals in ditching a net zero emissions target for 2050, what is the fate of the remaining moderate MPs in the Liberal Party? Plus, One Nation continues to gain ground in polling. 

• Guest: Anna Henderson, Chief Political Correspondent, SBS 

In 1966, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz wrote his PhD thesis on inequality. Almost sixty years later, after decades of research, numerous books, and international acclaim, he has led a new report for the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa, warning that the world is now confronting an “inequality emergency.”

• GUEST: Nobel Laureate Economist, former chief economist of the World Bank, and Professor at Columbia University, Joseph Stiglitz.
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton