Last year saw the biggest expansion yet of Indigenous Protected Areas. Advocates say IPAs are the ideal approach for managing ecologically important land, while reconnecting First Nations people with their country, and providing employment. 

Guest: Associate Professor BHIAMIE  WILLIAMSON, from Monash University. Chair of Country Needs People, a not for profit organisation that supports indigenous land and sea management.  A Euahlayi  man from north-west New South Wales. Producer: Ann Arnold

On this Australia Day, we look at the political weaponising of multicultural Australia, and immigration, and we ask how this is playing out in voters' minds.

Guest: Kos Samaras, pollster, and director of strategy and campaigns with the Redbridge Group, which analyses community perceptions. Former Labor Party strategist. Producer: Ann Arnold

It’s 125 years since the death of Oscar Wilde. The famous playwright and author died alone in a French hotel in 1900. Since that time, so much has been written about his wit, prose and character. Some of it fact, some of it rumour, much of it, speculation. In his new book called After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal, Oscar Wilde’s grandson, Merlin Holland, sets the record straight. The book is thirty years in the making and is an exploration of Wilde’s posthumous reputation and how his imprisonment for homosexuality affected Wilde's family, friends and literary legacy.

Guest: Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson and author, Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal,

Producer: Ali Benton

Stephen Miller, often described as the architect of Donald Trump’s immigration policy, has been a defining force behind some of the administration’s most hardline measures. Known for his uncompromising stance on border security and deportations, Miller has shaped policy from the inside, translating Trump’s instincts into concrete executive actions. At just 40, he wields disproportionate influence in the White House, crafting rules that have reshaped asylum procedures, tightened visa restrictions, and fueled the administration’s “zero tolerance” approach

• Guest: Ashley Parker, staff writer for The Atlantic
• Producer: Ali Benton 

Ian Dunt talks about his decision to withdraw from Adelaide Writer's Week and examines the fraying trans-Atlantic relationship between the US and UK, as US President Donald Trump attacks the Chagos Islands deal. Plus why more Tory MPs are defecting to join Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform party. 

• Guest: Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcast  
• Producer: Ali Benton 

King Charles is worth more than $3 billion — although it's hard to put an exact figure on his fortune, because royal records aren't published and paying tax is optional. Gifts to the royal family are flexible, too: does that £300,000 Bentley from the King of Bahrian belong to the state, or to Charles personally? Before he gets locked in the Tower, our guest blows the whistle on the palatial wealth of the Windsor family.

• Guest: Norman Baker, a Liberal Democrat who served as a member of the UK parliament from 1997 to 2015, and the author of Royal Mint, National Debt: The Shocking Truth About The Royals’ Finances
• Producer: Alex Tighe

One year since US President Donald Trump's inauguration and the global order has been completely shifted, while the United States is now a country where people live in constant fear of ICE raids and deportation. Bruce Shapiro looks back at Trump's achievements in year one and how the world is responding to his plans for a "Board of Peace" - with a membership cost of $US 1 billion. 

• Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. 
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer

As the Albanese government drops key provisions from its hate speech legislation, Late Night Live takes a deep dive into what's left of the laws, and why even those who support tighter regulation think there are major problems with how to define hate, the level of Ministerial powers and the rushed attempt to get the laws through. 

• Guests:
• Greg Barns SC, barrister at Higgins Chambers, human rights law specialist, director of the Information Rights Project
• Professor Katharine Gelber, Professor of Politics and Public Policy and leading hate speech expert at the University of Queensland

• Producers: Catherine Zengerer, David Marr

Crikey's political editor traces the path to the hate speech legislation being debated in Parliament this week, and looks at why One Nation is outpolling the Coalition for the first time.   

• Guest: Bernard Keane, political editor, Crikey
• Producers: Catherine Zengerer, David Marr

Tim Minchin turned fifty this year and just ran a marathon for the first time. He's returned home to Australia, with his new album Time Machine, and his tour 'Songs the World Will Never Hear'. In this special one-hour conversation, David speaks to Tim about the joys of running, quitting social media and worrying less.

• GUEST: Tim Minchin
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Originally broadcast October 16, 2025