Israel's Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman has defended the IDF probe into the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, which recently cleared soldiers of any criminal liability for the deadly 2024 strike on the World Central Kitchen aid convoy in Gaza. Newman's defence of the report prompted UN commissioner Chris Sidoti to call for him to be returned to Israel. David Marr discusses Newman's role with veteran Israel correspondent Irris Makler, plus they look ahead to the political challenges facing Benjamin Netanyahu as he heads into an election.  

• Guest: Irris Makler, freelance journalist, veteran Jerusalem correspondent  

One Nation's Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson have been busy trying to correct what fellow One Nation MP David Farley said the party's immigration figures should be on ABC's Insiders program on Sunday. Mr Farley said the migration target should be around 130,000 plus "a minimum" 100,000 skilled workers under established visa schemes, which is very close to Labor's migration targets. 

• Guest: Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS

Until the mid-20th century the Wyndham Native Hospital, on the far north coast of Western Australia, was an apartheid institution where Indigenous men, women and children were imprisoned, left untreated and subjected to experimental treatments without their knowledge and against their will.

• Guest: Annabel (A.M.) Stafford, former journalist, teacher, author of 'The wanted and the unwanted' (MUP)
• Producer: Ann Arnold

John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in punk musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch – the tale of a gender queer east German rock and roll singer. He’s now on a mission to bring back punk, saying: “The job of youth is to be punk, meaning to question the status quo in a way where it doesn’t matter if you feel offended, safe…they should be physically safe, mentally unsafe. That is education.”  He tackles cancel culture, identity politics and stories vs facts in this conversation with David Marr. John Cameron Mitchell is appearing at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas and Melbourne International Film Festival in August, and then at Sydney's Enmore Theatre and Melbourne Recital Centre in September. 

• Guest: John Cameron Mitchell, writer, director and actor.
• Producers: Jack Schmidt

The Cambridge Five have gone down in history as the most notorious spies of the 20th century. For seventeen years, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross got away with leaking top-secret British intelligence to the Soviet Union with disastrous consequences. Now a new book, drawing on recently declassified files, debunks some enduring myths about them.

• Guest: Antonia Senior, author of Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire 

• Producer: Julie Street

Is true social equality an impossible dream? The German philosopher Dr Hanno Sauer argues that class hierarchy is a permanent feature of human societies. Old elites may fall, but new ones fill the void. Rank, hierarchy and privilege, stubbornly persists.

Hanno Sauer appears at Melbourne's The Wheeler Centre on 20 August and at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas from 22-23 August. 

• Guest: Hanno Sauer, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University, author of Klasse, and The Invention of Good and Evil: A History of Morality
• Producer: Jack Schmidt

From Shogun era Japan to the techno bunkers of 90s Berlin, people across time and cultures have always looked to let loose at night. 

• Guest: Imogen Willetts, author of 'Up All Night: A History of Going Out'
• Producer: Ali Benton

An expert guide to the commercial sins that have put the big consultancy under the spotlight, after more information emerged in a parliamentary hearing last week.

• Guest: Tom Ravlic, journalist, author and academic who has been writing about the KPMG saga for Crikey, and The Mandarin. He has previously been involved in the setting of ethical standards and accounting regulation. 

Ian Dunt examines the fallout from the death of Cambridge academic Jason Arday. And Nigel Farage’s Clacton by election victory -  what does it say about his political fortunes? Plus an update on the Andy Burnham 'bounce'. Is it still happening?

• Guest: Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentator
• Producer: Ali Benton 

In recent weeks, the ABC has removed references to the Australian mining executive Gina Rinehart, following complaints. Guardian reporter Sarah Martin looks back at Rinehart's efforts to defend her public image in recent years. 

• Guest: Sarah Martin, reporter at the Guardian Australia, host of Gina: Becoming Mrs Rinehart
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer