Laura Tingle looks at Labor's new front bench, and why key MPs like Ed Husic and Mark Drefyus were sidelined. Plus the re-positioning inside the Coalition ahead of their leadership ballot. 

• GUEST: Laura Tingle, 7.30 Political Editor

'Plant hunting required cunning, resilience, and a seemingly unshakeable sense of entitlement to the resources of other nations.' An account of the hunt for a particular 'lost orchid'. GUEST: Sarah Bilston, author of 'The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession' (Harvard University Press, May 2025) Producer: Ann Arnold

Dutch historian and writer Rutger Bregman is good at making wealthy people uncomfortable. In 2019, he called out the billionaires at Davos for their tax avoidance. His new book Moral Ambition calls on the world's best and brightest to quit their meaningless corporate jobs and start working on the world's biggest problems - from disease prevention, to climate change.

• Guest: Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Moral Ambition: Stop wasting your talent and start making a difference, Bloomsbury

On the day of his second inauguration, Donald Trump pulled out his big black Sharpie and scribbled out the Gulf of Mexico, renaming it the 'Gulf of America'.  Restoring Names that Honour American Greatness was the title of his executive order.  Donald Trump’s fantasy maps – from annexing Canada and Greenland, to claiming the Panama Canal– have been widely ridiculed.  But Trump is one of a number of world leaders challenging the cartographic status quo.  

• GUEST: Nick Danforth, fellow at the research centre, Century International; regular contributor to Foreign Policy Magazine 

September marks the start of a new academic year at universities in the Gaza Strip. But tens of thousands of higher education students are unable to continue their studies for the second year in a row due to the destruction of their campuses, and the ongoing war.

• GUEST: Dr. Wesam Amer, Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University, Occupied Palestinian Territory. Visiting researcher and Cara/SRF fellow at Cambridge University, UK.

• Dr. Mona Jebril, Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research, and Bye-Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK.

• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Ted Kotcheff, director of the 1971 Australian cult classic Wake in Fright has died at the age of 94. David Stratton pays tribute to the Canadian director who captured a distinctly Australian horror story on screen. 

• Guest: David Stratton, film critic

With roughly 35 million people, Kerala, sits along India’s southwestern tip on the Indian Ocean. Fifty years ago, it was one of India’s poorest states, but now is one of the richest. How did it happen?

• GUEST: Tirthankar Roy, Professor in Economic history, at the London School of Economics.  
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Bruce Shapiro looks at the highlights of Donald Trump's first hundred days in office. From tariffs to deportations, attacks on academia, minorities and the LGBTQIA community, to jokes about the pope, to destabilising the global economy and threatening the US's tourist industry. Plus how the US courts are curtailing his deportation agenda. 

• GUEST: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for THE NATION; executive director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University

Australian wine exports have dropped to a twenty-year low. So what is happening to the market? And why are people vetoing the vino? 

• GUEST: Nick Ryan, Senior wine writer, The Australian
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

ABC 7.30's Political Editor Laura Tingle and political commentator Niki Savva discuss the enormous ramifications of Labor's landslide federal election victory and the future for the Coalition. 

Guests: Laura Tingle, political editor 7.30; Niki Savva, columnist with The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, former advisor to Howard-Costello government