Radio National Breakfast

Former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson is calling for greater urgency in reporting on possible national intelligence failures in the lead up to the Bondi terrorist attack.

After quitting the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion last week, Mr Richardson has warned intelligence findings can't wait until the final report in December.

• GUEST: John Blaxland, Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies from the ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
• PRODUCER: Catherine Van Extel

Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has entered its third week and with that, shipping has been put to a halt - hampering a fifth of the world's oil supplies.

US President Donald Trump has urged its allies and China to send warships to the Strait to help secure the key shipping route out of the Middle East.

But the US is yet to do so - so will any other nation offer its own navy?

• GUEST: Bryan Clark, senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute in Washington and formerly a special assistant to the chief of US naval operations

Israeli strikes have killed at least 850 people in Lebanon, as the conflict in the Middle East escalates..

More than 800-thousand, around 15 per cent of the country's population, have fled their homes since Israel began an offensive; which they say is targeting Iran's proxy, Hezbollah.

More than 2,100 have been wounded since March 2, including 107 children, according to the Lebanese health ministry. 

• Guest: Hicham Fawwaz, logistics manager at the Public Health Emergency Operations Center in Beirut
• Producers: Eddy Diamond, Grace Stranger

Australian meat exporters are looking for alternative overseas markets as the conflict in the middle east continues to hamper trade.

Both sea and air freight have been severely impacted by the widening conflict, making it difficult for Australian exporters to get their products into the lucrative Gulf region, as well as into Europe.

• GUEST: Ripley Atkinson, Australian Meats and Livestock Manager at StoneX

As the unofficial closure of the Strait of Hormuz enters its third week, US President Donald Trump has called on China and US allies to send warships to the region in an attempt to protect the global oil trade.

The narrow strait has remained effectively closed since the US-Israeli strikes began - with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps threatening to attack any ship that attempts to pass through the strait.

And while the world's attention has turned to the soaring price of oil and gas, maritime organisations have raised the alarm over the welfare of the tens-of-thousands of seafarers trapped in the Gulf. 

• Guest: Simon Grainge, Chief Executive International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network
• Producer: Grace Stranger

We hear from the man who once ran the Pentagon's civilian protection department, tasked with providing guidance on strikes and investigating killings in war.  

He is accusing the Trump administration of failing to protect civilians in its bombardment of Iran, as the military investigates a strike on an Iranian school, which left more than 160 people dead, most of them children

Then a former advisor on Iran to both Presidents Biden and Trump discusses the future of the war. 

And we hear about the domestic impacts, as One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce shares frustrations over the supply of petrol.

Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.

A widening war in the Middle East, critical freight blockages, stranded international travellers, depleting oil and gas reserves and asylum-seeking footballers.

And amid all that a new National Party leader stepped up to the plate. Our political panel broke down the week from parliament.

• Guests: Anna Henderson, Chief Political Correspondent at SBS World News, Matthew Knott, Foreign and National Security Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and Stephanie Borys, Breakfast Political Correspondent.
• Producer: Jason Whittaker

The conflict in the Middle East has been dominating the headlines this month.

But representatives from the nation of Estonia - in Europe's north-east - have been in Australia this week to remind leaders that the war in Europe between Ukraine and Russia grinds on.

There are now concerns U-S suggestions of lifting sanctions on Russian oil producers - to ease supply pressures after Iran's attacks on the Strait of Hormuz - could undermine Ukraine's war effort.

• Guest: Margus Tsahkna, Estonia's Minister for Foreign Affairs 
• Producer: Pip Cook, Tyler Hall

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has proposed rationing fuel in the cities to help address regional fuel supply issues.

The federal government will temporarily change fuel standards to allow more supply into the market. Barnaby Joyce says the government's action to date on fuel supplies "really scares people".

• GUEST: Barnaby Joyce, One Nation Member for New England
• PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle

Software giant Atlassian is the latest Australian tech company to slash its workforce.

Its CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes told staff yesterday that the decision to lay off 16-hundred workers globally - 500 in Australia - was needed for the company's long-term health.

It comes as thousands of jobs are shed at Australian software company WiseTech - and Block, the owner of AfterPay.

• Guest: James Riley, Editorial Director of InnovationAus.com