Radio National Breakfast

Inaccessible workplaces, employer biases or ignorance and systemic barriers are just some of the challenges you might face trying to get a job when you have a disability.

In the film industry, Bus Stop Films is working to raise the profile of people with disabilities and other marginalised groups and connect them with job opportunities.

• Guest: Tracey Corbin-Matchett, CEO of Bus Stop Films
• Producer: Nancy Notzon

Two years ago the Matildas were the most-watched sporting team in the country as they battled to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Australia.

But a new report into the domestic football league warns the sport may have squandered that attention, with crowds in decline and players among the lowest-earning female athletes in the country.

• Guest: Tameka Yallop, Brisbane Roar player and Matildas representative
• Producer: Jason Whittaker

World leaders have converged on the Amazon city of Belem in Brazil for the COP30 climate change talks.

Matt Kean is representing Australia as the head of the Climate Change Authority, as his political party, the Liberals, look set to walk away from a commitment to net zero emissions by 2050.

• Guest: Matt Kean, Chairman of the Climate Change Authority
• Producer: Eddy Diamond

Australia has struck a bilateral security treaty with Indonesia... the second major treaty Australia has negotiated in as many months, after inking a deal with Papua New Guinea.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it signalled a "new era" in the relationship between Australia and Indonesia.

• Guest: Andrew Wilkie, Member for Clark
• Producer: Isadora Bogle

The Liberal shadow ministry will meet today as it decides on the party's position on net zero emissions by 2050. 

It comes after Liberal MPs and senators met for almost five hours at Parliament House yesterday, with the majority of attendees calling for the target to be abandoned. 

• Guest: Andrew McLachlan, Liberal Senator for South Australia
• Producer: Isadora Bogle

Australia and Indonesia have agreed to a historic bilateral security treaty.

The treaty will require both countries to consult on security regularly, and consider taking joint action if either nation is under threat. 

However, many details of the upgraded agreement are yet to be made public.

• Guest: Sam Roggeveen, Program Director of the Lowy Institute's International Security Program

"Adult Crime, Adult Time" was a policy that the Queensland LNP took to last year's state election and won.

Now, ahead of Victoria's state election next year, Premier Jacinta Allan has announced a similar policy to help tackle rising youth crime in the state. 

• Guest: Meena Singh, Victoria's Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People
• Producer: Eddy Diamond 

A spectacular display of nature is currently underway off the coast of Queensland.

The Great Barrier Reef has begun its annual spawn with trillions of eggs and sperm being released into the Pacific, turning the deep blue waters into a galaxy of its own.

With climate change posing a significant threat to reefs ... scientists are racing to make the most of these spawning events.

• Guest: Dr Christopher Doropoulos, Senior Research Scientist in the Sustainable Marine Futures Program at CSIRO Environment
• Producers: Grace Stranger and Brooke Young

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has passed the first reading of a bill allowing the death penalty for people convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis.

Supporters led by far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir say it will deter future terrorism and end prisoner-release deals.

But critics warn that the law, if passed, would apply almost entirely to Palestinians, and would violate Israel's democratic and legal principles.

• Guest: Yuval Shany,  professor of law at Israel's Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a former chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
• Producer: Anne Barker

The United States has deployed the world's biggest aircraft carrier — the USS Gerald R. Ford — to the Caribbean.

It marks the largest American military build-up in the region in decades.

US President Donald Trump has justified the build-up as part of his war on drugs, with military strikes on boats pushing the death toll to more than 70.

Meanwhile, Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro has accused Washington of fabricating a crisis to try to remove him from power.

• Guest: Jose Luis Granados Ceja, writer at Venezuela Analysis, an independent website that provides news and analysis on Venezuela
• Producer: Anne Barker