On the eve of NAIDOC Week, the National Indigenous Art Fair is up and running at the Cutaway in Sydney's Barangaroo.

Now in its 7th year, the event is bringing together over 100 artists from more than 30 art centres.

Sam Guthrie is a diplomat-turned-international thriller writer.

He joins Saturday Extra for The Last Thing, where he talks through his last great read, his last great theatre experience and the last great library he visited. 

This week's Lowy Institute poll showed the largest drop in support for cultural diversity in Australia on record.

Multiculturalism has long been hailed as an Australian success story, a global exemplar in integrating migrant communities, the envy of Europe and the US.

It follows so soon after Pauline Hanson's rallying cry for monoculturalism to replace multiculturalism.

So what's driving this feeling?

It's well known that Australia is a country of migrants, and plenty of historians have traced our multicultural past.

But incredibly, until now most Australian history has been written using only English language sources.

A new book titled Sinophone Australia is changing that, translating Chinese language newspapers, letters, poems, maps and travelogues to tell a more complex story about Australia's past.

Shelby Steele is one of the foremost African American intellectuals.

He's a child of the civil rights revolution, was a Black radical in the late 1960s and emerged as a prominent conservative voice in more recent decades, fiercely opposed to policies such as affirmative action.

As part of our America at 250 series, he talks us through the racial disunion of America.

This week, we saw what is fast becoming an annual rite in the UK: the changing of the prime minister outside 10 Downing Street.

Sir Keir Starmer is the latest UK PM to bid a tearful farewell.

So why did he have to go, and what should we make of the Labour politician who will succeed him, Andy Burnham?

The USA's dominant display proved too much for the Socceroos in Seattle with Australia going down 2-0.

 Australia still has a chance to progress to the next round of the FIFA World Cup when they face Paraguay on Friday.

The ABC's National Sports correspondent David Mark discusses what went wrong for the side.  

Thirty years after she was elected to Federal Parliament, this week Pauline Hanson made her first address to the National Press Club.

When she faced journalists, her tone was combative and defiant, deriding an industry that she feels has treated her unfairly, taking aim at the ABC, SBS and the Guardian.

But has Hanson's resilience and rise been nurtured by a media that is only too happy to publicise her stunts and controversial comments?

As our America at 250 series continues, we examine an important strand of their national story that often gets overlooked and even erased.

The history of Native Americans, who occupied the continent thousands of years before The Mayflower or Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas, is often forgotten. 

As the anniversary of independence approaches, debate is intensifying over whose stories are being told,  and whose are being left out, as Native American historians push for an honest reckoning with the past and ongoing injustices.

This week, Andy Burnham has moved one step closer to replacing the UK's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

In a hotly contested by-election, the mayor of Manchester and British Labour luminary claimed a thumping victory, which now puts him on track to challenge the deeply unpopular Starmer.