Australia’s Milkshake song has been knocked out of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, but the show must go on. 

Who are the favourites and what are this year’s big controversies? 

It’s usually journalists who write the first draft of history, but Saturday Extra is turning to two of Australia’s foremost political historians to weigh in on the big events that shaped the week: from the new look majority-female Albanese cabinet to Sussan Ley being voted in as the first female Liberal Party leader.  

Media vans, journalists, camera crews, lawyers and mushroom experts have all descended on the Victorian regional town of Morwell for the triple murder case that's  known as the mushroom trial. It centres on Erin Patterson, who’s accused of deliberately poisoning four relatives with death cap mushrooms served in a beef wellington dish in July 2023. Some of the world’s biggest news organisations have been covering the trial, putting the sleepy town under the global spotlight.

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, there's been a flurry of seismic events. There was the president’s shock proposal for a US takeover of Gaza, the infamous Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian president Vlodomyr Zelensky and now a remarkable tour of the Gulf, announcing a lifting of sanctions for Syria. In this wide ranging interview with Saturday Extra, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and journalist Thomas Friedman analyses Donald Trump's motivations, possibilities and objectives.

US President Donald Trump's announcement this week that the United States will ease wide-ranging sanctions on Syria sparked celebrations in the capital, Damascus. Syrians are hopeful for relief after years of impoverishment by civil war and restrictions. The sanctions were a major obstacle to Syria's economic recovery and post-war reconstruction, and their lifting can bring much-needed investment to the country.

A touring documentary tells the story of Maya Gabeira, the first woman to surf the giant wave in Nazaré, Portugal. She nearly drowns in her early attempts but goes on to become the first female surfer honoured with a Guinness World Record in big wave surfing.

The man behind the camera was Australian cinematographer Tim Bonython whose life-long passion has been capturing local and international surfing - all the beauty, fear and drama of the aquatic landscape.

The leadership of the Liberals, Nationals and Greens and the division of roles on the Labor frontbench are all still up in the air after a turbulent post-election week.

The Liberals will meet to decide between Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley on Tuesday, the same day the new ministry will be sworn in, with the Greens to meet on Thursday

A post election wrap with Jane Norman, ABC National Affairs correspondent and Professor Mark Kenny, Australian Studies Institute, ANU

In the restoration of Donald Trump, many historians see echoes of ugly chapters in the American story. The 1830s, and the presidency of Andrew Jackson,  a Democrat who rode roughshod over Congress and the Supreme Court and the 1930s, which saw a resurgence of the American far right. Ahead of her talk at Sydney's UTS Vice-Chancellor's Democracy Forum, renowned historian Sarah Churchwell unpacks the national narratives that have shaped the U.S.

As Israel announces plans to seize all of Gaza under an expanded military operation, its former prime minister Ehud Olmert has unveiled a new peace plan at this week's People's Peace Summit in Jerusalem, seventeen years after he drew up an ambitious plan for a two state solution.

Guest: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

India and Pakistan are locked in their most intense military conflict in decades, as the US and other countries urge both sides to de-escalate

The two nuclear-armed states have been exchanging gunfire and shelling across their borders while also deploying missiles and drones, causing civilian casualties on both sides.