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Following Vietnamese leader Tô Lâm’s landmark visit to Australia, we examine what a deeper strategic partnership reveals about shifting power dynamics in the Asia-Pacific. while also exploring global efforts to reform corporate taxation and Iceland’s debate over renewing EU accession talks.

We also look at a National Library podcast uncovering Australia’s oral history treasures, a documentary following Western Australia’s para ice hockey team on their world-stage ambitions, and hear from climate advocate Dr Anika Molesworth on the transformative year that shaped her mission for climate-resilient agriculture.

China's new 'ethnic unity' law has reignited the debate over Beijing's treatment of Tibet

Digital Rights Watch warns about AI scribes in healthcare, and Tony Jones on the ethical dilemma of medical testing on primates. 

Plus, with the focus on Spain's exclave of Ceuta, what are exclaves, enclaves and counter-enclaves? A new play explores the famous 18th century castrato Farinelli and Paul Toohey on the 2008 attempted assassination of Timor Leste's leaders.

And on the Year that Made Me, former WA premier Colin Barnett.

The anniversary of Arthur Calwell’s 1945 “populate or perish” speech that shaped Australia, the first polls open for the next UN Secretary General, why Indonesia's economy is on a downturn, and an author who's work took her to the heart of insidious cults. Plus, a dictionary of Parramatta, traditional Middle Eastern cooking going viral, war journalist turned author Mohammed Massoud Morsi on The Year That Made Me, and a tribute to beloved bird-watcher Bill Oddie.

The forces driving India's cockroach protests, and the evolution of the Labor Party. The forgotten mother of popular astrology, and the medieval book that fuelled witch hunts. Plus, former Liverpool football star Craig Johnston on The Year That Made Me, whose football achievements might be the least remarkable thing about him.

One Nation didn't emerge in a vacuum, then or now.

The global surge in right-wing populism has propelled the party and thirty years on, it’s arguably stronger than ever.

But is its popularity a protest or a fundamental realignment of Australian politics? And what happens to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, post Pauline?

In the sixth and final episode of The Making of One Nation, we speak to Jill Sheppard, a political scientist and senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University.

This series was hosted by Ashlynne McGhee and produced and edited by Isabella Podwinski for The Conversation. Sound design by Michelle Macklem.

A journalist who was pursued by Moroccan authorities on the arrest of "the best rapper in North Africa", a scientist who mapped the global fungal network, and rock star classicist Mary Beard on Mussolini and Beyoncé. Plus, author and lawyer Alice Pung on The Year That Made Me, how the online outrage industry is manipulating our worst impulses, and tickling great apes for science.

The media made Pauline Hanson and One Nation, but now the party holds all the power.

It’s a perfect storm for democracy: a shrinking and cowering traditional media, the toxic algorithms of the unmoderated social media cess pit and the warped reality of generative AI.

But why is the party that once led the charge in the new internet age seemingly so restrained in weaponising AI?

In the fifth instalment of The Making of One Nation, we speak to Kurt Sengul, a political scientist at Macquarie University who has researched the nexus between the media and the rise of far-right populism.

This series was hosted by Ashlynne McGhee and produced and edited by Isabella Podwinski for The Conversation. Sound design by Michelle Macklem.

The latest on Albania's "Flamingo Revolution", John Safran on Race Around the World in the digital age, and Sri Lankan-Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan on The Year That Made Me.

It’s never held government, or even opposition, yet One Nation’s managed to exert an outsized influence on the public policy agenda.

From borders to migration, multiculturalism to Indigenous affairs, the far-right party has mastered mainstreaming and captured the masses fleeing the Coalition.

In the fourth instalment of The Making of One Nation, we speak to Josh Sunman, Associate Lecturer in Public Policy at Flinders University and Tim Bale, a Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London.

This series was hosted by Ashlynne McGhee and produced and edited by Isabella Podwinski for The Conversation. Sound design by Michelle Macklem.

Solar solutions to food waste in Africa. The legal battle facing France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Marcia Langton asks what it means to belong on one's own land. The design evolution of the soccer ball. What is the protocol for alien first contact. And on The Year That Made Me, Jessica Mauboy.