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Approximately 9,000 educational institutions and 275 million of their students have been affected by a data breach involving the 'learning management system' Canvas Criminal hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed credit for the hack and is demanding a ransom from the US tech company Instructure which runs Canvas. Guest: Abu Barkat Ullah, Associate Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Canberra.

The major human rights conference RightsCon was due to convene in Zambia this week but was cancelled at the last minute, with some suggestion the government was under pressure from China to do so. Guest: Linda Kasonde, Zambian lawyer and civil society activist.

ABC election analyst Casey Briggs not only called the seat for One Nation at 8pm, he also called Farrer as now a safe seat for One Nation.

The Human Rights Legal Centre and the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom have intervened in a case being heard in the High Court to raise what they describe as 'public interest concerns relating to whistleblowing and press freedom'. 

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Kon Karapanagiotidis struggled to belong as a Greek-Australian kid in a town of Smiths and Jones. It wasn’t until he began volunteering as a young adult that he found acceptance - among people who had been pushed to the margins.

Years later, after his father’s death, that sense of purpose deepened. Out of grief, Kon founded the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre - building a place for people seeking safety, and a legacy that honours his parents’ journey to Australia.

Guest: Kon Karapanagiotidis, Founder and CEO of Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

There is a new form of cultural event appearing at writers festivals and literary gatherings: the translation slam. The quiet mental task of translating a text from one language to another is brought to the stage and the nuances of meanings and mood unpicked for an audience. 

Saplings is a play highlighting the experience of the youth justice system, based on conversations with young indigenous people who have been through the cycle of courtrooms, detention and rehabilitation. It has been hailed as "a delicate story of challenge and possibility" and "moving, upsetting, and perhaps unexpectedly, strikingly funny. Saplings will be touring nationally with Australian Theatre for Young People from May 13.

Guest: Hannah Belanszky, actor, screenwriter, and playwright, and author of Saplings.

Includes original music created for Saplings' soundtrack

It is a well known fact that chimpanzees can be aggressive and even violent, but a new research article published in Science Journal last month has documented a very rare occurrence: a Chimp Civil war, seen in a previously harmonious society of Ngogo Chimps in West Uganda.

Guest: Aaron Sandel, Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin and Co-Director of Ngogo Chimpanzee Project

On May 1, China halted all exports of sulphuric acid, a rarely discussed but critical chemical, used in industrial processes in mining, agriculture and pharmaceuticals.