Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson campaigns tirelessly for the rights of the oppressed and the abused. As we mark another International Women’s Day with so many hard fight gains for women going backwards, she says there's many small gains that give her hope. 

Punch the macaque monkey stole our online hearts two weeks ago. The video of him clinging to a plush toy for comfort and company went viral, attracting 81 million likes and turning an Ikea orangutan into the must-have accessory that's sold out in countries around the world. Australian woman, Elissa Wardrop was brains behind this viral moment.

'He set out to build a family business, instead he built a business that destroyed a family', author and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman's latest work, Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family is a brutal take-down of Rupert Murdoch and his legacy. 

Author and journalist Gabriel Sherman’s new book, Bonfire of the Murdochs, paints a picture of Rupert Murdoch, the man and the media mogul and the way he ran both his family and his business empire. 

Punch the macaque monkey stole our online hearts two weeks ago when the video of him clinging to a plush toy for comfort and company went viral.

Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson campaigns tirelessly for the rights of the oppressed and the abused.

Australia has just five week’s supply of fuel in its reserves. The government says it's more than enough, but with Iran threatening to set any tanker in the Hormuz Strait on fire there’s growing anxiety about energy supply and petrol prices.

First they were now they're not. The US has backed away from earlier reports that they've been arming Kurdish fighters in western Iran and Iraq with the hope that they will take up the fight against the Islamic Republic on the ground. Analysts say it would be a risky move given the long and chequered history of their colabs in other middle-eastern conflicts. 

North Korean women’s football team is back on the international stage after 15 years in the wilderness following a doping scandal. Despite this they're one of the hot favourites to take home the Asian cup in Australia this month. So how did this global pariah become a football powerhouse and can they return to their former glory? Football writer and host of The Far Post pod Samantha Lewis has been following their rise and fall for years and says we could be witnessing another dramatic assent to the top of the world's game.  

Keep calm and carry on, that’s the message from the federal government this week after Iran threatened to target any vessel passing through the strait of Hormuz, effectively shutting off the flow of 20% of the world's oil supply. 

At any given time Australia has just over a months supply of fuel, is it enough? 

The US and Israel have reportedly been in negotiations with Kurdish fighters in western Iran and Iraq over a possible ground invasion targeting the Iranian regime. America has a long history of arming and engaging the Kurds in its various wars in the middle-east, and it's not always gone well.

North Korea was once a powerhouse of women’s football. Three‑time Asian Cup winners, their success in the 2000s lifted them to be ranked fifth in the world.

After years of isolation, state‑controlled training and a major setback in 2011 when a doping scandal led to a World Cup ban, the team is now emerging from a decade in the wilderness to compete again at the Asian Cup in Australia.

So how far can they go?

GUEST:

Sam Lewis, football journalist and co-host, The Far Post podcast

Rules were meant to be broken right? But what if they're the framework for a global order that’s endured for more than 80 years, preventing liberal democracies from going to war against each other and generally cooperating for the good of all humankind. As the US and Israel continue to pound Iran with bombs, does the rules based order still even exist?

Fifteen thousand strip searches are conducted in Australian prisons every month. But the contraband detection rate is less than 1%, so why are we still subjecting people to this invasive and often traumatising practice?  

It was the radio shock-jock partnership that polarised Australia - after nearly three decades of dishing up sex, smut and misogyny for breakfast, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O have finally broken up. So was the Melbourne's audiences good taste or the deserting advertisers that brought them down?  

In the pursuit of his America First agenda, Donald Trump has thrown out the rule book on trade, international relations, respect for human rights and, as we've seen with the bombing of Iran, of lethal force against sovereign states.