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Smart analysis, lively conversations, and great company. Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
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America at 250: America celebrates and reflects on July 4
2w ago00:24:26Tap to summarizeFor the finale of our America at 250 series, we look at how America is marking July 4.We criss-cross the country, from Donald Trump's Great American State Fair to the town of Normal in Illinois to an attempt at getting Dolly Parton on the show
Transcribe →A visit to the National Indigenous Art Fair
2w ago00:08:25Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Why are Australians abandoning Asian languages?
2w ago00:08:35Tap to summarizeAustralians' lack of understanding of our own region is making the country increasingly vulnerable in a volatile security environment, according to the findings of a parliamentary inquiry released this week.The Federal Inquiry into Building Australia's Asia Capability found that fewer students are learning Asian languages at all levels of our education system, and there is less academic study of the region.That's despite the rising clout of China as a global super power, and India now our largest source of migrants.
Transcribe →Modi is coming to Australia. Who really is he?
2w ago00:22:03Tap to summarizeIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is loved by his supporters, loathed by his critics and among the most powerful people on the planet.Next week, he's due to visit Australia, at a time when India-Australia economic and defence relations are deeper than ever.The two countries have much to gain, with increased uranium exports from Australia reportedly on the table.But who exactly are we doing business with?
Transcribe →Despair in Dallas for the Socceroos
2w ago00:06:00Tap to summarizeThe Socceroos have lost a heartbreaking penalty shootout against Egypt in their World Cup round of 32 clash.David Mark dissects the almost 3-hour game where Australia's campaign has come to an end.
Transcribe →The Last Thing: Sam Guthrie
3w ago00:09:47Tap to summarizeSam 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.
Transcribe →Why is support for multiculturalism declining?
3w ago00:14:18Tap to summarizeThis 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?
Transcribe →Discovering Australia's hidden Chinese past
3w ago00:14:02Tap to summarizeIt'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.
Transcribe →America at 250: The 'racial disunion' of America
3w ago00:20:07Tap to summarizeShelby 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.
Transcribe →Why did Keir Starmer have to go?
3w ago00:14:38Tap to summarizeThis 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?
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