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ABC Australia 2635 - Anna Henderson's Canberra, the Mecca defence pact, and the history of punctuation

Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

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Published 10 Aug 2026

Duration 54:19

Episodes

2635-

Anna Henderson's Canberra, the Mecca defence pact, and the history of punctuation

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10 Aug 2026

2634-

Peter Garrett on AUKUS, plus Australia's sugar slaves

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06 Aug 2026

2633-

Bernard Keane on Australia's opportunities, plus how wine shaped civilisation

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05 Aug 2026

2632-

Ian Dunt's UK, boycotting The Odyssey, and the last cats of Kangaroo Island

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04 Aug 2026

2631-

Anna Henderson at Garma, reunifying Cyprus, plus the last butterfly collectors

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03 Aug 2026

2630-

Encore: Oscar Wilde's grandson on the scandal that ruined him

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30 Jul 2026

2629-

Russia's far-right bikies, plus the afterlives of Sarah Baartman

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29 Jul 2026

2628-

Bruce Shapiro's USA, controversial weed killer Paraquat, and curly questions in the Census

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28 Jul 2026

2627-

Anna Henderson's Canberra, how tech is transforming warfare, and the dark side of Route 66

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27 Jul 2026

2626-

How British slave money flowed to Australia, plus Trump's grand designs

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23 Jul 2026

2625-

One Nation's reinvention, plus the fierce women who built democracy

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22 Jul 2026

2624-

Britain's Burnham era begins, the Pentagon's pollution, plus the case for tighter means-testing

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21 Jul 2026

2623-

Anna Henderson's Canberra, US attacks in Somalia, and demolishing Nazi bunkers

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20 Jul 2026

2622-

Why India is threatening Pakistan's water supply, plus the destruction of olive trees in the West Bank

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16 Jul 2026

2621-

Australia's new treaties in the Pacific, plus do we really want to colonise space?

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15 Jul 2026

2620-

Bruce Shapiro's USA, how sustainable is Ikea's wood, and the gossip and scandals of Australia's past

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14 Jul 2026

2619-

Mark Kenny's Canberra, death penalty methods in the US, and why more of us are using subtitles

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13 Jul 2026

2618-

Songs and stories with Roger Knox, the 'Koori King of Country'

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09 Jul 2026

2617-

Jonathan Swan inside Trump's regime, plus Thomas Jefferson's slavery paradox

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08 Jul 2026

2616-

Ian Dunt on Nigel Farage's future, anti-gay laws in Africa, and the right to safe footpaths in India

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07 Jul 2026

2615-

Mark Kenny's Canberra, the age of manipulation, plus collecting ancient coins

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06 Jul 2026

2614-

Did America's Revolution spur Australia's colonisation?

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02 Jul 2026

2613-

When Australia had the world's first euthanasia laws, plus the huge potential of tiny gardens

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01 Jul 2026

2612-

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Japan's military woes, and vigilante cactus smugglers

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30 Jun 2026

2611-

Anna Henderson's Canberra, France ditches Palantir, plus Italy's expanding forests

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29 Jun 2026

2610-

How Murdoch's media wields power, plus the epidemics we've averted

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25 Jun 2026

2609-

UN to leave Lebanon, and should we ever bring lost species back to life?

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24 Jun 2026

2608-

Anna Henderson's Canberra, economist Mariana Mazzucato on the common good, and Australia's first soccer match

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23 Jun 2026

2607-

Ian Dunt on Keir Starmer's resignation, plus the rise and fall of Islamic State

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22 Jun 2026

2606-

Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party? Plus, the drawings that rewrite Aboriginal art history

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18 Jun 2026

2605-

Anna Goldsworthy on being human in the era of AI, plus the wonders of the Paris Menagerie

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17 Jun 2026

2604-

Bruce Shapiro's USA, the Indian sailors killed by the US, and First Nations anger at Brisbane Olympic site

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16 Jun 2026

2603-

Laura Tingle on Israel's response to the US-Iran deal, Trump vs South Africa, and Google's mosquito hunt

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15 Jun 2026

2602-

'Serbia's Iron Lady' unrepentant for war crimes, plus how humans read faces

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11 Jun 2026

2601-

Saving the Sepik river, and remembering the Soweto uprising

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10 Jun 2026

2600-

Ian Dunt's UK, America's 'masculinist' movement, and could Switzerland cap its population?

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09 Jun 2026

2599-

Finishing La Sagrada Familia, plus why people still love Spam

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08 Jun 2026

2598-

How Australia changed course on drug policy, and the forgotten boat people of East Timor

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04 Jun 2026

2597-

Is Muskism the new Fordism? Plus, the maverick psychiatrist who studied life after death

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03 Jun 2026

2596-

Bruce Shapiro's USA, an Ethiopian philosophy of running, and a Glasgow protest gives hope

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02 Jun 2026

2595-

Mark Kenny's Canberra, Syrians return home and Lord Howe Island cockroaches

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01 Jun 2026

2594-

When America admired Iran, plus what are conservative environmentalists fighting for?

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28 May 2026

2593-

Reckoning with war crimes, plus the women at the Nuremburg trials

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27 May 2026

2592-

Ian Dunt's UK, Spain's defiant PM, and Pavlova's tour of Oz

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26 May 2026

2591-

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bhaskar Sunkara on the Left in America, plus why ancient Roman gossip mattered

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25 May 2026

2590-

Satayjit Das on how the war in Iran has rocked global markets, plus queer Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi on finding home

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21 May 2026

2589-

Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin

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20 May 2026

2588-

Bruce Shapiro's USA, John Safran on when offending goes too far, and was Blind Freddy real?

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19 May 2026

2587-

Anna Henderson's Canberra, and translating Shakespeare

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18 May 2026

2586-

How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones

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14 May 2026

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