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Alan Bond: From juvenile delinquent to property developer

Determined to make his first million before his 21st birthday, Alan Bond's questionable business ethics ruffle feathers in small-town Fremantle and earn him a reputation as an audacious English upstart.

Can the centre hold? Lord Andrew Roberts on extremism and antisemitism

Historian Lord Andrew Roberts, biographer of Churchill and Napoleon, sits down with Geraldine Doogue fresh from visiting the site of the Bondi Beach massacre.

Two women standing looking at the camera with the words Global Roaming at the forefront

Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds

Bunkers designed for entire populations

How do they function, how long could people survive in them, and does Australia have any shelters capable of protecting us in a crisis?

Duration: 27 minutes 5 seconds

Australians will live longer in 2066, but in what kind of world?

Despite optimistic forecasts of an economy transformed by technology, a worrying picture emerges in the latest intergenerational report.

An illustration of a piggy bank below black letters which say The Economy, Stupid

Duration: 29 minutes 36 seconds

Hypochondria and cyberchondria

How do you know if you have health anxiety?

Bandaids arranged on a blue background.

Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds

Recent audio

Federal opposition calls for government spending cuts following RBA rate rise

Deputy opposition leader Jane Hume has called for cuts to federal government spending in response to the Reserve Bank's decision to lift interest rates.

Liberal senator Jane Hume looks pensive at a press conference.

Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

Medicare AI breach prompts review of government cyber infrastructure

Federal government departments have been ordered to bolster the cyber security defences on their legacy systems after last week's OpenAI Medicare data portal hack.

A white woman with brown hair and glasses talking at a press conference

Duration: 8 minutes 2 seconds

What can NSW take away from Sydney's cancelled data centre project?

A proposed $1.2 billion data centre in Sydney's lower north shore has been cancelled after its developer -- the Goodman Group -- abandoned the project this week.

An artist impression of the data centre building exterior

Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds

Greens party to elect new leader

The Greens party will meet in Sydney to vote on a new federal leader after the sudden resignation of Senator Larissa Waters due to ill health.

Larissa Waters addresses the media flanked by two party colleagues

Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

Final US troops withdraw from Iraq after two decades

US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq on Wednesday, more than two decades after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

US military not to withdraw

Duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds

Netanyahu faces political pressure over October 7 intelligence reports

Pressure is mounting on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what he knew and when in the lead up to the October 7 Hamas attacks.

Benjamin Netanyahu sitting in Israel's parliament, looking back.

Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds

Mulino defends government efforts to bring down spending

The Federal Government has pointed to the Middle East conflict as one of the main drivers of inflation in the economy.

Anika Wells Daniel Mulino Anthony Albanese

Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds

'Low bar' for fifth interest rate rise, Westpac chief economist says

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates to their highest level in 15 years.

A woman with short grey hair, wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt, looks intently into the camera.

Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds

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