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From stories of disease outbreaks to myths of war and understanding how power actually works — Radio National Presents is the home of great storytelling that helps you better understand what’s going on in the world. Catch up on past series below.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 77
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
03 | Section 71 — Communists, Terrorists and the High Court
How much power does the Federal Government have to protect Australians from international threats?
00:28:38 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
02 | Section 71 — The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding
The High Court showdown over religious freedom that could help you understand how schools are funded to this day.
00:28:38 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
01 | Section 71 — Tasmanian crime of gay sex
It might surprise you to learn that until 1997, a man could go to jail for up to 21 years for having sex with another man in Australia.
00:28:38 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
04 | Hot Mess — Hope
Despite all the gridlock on Australia's climate policy, there are moves towards a decarbonised economy. The exit from coal is gathering pace in the finance and insurance sectors. On the technology fr…
00:39:26 |
Sat 23 May 2020
03 | Hot Mess — Party lines
There's more to our climate politics than the circus of losing a succession of Prime Ministers. Export earnings, donations, access, revolving doors between politics and industry mean that both sides …
00:38:33 |
Sat 16 May 2020
02 | Hot Mess — Spin Cycle
The fossil fuel industries ignored their own research as far back as the 1960s and then denied climate change was going on. We hear how a small group of think tanks and a compliant media pushed our b…
00:40:08 |
Sat 09 May 2020
01 | Hot Mess — Human frailties
What it is about us, all of us, that makes climate change hard to get our heads around and even harder to do something about? We talk to people who understand that climate change is a real danger an…
00:36:46 |
Sat 02 May 2020
INTRODUCING — Hot Mess: Why haven’t we fixed climate change?
It’s been over three decades since most of us first heard about global warming. Meanwhile, the 20 hottest years on record have all occurred in the last quarter century. We’re had heatwaves, storms, d…
00:04:46 |
Sat 25 Apr 2020
04 | Shifting Cultures: Vanuatu's stolen generation
150 years ago thousands of young men were taken from the Pacific Islands. Today the scars are still being felt.
00:28:36 |
Sat 22 Feb 2020
03 | Shifting Cultures: Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia
Muslim Malaysians often have complex and tangled views about polygamy. Their feelings and beliefs aren’t always mirrored by their actions. What role does pragmatism play? What role does faith play?
00:28:36 |
Sat 15 Feb 2020
02 | Shifting Cultures: Survival and revival in the Torres Strait
The island of Poruma is a shrinking tropical paradise — battered by king tides and eaten by coastal erosion. Meet the locals fighting for survival, in more ways than one.
Climate change is lapping a…
00:28:36 |
Sat 08 Feb 2020
01 | Shifting Cultures: South Korea's hope in hell
Expectation and competition are pushing young South Koreans to give up on marriage and kids.
00:28:35 |
Sat 01 Feb 2020
08 | Myths of War — Vietnam: the war's forgotten supporters
If everyone was against the Vietnam War, how come Australian forces spent 10 years fighting in Southeast Asia? Why have the supporters of the Vietnam commitment been forgotten? And why do we believe …
00:25:17 |
Mon 20 Jan 2020
07 | Myths of War: Gay servicemen in Vietnam
Anyone could be discharged from the Australian armed forces for gay sexual behaviour in Vietnam. And since nobody wanted to fight the Vietnam War – and gay men were excused national service — there m…
00:25:17 |
Mon 13 Jan 2020
06| Myths of War — The Thai-Burma railway and the myth of the river Kwai
Did mateship really sustain Australian POWs of the Japanese any more than it helped — for example — the Dutch to endure the horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway? And why is there a bridge on the River K…
00:25:15 |
Mon 06 Jan 2020
05| Myths Of War — Was there a battle for Australia?
Why do we commemorate an event that probably didn’t happen?
Did the Japanese really plan to invade Australia in 1942? What does it mean that we have come to commemorate a battle that many historians…
00:25:17 |
Mon 30 Dec 2019
04 | Myths of War — Changi and the POWs behind the wire
Why some prisoners of war were happiest in Singapore.
Was Changi a POW heaven or a death-camp hell? The camp’s reputation has worsened in the years since the Second World War, but the truth lies som…
00:25:17 |
Mon 23 Dec 2019
03 | Myths of War — General Sir John Monash: a flattering self portrait
A great general — but was he really the greatest?
General Monash, the only Jew to command an army in the First World War, has been described in Australia as an outsider who won the war. But how much…
00:25:17 |
Mon 16 Dec 2019
02 | Myths of War— Gallipoli: ANZAC misremembered
Ataturk never said his famous words and Bert Facey wasn’t there for the landing. Gallipoli stripped bare.
One of the most famous and best-loved Australian accounts of the Gallipoli landing is a fabr…
00:25:15 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
01 | Myths Of War — The white feather women and their unwelcome gifts
Did young women really hand out white feathers to young men who didn’t enlist in the services during the First World War? It sounds like a myth, but there are lost limbs and lost lives to attest that…
00:25:17 |
Sun 01 Dec 2019
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