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  • Trump builds a palace while Americans face going hungry

    Trump builds a palace while Americans face going hungry
    Nov 4 2025
    Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast examines the US president’s moves to build a US$300m ballroom at the same time as a government shutdown leaves millions of poor Americans facing a possible freeze on their food stamps. Washington Bureau Chief David Smith speaks to Reged Ahmad about how the construction project is revealing a stark wealth divide and whether the Democrats can seize the moment
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    19 minutos
  • How Zohran Mamdani charmed New York

    How Zohran Mamdani charmed New York
    Nov 4 2025
    Guardian US writer Adam Gabbatt and columnist Mehdi Hasan explore how Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has come from nowhere to the brink of becoming mayor of New York City
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    32 minutos
  • The rising resistance to Pine Gap

    The rising resistance to Pine Gap
    Nov 3 2025
    Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.Nour Haydar speaks with senior reporter Ben Doherty about the rising resistance to Pine Gap, and the questions the spy base raises about Australia’s complicity in alleged crimes abroad
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  • Tony Blair, Jacinda Ardern, Julia Gillard – revelations from the chiefs of staff to the powerful

    Tony Blair, Jacinda Ardern, Julia Gillard – revelations from the chiefs of staff to the powerful
    Nov 2 2025
    Former UK prime minister Tony Blair gave hand-me-down shirts to his chief of staff Jonathan Powell, Jacinda Ardern’s chief of staff reveals the former New Zealand PM loves crime TV, and Arthur Sinodinos still can’t call John Howard by his first name. These are just some of the personal revelations to come out of a new book called The Right Hand: Conversations with chiefs of staff to the world’s most powerful people. Its author, Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks, speaks with Reged Ahmad about the influential and unelected powerbrokers who have had a front-row seat to history
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    26 minutos
  • The great gen Z revolt

    The great gen Z revolt
    Nov 1 2025
    The Guardian talks to protesters in Nepal, Madagascar and Morocco – as well as Chatham House fellow Dr Nayana Prakash – about the gen Z movements toppling governments across the world
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    29 minutos
  • Why is Trump talking about nuclear weapons?

    Why is Trump talking about nuclear weapons?
    Oct 31 2025
    Less than an hour before Donald Trump met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to discuss a deal that could end the trade war between the two superpowers, the US president posted on Truth Social that he had directed the Pentagon to match Russia and China in nuclear weapons testing. Jonathan Freedland speaks to Jonathan Czin, the former director for China at the National Security Council, about why Trump did this and whether he or Xi left South Korea feeling the strongest
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    32 minutos
  • Newsroom edition: does the Albanese government have a transparency problem?

    Newsroom edition: does the Albanese government have a transparency problem?
    Oct 30 2025
    A report by the Centre for Public Integrity has accused the Albanese government of ‘leaning into a culture of secrecy’. Labor’s record on transparency also featured in parliament this week after independent ACT senator David Pocock led a revolt against the government for failing to produce a key report into ‘jobs for mates’.Bridie Jabour talks to editor Lenore Taylor and head of newsroom Mike Ticher about whether the Albanese government is failing to live up to its own expectations on transparency
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    20 minutos
  • Extra: Why Lily Allen has broken the internet

    Extra: Why Lily Allen has broken the internet
    Oct 30 2025
    In the age of streaming and playlists, it’s rare for an album to make global headlines, but Lily Allen’s latest release has done just that. West End Girl by the English singer-songwriter appears to concern her divorce from US actor David Harbour, with its detailed description of an open marriage destroyed by an affair with a woman called Madeline. YouTube Shorts host Rafqa Touma talks to deputy culture editor Sian Cain about the power of the breakup album, the rise of non-monogamy and why West End Girl has hit a nerve
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    14 minutos