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While the world focuses on the war underway in Iran, Israel and the Gulf, there is another war front developing – Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Shia group, Hezbollah dragged the country into the war, attacking Israel after a joint US-Israeli airstrike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel then hit back, bombing Beirut and amassing tens of thousands of troops on the border.
Meanwhile, more than a million Lebanese people are now displaced, forced to flee their homes as the attacks continue and Israel demands evacuations.
Today, Michael Young, editor of Carnegie’s Middle East Center blog on whether Lebanon could see a ground invasion and what Israel’s plan is to reshape the region.

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Guest: Michael Young, editor of Carnegie’s Middle East Center blog
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Brett Hosking is a fifth-generation grain and livestock farmer, and has seen his fair share of heartache and hard times.
But this time, it’s not a natural disaster or a foreign war that’s threatening to tip farmers over the edge, but a decision from the Victorian government.
The state has passed new compulsory acquisition laws which make it easier for energy companies to acquire farmers’ land and build transmission lines and renewable energy projects on it.
Today, Victorian Farmers Federation President, Brett Hosking, on why the government’s push to roll out renewables and transition lines in rural Australia has left farmers feeling devastated and disrespected.

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Guest: Brett Hosking, Victorian Farmers Federation President
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Australians are in for a world of pain, with mortgages and rents set to rise after our second interest rate hike in as many months.
It was a line-ball decision from the Reserve Bank – with five members voting for a quarter of a percent jump and four against – putting our official cash rate at 4.1 per cent.
RBA Governor Michelle Bullock says high inflation left them with no choice, but others have slammed the call.
Today, Chief Economist at The Australia Institute, Greg Jericho, on why he thinks the RBA has got it horribly wrong.

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Guest: Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at The Australia Institute
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The war in the Middle East has sent Australia’s fuel prices soaring.
And people are worried that if the battle between the US-Israel and Iran continues for another month – Australia may have to begin rationing fuel.
Already, drivers are panic buying, stockpiling and some country petrol stations are running dry.
Global oil supplies are under threat as Iran attacks tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
Today, Tim Buckley, the Director of Climate Energy Finance, and the question: as the oil shock hits home, how high could the price at the pump really go?

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Guest: Tim Buckley, Director of Climate Energy Finance
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This month, one of the biggest shows in Australian radio was suddenly pulled off air.
For years, Kyle and Jackie O have been treated as untouchable – a breakfast radio juggernaut that could pull huge audiences, generate endless headlines, and weather scandal after scandal.
So much so that the Australian Radio Network handed the pair a $200 million deal – one of the biggest contracts Australian media has ever seen – betting Sydney's most popular breakfast show could go national.
But that bet turned shaky: The show struggled to win over Melbourne, controversies kept piling up, and the regulator repeatedly found it in breach of broadcasting standards.
Now, after an on-air rupture that has blown apart the partnership at the centre of it all, the future of that enormous deal is in doubt.
Today, Kyle and Jackie O’s former boss and host of the Game Changers Radio podcast, Craig Bruce, on what happens when the most expensive bet in the Radio business falls apart.

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Guest: Craig Bruce, host of Game Changers Radio
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