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Bird flu has reached mainland Australia – with cases first confirmed in WA and now South Australia.
The strain, detected in three seabirds, is H5N1 – a deadly form of the virus that has swept through wild birds overseas, forced farmers to slaughter millions of chickens, spread to mammals, and, in the United States, infected dairy cows and farm workers.
Authorities in Australia say the risk to the public is low – but for wildlife, an outbreak could be devastating.
Experts fear it could become the tipping point for species already endangered or close to extinction.
Today, CEO of the Invasive Species Council Jack Gough, on the race to stop bird flu becoming a wildlife disaster in Australia.

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Guest: CEO of the Invasive Species Council, Jack Gough
Photo: PR Handout/Lori-Ann Shibish, Esperance Wildlife Hospital and Sanctuary.
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Amid the seismic political shift currently underway in this country, there’s been one party missing from the conversation: the Greens.
And it’s curious, because the conditions that have seen One Nation rise – frustration with the major parties, a slip in living standards, appetite for change – should suit the Greens and their anti-establishment politics.
So why are they lost in the political wilderness?

Today, former Greens MP and Green Institute Executive Director Max Chandler-Mather on whether the Greens can mount a comeback and tap into the progressive version of Pauline’s populist politics.

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Guest: Former Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather
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The Prime Minister of the UK Keir Starmer has announced his resignation – meaning Britain is preparing for its seventh leader in just ten years.
Starmer, who won in a landslide victory for the Labor party only two years ago, has been haemorrhaging support from the public and the party for months.
The man likely to replace him: Andy Burnham.
Today - host of the News Agents Emily Maitlis on Starmer’s downfall, who Burnham is, and how he’s poised to take power.

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Guest: Host of The News Agents Emily Maitlis
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In Western Australia, police have just started trialling technology that can identify people as they walk past.
A marked police van will scan faces outside major events, cross-checking them against a watchlist of people wanted by authorities. Police say it’s targeted and that innocent people have nothing to fear. But once this kind of surveillance is switched on, the question becomes how far it spreads, and who decides when it stops.
Today, UNSW cyber security expert Professor Richard Buckland, on the scope creep of live facial recognition technology, and the danger of normalising police powers before the public understands them.

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Guest: UNSW cyber security expert Professor Richard Buckland
Photo: WA Police
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Anti-abortion activists say it was the most successful pro-life campaign in Australia - last week a bill to overturn abortion access after 25 weeks was voted through the upper house of South Australia’s parliament.
It didn’t make it through the lower house, but women's advocates are still sounding the alarm amid a growing push against reproductive rights - led, in part, by One Nation.
Pauline Hanson, once a supporter of a woman’s right to choose, has changed her tune, as her colleague Malcolm Roberts pushes for the party to adopt a blanket abortion ban.
Today, writer, peer-support worker, and reproductive health advocate Hannah Bambra
on the local and international forces looking wind back abortion access in Australia

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Guest: Writer & reproductive health advocate Hannah Bambra
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