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For years, Donald Trump’s attacks on the media were treated as part of the spectacle of his politics. Now, three major news organisations have had their White House passes revoked – and Trump says others could follow.
Here in Australia, we’re seeing Pauline Hanson follow the same playbook – with One Nation repeatedly deciding which news organisations can attend its press conferences. But unlike America, press freedom in Australia has remarkably few legal protections backing it.
So what happens when politicians stop respecting the rules we’ve simply assumed they would follow?
Today, journalist and press freedom advocate Peter Greste, on how fragile press freedom is in Australia and why we’ve relied for so long on convention rather than law.

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Guest: Journalist and press freedom advocate, Peter Greste
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It’s an uncomfortable fact our government doesn’t like to face: 25 years on from the Tampa affair, we’re still paying a tiny island micro-nation hundreds of millions of dollars to keep immigration detention alive.
One of the ways we’re doing that is by helping to prop up Nauru Airlines – a company riven with financial, governance and safety issues.
Today, independent journalist Nick Feik on how our relationship with a foreign commercial airline is compromising the Australian government’s own regulators, departments and procurement processes in the name of immigration detention.

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Guest: Independent journalist, Nick Feik
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One of the defining themes of Donald Trump's presidencies has been his war against the media.
Last week, he banned journalists from three media outlets from the White House, saying he’s had enough of the negative stories about him. This week, those outlets sued him over the ban.
And just last year he proved no one’s off limits, taking media mogul Rupert Murdoch to court in a ten-billion-dollar lawsuit that’s still playing out – all over another story he didn’t much like.
Today, journalist and author Gabriel Sherman on the battle of the titans between Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch – and who really holds the power in this twisted transactional relationship.

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Guest: Journalist and author Gabriel Sherman
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Australia in 2066 will be older, richer, and – according to the treasurer – transformed by artificial intelligence.
The latest intergenerational report says, despite an aging population, our real incomes will be 55 percent higher by 2066. And Jim Chalmers says AI will get us there.
But the same report says younger Australians aren’t seeing the same gains in income, wealth and home ownership as the generations before it. So what does this report really say about our future – and how much of it is political wishful thinking.
Today, Vice Chancellor’s professor and Chief Societal Economist at the University of New South Wales, Richard Holden on what Australia could look like in 40 years – and where the economics end and the politics begin.

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Guest: UNSW Chief Societal Economist Richard Holden
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A whole new galactic battleground has just opened up.
The United States has declared it has weapons in space, and it’s ready to use them.
So, are we entering a new era where the opening moves of a war could happen hundreds of kilometres above us?
Today, Senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Dr Malcolm Davis on the space weapons now at the ready, and the likelihood of an orbital offensive.

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Guest: Senior analyst at ASPI, Dr Malcolm Davis
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