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Unlike many of his contemporaries Patrick White chose Australia over London or the US - and in doing that he showed Australians that we were part of a global cultural story.

Laura Tingle reports on the latest policy reversal from Prime Minister Morrison and the always fascinating life and times of Thomas Cromwell.

Broadcasting from the Scone writer's festival, Phillip is in conversation with Australia's leading investigative journalist, Kate McClymont.

William McMahon, who was until recently derided as Australia's worst prime minister, has finally had his biography published. Understanding the recent financial history of Wall Street.

It's a return to divided government, as Democrats win the House, and Republicans increase their Senate majority.

Ian Dunt on Kremlin spies in London and the murky dealings of Brexit bankroller Arron Banks. Some of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies - including Exxon Mobil - are now embroiled in climate change-related lawsuits.

Will bringing asylum seeker families from Nauru to Australia restart the people smuggling trade, does the Australian Research Council grant process need to be changed and we find out more about the inner lives of dogs, by putting them in an MRI.

Which federal elections helped shape Australia? A new books argues that losses as much as wins had a lasting influence on the country. Donna Zuckerberg - yes she is Mark's sister - documents how far-right groups use the classics to support their agendas.

We look at what led Brazilians to vote for a far-right President, explore the origins of the Age of Anger and ask author Colm Tóibín why fathers are a necessary evil.

All the week's political news from the US. Once covert action was planned to be secret. Plausible denial was all the rage. Now intelligence services want exposure, implausible denial has arrived. Humans see themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, but what makes us different from our animal cousins?

David Crowe on Canberra, Shaun Hanns argument from inside on ending offshore detention and how critical fabric has been in shaping history.

Bombs arrive in the mail for several prominent US Democrats. Thirty years after the publication of a landmark study showing economic models favour patriarchy, Marilyn Waring's Counting for Nothing is still highly relevant. James Packer's 'wild years' were a morass of alcohol, boom and bust deals and broken relationships according to a new biography.

Ian Dunt brings us the latest on UK politics from the People's Vote march to Teresa May's Titanic struggle to get Brexit over the line; Has the high value of a World Heritage listing compromised the original idealistic goals of UNESCO?; How a crusading American chemist fought the food lobby to get arsenic, formaldehyde and other poisons banned from food.

What's caused 7,000 people to march from Central America to the US? Are Republicans stopping Native Americans from voting in the midterms? Christie’s is about to become the first auction house in the world to put AI art under the hammer. Is this a Banksy-style gimmick or are the machines coming to take our creative jobs?

The Wentworth decision, Davos in the desert deserted and we meet a star of Iranian cinema

Splits in the Republican ranks over Jamal Khashoggi - and in the Democratic ranks over early presidential candidates. In China's Xinxiang region the local Uighur population are kept under surveillance - and any small infraction could see them sent to an indoctrination camp - or as they're now called, 'vocational training centres'. Russian poet, Sergei Esenin.

Is it time for Australia to re-think its defence system, will this year's winner of the Man Booker restore the prize's mojo and why Kansas's white working poor are not necessarily Trump voters.

The Midterms in the South and how the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi could affect US/Saudi relations. Disinformation, Moscow style and why it’s causing so much political angst  around the world. What do you really know about Jørn Utzon? A new film and exhibition shed fresh light on the visionary Dane behind the Sydney Opera House.

Laura Tingle dissects the campaign for Wentworth, Patrick Walters dissects our defence policies and organisations and Claire Hooper gets into the mind of the Black Saturday arsonist.

With the loss of the ABC's Asia-Pacific broadcasting, China's CGTN is now taking the lead on soft power. Is climate change worse than we think? Tim Flannery, head of the Climate Council, weighs in on this week's IPPC report, the government's greenhouse emissions report card, and his new book Europe: a natural history

A global poaching epidemic is threatening the existence of countless species including rhinos, tigers, savannah elephants - and the lesser-known pangolin; Oleg Gordievsky was a catch in a million for MI6 - a high ranking KGB agent who supplied sensational intelligence at the height of the Cold War.

Kavanaugh, Democrats are 'evil' and the midterms approach. Death or disappearance in Istanbul, the disturbing disappearance of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Death or disappearance in Istanbul, the disturbing disappearance of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

Laura discusses why federal politicians are buying into the Sydney Opera House stoush and Australian film-maker James Ricketson reveals what life was like inside Cambodia's notorious Prey Sar prison.

Can the GOP hope to attract working class and black voters in large numbers? As an election approaches, confusion is the order of the day in the Balkans. Tasmania's cultural history.

As natural disasters become wilder and more regular their impacts will go well beyond immediate displacement and death; Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak is facing over 30 corruption related charges. But who was the man that moved the money for him?