Jul 2022

Australia is ill-prepared for the new reality of climate disasters and the growing crisis in Sri Lanka

Australia is ill prepared for the new reality of climate disasters and the crisis in Sri Lanka, some are calling for an emergency election and what is needed from the international community

54m 5s

Jun 2022

Jan 6th attack testimony. Commonwealth heads meet in Rwanda. The view from the Pacific.

Olivier Knox discusses the mostly Republican witness testimony on the January 6th attack on the US Capitol building. Cindy McCreery looks at CHOGM — the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda and the organisation's purpose, place and priorities. Steve Ratuva explains ... Show More

54m 6s

Jul 2022

What Australians think about foreign policy. How effective are UN Peacekeepers. PNG elections.

What do people think about Australia’s foreign policy. Results from the 2022 Lowy poll In troubled times do UN Peacekeepers make a difference? The challenges for Papua New Guinea as they head to a general election.

54m 6s

Oct 2021

Why do military coups still happen?

Defiant protesters have been on the streets of Sudan this week after the country's armed forces launched a military coup. On Monday coup leader Gen Abdel Fattah Burhan dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and declared a state of emergency. It wasn't meant to be lik ... Show More

49m 4s

May 2021

Myanmar on the brink

<p>The military coup in Myanmar threatens to roll back a decade of democratisation. In the months since the February coup, there have been strikes and protests as well as mass arrests and escalating violence as the junta attempts to quell rebellions. Gideon talks to Thant Myint-U ... Show More

21m 48s

Feb 2022

Why have military coups returned to West Africa?

Elected governments have been overthrown by military coups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea. Each has some popular support as people grow frustrated with their political elites. But will military lead governments perform better than civilians ones in these West African countries ... Show More

23m 45s

Apr 2022

Defecting online: How soldiers are deserting the Burmese army

Myanmar has been engulfed by a civil war which is getting deadlier and more violent as time goes on. Last year the Tatmadaw – the Burmese armed forces – overthrew the civilian-led government, led by Aung Sun Suu Kyi. Now they’re acting with impunity, allegedly committing heinous ... Show More

22m 3s

Feb 2024

What’s behind the civil war in Myanmar?

It’s been three years since Myanmar’s military coup when the army took control of the country, a decade after agreeing to hand power to a civilian government. A civil war broke out after the after the military used lethal force to put down mass protests in the weeks after the cou ... Show More

15m 48s

Oct 2022

How much has changed in Sudan since the 2021 military coup?

12 months ago today the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, took control of the government in a military coup. The prime minister and his cabinet were arrested, the government dissolved. Sudan's economy, which had already been in crisis with high inflation a ... Show More

18m 21s

Feb 2017

Libya: Return of the Strongman

Six years ago this week the brutal repression of a protest in Libya's second city of Benghazi inspired a revolution that led to the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Today the country is preyed on by more than 1500 militias. Different governments rule in the west around Tripoli an ... Show More

50m 42s

Jun 2022

Fifty years after a deadly ethnic conflict, can Burundi find closure?

"I ask: where are my father's bones? My brother's bones?"In April 1972, Hutu rebels in the south of Burundi launched an assault on the Tutsi led government. Their aim was to overthrow the administration of then president Michel Micombero. In the ensuing chaos, at least a thousand ... Show More

17m 9s

Global consensus on Ukraine? China’s foo...