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Mar 2024
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Malcolm Turnbull on US and Australian po...

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Gideon talks to former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull about the prospect of a second Trump presidency. They discuss why Rupert Murdoch’s ‘anger-tainment’ industry has done less harm to Australia’s democracy than it has in the US, and why the recent referendum on Aboriginal rights in Australia failed.


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China urges Australian caution on ‘third-party’ disruption of relationship

Donald Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine

Democracy dies in Trumpian boredom


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Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner.


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