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Mar 2024

24 m

Malcolm Turnbull on US and Australian po...

Financial Times

About this episode

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

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