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After 24 years, the Australian Book Review's CEO and editor, Peter Rose, is stepping down. By the time he leaves, Peter will have edited close to 250 issues, worked with more than 1500 writers and helped shape the national conversation.

In 1998 wharfies across the country were locked out by men in balaclavas with savage dogs. What followed was the most dramatic industrial confrontation of the age between the Maritime Union of Australia and Patrick Stevedores, led by CEO Chris Corrigan. The Howard government said they knew nothing about plans to sack the 1400 workers and train a new, non-union workforce in Dubai. But now ABC Radio National’s Rewind has uncovered new evidence that casts doubt on their claims. Conspiracy - war on the waterfront

Aristotle claimed that all humans want to know. But at the same time, we battle a competing will for ignorance. Through history, humanity has been repeatedly seduced to ignorance by irrational rumours, magical thinking and preposterous prophets. Are we living in a time of particular ignorance?

In his new book Uprising, Stephen Gapps reveals the story of frontier resistance, along a huge area of the Murray-Darling river system - a concerted defence of River Country.

Australia’s rabbit plague was the fastest colonisation rate for an introduced mammal ever recorded anywhere on Earth. Which is why reports of an emerging plague of rabbits in the Adelaide Hills have locals and scientists worried.

Peter Dutton has made gas policy a central plank of his election pitch, unveiling a plan to reserve domestic gas supply and reduce energy prices. But he’s yet to release the modelling to back up his claims. Mark Ogge says reserving gas for domestic use is important – but he says new gas projects don’t add to Australian supply, they just enable the export of more gas. And that’s a big problem for the climate.

Questions remain as to why London police arrested six activists in a Quaker meeting house who were planning a protest. Meanwhile, the conviction of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen for graft in a Paris courtroom has sent shock waves through European politics. Guest: Ian Dunt, columnist with i news, co-host of Origin Story podcast

Amid ongoing campus protests, and in the wake of a federal inquiry, 39 Australian universities have agreed to a definition of antisemitism to be adopted on campuses nationwide. The definition declares that criticism of Israel can, under some circumstances, be seen as antisemitic. But what are those circumstances? That is being debated on campuses around the world, where definitions like this are seen on one hand as necessary to protect Jewish students, and on the other as a way silencing criticism of Israel.

As the election campaign gets underway, Laura Tingle looks at the messaging, who is being effective and what role US President Donald Trump plays in it all.

There are calls for law reform after the recent High Court ruling that the Catholic Church is not vicariously liable for the actions of a priest who allegedly sexually abused a child in the 1970s. The court ruled that a priest is not an employee of a church, and therefore the institution is not liable to compensate their victims. Lawyers and advocates say they will take up the issue with all states and territories. Full statement

US-based writer Omar El Akkad has written a book of searing essays, asking, among other things, what it is that 'polite liberal progressives' actually stand for. Guest: Omar El Akkad, journalist, novelist, essayist. Book: ''One day, everyone will have always been against this’ (Text) Producer: Ann Arnold

The indigenous underpinnings and contradictory accounts behind the incredible tale of four children lost after a plane crash in the Amazon jungle in Colombia, in 2023. Guest: Mat Youkee, author of 'Forty days in the jungle: behind the extraordinary survival and rescue of four children lost in the Amazon' (Scribe) Producer: Ann Arnold

Specialist reporter on family and sexual violence, Jess Hill, says perpetrators are getting younger, and the messaging campaigns aimed at men are only causing a backlash as they often create a sense of shame. In her latest Quarterly Essay, Hill looks back at the last fifteen years of policy on dealing with violence against women and children, and why it seems to be failing. 'Losing It - Can we stop violence against women and children?'

An alleged physical assault at the South African Antarctic research station SENAE IV has underlined how these extreme, isolated work environments can become hotbeds of stress and human conflict.

As the US retreats from its NATO commitments Poland is looking at gaining access to nuclear weapons from France and ensuring that every man undergoes military training as part of an effort to build a 500,000-strong army to face off the threat of war from Russia. But how real is that threat?

The prestigious American law firm Paul Weiss is under fire for negotiating a deal with the Trump administration to avoid losing lucrative federal contracts. Meanwhile, Columbia University is also negotiating with the administration to unfreeze $400 million worth of federal funding.

Historian and Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre Amanda Laugesen has chronicled the linguistic history of Australia, in 100 words.

The largest protests in decades erupted across Turkiye following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor and Opposition Leader Ekrem İmamoğlu on corruption charges and allegations of ties with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Now there are fears the Turkish president will use the protests to extend his political reign – and take a further step towards dictatorship. How to lose a country: the seven warning signs of Rising Populism

Laura Tingle looks at how the two major parties have watered down environmental protection laws on the even of the federal budget, and in the face of yet another disaster in the Tasmanian salmon industry.

The green cities movement is based on the notion that green spaces are healthier for our bodies and our minds. But Des Fitzgerald says the movement hides a dark past - where these ideas were connected to eugenics, and where the inspiration for green cities was tied to making a more docile, compliant worker to feed the needs of industrial capital. The City of Today Is a Dying Thing