Between the Lines

ABC (Australia)

Making sense of Australia’s place in the world, Between the Lines puts contemporary international issues and events into a broader historical context, seeking out original perspectives and challenging accepted wisdoms.

Episodes

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

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

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

Ukraine’s bid for EU membership. Too many regional strategic groups. The state of Florida vs Disney

The PM’s visit to Indonesia. Boris survives. Watergate and the Jan. 6th insurrection.

Ukraine's MP Kira Rudik. Australia's covert action. The myth of primitive communism.

U.S politics and fault lines. Diplomacy and grand Asia Pacific tours. Congestion and conflict in space.

Bin Laden's secret letters. Testing times for Lebanon.

Marcos return to power. Afghanistan failed and now forgotten. Geopolitics and Eurovision.

(Rpt) John Howard. Home Affairs - too big ? China, nationalism & WW2.

Revolution and the U.S constitution. The Koala manifesto. How Hitler lost the war.

Election 2022. Strongmen and autocrats. 804 days in an Iranian prison.

North Korea. 21st century enlightenment. USSR: a short history

Francis Fukuyama's liberalism and its discontents. Kevin Rudd's China, the US and an avoidable war.

Global consensus on Ukraine? China’s foothold in the Solomons. Britain vs France and the colonisation of Australia

Alexander Downer on Ukraine 2022. Max Hastings’ Cuba 1962. A global economic outlook.

The West re-energised. Putin's war in Syria. Malcolm Fraser's foreign policy.

Backlash: Pacifist nations rearm

It’s all about Ukraine

John Bolton on Putin. Misogynist attacks on conservative women. Nixon’s 1972 China visit.