This program is no longer in production. 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 wisdom.
The fabrication that was “Russia-gate”
54 mins; January 18, 2024
The debate on reparations for the African slave trade
54 mins; January 11, 2024
What can today’s China learn from the Cultural Revolution?
54 mins; January 04, 2024
The most powerful woman in North Korea
54 mins; December 28, 2023
The one-sided attitude of the media toward the Ukraine war.
54 mins; December 21, 2023
A look back at the world in 2023
54 mins; December 14, 2023
How did China corner the green energy market?
54 mins; December 07, 2023
Eliot Cohen on Israel, Ukraine, Trump and the US-Australia relationship
54 mins; November 30, 2023
Ukraine says it fears the conflict is fast becoming a 'sideshow'
54 mins; November 23, 2023
Can former British PM David Cameron save the Sunak government?
54 mins; November 16, 2023
From wine and lobster to human rights and trade pacts: The PM's trip to China
54 mins; November 09, 2023
Are the US Republicans incapable of governing in Washington?
54 mins; November 02, 2023
John Mearsheimer on Israel, Russia-Ukraine and the US pivot to Asia
54 mins; October 26, 2023
The Voice has been silenced - why did it fail so badly?
54 mins; October 19, 2023
Israel faces its September 11 – but can it destroy Hamas?
54 mins; October 12, 2023
Conrad Black on Murdoch, Trump, Trudeau and Cancel Culture
54 mins; October 05, 2023
Rupert Murdoch: Supremacy, scandal and succession
54 mins; September 28, 2023
Republican political strategist Karl Rove on a Trump-Biden rematch
54 mins; September 21, 2023
Is a "woke" assault undermining the history of the West?
54 mins; September 14, 2023
The Voice is cracking - can the Yes vote be salvaged?
54 mins; September 07, 2023
Did a bitter 1968 US election set the tone for the future of American politics?
54 mins; August 31, 2023
Is time running out for Ukraine to win the war?
54 mins; August 24, 2023
The rise and fall of ISIS: Could it make a comeback?
54 mins; August 18, 2023
Almost 21 since the Bali terror attacks - is radicalisation again on the rise in Indonesia?
54 mins; August 10, 2023
The Gerontocracy and the 2024 presidential poll
54 mins; August 02, 2023
Don't write off Ukraine's counter-offensive
54 mins; July 28, 2023
Is democracy dead in Thailand? and historian Geoffrey Blainey's views on the Uluru Statement from the Heart
54 mins; July 20, 2023
Are a series of European uprisings 175 years ago still leaving their mark?
54 mins; July 13, 2023
Has a 17-year-old Brisbane schoolboy got the answer to our energy woes? and the long shadow of China's Cultural revolution
54 mins; July 07, 2023
Is Vladimir Putin out for the count? A new strain of Covid is on the way - but do we care? and the latest on the Voice to Parliament.
54 mins; June 30, 2023
Are net zero emissions by 2050 realistic? The events behind the U.S. decision to drop the A-bomb on Japan and avoiding the recession we don't have to have.
54 mins; June 26, 2023
Could China's meddling in Canadian politics bring down Justin Trudeau? Tony Abbott on the Libs demise & The Voice and why Trump and Johnson lost high office for similar reasons.
54 mins; June 16, 2023
Is Ukraine's fight also Australia's fight? North Korea's nuclear ambitions and its border crackdown and Gough Whitlam's foreign policy, 50 years on.
54 mins; June 09, 2023
Is American support for Ukraine waning? The Russia-gate lie and how the media fell for it and what would a Trump comeback mean for Australia?
54 mins; June 01, 2023
Why support is waning for The Voice, Syria's Assad coming in from the cold and the fight to free Hong Kong's billionaire pro-democracy activist, Jimmy Lai
54 mins; May 26, 2023
Albo's report card, Thailand election shock and the life and times of US statesman, George Shultz
54 mins; May 18, 2023
Israel turns 75. The Suharto legacy. The campaign against British colonialism.
54 mins; May 11, 2023
Australia’s head of state? Trump, Fox and the crisis in the American right. Remembering Allan Gyngell.
54 mins; May 05, 2023
Australia becomes more American. A bad idea - Biden’s 2024 bid. A nuclear power accident waiting to happen
54 mins; April 27, 2023
Macron’s Europe. A conservative backs The Voice. Why DeSantis took on Disney.
54 mins; April 21, 2023
The Voice: a debate. Is the Liberal party doomed?
54 mins; April 13, 2023
A new low for American politics. Don't 'sensitise' children's literature.
54 mins; April 05, 2023
Macron’s France. Iraq bounces back. Sport and Australia’s soft power advantage in the Pacific
54 mins; March 30, 2023
Responding to a rising China. The Republican party’s divide over Ukraine. Australia’s economic outlook
60 hours 0 mins; March 23, 2023
Why was there a war against Saddam in 2003. South Africa in a geo-politically polarised world.
60 hours 0 mins; March 16, 2023
The US and its great power rivals. Are Australia's neighbours ready for AUKUS? The UK lockdown files.
60 hours 0 mins; March 09, 2023
China's population decline. Afghanistan after the US withdrawal. Is it a public debate or a culture war?
60 hours 0 mins; March 02, 2023
The earthquake and its geopolitical consequences. Are the UN's Sustainable Development Goals achievable? Jimmy Carter's foreign policy.
60 hours 0 mins; February 23, 2023
Israeli - Palestinian prospects for peace. A liberal's lament. The writer and cultural appropriation.
60 hours 0 mins; February 16, 2023
Groupthink and Ukraine. Resistance in Myanmar. Europe's energy war with Russia
60 hours 0 mins; February 09, 2023
Britain three years after Brexit. The Liberal party quandary. Remembering diplomat Richard Woolcott
60 hours 0 mins; February 02, 2023
Jacinda Ardern's legacy, is a Ukrainian victory against Russia inevitable and is there a political future for Tony Abbott?
60 hours 0 mins; January 26, 2023
Best of 2022; Against an Indigenous voice to parliament. How Britain beat France in the race for Australia. Setting the record straight on the ‘mad’ King George III
60 hours 0 mins; January 19, 2023
Best of 2022; John Howard’s 'Sense of Balance'. What Osama bin Laden’ declassified personal papers reveal
60 hours 0 mins; January 12, 2023
Best of 2022; Australia’s China challenge, a short history of the Soviet Union and the new space race
60 hours 0 mins; January 05, 2023
Best of 2022; 804 days in an Iranian prison, Francis Fukuyama’s liberalism and Kevin Rudd on Sino-US relations.
60 hours 0 mins; December 29, 2022
Best of 2022; What demography tells us about geopolitics. Lionel Shiver speaks her mind and Ron DeSantis vs Disney
54 mins; December 22, 2022
A turbulent year in international relations, Indonesia's morality laws and China’s spies and subterfuge
60 hours 0 mins; December 15, 2022
Federal politics 2022, the legal cannabis paradox and why the future for feminism is conservative.
60 hours 0 mins; December 08, 2022
Prospects for Pakistan’s Imran Khan and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, also David Kemp on Australian liberalism.
60 hours 0 mins; December 01, 2022
Peter Costello on the Australian economy, what happened at COP 27 and problems with the EU's asylum system
60 hours 0 mins; November 24, 2022
Xi, Putin and the West, Iranian women resist and countering China’s Belt and Road
60 hours 0 mins; November 17, 2022
The US midterms, superconductors are the oil of the digital age and Malaysia goes to the polls.
60 hours 0 mins; November 10, 2022
Can the world agree on carbon reduction at COP 27? What demography tell us about geopolitics and what's wrong with identity politics
60 hours 0 mins; November 03, 2022
Rifts, divisions and the future for centre right parties, and how women in Iran have had enough
60 hours 0 mins; October 27, 2022
Kevin Rudd on Xi’s China, Jonathan Sumption sees real threats to democracy and the shift in Swedish politics
60 hours 0 mins; October 20, 2022
Geopolitics, the view from Washington and Japan, Also anti woke warrior Lionel Shriver
60 hours 0 mins; October 13, 2022
Four big events that shaped and changed our world.
60 hours 0 mins; October 07, 2022
Putin raises the stakes over Ukraine, a green leap forward and setting the record straight on King George III
60 hours 0 mins; September 30, 2022
What’s behind Europe’s energy crisis? And is Australia’s connection to Britain fading?
60 hours 0 mins; September 22, 2022
What might happen when a progressive new King has to work with a very conservative new PM.
60 hours 0 mins; September 15, 2022
David Flint on the Queen, the Monarchy and why renewed calls for an Australian republic will not succeed.
60 hours 0 mins; September 08, 2022
John Howard on a Sense of Balance and why concerns about the inevitability of China surpassing the U.S are misplaced.
60 hours 0 mins; September 02, 2022
Geopolitics with John Bolton. Australia's economic outlook.
60 hours 0 mins; August 26, 2022
Australia’s China challenge. Dame Leonie Kramer's biography. The future of welfare
60 hours 0 mins; August 19, 2022
Against the Voice. Geo-politics hampers energy transition
0 secs; August 13, 2022
Between The Lines
60 hours 0 mins; August 13, 2022
The West’s war in Ukraine. Malcolm Turnbull: Australia, China, and U.S relations. The Albanese agenda.
54 mins; August 06, 2022
Insurrection in the US. Silencing critics in the Philippines. Investigating war crimes in Ukraine.
54 mins; July 30, 2022
2015 attack on France. Our jungle origins. Russia's polar ambitions.
54 mins; July 23, 2022
Japan mourns Shinzo Abe, the housing and homelessness crisis in the United States, and solutions to growing homelessness in Australia.
54 mins; July 16, 2022
Australia is ill-prepared for the new reality of climate disasters and the growing crisis in Sri Lanka
54 mins; July 09, 2022
What Australians think about foreign policy. How effective are UN Peacekeepers. PNG elections.
54 mins; July 02, 2022
Jan 6th attack testimony. Commonwealth heads meet in Rwanda. The view from the Pacific.
54 mins; June 25, 2022
Ukraine’s bid for EU membership. Too many regional strategic groups. The state of Florida vs Disney
54 mins; June 18, 2022
The PM’s visit to Indonesia. Boris survives. Watergate and the Jan. 6th insurrection.
54 mins; June 11, 2022
Ukraine's MP Kira Rudik. Australia's covert action. The myth of primitive communism.
54 mins; June 04, 2022
U.S politics and fault lines. Diplomacy and grand Asia Pacific tours. Congestion and conflict in space.
54 mins; May 28, 2022
Bin Laden's secret letters. Testing times for Lebanon.
54 mins; May 21, 2022
Marcos return to power. Afghanistan failed and now forgotten. Geopolitics and Eurovision.
54 mins; May 14, 2022
(Rpt) John Howard. Home Affairs - too big ? China, nationalism & WW2.
54 mins; May 07, 2022
Revolution and the U.S constitution. The Koala manifesto. How Hitler lost the war.
54 mins; April 30, 2022
Election 2022. Strongmen and autocrats. 804 days in an Iranian prison.
54 mins; April 23, 2022
North Korea. 21st century enlightenment. USSR: a short history
54 mins; April 16, 2022
Francis Fukuyama's liberalism and its discontents. Kevin Rudd's China, the US and an avoidable war.
54 mins; April 09, 2022
Global consensus on Ukraine? China’s foothold in the Solomons. Britain vs France and the colonisation of Australia
54 mins; April 02, 2022
Alexander Downer on Ukraine 2022. Max Hastings’ Cuba 1962. A global economic outlook.
53 mins; March 26, 2022
The West re-energised. Putin's war in Syria. Malcolm Fraser's foreign policy.
