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.
John Bolton on Putin. Misogynist attacks on conservative women. Nixon’s 1972 China visit.
54 mins; February 26, 2022
American power over extended. Albanese's political prospects. The bombing of Darwin. A tribute to P.J O'Rourke.
54 mins; February 19, 2022
Myanmar post-coup. Churchill reassessed. Cartoonist Bill Leak's Bio.
54 mins; February 12, 2022
Scott Morrison’s foreign policy. China in the Pacific. How the pandemic changed us.
54 mins; February 05, 2022
The Russia-Ukraine crisis, an unflattering portrait of Boris Johnson and the 2022 federal election
54 mins; January 29, 2022
Niall Ferguson on the 'politics of catastrophe'
29 mins; January 19, 2022
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the Cold War migrants of Russia
29 mins; January 12, 2022
Josh Frydenberg on Andrew Peacock; and Chris Bowen on political 'charlatans'
29 mins; January 05, 2022
Nicolle Flint MP on her career-ending mistreatment in politics; and how 'cancel culture' threatens democracy
29 mins; December 29, 2021
Prime Minister John Howard evaluates his time in office
40 mins; December 22, 2021
What next for US-China relations?
28 mins; December 15, 2021
Anne-Marie Slaughter on The Biden doctrine, restoring faith in democracy and remembering Pearl Harbour
28 mins; December 08, 2021
Thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and why the far-right is moving away from climate change denialism
29 mins; December 01, 2021
Will US-led inflation affect Australian interest rates? And China's handling of the disappearance of Peng Shuai
29 mins; November 24, 2021
The Trump- Russia collusion 'hoax' and the US- China deal to combat climate change
29 mins; November 17, 2021
India and Australia strengthen ties in the face of a rising China
29 mins; November 10, 2021
COP26: how will the world agree to slash emissions?
28 mins; November 03, 2021
Alan Tudge on the challenges of teaching Australian history, and mounting evidence of the Wuhan coronavirus lab leak
29 mins; October 27, 2021
COP26 - can we really stop relying on fossil fuels? And the legacy of Colin Powell
29 mins; October 20, 2021
What now for post-Merkel Germany? And a bipartisan approach to China relations
28 mins; October 13, 2021
Should vaccine passports be mandated? And the Philippines' strained relationship with China
28 mins; October 06, 2021
How do Westminster and Washington justify AUKUS? And Anthony Albanese's working-class rugby league roots
28 mins; September 29, 2021
In defence of the AUKUS alliance, and meet the generation who will inherit the fallout from COVID
29 mins; September 22, 2021
Our first Indigenous MP and North Korea's 'zero cases' of COVID
29 mins; September 15, 2021
Who does America blame for the mess in Afghanistan? And how COVID has exposed a splintering of our Federation
29 mins; September 08, 2021
ISIS-K challenges the Taliban; and Philip Ruddock on the 20 year anniversary of the Tampa crisis
29 mins; September 01, 2021
Defending the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
29 mins; August 25, 2021
Paul Wolfowitz on the 20-year war as the Taliban reclaims Afghanistan
28 mins; August 18, 2021
What will the global economy of the 2020s bring for developing countries? And the history of unsung 'true believers' of the Labor Party
29 mins; August 11, 2021
The Southeast Asia COVID crisis worsens, and the 'Wuhan lab' theory
29 mins; August 04, 2021
Do COVID lockdowns help or hurt the community?
29 mins; July 28, 2021
China: friend or foe?
28 mins; July 21, 2021
The 'toxic time bomb' of Australia's climate and energy policy; and is nuclear energy part of the solution?
29 mins; July 14, 2021
The Taliban’s march to Kabul; and how Australia can 'manage its relationship' with China
29 mins; July 07, 2021
On the 50th anniversary of Gough Whitlam's delegation to China and Henry Kissinger's secret mission
29 mins; June 30, 2021
More change of leadership in Tehran and Jerusalem; and Myanmar: a human rights disaster
29 mins; June 23, 2021
Jonathan Dimbleby on 'Operation Barbarossa' and how Hitler lost the war
29 mins; June 16, 2021
America: revolution, constitution and how they helped save the iconic Australian koala
29 mins; June 09, 2021
Niall Ferguson on the 'politics of catastrophe'
29 mins; June 02, 2021
What does the next generation think about Australia’s China policy?
28 mins; May 26, 2021
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the Cold War migrants of Russia
29 mins; May 19, 2021
China's pledge to battle climate change; and political realignment in the UK
29 mins; May 12, 2021
Has Modi failed India?; and expanding our digital relationships with south-east Asia
29 mins; May 05, 2021
100 days of Joe Biden; and the 'unmitigated disaster' of the Bay of Pigs
29 mins; April 28, 2021
Josh Frydenberg on Andrew Peacock; and Chris Bowen on political 'charlatans'
29 mins; April 21, 2021
Nicolle Flint MP on her career-ending mistreatment in politics; and how 'cancel culture' threatens democracy
29 mins; April 14, 2021
Pat McGorry on the 'missing middle' of funding for mental health; and why things look good for post-COVID economic recovery
29 mins; April 07, 2021
300 years of prime ministership: the good, the bad and the ugly
29 mins; March 31, 2021
Bangladesh- 50 years of independence; and how Trump accelerated the polarising of politics
29 mins; March 24, 2021
Could Syria be the new Lebanon?; Labor and the WA landslide; and is Putin reviving the 'iron curtain'?
29 mins; March 17, 2021
Why Australians chose liberalism over socialism; and will 'Megxit' prove to be worse than Brexit?
29 mins; March 10, 2021
How will Labor win back its 'working class' voters?; and was the 'Arab Spring' ever going to deliver democracy to the Middle East?
29 mins; March 03, 2021
Prime Minister John Howard evaluates his time in office
40 mins; February 24, 2021
China steps up threats to reclaim Taiwan; and why we need to start respecting Russia
29 mins; February 17, 2021
Egypt and the Arab Winter; and can the military get away with another coup in Myanmar?
29 mins; February 10, 2021
Can Australia and China learn to get along?
29 mins; February 03, 2021
Indigenous support for Australia Day; and Trump is gone. Now what?
29 mins; January 27, 2021
Is Home Affairs too big?; also Rana Mitter on China's new nationalism
29 mins; January 20, 2021
The French history behind Lebanon’s problems; challenging the prisoners of war narrative; remembering Brent Scowcroft
28 mins; January 13, 2021
Turnbull's legacy, and 75 years after Hitler's death: who did he really see as the enemy?
28 mins; January 06, 2021
Shinzo Abe resignation and Catherine Belton on the Navalny poisoning, Belarus and Putin’s people
29 mins; December 30, 2020
Elaine Pearson on free speech at UNSW and Hiroshima 75th anniversary
28 mins; December 23, 2020
Working towards 'Utopia' in 2021; and with the rise of China, what next for the US?
29 mins; December 16, 2020
2020: the year in review
28 mins; December 09, 2020
How to move forward with China; and should Beethoven be 'cancelled?'
29 mins; December 02, 2020
The legacy of September 11, 2001
29 mins; November 25, 2020
Is Boris Johnson on political life support?; and the case against a Royal Commission into media diversity
29 mins; November 18, 2020
Donald Trump is finished, but will 'Trumpism' prevail?; and de-bunking the myth of royal interference with Gough Whitlam's dismissal
29 mins; November 11, 2020
America remains bitterly divided; and Macron's attempt to balance faith with freedom of speech
28 mins; November 04, 2020
Trump's achievements in the Middle East; and why James Baker is 'the man who ran Washington'
29 mins; October 28, 2020
NZ election: why voters chose 'health over wealth'; and the rise of socialism in the time of COVID
29 mins; October 21, 2020
How COVID has worsened modern slavery; and is America breaking its own rules?
29 mins; October 14, 2020
The Trump 'clown-verse' continues; and China's unrealistic green energy goals
29 mins; October 07, 2020
Has Scott Morrison spent too much?; and can China rise peacefully?
29 mins; September 30, 2020
Does Asia prefer Trump over Biden?; and why isolating Russia doesn't make sense
29 mins; September 23, 2020
Why our economy remains stronger than others; and yes, Trump can still win the US election
29 mins; September 16, 2020
Is Home Affairs too big?; also Rana Mitter on China's new nationalism
29 mins; September 09, 2020
Shinzo Abe resignation and Catherine Belton on the Navalny poisoning, Belarus and Putin’s people
29 mins; September 02, 2020
What does South East Asia want from the US and China?; and Robert Draper’s To Start a War
29 mins; August 26, 2020
The French history behind Lebanon’s problems; challenging the prisoners of war narrative; remembering Brent Scowcroft
28 mins; August 19, 2020
Biden picks Kamala Harris; and should we revive manufacturing in Australia?
28 mins; August 12, 2020
Elaine Pearson on free speech at UNSW and Hiroshima 75th anniversary
28 mins; August 05, 2020
Australian independence at the Ausmin talks; Thatcherism and Reagonomics: lessons for economic recovery?
29 mins; July 29, 2020
Liberals pushing back against cancel culture in the US; the withering of the US-South Korea alliance
29 mins; July 22, 2020
Covid missteps in the UK, Will Putin be president for life? And, genocide denialism in Srebrenica
29 mins; July 15, 2020
Muscling up to China and 25 years since Srebrenica
29 mins; July 08, 2020
Remembering Owen Harries and Hamilton the musical
28 mins; July 01, 2020
Understanding the border dispute between India and China, and the Gillard-Rudd leadership coup ten years on
29 mins; June 24, 2020
Geoffrey Blainey on the vandalism of historic statues, and the geopolitics of Coronavirus conspiracies
29 mins; June 17, 2020
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and a trifecta of troubles in the US
28 mins; June 10, 2020
How did America get to its current state? And a look behind the mask of Antifa in Australia
28 mins; June 03, 2020
Why the US should absolutely not lead a new Cold War against China. Plus, meet two Indigenous sceptics of symbolic reconciliation
28 mins; May 27, 2020
Australia's balancing act with China, and the woman who became chief of staff to the Prime Minister at 22
28 mins; May 20, 2020
Kevin Rudd on anarchy in the post COVID-19 world order, and could stable democracy be a reality in Iraq?
28 mins; May 13, 2020
Is the Swedish model a death sentence? And, does Australia need a post-Covid economic partnership with the US, Japan and India?
28 mins; May 06, 2020
Economics of coronavirus recovery, and Alexander Downer on China
28 mins; April 29, 2020
Turnbull's legacy, and 75 years after Hitler's death: who did he really see as the enemy?
28 mins; April 22, 2020
Boris Johnson's COVID leadership, and Margaret Thatcher's legacy
29 mins; April 15, 2020
Duterte's coronavirus response, plus Australian PMs and power
29 mins; April 08, 2020
Singapore’s coronavirus advice to Australia, and Max Hastings on the Dambusters
