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Guardian Australia's daily news podcast. Every weekday, join Guardian journalists for a deeper understanding of the news in Australia and beyond. You can support The Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport

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Last week for 48 hours, and without any warning, Afghanistan was in a total internet blackout. It was a telecommunications shutdown imposed by the Taliban and one that had an immediate and profound impact on the population. Journalist and Full Story producer Shadi Khan Saif speaks to Reged Ahmad about the regime’s calculated effort to silence dissent

Shadi Khan Saif: the Taliban’s war on the internet

The US supreme court starts a new term on Monday, and the nine justices are preparing to take on cases that could prove crucial to the future of American society and democracy. Jonathan Freedland speaks to Prof Leah Litman about what exactly motivates the nine judges who are supposedly tasked with upholding the US constitution. When did the highest court in the land become so apparently partisan? Is there any coming back from this?

When did the US supreme court become so ‘lawless’?

Tech companies are asking the government to allow them to effectively steal the work of creatives and journalists to train their AI large language models, hyping the potential value of AI to the economy and urging lawmakers to give them an exemption from copyright laws to realise it. Now creatives are fighting back.Bridie Jabour speaks with editor Lenore Taylor and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about the need to regulate AI and the threat it poses to journalism

Newsroom edition: the battle to regulate AI

On Monday, Donald Trump and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stood together as they unveiled their plan to end the war in Gaza. But it was a 20-point proposal with precious little detail , drawn up with no involvement from Hamas or other Palestinians. The Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, speaks to Reged Ahmad on whether this proposal is a roadmap to peace or just theatrics by the US president

Is the Trump plan for Gaza designed to fail?

After seven years, the Ben Roberts-Smith v Nine newspapers defamation case is finally over, with the high court dismissing his bid for an appeal against a ruling in the federal court that found on the balance of probabilities that he committed war crimes. Guardian Australia senior reporter Ben Doherty talks to Reged Ahmad about what this means for Roberts-Smith, who continues to deny the allegations, and the wider ramifications of the long-running case

Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case reaches the end of the road

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie’s hardline rhetoric on migration and manufacturing have led many to question whether the opposition frontbencher plans to pull his party to the right and go for the leadership. Guardian Australia political reporter Dan Jervis-Bardy speaks to Nour Haydar about the rise of the SAS soldier turned politician and if he could be successful in importing US-style politics to Australian shores

Andrew Hastie and the rise of the ‘Maga right’

When the US president stood up at the podium and announced a link between autism and paracetamol, he sent alarm through the medical community and the public. Guardian science correspondent Hannah Devlin speaks to Reged Ahmad about what the science actually says about the painkiller and why experts fear Donald Trump is deliberately fostering a narrative of distrust

Paracetamol and Donald Trump’s medical myths

In their penultimate episode for the year, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry unpack an eventful week at the UN and look at how Australia is dealing with a new reality with the United States. They also discuss Andrew Hastie pulling the Liberal party to the right and why politicians need to court social media influencers if they want to increase their vote

Back to Back Barries: Palestine, Hastie and the rise of influencers

Anthony Albanese was at the United Nations this week, taking to the stage to call for unity in times of global conflict. But the headlines were dominated by Donald Trump, whose words told a much different story. At times, the lies and mistruths came so fast it was difficult for journalists to keep up. So how do journalists cover disinformation when it spreads to Australia so rapidly? Bridie Jabour talks to the editor, Lenore Taylor, and the national news editor, Josephine Tovey, about the globalisation of misinformation and why facts are more important than ever

Newsroom edition: Trump’s war on truth reverberates in Australia

The race discrimination commissioner, Giri Sivaraman, speaks to Nour Haydar about the recent spate of anti-immigration rallies, how he is ‘attacked all the time’ for calling out racism, and why some politicians don’t want to talk about the issue

The Race Discrimination Commissioner on the rise of the far right

In 2019, the people of Bougainville overwhelmingly voted in favour of independence. Once controlled by Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia and Papua New Guinea, some see the reopening of a massive copper and gold mine known as Panguna as the key to the new nation’s success. But it was only three decades ago that Bougainvilleans went to war to shut it down.Nour Haydar speaks with Ben Doherty about the road to independence for Australia’s Pacific neighbour and the risk of repeating mistakes from the past

Bougainville’s rocky path to independence

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