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Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
ABC Australia
300 episodes
A war breaks out, a leader emerges, a revolution unfolds. How did it happen, and what are the implications for you?
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Award-winning journalists Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald are joined by two new hosts, former foreign correspondent Kylie Morris and journalist Latika Bourke in London. Every day, they'll be discussing the biggest world events and how to make of sense of them.
Along with expert guests, they take a single topic and examine it with Australian eyes. Challenging, thoughtful and fun, Global Roaming is your user's guide to what the world is talking about.
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Has liberalism stopped working? Waleed Aly on a world of 'monsters'
Populists are rising. Traditional parties are struggling. Trust in institutions is falling. So what if these aren't separate crises at all? In this special live edition of Global Roaming, taken from Hamish Macdonald…
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Israel in deadlock: Will the Arab parties decide who governs?
Israel has voted in one of the most consequential elections in its history, but the result has produced no clear winner. Benjamin Netanyahu remains a major force in Israeli politics, yet neither his bloc nor the…
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Trump wanted a 51st state. Canada said no
Alberta has voted overwhelmingly against opening the door to separation from Canada, dealing a significant blow to one of the country's most persistent independence movements. But while the referendum result looks…
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Netanyahu's on the campaign trail: Will he survive Israel's election?
Will Israeli voters renew Benjamin Netanyahu's mandate, or is the country heading for a political turning point? ABC Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran joins Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald from Jerusalem…
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Is Europe at war with Russia? Russia seems to think so
Has Russia’s war with Ukraine spread beyond both countries borders? From cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns to attacks on critical infrastructure, one of Poland's leading Russia analysts Marek Menkiszak argues…
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How can we protect women in politics?
In the wake of the attack on Independent MP Helen Haines, Geraldine Doogue and Latika Bourke revisit their interview on the violence aimed towards women in politics. NOTE: This episode was initially broadcast on…
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Is this the most consequential election in Israel’s history?
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert weighs in on the upcoming election, and the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Francom. With Israel heading to the polls on 27 October in what many say is the country's most…
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Will the US midterms turn Trump into a lame duck?
Political tradition usually dictates that the midterm elections are bad news for the incumbent president. But when has Donald Trump ever been traditional? Despite returning to the White House promising lower prices, a…
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Is Narendra Modi trying to rig India’s elections?
ABC Asia editor Karishma Vyas joins Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald to unpack a week of fast-moving stories across Asia. In India, a youth protest movement – born after the the chief justice of India offhandedly…
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Patrick Radden Keefe on the Russian money that remade London
In 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell from a riverside apartment balcony into the Thames. His death would reveal a massive dirty-money empire. Brettler's parents went looking for answers and learned their son had…
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What the gold market tells us about Trump, Russia, and China
Gold is the ultimate rainy-day investment. So why are countries around the world shoring up their stockpiles? And what does it mean when the price of gold drops after reaching record highs? Geraldine Doogue and…
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Jordan fears Israel more than Iran. Is the Middle East's buffer state about to crack?
Wedged between Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan has spent decades surviving crises that would have broken many states. It hosts millions of refugees, depends heavily on US support and now sits at the…
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro surge: Are Trump’s friends taking over Latin America?
His father’s in jail for attempting a coup, but Flavio Bolsonaro currently stands as the likeliest candidate for president of Brazil after the first round of voting. But as Brazil’s continues to rely heavily on…
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Do Trump’s allies now own everything you watch?
Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros is done, handing David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, control of CBS, CNN, HBO Max, Paramount Plus and more. Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald are joined by…
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Does Australia overrely on the US? Two experts debate ANZUS and AUKUS
As long-held relationships between the US and traditional allies like Canada and the UK unravel, does Australia need to start eyeing the emergency exit? Does Australia need a plan B? That was the topic at a major…
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Russia is stealing and indoctrinating Ukraine's children
It's been called the largest mass abduction of children since World War II. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken by Russia since the full-scale invasion began, and many have never returned. ABC…
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'Frozen on October 7': Why Israel hasn't moved on
Three years after October 7, the Middle East that emerged from the attacks looks very different from the one that existed before them. In this special Global Roaming roundtable, Geraldine Doogue, Laura Tingle, Latika…
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A new world order is forming in the Middle East. Who will come out on top?
Eight months into the war between Iran, Israel and the US, the Middle East's old order is being redrawn, while opportunities and pitfalls abound. Geraldine Doogue and Nick Bryant ask Middle East scholar James Dorsey…
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Xi Jinping is going after China's tycoons to save the economy
China's ultra-rich have started quietly selling down stakes in their own companies ahead of a looming October 22 deadline that will close a decades-old tax loophole on offshore family trusts. Geraldine Doogue and Nick…
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Policy of rupture: How the AfD became Germany's most disruptive force
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz looks weaker than ever, and the nation's far-right AfD is stronger than ever. Europe's most important country looks to be heading into a period of deep political instability. The AfD…
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Is Australia the world's last great book-loving nation?
Richard Walsh has spent decades publishing books. He thinks the physical book is surviving for a reason. As Radio National prepares to reveal Australia's Top 100 Books, Walsh joins Geraldine Doogue and Waleed Aly to…
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'To the Victor Belong the Spoils': Trump's UN speech and the weakest world order in generations
The world's leaders are heading home from UN General Assembly week, and Donald Trump gave them plenty to talk about: a threat to annihilate Iran, and a line about "the spoils" of victory that Foreign Policy…
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They risked their lives for Australia. We left them behind in Afghanistan
Four years after Kabul fell, hundreds of Afghans who worked for the Australian Defence Force, diplomats and NGOs are still waiting on promised visas, while facing lethal risk. Waleed Aly and Hamish Macdonald speak to…
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Has the flood changed Nepal forever? Amanda Hodge shares her ground view
A month after catastrophic floods and glacial collapse swept through Nepal, thousands are still missing and entire mountain communities have been wiped off the map. The Australian's Asia Pacific correspondent Amanda…
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Why Richard Flanagan says Elon Musk's X is the new Spanish inquisition
Australian author Richard Flanagan joins Global Roaming to talk about his new essay collection Heresies. He tells Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly why he thinks Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter echoes the public…
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Is China's rare earth monopoly already unbreakable?
China controls as much as 95–99% of the world's heavy rare earth processing. Your phone, your car, the wind turbines on the horizon, the F-35 fighter jet; all of them run on permanent magnets made from a handful of…
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Will Argentina go to war with the UK over the Falklands?
Argentina's President Javier Milei is suffering in the polls. The Falkland Islands may help with that. Javier Milei's radical style of leadership has earned him more than just the nickname 'El Loco', it's engendered a…
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Can the centre hold? Lord Andrew Roberts on extremism and antisemitism
Historian Lord Andrew Roberts, biographer of Churchill and Napoleon, sits down with Geraldine Doogue fresh from visiting the site of the Bondi Beach massacre, a visit he links directly to his work chairing the 7…
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AI tech bros are warning AI will destroy us. Are they right?
Tech giants from OpenAI, Anthropic, and X have all warned in the same week that AI could threaten humanity itself, as former employees go public with their concerns. Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald ask foreign…
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The Alliance | Your questions answered
After The Alliance mini-series drew a flood of listener mail, Hamish McDonald and Geraldine Doogue open the mailbag and bring in Guardian Australia's Ben Doherty to answer the hardest question listeners asked: how much…
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The assassination of a Maltese journalist and the verdict that shocked Europe
Nine years after Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb, the businessman accused of arranging her assassination has walked free. A jury acquitted Yorgen Fenech of complicity and criminal…
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Trump, the Kushners and the rise of the US oligarchy
Much has been made of Trump dispatching his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for high-stakes diplomatic missions to solve conflicts across the world, but what do we know of the rest of the Kushner family? Jared's father,…
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Will Japan's weak yen trigger a global debt crisis?
Global debt has passed 300 per cent of world GDP, bond yields are climbing across the world, and the U.S. war with Iran is putting pressure on households. Could we be facing the beginning of another global financial…
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Britain accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament the UK will ban trade with unlawful Israeli settlements days after publicly thanking Israel for sheltering his grandmother from the Nazis. Israel has shut the British…
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25 years since 9/11, has AUKUS made Australia stronger?
In the five years since the AUKUS agreement was announced, can we still rely on our British and American allies? While most debate on AUKUS focuses on the United States and the promised Virginia-class submarines, the…
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As Myanmar's civil war intensifies, Rohingya Muslims face violence once again
Nine years after more than a million Rohingya fled Myanmar, Bangladesh wants them to return. But return to what? As Myanmar's civil war intensifies, the Rohingya are caught between the military that drove them from…
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How Giorgia Meloni built Italy's most stable government since Mussolini
Giorgia Meloni has become Italy's longest continuously serving prime minister since Mussolini - no small feat in a country that usually burns through leaders in under a year. Once written off as a fringe far-right…
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The AfD are winning elections: Is the German far-right back?
A far-right party is on the verge of forming a German state government for the first time since World War II. The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged in Saxony-Anhalt, raising questions that extend well…
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Is China gutting Germany's car industry while Trump grades NATO on loyalty?
China shock 2.0 has arrived and this time it's not the US rust belt in the firing line, it's Germany's beating industrial heart. Geraldine Doogue and Nick Bryant are joined by Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on…
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The Alliance | Does the US value Australia?
After a week examining the history, logic and limits of the ANZUS alliance, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue turn to the American perspective. Former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci…
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The Alliance | Has Australia sold its sovereignty to the US?
Andrew Hastie, the Liberal MP for Canning and Shadow Minister for Industry and Sovereign Capability, joins Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald for the fourth instalment of The Alliance, marking 75 years of ANZUS. A…
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The Alliance | If the US and China go to war, whose side are we on? Kevin Rudd answers
Fear of China and Japan has long defined Australia's foreign policy. Could there be a new way forward? In the third episode of The Alliance, Hamish McDonald and Geraldine Doogue put that question to Kevin Rudd: former…
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The Alliance | Why did we ally with the US in the first place?
The ANZUS treaty might be based more on cynical self-interest than a shared system of democratic values. In this episode of The Alliance mini-series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue trace the origins of…
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The Alliance | Does Australia Still Need America? John Howard on Trump, ANZUS and AUKUS
In a special series this week, Global Roaming is checking the use-by date on our relationship with the U.S. Signed on 1st September 1951, the ANZUS treaty has been the lynch-pin of Australia's security and foreign…
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Her father fled the Taliban by boat. She became the first Afghan woman in the Australian army
At age nine, Kbora Ali arrived in Australia as an Afghan refugee after her family fled Taliban rule. Less than a decade later, she became the first Afghan woman to join the Australian Army. In this deeply personal…
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How big tech is creating the next Donald Trump
Nobel Peace laureate and Rappler founder Maria Ressa sits down with Hamish McDonald at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney to make the case that the algorithms in your pocket, not any one leader, are…
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Helen Clark defends Fauci pleading the fifth and says Trump's vaccine cuts could cost lives
Helen Clark led New Zealand as Prime Minister for nearly nine years and she hasn't slowed down since. Now the Chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Clark spoke to Global Roaming at a moment when vaccines have become a…
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As Israel rejects a criminal investigation into Zomi Frankcom's death, is international law dead?
In April 2024, an Israeli strike hit a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza, killing Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and and six of her colleagues. Two years later, on World Humanitarian Day, the Israeli military…
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The Taliban's rule over Afghanistan is starting to crack
As rebel forces grow in strength, and tensions rise their once-friendly neighbour Pakistan, how long can the Taliban rule? The Australian's Asia-Pacific correspondent Amanda Hodge joins Geraldine Doogue and Hamish…
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The case for optimism: Michael Kirby looks beyond the dire headlines
Has the world taken a wrong turn, or are we simply losing sight of how much progress has already been made? In the second part of this conversation, former Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby reveals…
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