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  • Has South Korea’s martial law fiasco changed the country forever?
    Reged Ahmad speaks to Seoul-based journalist Raphael Rashid about why the streets have exploded with anger and whether the country can come back from the brink
  • The ‘senseless, shocking and preventable’ deaths at the centre of a landmark domestic violence inquiry
    Nour Haydar speaks to Guardian Australia’s Indigenous affairs editor, Lorena Allam, and Indigenous affairs reporter, Sarah Collard, about the four women at the centre of a Northern Territory inquest into their deaths from domestic violence
  • Inside Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
    Reporter William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power, and asks whether the country’s 13-year civil war has finally come to an end
  • How the housing crisis is reshaping Australia
    Reporter Daisy Dumas tells Reged Ahmad what 150 readers have to say about how the pressures of renting and buying have affected their income, relationships and health
  • What really helps with hangovers?
    Madeleine Finlay speaks to alcohol researcher Dr Sally Adams about the many wellness products marketed to make you feel better in the morning
  • Newsroom edition: News Corp’s gas splash and the mining industry’s election agenda
    Bridie Jabour talks to Guardian Australia’s editor, Lenore Taylor, and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about how the mining industry – and the media – are trying to shape the election agenda
  • The “heartfelt hypocrisy” of Hunter Biden’s pardon
    Reged Ahmad speaks to Washington DC bureau chief David Smith about why he sees Joe Biden’s controversial move as a vote of no confidence in America’s institutions as he walks out the door
  • Is an election closer than we think?
    Nour Haydar speaks to chief political correspondent Paul Karp about what Anthony Albanese could be weighing up as he decides when voters will head to the polls
  • Death by Taser: the trial of police officer Kristian White
    Reged Ahmad speaks to reporter Jordyn Beazely about the trial and the unresolved questions surrounding how the force interacts with vulnerable people
  • What’s going on with fluoride?
    Ian Sample examines about how attitudes have changed and where the science stands today
  • Newsroom edition: do voters still care about the climate during a cost-of-living crisis?
    Bridie Jabour talks to Mike Ticher and Patrick Keneally about the challenges the Labor government faces when selling its climate credentials during a cost-of-living crisis
  • Could the surviving members of the Bali Nine be coming home?
    Ben Doherty and Kate Lamb reflect with Reged Ahmad on what has happened nearly 20 years since the arrests of nine young Australians and examine the delicate politics behind bringing the remaining five men back to Australia
  • Unpicking Dick Smith’s strident views on renewables
    Graham Readfearn examines the millionaire businessman’s claims about renewable energy – and why his comments matter
  • The suspected methanol poisonings in Laos
    Victorian state reporter Adeshola Ore tells Reged Ahmad what we know happened in Vang Vieng and why the parents of the teenagers who died hope their deaths are ‘not in vain’
  • James Carville on where he thinks the Democrats went wrong
    Jonathan Freedland speaks to the veteran political strategist about where the Democrats went wrong and how they can bounce back
  • Newsroom edition: are there lessons for Labor in Trump’s win?
    Guardian Australia’s editor Lenore Taylor, deputy editor Patrick Keneally and head of newsroom Mike Ticher discuss whether there are lessons for the major parties in Donald Trump’s big win
  • The Kyle and Jackie O Show: when are shock jocks too shocking?
    Senior correspondent Sarah Martin and reporter Kate Lyons tell Nour Haydar how Australia’s highest-rating radio show skirts decency laws
  • Big spending: the politics of Australian electoral reform
    Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Paul Karp speaks to Reged Ahmed about why Labor and the Coalition have been accused of cooking up a ‘secret deal’ on new electoral rules
  • Trump’s new cabinet: ‘authoritarianism and chaos’
    Washington DC bureau chief David Smith speaks to Nour Haydar about what the latest announcements tell us about his plans for his second term
  • What makes a country happy
    At a moment when the world feels like a particularly unsettling place, Ian Sample asks what can be done to make us all feel better