Can we ever fully trust AI agents?
As more incidents emerge of AI agents going rogue during testing, can we fully trust them?In the latest hack, Australia revealed OpenAI agents hacked into a government database containing healthcare d...
24 Sep 23min
Australia's 'barking mad' bet on nuclear submarines
The multi-billion dollar AUKUS defence deal between the US, UK and Australia is one of the most significant in our modern history.The three countries wanted to curb China’s growing military presence i...
17 Sep 20min
Ratko Mladić: the war criminal who became a martyr for Bosnian Serbs
To most of the world, former Bosnian Serb military general Ratko Mladić was a brutal war criminal whose actions during the Bosnian War killed thousands. For others, he was a martyr who defended the Se...
10 Sep 16min
Inside the booming ‘shadow fleet’ industry keeping rogue states afloat
It’s the middle of the night in April 2023 in the East China Sea.A North Korean-linked oil tanker sailing under another country’s flag suddenly goes dark. It stops transmitting its location and simply...
3 Sep 21min
The music that made Dolly Parton a global icon
It was 1967, and country musician Porter Wagoner was introducing a guest on his weekly TV show.The camera cuts to a woman with big, blonde beehive, wearing a magenta mini dress with the same shade of ...
31 Aug 20min
How Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russia
In recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have targeted large warehouses across Russia, destroying millions of dollars of merchandise stored inside them.These warehouses and logistics hubs belong to Wildberri...
27 Aug 18min
How Timor-Leste is fighting back against Asia’s scamming gangs
🔁 Rerun: originally published 12/12/25. We're revisiting this episode as we take a quick break but we'll be back next week with a new instalment of The Conversation Weekly. Oecusse, a rugged, remote ...
20 Aug 24min
Loonies and bins: Britain's long love affair with novelty politics
It's pretty grim when your main political opponent is a man with a bin for a head.That's the situation that's faced Nigel Farage in the Clacton byelection in the UK.Count Binface has pledged to nation...
13 Aug 23min
