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The Australian鈥檚 government鈥檚 surprise September 16 announcement that Australia was in a new security alliance with the United States, Britain and Australia 鈥 AUKUS 鈥 formalises its war drive against China.

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The arrest and subsequent release of Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia鈥檚 exiled ex-president, has caused a political storm in the Spanish State, reports Dick Nichols.

Civil Liberties Australia said new powers to allow intelligence agents to manipulate and omit data聽will likely lead to the manufacturing of evidence.聽Paul Gregoire reports.

Barry Healy reviews a darkly comedic, yet deeply insightful study of the complex nuances of masculinity.

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Opposition is growing to the New South Wales government's proposal for the Western Harbour Tunnel to go through one of Australia's most toxic sedimentary deposits. Peter Boyle reports.

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Mat Ward takes a look back at September's political news and the best new music that related聽to it.

Blake returns to a washed out Earth to see if life can reproduce there

Barry Healy reviews The Colony, where devastation has overtaken Earth and the rich have evacuated the planet.

David McComb rose to fame leading the Triffids and went on to found the Blackeyed Susans. Barry Healy introduces a new retrospective film on his life and work.

If anyone thought that talking of a 鈥渘ew cold war鈥 with China was overstating the case, writes Kate Hudson, the recently announced AUKUS military pact must make them think again.

麻豆传媒聽speaks with聽Camille Barbagallo聽from the COP 26 Coalition in Britain.

Scott Morrison is still clinging to a weak emission reduction target of 26鈥28%, set six years ago. At the current rate, we won't reach net zero climate pollution until 2170, argues Jessie de Waal.

Neoliberal austerity, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has provided fertile ground for the rise of the far-right聽in Canada's聽recent federal election, reports Jeff Shantz.