Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
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Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
A war breaks out, a leader emerges, a revolution unfolds. How did it happen, and what are the implications for you? Two award-winning journalists with decades of experience reporting on major world events, Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald join forces for a fresh conversation about global news...
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Getting Lucky... Again: Alan Finkel - Fixing the Rocky Road to Net Zero
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
Getting Lucky... Again: Peter Varghese - Re-thinking Australian foreign policy
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
Getting Lucky... Again: Hannah Ferguson - Making Caring Cool
In this Global Roaming limited series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia...
When Global Conflict Came to Bondi
After Sunday's horrific terror shooting at Bondi Beach, Geraldine Doogue joined Hamish Macdonald at Bondi Pavilion to reflect on what this moment mean...
2025: A Hinge Year for Global Affairs?
From huge diplomatic fallouts, to political assassinations, to historic jewellery heists, 2025 has been a HUGE year for international news. Hamish and...
Russell Crowe: The Power of Speaking Across Divides
In this bonus episode of Global Roaming with Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue, one of Australia's most beloved actors Russell Crowe speaks about...
William Dalrymple: Why We Shouldn't Tear Down Statues
In a broad-ranging conversation, Hamish Macdonald speaks to historian and host of the hit podcast Empire William Dalrymple about the pitfalls of tryin...
Presents — Unravel: Huntsman
The ABC's biggest investigative true crime podcast Unravel has just dropped their new season, Huntsman, and it's already rocketing up the podcast char...
The dark motivations behind Trump's war on Venezuelan 'narco-terrorists'
What began as targeted strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats has now turned into the largest military build-up in the Caribbean since the 1989...
The Simple Idea that Could Save Democracy
Australia does elections pretty well - in fact, we might be the world's hottest ambassador for democracy. But according to former Australian Electoral...
Beth Jones: The Ambassador that inspired 'The Diplomat'
If you thought Netflix's hit series The Diplomat was pure fiction, think again…
According to creator Deborah Cahn the show was inspired by a rea...
The Hidden Hands Shaping the BBC Crisis
Geraldine has returned from London where she had a front row seat as the BBC was engulfed in it's biggest crisis in decades. She joins Hamish for a co...
Is Zohran Mamdani a Blessing or a Curse for Democrats?
This week democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian Mayor, beating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo...
Trump or Xi: Who Blinked First?
It may have been the most significant hour and forty minutes in global geopolitics this year...
If the highly anticipated summit between Preside...
Are we on the cusp of the next big financial crash?
If you thought we'd never see a repeat of the GFC or even the dotcom bubble, think again...
So far financial markets have proved remarkably res...
The VERY important meeting in China that you probably missed
While we were all preoccupied with Prime Minister Albanese's meeting with Donald Trump, another hugely important meeting was taking place behind close...
Can Netanyahu Actually Deliver on Peace?
One week on from the ceasefire deal and the commencement of the first phase of Trump’s peace plan, things look fragile. At this point, peace seems to...
From heavy metal drummer to first female PM: Meet Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ Sanae Takaichi
Japan has entered a new political era after the election of Sanae Takaichi who is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister. A proteg...
🚨🚨🚨 What you need to know about the Gaza ceasefire deal
Geraldine and Hamish were live on air on ABC Sydney when Donald Trump broke the news this morning that a deal had been reached on the 'first phase' of...
🚨🚨🚨Did Trump just orchestrate a major breakthrough in the Middle East?
Hamas has responded to Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan for Gaza saying it is prepared to release all Israeli hostages - dead or alive. However it d...
Is Trump's obsession with the 'enemy within' tearing America apart?
Fears that the United States might be headed towards civil war feel slightly less overblown than they did just weeks ago...
With the US governme...
The Dark Roots of America's War on Science
The anti-science crusade in the United States extends beyond President Trump's flourishing statements about climate change being a 'con job' and a 'ho...
Former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths: The United Nations is broken. Can it be fixed?
The 80th UN General Assembly is heating up in New York, just as a major UN report finds that Israel is committing genocide. Countries like Australia h...
SPECIAL: Why is Papua New Guinea such a big deal for Australia?
As celebrations get underway marking the 50th anniversary of Papua New Guinea's independence from Australia, the two nations are about to enter a deal...
How Australia’s Army Chief is preparing us for the next war
Geraldine is back and feeling uncharacteristically pessimistic about the state of the world. So as the Australian government works hard to cement stro...
It's Xi's World Now, and We're All Just Living In It
All eyes have been on China this week, as dozens of world leaders arrived to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit and China's 'Vi...
This is what famine in Gaza REALLY looks like
Following the confirmation of famine in part of Gaza by the UN-backed IPC, Hamish Macdonald and guest host Kylie Morris speak to Anera's Gaza Branch D...
🚨🚨🚨 Why is Iran targeting Australia?
The Australian government has accused Iran of directing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and, for the first time since World War Two, has expelled...
Meet Nayib Bukele: The 'World's Coolest Dictator'
He's young, he's slick, he's social media savvy and he rules with an iron first. Meet Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador who has quickly becom...
Albo vs Netanyahu and Trump vs Zelensky: Big dog politics is here. And it's brutal.
It’s not every day a foreign leader calls the Australian Prime Minister “weak” and accuses him of betraying the country’s Jewish community. But that’s...
The shocking reality of life inside Putin's Russia
It's all eyes on Alaska as the summit between President Trump, President Putin and possibly President Zelensky looms. The stakes of these peace talks...
🚨🚨🚨 Australia will recognise a Palestinian state. What does this actually mean?
In a historic move, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this afternoon announced that Australia will move to recognise a state of Palestine at...
Australia's part in Israel's weapons supply chain
Where do the arms involved in conflicts worldwide come from and who bears responsibility for how they are used in war?
The US is by far the worl...
Can statehood emerge from chaos? History’s lesson
This week, the prospect of Palestinian statehood suddenly became tangible, with the UK, France and Canada promising to recognise Palestine at the UN g...
Trump, Epstein and the story that won't go away
A weekly examination of world affairs with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald.
What next for the Palestinians?
Despite living through continued death, displacement and destruction, Palestinians still dream of a better future.
What does that look like for...
Why can Albo get meetings with Xi, but not with Trump?
Anthony Albanese has finally got a meeting with a president, but it's not the one some are so desperate to see.
The Prime Minister sets off on a...
Can populism deliver?
It's sometimes described as a 'dance with the devil', but can populism also deliver for citizens?
As some democracies stall, how are populist le...
Trump's big, beautiful week
After promising his MAGA base that he wouldn't get the US into any further foreign entanglements, Donald Trump had a big week on the international sta...
Germany overcomes history and prepares for war
After decades of enjoying peacetime dividends and American protection, Germany is now re-arming in a hurry.
Troop numbers in the Bundeswehr had...