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The Fifth Estate responds to the most important stories of the day and reignites those that have fallen off the front pages.
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Can You Keep a Secret? Media Rights and the Need to Know
Sally Warhaft, Peter Cronau and Scott Ludlam in conversation on stage at Bendigo Writers Festival.
Why is WikiLeaks so important? What is there...
New Economic Futures
Sally Warhaft and George Megalogenis
Remember March 2020? When Australian borders closed, when we saw the first round of social restrictions? Wh...
Breaking the Climate Stalemate
What might the economic and social upheavals of 2020 mean for climate policy in Australia? For this Fifth Estate conversation, host Sally Warhaft brin...
Kevin Rudd on Australia’s Post-Pandemic Future
Sally Warhaft and Kevin Rudd, live via video-link
What are the origins of COVID-19? How could the pandemic’s spread have been better contained?...
Tom Porteous on Human Rights and COVID-19
Sally Warhaft speaks with Tom Porteous, who joined us live from Paris
Tom Porteous is a former journalist for the Guardian and the BBC, and an e...
Joshua Wong: Unfree Speech
Sally Warhaft, left, and Joshua Wong
Joshua Wong was still a teenager when he rose to international prominence as a leader in Hong Kong’s 2014 U...
Malcolm Turnbull
Sally Warhaft interviews Malcolm Turnbull – in his home – from the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne
In 2015, when Malcolm Turnbull returned to the Li...
State of Emergence
Sally Warhaft, left, and George Megalogenis
There is little doubt now that the COVID-19 coronavirus will drastically alter our lives, communitie...
Bob Brown: Australia Ablaze
Bob Brown
The bushfires that raged across the country this summer have caused environmental and economic damage that will be felt for years to c...
Political Wrap 2019
For the final Fifth Estate of 2019, George Megalogenis returns to reflect with host Sally Warhaft on the year in Australian politics.
Sally Warh...
Samantha Power on Influence and Idealism
How does a person navigate the change from activist outsider to influential insider? How do you balance idealism and pragmatism under pressure?
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Past Imperfect: Writing Australian History
For this Fifth Estate discussion, we're joined by two prominent historians for a conversation about their careers, and how they have each navigated th...
Women's Work
American-born journalist Megan K. Stack is an acclaimed author and war correspondent. She was Moscow bureau chief for the L.A. Times when she made the...
Red State Real Talk: Mia Love
Mia Love
Mia Love was once a rising star of the Republican Party. She was the first black female Republican elected to congress, running and win...
Tim Costello
Sally Warhaft and Tim Costello
For decades, Tim Costello has been among Australia’s most outspoken voices on issues of social justice and global...
Family Violence Emergency
Sally Warhaft and Jess Hill
The recent book by Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do, calls for a drastic and urgent rethink in the way we conceive...
Foreign Affairs
Sally Warhaft and Michael Fullilove
What is Australia’s place in the world? How are we getting along with our neighbours? And how is our interna...
Plots and Prayers
Sally Warhaft and Niki Savva
When Julia Gillard overthrew Kevin Rudd in 2010 it was as if the Canberra sky fell in. In the years since, we’ve se...
Medicine and Healthcare in Australia
Sally Warhaft, Ranjana Srivastava and Gustav Nossal
There's much to celebrate in the history of Australian medicine and medical care – from the...
Post-Election Wrap 2019
Sally Warhaft and Paul Kelly
A month on from the federal election, once the dust has settled, we take an in-depth look at the events of 18 May a...
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
Sally Warhaft and Frédéric Martel
The Catholic Church, writes Frédéric Martel, is ‘a system built ... on the homosexual double life and on the m...
Jill Abramson
Sally Warhaft and Jill Abramson on stage at the Athenaeum Theatre — Photo: Scott Limbrick
How should the media survive the current age? It’s a q...
Right or Duty? Compulsory Voting in Australia
Sally Warhaft, Kim Rubenstein and Judith Brett
In a democracy, should voting be a citizen’s right or a citizen’s duty?
Australia is one of...
On Hate
When, and how, does hate flourish in a society? How is hate spreading in our society? When do speech acts qualify as acts of hate? Who is encouraging...
Federal Election 2019
After yet another year of chaos in the Australian Parliament, a federal election looms. For an in-depth discussion of the context – and possible outco...
Kassem Eid: My Country
Sally Warhaft and Kassem Eid on stage at the Wheeler Centre
In 2013, Kassem Eid narrowly escaped death when Bashar al-Assad’s government unleash...
Political Wrap 2018
For the final Fifth Estate of 2018 – and in the wake of the Victorian election and its recriminations – we look back at the year in Australian politic...
Kerry O'Brien
Sally Warhaft and Kerry O'Brien — Photo: Jon Tjhia
Kerry O'Brien at the Wheeler Centre — Photo: Jon Tjhia
‘We absolutely cannot make any...
US Midterms and Beyond
Sally Warhaft, Bob Carr and Dennis Altman
The 2018 midterm elections in the United States will be held on Tuesday 6 November. In the heated, hig...
Foreign Affairs
Sally Warhaft and Stephen Smith — Photo: Scott Limbrick
As we hurtle towards the end of 2018, it’s clear we’ve entered a period of increased vol...
Christianity Today
Sally Warhaft and Greg Sheridan
In 1966, 88% of Australians identified as Christian in the census. By the 2016 census, the proportion had dipped...
Media, Police and Crimes Against Women
How is journalism changing when it comes to reporting on crimes against women? Why do some crimes, and some victims, get more press than others? And h...
Katharine Murphy
Sally Warhaft and Katharine Murphy at The Fifth Estate
‘Conflict is not a new commodity in news,’ Katharine Murphy has written. ‘ … But media di...
David Neiwert
Sally Warhaft and David Neiwert — Photo: Sophie Quick
At Melbourne Writers Festival, journalist, author and acknowledged expert in American righ...
Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen is an award-winning author and a staff writer at The New Yorker. She speaks to Sally Warhaft about The Future is History: How Totalitaria...
Whitewash: Crops, Corruption and Cancer
Glyphosate is the most widely used weed-killer in the world. It’s the active ingredient in Roundup, the flagship agricultural herbicide sold by Monsan...
Les Hinton
With Sally Warhaft, Les Hinton – Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man for more than 50 years – talks about the past, present and future of the mainstream p...
Tracey Spicer
For this episode, Fifth Estate host Sally Warhaft welcomes Tracey Spicer to the Wheeler Centre for a conversation about her accomplished, diverse and...
Public Health and Drug Policy Today
Sally Warhaft, Richard Di Natale and Fiona Patten in discussion at the Wheeler Centre — Photo: Jon Tjhia
In the 1980s, Australia was an early ad...
Katy Tur: Reporting Trump
Sally Warhaft and Katy Tur — Photo: Jon Tjhia
Katy Tur, sometimes known as ‘Little Katy, third-rate reporter’, is an award-winning NBC News corr...