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And we, I think, were some of the first people in the world to get thinkers around the world meeting and talking to each other live for Australian audiences.

And Malcolm Long, of course, did some of those programs, invented with his colleagues something called LNL, Late Night Live, which is still going strong, and various other programs.

But then let's leap forward the subject of your new book.

looking at a change in media as we've seen almost every day.

All right.

I want to talk about David Maher in Late Night Live.

So he's interviewing James O'Donnell from the Scanlon Institute on the new report, Mapping Social Cohesion.

Now, in a discussion on social cohesion in Australia, anti-Semitism is the topic to talk about.

But when you looked at Scanlon's financial social cohesion report, Social Cohesion Report, it was mentioned.

Anti-Semitism, however, was linked with Islamophobia, which is unreasonable, but anti-Semitism was mentioned.

But on the Late Night Live interview, it was not mentioned.

And how you can possibly discuss social cohesion in Australia without mentioning anti-Semitism is just, I just can't understand that.

And I think that's the central point here, that this is about our relationship with the US and Israel stands in for the US here in this, you know, terrible territory of, you know, savages, barbarians, brown people.

On ABC Radio National, this is Late Night Live.

I'm David Marr, and I'm talking to George Browning and Louise Adler about the impact of the last years of war in the Middle East on Australia, its society and its politics.

Louise, one thing that does need to be acknowledged, doesn't it, that Australia has become, according to the polls... really quite remarkably hostile to Israel.

And we want to talk about the impact of the Israel-Palestine War on Australian society.

And it's such an honour to be co-delivering the Dymphna Clark-Manning Clark lecture with George Browning.

Thanks to the pair of you for joining us on Late Night Live.

I've been talking to Louise Adler, former publisher, former Adelaide Writers' Week director, and now a member of the Jewish Council of Australia's advisory committee, and to George Browning, still Bishop Browning, Anglican Bishop of Canberra-Golbin until he retired, and now patron of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.

The famed science writer James Gleick has just published The Telephone, A New History, celebrating its discovery, but this is also, he warns us, a story of corrupt scheming replete with bribery, fraud and speculation.

James, welcome to Late Night Live.

David, I'm delighted to be here.

Thank you.

And for business people, that just seemed crude.

But for everybody else, for all the rest of it, it was just a delight because we are creatures who like to

converse, right? On ABC Radio National, this is Late Night Live.

I'm David Meyer, and I'm talking to James Gleick about his new book, The Telephone, A New History.

But it's really the case for Australia and all of global history as well.

On ABC Radio National, this is Late Night Live.

I'm David Marr, and I'm talking to Simon Miraudo, writer, film critic, author of The Last Rights for Lost Films.

Simon, in the United States of America, Martin Scorsese has thrown some money into the preservation of film, which, among other things, has kind of revealed what's missing as well as what can be saved.

Jeffrey is one of the world's experts on the collapse of natural rock arches.

Jeffrey, welcome to Late Night Live.

Thanks for having me.

Jeffrey, how did you come to be an expert in this crucial subject?

How does it make us feel as humans who witness one of these structural collapses and see geology in action? I think it's really fascinating and it gives us just an opportunity to witness geologic time again.

on a human timescale.

Jeffrey, thank you very much for joining us on Late Night Live.

My pleasure.