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Geraldine Doogue

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 and how to make sense of it.

Along with expert guests, they take a single topic and examine it with Australian eyes. Challenging, thoughtful and fun, Global Roaming is your user's guide to what the world is talking about.

Airs Saturday 8.30 am. Repeated 6pm Monday and 5.30am Tuesday.

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A war breaks out, a leader emerges, a revolution unfolds. How did it happen, and what are the implications for you?

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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 'Victory Day' military parade, marking the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in WW2.

Published: FriFri 5 Sep 2025 at 6:45amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Duration: 40 minutes 47 seconds

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 Director Yazdan El-Amawi about what the situation is actually like for those living in Gaza.

Published: 29 Aug 2025Fri 29 Aug 2025 at 6:00amwith Hamish Macdonald and Kylie Morris

Duration: 31 minutes 30 seconds

🚨🚨🚨 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 an ambassador.

Published: 26 Aug 2025Tue 26 Aug 2025 at 1:00pmwith Hamish Macdonald and Kylie Morris

Duration: 18 minutes

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 become an icon of the global right.

Published: 22 Aug 2025Fri 22 Aug 2025 at 6:00amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds

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.

Published: 20 Aug 2025Wed 20 Aug 2025 at 7:45amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Duration: 15 minutes

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 - for Ukraine, for Russia and for the West - are incredibly high.

Published: 15 Aug 2025Fri 15 Aug 2025 at 6:30amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

🚨🚨🚨 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 the United Nations General Assembly next month, with a condition that terror group Hamas play no…

Published: 11 Aug 2025Mon 11 Aug 2025 at 6:30amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Duration: 16 minutes

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 world's largest weapons manufacturer and exporter, accounting for around 40% of global exports.

Published: 8 Aug 2025Fri 8 Aug 2025 at 5:00amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

F35-A Lightning 2 aircraft performing a high speed, low altitude flyby

Duration: 35 minutes

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 general assembly in September. Whether Australia will follow suit remains to be seen.

Published: 1 Aug 2025Fri 1 Aug 2025 at 5:00amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

An illustration featuring peace pigeons flying out of tank cannon

Duration: 39 minutes

Trump, Epstein and the story that won't go away

A weekly examination of world affairs with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald.

Published: 25 Jul 2025Fri 25 Jul 2025 at 5:30amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Trump, Knauss, Epstein, & Maxwell At Mar-A-Lago, 2000

Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds

AUKUS Investigated

AUKUS Investigated 01: That Fella Down Under

In a special mini-series, Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald get the answers to all your burning questions about AUKUS.

Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

Published: 19 Dec 2024Thu 19 Dec 2024 at 9:26pmwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

AUKUS Investigated 02: Bang for buck?

The plan for us to acquire nuclear submarines has been dubbed the 'Optimal Pathway', but achieving it will be no mean feat.

Duration: 29 minutes 29 seconds

Published: 19 Dec 2024Thu 19 Dec 2024 at 11:48pmwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

AUKUS Investigated 03: The China question

In this episode Hamish and Geraldine examine the strategic thinking behind AUKUS. If China has undertaken the most rapid military expansion of any country since WWII, how does the AUKUS pact factor into Beijing's thinking?

Duration: 32 minutes 55 seconds

Published: 20 Dec 2024Fri 20 Dec 2024 at 4:07amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

AUKUS Investigated 04: The 51st US state?

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has said of AUKUS that "we don't need to be a pair of shoes hanging out of America's backside". Is that a fair characterisation of Australia's position vis a vis AUKUS?

Duration: 36 minutes 51 seconds

Published: 20 Dec 2024Fri 20 Dec 2024 at 4:07amwith Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Features

He's been called a cross between Donald Trump and Wolverine. Meet Argentina's new president, Javier 'El Loco' Milei

Argentina's president is hell-bent on fixing the country's economic woes, chainsaw in hand. But are his radical tactics working?

Published: 29 Oct 2024Tue 29 Oct 2024 at 8:00pmby Anna Levy, Hamish Macdonald, Zoe Ferguson and Linda LoPresti

Israel says Yahya Sinwar is dead. What kind of leader was he?

Yahya Sinwar was at the top of Israel's most-wanted list. Here's how he rose to power.

An older Palestinian man waves, surrounded by other Palestinian men

Published: 17 Oct 2024Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 8:54pmby Nick Baker, Hamish Macdonald, Zoe Ferguson and Linda LoPresti

'Publicly executed to send a message': The brutal regime of Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong Un runs the "model dictatorship" in North Korea. Here's how he got here.

Kim Jong Un speaks in front of microphones with a red and yellow flag in the background

Published: 22 Sep 2024Sun 22 Sep 2024 at 9:00pmby Nick Baker, Hamish Macdonald, Zoe Ferguson and Linda LoPresti

How this son of a dictator pulled off one of the biggest political makeovers in recent history

Thirty-seven years after his family fled Manilla in disgrace, Ferdinand Marcos Jr is running the country that his family had "plundered".

An elderly Filipina woman and a younger Filipino man in formal attire, both smiling

Published: 17 Oct 2023Tue 17 Oct 2023 at 6:07amby Nick Baker and Linda LoPresti

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