Carl Robinson first went to Vietnam to work for USAID, but following the Tet Offensive of 1968, his disillusionment with the entire war led him to quit and become a journalist. Eleven years he stayed in Vietnam, getting married, having children until he was forced to leave in a dramatic helicopter exit in 1975 in Saigon. He settled in Sydney, Australia in 1977 and established the extremely popular Old Saigon Restaurant in Newtown to a city not yet in love with Vietnamese cuisine.

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Carl Robinson - a memoir of the Vietnam War

Ian Dunt assesses the politics and mood of a Great Britain under siege. Rebecca Murray discusses the ongoing conflict in Libya and The Idealist - Samuel Zipp's new biography of Wendall Wilkie, President Roosevelt's international envoy.

'Whatever it takes' in Ian Dunt's UK, Libya update and a biography of the idealist - Wendell Wilkie.

Bruce Shapiro on the latest from America, Andrew Quilty reports from Afghanistan and the global influence of Cardinal Mannix

America, Afghanistan & the global Mannix

How the coronavirus pandemic has caused a loss of political control. How did a squabble between Saudi Arabia and Russia over oil production targets lead to the ‘nuclear version of a price war’?

Laura Tingle; Russian oil politics; Irish wounds

Bernard Collaery on our troubled history with East Timor. The politics of trees.

Bernard Collaery on East Timor; Politics of trees

Financial journalist John Authers on how contagion fears are causing havoc with the world's stock markets. Daniel McCarthy considers America's political response to the virus and we meet rat researcher Michael Parsons.

Contagion and stock market volatility. Daniel McCarthy's America. Rats

Bruce Shapiro discusses America's response to the coronavirus, Rory Medcalf looks to a future where multi-polar alliances challenge the dominance of China and Toby Ord discusses other threats to humanity.

COVID-19, America, the Indo-Pacific and other threats to humanity

Canberra Capers with Laura Tingle: Impunity for those who wage war; The Convent

Hong Kong new protests and coronavirus. Does tragedy drive Joe Biden? Remembering Freeman Dyson.

Hong Kong protests: Joe Biden; Remembering Freeman Dyson

Who will the Democrats choose to take on Donald Trump? Bruce Shapiro looks at the results from Super Tuesday.

4th March 2020

Ian Dunt on the latest trade talks in the UK and Arnold Zable explains why the compelling stories of the 'Luftmensch' need to be told

Ian Dunt and Arnold Zable

Yanis Varoufakis on Assange, Brexit, Greece and the health of democracy

Judicial activism and the High Court, and a Jewish homeland in the NT?

Judicial activism and the High Court; A Jewish homeland in the NT?

Ben Buchanan examines the impact of hacking over the last 20 years and how cyber attacks have become much more overt and common.

Cyber attacks, the hacker and the State. The history of drugs and war

Pardons and convictions in the USA, Mahathir's latest move in Malaysia and the unintentional consequences of acclimatisation societies.

US Politics, Malaysian politics and acclimatisation

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