The World Today

The World Today

The World Today is a comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians.

Episodes

July 31, 2025 • 25 mins

Australia has dodged higher tariffs on its goods sold to the United States, staying at 10 per cent.

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Canada announces it will join France and the UK in pushing for a Palestinian state, when the UN General Assembly meets in September.

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July 29, 2025 • 25 mins

Pressure is mounting on the Albanese government after the UK has announced it will recognise a Palestinian state in September.

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A UN conference aimed at working towards a two state solution between Israelis and Palestinians has been boycotted by both the US and Israel.

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July 27, 2025 • 25 mins

Israel has announced a daily pause in the fighting in three areas of Gaza to allow more food to get into the strip.

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July 24, 2025 • 25 mins

The French President Emmanuel Macron vows to recognise the Palestinian territories as a state, as international pressure builds on Israel to end the war.

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July 23, 2025 • 25 mins

The cattle industry's response is mixed after the Federal Government announced a lift to bio-security restrictions on beef imports from the United States

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July 22, 2025 • 25 mins

The government has used the second day of parliament to introduce legislation to cut student debt and reforms to the childcare sector.

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July 21, 2025 • 25 mins

Israel's facing growing international pressure to end the war in Gaza.

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July 20, 2025 • 25 mins

A tenuous truce appears to be holding in southern Syria, after a week of deadly fighting. But leaders from Syria's minority Druze community say their people have been killed, homes looted, and women raped.

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A Victorian courtroom has erupted after a man accused of murdering Hannah McGuire changed his plea to guilty midway through the trial.

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July 16, 2025 • 25 mins

The unemployment rate has jumped as tens of thousands of Australians lost full-time positions in June.

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July 15, 2025 • 25 mins

Bradley John Murdoch died serving life in prison today, taking to his grave vital information about his victim Peter Falconio.

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The PM presses Australia's interests in a high level meet in Beijing.

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July 13, 2025 • 25 mins

Anthony Albanese meets with business leaders in China, with a high-level roundtable on green steel in Shanghai.

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July 10, 2025 • 25 mins

An Israeli air strike has killed at least 15 people - including ten children - outside a medical clinic in Gaza.

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July 9, 2025 • 25 mins

The prime minister says a report by special envoy Jillian Segal has found antisemitism has reached "deeply troubling levels".

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July 8, 2025 • 25 mins

Qantas reveals more details about a major cyber attack that's caught up millions of customers.

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Erin Patterson has spent her first night behind bars as a convicted murderer. Locals say they're relieved the long trial has come to an end.

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Victoria launches an anti-hate taskforce, following the latest attack on a Melbourne synagogue. Will it ease social division?

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