Suzie Miller, playwright of Jodie Comer’s Broadway hit ‘Prima Facie’, tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why rape victims are failed by the legal system, how trauma is misunderstood in the court room, and why a patriarchal system forces female barristers to become part of the problem, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
The 2026 Commonwealth Games have been thrown into doubt after Australia’s Victoria state pulled out of hosting them.
The awesome power of a small piece of sand paper to rub a whole country up the wrong way. Yes, it’s the latest twist in the cricket cheating scandal where personal shame meets national outrage. Now head coach Darren Lehmann is to step down after the final Test match against South Africa. His decision came…
Australian police have detained a man after the police say he deliberately drove into pedestrians in the heart of Melbourne. Nineteen people were injured – four critically – but police say they believe the suspect had mental health issues, with no known links to terrorism.
If the world’s major institutions are looking distinctly creaky, so too is the European Union, heading for an uncertain future after Brexit. Britain’s hopes of forging new, independent relationships with the rest of the world were given a boost by Australia, whose high commissioner to the UK promised a new trade deal would be reached quickly.
Over 1,600 refugees held on offshore islands off Australia are to be resettled in America. Among those kept in detention centres on Nauru and Manus islands in extremely difficult conditions are people from Iran, Syria, Iraq and Pakistan.
Michael Gove promised again today to introduce an Australian-style points system to control immigration numbers if he becomes Prime Minister. But is Australia really the best place on which to model an immigration policy? Immigration has become a key issue in this weekend’s general election. And its treatment of asylum seekers arriving by boat has…
The Prime Minister is accused of cronyism for awarding his election strategist Lynton Crosby a knighthood and including a number of Conservative party workers in the New Year Honours List.
A British teenage boy has been given a life sentence with a minimum term of five years for plotting a “chilling” Anzac Day parade terror attack in Australia.
A British teenager who pleaded guilty to inciting terrorism overseas sent over 3,000 emails as he planned a deadly terrorist outrage on the other side of the world.
Confirming that a wing part found on a Reunion Island beach earlier in the week is from missing flight MH370, the Malaysian transport minister says that a plane window has also been discovered.
As the Conservatives and SNP prepare for battle in a radically altered political landscape, we reveal the relentless precision of the social media campaigns that became vital to their success.
The pending executions of nine Indonesian and foreign nationals on drug offences have strained the country’s relations with the international community and, in particular, Australia.
Prince Charles and Prince Harry, together with leaders from Turkey, Australia and New Zealand, commemorate the bloody, nine-month 1915 Gallipoli campaign, which began 100 years ago.
Stormy weather in New South Wales has killed three people and left a trail of damage and destruction – including in Sydney and the surrounding area.