Browse episodes by:
All episodes by Anna Krien
Why would a university have a deal with Lockheed Martin?
Over the past few months, there’s been a lot of focus on universities’ relationships with weapons manufacturers. When Anna Krien started investigating the defence money flowing into education, she was shocked to find weapons companies are also tied to schools, shaping key parts of the curriculum.
Today, writer and contributor to The Saturday Paper Anna Krien on how the student protests revealed deep divisions in our education sector.
Inside the Zachary Rolfe hearings: The culture of racism the police deny
Zachary Rolfe, the former Northern Territory police officer who shot and killed an Indigenous teenager, Kumanjayi Walker, has been back in the witness box. Rolfe was acquitted of Walker’s murder in 2022, but now he’s given new evidence in a coronial inquest into the death.
Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper, Anna Krien, on who Zachary Rolfe is and why his evidence could spark change in the NT.
The Australian teachers quitting over Andrew Tate
An alarming number of Australian boys are engaging with, and looking up to, the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate. So why are misogynistic influencers reaching so many young men? And how is it forcing teachers to walk away?
Today, contributor to The Monthly and the author of Night Games Anna Krien on the “misogynist radicalisation” happening in our schools.
Understanding the Zachary Rolfe verdict
In November 2019, 19-year-old Walpiri man Kumanjayi Walker was killed by Northern Territory police constable Zachary Rolfe. Rolfe was charged with murder - and the trial has been playing out in the Darwin Supreme Court. Today, Anna Krien on the acquittal of Zachary Rolfe, and what this case reveals about the state of policing in Australia.
The sailors stranded at sea because of Australia's trade war
Right now dozens of ships carrying Australian coal are stranded in Chinese ports. More than 1,000 sailors have been trapped on board for months now because of one reason: Australia’s escalating trade war with China. Today, Anna Krien on the men trapped at sea and the question of who is responsible for them.
The teenagers taking on Adani
The controversial Adani coalmine in Queensland has already been approved by both state and federal governments, but a new legal challenge by two teenagers could be one last roll of the dice to stop it from going ahead.