Veteran Australian Journalist and Broadcaster, Neil Mitchell, best known for his dominant 34-year career at Melbourne talkback station 3AW, joins Macca, Kenny and Jack as they discuss the Kyle and Jackie-O meltdown and the subsequent fallout to the ARN and KIIS FM brand, and where media and radio are heading in 2026.

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Macca and Kenny talk to Arunn Jegan, Humanitarian Affairs Lead – Médecins Sans Frontières, (Doctors Without Borders); about the “Insidious Normalisation of Horror” in Gaza and Israel’s blockade of Humanitarian Aid.

Arunn Jegan works with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as their Humanitarian Affairs Lead. He is an experienced Head of Mission and Emergency Coordinator and has worked in occupied Palestinian Territories, Yemen, Syria, Venezuela, Bangladesh. Prior to Joining MSF, he worked in Afghanistan, Sri-Lanka, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey in senior management positions for other international NGOs over his 15-year career.

While he specialises in humanitarian crisis coordination during public health emergencies, he has been exploring relational approaches to advocacy using co-design, creative practice, and community engagement through the Creative Advocacy Partnership.

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Bruce Wolpe is a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United States Studies Centre. Bruce is a regular contributor on US politics across media platforms in Australia. In recent years, Bruce has worked with the Democrats in Congress during President Barack Obama’s first term, and on the staff of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He has also served as the former PM’s chief of staff.

Bruce Wolpe is a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United States Studies Centre. Bruce is a regular contributor on US politics across media platforms in Australia. In recent years, Bruce has worked with the Democrats in Congress during President Barack Obama’s first term, and on the staff of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He has also served as the former PM’s chief of staff. From 1998-2009, Bruce was a senior executive at Fairfax Media in Sydney.

Bruce is author of Trump’s Australia, an examination of Donald Trump’s possible return to the presidency and the issues presented to Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2023), The Committee, a study of President Obama’s legislative agenda in Congress (University of Michigan Press, 2018, 2d Edition September 2021) and Lobbying Congress: How The System Works (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1990, 1996.

In a recent article. Wolpe was quoted as saying, “Trump has a few weeks to renew voter confidence in him — and that’s amid a risk of unintended consequences like friendly fire incidents and American casualties”.

“They’re going into a war in which most people don’t want,” he told SBS News from the United States.

“I think there’s a burden on Trump, and he has to do a lot to get a better outcome as far as the standing with the American people.”

“Trump came into office with the promise of an end to America’s cycle of forever wars. Before his election, he promised in 2024 to “turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of never-ending wars”.

Now he’s seeking to justify a broad, open-ended war on Iran, though he initially projected the war on Iran to last four to five weeks.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/trump-approval-iran-war/ac8wk6g8r

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Kenny and Macca talk to Professor Peter Greste, an award-winning journalist, author and academic who spent fifteen years with the BBC before he joined Al Jazeera as East Africa correspondent. In 2013, he went to Egypt to help cover the unfolding political crisis but two weeks into the assignment, security agents raided his hotel room and arrested him and two colleagues. They were charged with terrorism offences, and in the subsequent trial they became champions of press freedom. All three were eventually convicted and sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison, before being released under intense international pressure.

Peter saw his trial and conviction as an extreme example of the way journalism was being attacked in the War on Terror globally, and wrote about his experience in The First Casualty, He joined the University of Queensland as UNESCO Chair in Journalism and Communication in 2018 where he continues to campaign for the freedom of journalists.

In honour of his campaigning, Peter has been given numerous awards including a Walkely (2014); the British Royal Television Society’s Judges Award (2015); the Australian Human Rights Council Medal (2016); the RSL’s ANZAC Peace Prize (2016); and the Australian Press Council’s Press Freedom Medal (2018).

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Macca and Kenny talk to Josh Burns, ALP MP Macnamara, Federal Politics Update: Iran War, Cost of Living and Trump’s latest controversies.

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Macca, Kenny and Jack are joined live on air by Australian Motor Sport Legend, Mick Doohan as they discuss tomorrow’s Australian Grand Prix and Mick gives us his predictions.

Image courtesy of: Mercedes-Benz.com.au

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Nevena and John talk to ABC Journalist, Maddison Connaughton,

Maddison Connaughton is an investigative reporter for Background Briefing. She has also worked at the ABC programs Four Corners and Media Watch.

Prior to the ABC, she was editor of The Saturday Paper and a senior editor at Vice. Her reporting has also appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, The Observer, Foreign Policy and more.

Looksmaxxing refers to a subculture focused on maximizing physical attractiveness. While some aspects involve standard self-care like grooming and fitness, the trend often moves into extreme and hazardous territory, particularly within online communities.

https://theconversation.com/looksmaxxing-is-the-disturbing-tiktok-trend-turning-young-men-into-incels-221724

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Nevena and John speak to Rachel Payne -Legalise Cannabis MP for South-Eastern Metropolitan, about her recent article in the New Matilda, about a lack of class in politics.

Rachel Payne is a prominent Australian politician and a key figure in the Legalise Cannabis Victoria party. Since her election to the Victorian Legislative Council in 2022, she has consistently advocated for comprehensive cannabis law reform, focusing on decriminalisation, medicinal access, and road safety

https://newmatilda.com/2026/02/25/why-im-an-mp-who-cant-use-the-c-words-often-enough/

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