Mark Kenny's Canberra, Syrians return home and Lord Howe Island cockroaches
6/1/202655 min
A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, and Mark Kenny says political parties can't agree on how to respond. Meanwhile the government is bogged down in budget backlash. Millions of Syrians forced to flee the brutal Assad regime are now returning home, but with much of Syria destroyed what’s left to return to? Plus insect life on Lord Howe Island has significantly increased since the eradication of invasive rodents in 2019.
Guests:
- Prof. Mark Kenny, Director of the Australian Studies Institute, host of Democracy Sausage podcast
- Kholoud Helmi, Syrian journalist and Managing Director of Enab Baladi news publications’s Daraya edition
- Maxim Adams, PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, co-lead in a new study with the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, published in Biological Invasions
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[upbeat music] Welcome to Late Night Live, coming to you from Gadigal Land. I'm Tracy Holmes, filling in for David Marr for a couple of weeks. Coming up on the show, around thirteen million Syrians fled the country during the Assad regime. Now, eighteen months since the regime suddenly fell, how many Syrians have managed to return home? And what are they returning home to? The journalist Kholood Helmi joins me a little later. Plus, a surge in cockroach numbers is not something you'd typically get excited about, but that's how scientists are feeling