Rear Vision

ABC (Australia)

We tease out the complex history behind those baffling events in the news.

Episodes

Papua New Guinea’s Election—Democracy with a difference

How did it come to this — the energy crisis we had to have?

United States Supreme Court

The economics of Inflation—Science, Craft, or Snake Oil

Not Quite Australian - What’s Australia’s problem with New Zealanders?

The NRA—Its history and its influence on the gun debate in America

Predicting the weather—a history of the forecast

Zero-COVID in China—the social economic and political cost

Sri Lanka—failed state

Trouble in the ‘family’—Australia’s relationship with its Pacific neighbours

The Marcos revival—from pariahs to the presidency in the Philippines

Roe v Wade

Germany’s Ruhr—from coal mines to culture

The Greens—politics and the environment

Chocolate—the world’s most seductive treat and its dark shadow

President Emmanuel Macron—his brilliant career

The history of international criminal law

The far-right in France—where does it come from and why is it so popular?

Brisbane—city of floods

Cyclone Tracy—one of Australia’s worst natural disasters and what the government did