Tue 18 Aug 2026 05.15 AEST
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It isn’t always easy to keep up with what’s happening in the US. “Shorter America” is a series where Dr Emma Shortis loops you in on what’s going on in America and shares news and analysis that you can trust.
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has delivered a scathing critique of the AUKUS security pact, arguing anyone who believes the US will hand over its nuclear-powered submarines is living in a “political fantasy land”.
It’s not often that Sarah Ferguson’s ABC current affairs program 7.30 can be compared with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the new meme for everything. Odysseus navigated between a rock (Scylla) and a hard place (Charybdis, the whirlpool) to save his ship, his men and himself. One suspects that the Minister for Defence Industry, Pat Conroy, following his tricky 7.30 interview on 29 July 2026, now finds himself aligned with Homer’s imperfect hero.
