We know Donald Trump doesn’t like losing elections and the US president is still claiming that the 2020 poll was rigged and stolen. 

Now with the midterm elections just eight months away there’s concern he’s trying to fiddle with the voting system.

Today, Professor Rick Hasen from UCLA on Trump’s tactics and whether he can get away with meddling with US democracy. 

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Rick Hasen, Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project

Sussan Ley has lost the Liberal leadership.

The partyroom voted to dump its first female leader after she’s been in the role for just nine months.

Angus Taylor now has the mammoth task of turning around some of the worst polling in the Liberal Party’s history and stopping One Nation from stealing more of its voters. 

Today, Niki Savva, political commentator and author and former advisor to Prime Minister John Howard, on the leadership spill and whether the Coalition has any chance of returning to government. 

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Niki Savva, political commentator and author of Earthquake: The Election that Shook Australia

Donald Trump was Jeffrey Epstein’s one time friend and his name appears countless times in the Epstein files. 

But it’s not the US president who’s currently fighting for his political survival.

Instead, it’s the British leader Keir Starmer who’s on very shaky ground, even though he’s not in the documents.   

Today, professor of politics at Deakin University, Simon Tormey, on how he became so deeply embroiled in the controversy. 

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Simon Tormey, Executive Dean of Arts and Education and Professor of Politics at Deakin University

Six years ago, ASIO had the Bondi shooter Naveed Akram under investigation. 

So why did the spy agency determine in 2020 that the alleged terrorist didn’t pose a serious threat and was that an intelligence failure? 

The spy boss Mike Burgess stands by his agency’s assessment.

But a former spy has told the ABC he met the father and son years ago and had concerns they were radicalised.

Today, Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop on his Four Corners investigation into what was known about Naveed Akram and his father Sajid before they killed 15 people at Bondi beach. 

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Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC investigative reporter

The protesters came in force, but what began peacefully descended into chaos. 

Around 6,000 people had gathered to condemn the visit to Sydney by the Israeli president but there were violent clashes with police after they were ordered to disperse.

Today, law professor Luke McNamara from the University of New South Wales on the new protest laws brought in after the Bondi attack and why he thinks the Labor government has gone too far. 

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Luke McNamara, Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice and the University of New South Wales

After the horrific Bondi terrorist attack Prime Minister Anthony Albanese invited the Israeli president to come to Australia.

It’s a visit welcomed by prominent Jewish groups, but President Isaac Herzog is a controversial figure. 

Opponents, including some pro-Palestinian and human rights activists take issue with his past comments about Gaza and his role in representing the state of Israel. 

New South Wales authorities are trying to block any marches through Sydney, but protesters are vowing to press ahead.

Today, ABC Global Affairs Editor Laura Tingle on the controversy surrounding the visit.  

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Laura Tingle, ABC Global Affairs Editor

Demand for home batteries in Australia has taken off, with a generous government subsidy prompting more people to add power storage to their solar panel set up. 

More people installed a battery in the second half of last year than during the previous five years. 

Renewable power generation also made up half of the nation’s power supply last quarter.

Today, Tony Wood from the Grattan Institute on what the surge in home batteries and renewables in the grid means for everyone’s power bills now and into the future.

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Tony Wood, Energy and Climate Change Senior Fellow at Grattan Institute 

The Canadian prime minister wants us to give up on the international rules based order, which he bluntly says is fiction and he’s urged middle power countries to unite. 

As Donald Trump continues to up-end US foreign policy, what does Mark Carney mean and where does Australia fit in? 

Today, Samir Puri, the author of Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing, on the significance of Carney’s words and why, even when Trump is gone, the world will have changed forever. 

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Samir Puri, author of Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing and former director of Chatham House’s Centre for Global Governance and Security 

Ever since Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs were announced in April last year, the price of gold has been rising.

Its price is about 80 percent higher than it was a year ago and it’s still near its all time record after a recent sell off.

So, what’s been moving the price of gold and what does it say about investor’s faith in the US and global economy? 

Today, business correspondent David Taylor on why Australians have been queuing to buy the shiny metal and where the price could go next. 

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David Taylor, ABC business correspondent

The Reserve Bank cut the cash rate target three times last year, but already there’s a U-turn. 

The RBA board is so concerned about inflation sticking around that it has increased interest rates for the first time since 2023.

Today, the ABC’s finance expert Alan Kohler on the RBAs failure to bring inflation down to its target and the mistakes it made in 2025. 

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Alan Kohler, ABC finance expert

There are three million files and thousands of mentions of Donald Trump.  

But the US president says the latest batch of the Epstein files clears him, while the US Department of Justice says there’s no need for any further investigation. 

But is that really the end of it? 

Today, David Smith from the United States Studies Centre at Sydney University on what the latest files mean for Trump and others and why millions of documents are still hidden. 

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David Smith, associate professor at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney