The conversation you’re about to listen to is almost certainly unlike any interview you’ve heard before. It’s unlike any 7am has ever done.

Dr Jeni Haynes has dissociative identity disorder, otherwise known as multiple personality disorder. In 2019 she set a world first legal precedent when her alters were allowed to testify in court against her abusive father, who was later sentenced to 45 years jail.

Now, she and her two thousand plus alters are speaking out in a new SBS documentary We Are Jeni.

Today you’ll hear from Dr Jeni Haynes, as well as from some of her alters in a rare glimpse into multiple personality disorder, and how it saved Jeni from her abusive father, who triggered the disorder in the first place.

And a warning, while this story doesn’t go into graphic detail - it does reference child abuse.

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Guest: Dr Jeni Haynes

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Right now, AI data-centre mega-hubs as large as 350 hectares are being planned across Australia – that’s the equivalent of 175 MCG playing fields.

And the energy they need to fuel them is just as huge: more than the total output of an entire coal plant.

The solution? So-called “shadow grids” built in partnership between the data centres and big gas, where gas-fired power plants are placed directly on site, powering the centres and generating huge emissions in the process.

Today, Ketan Joshi, climate expert and co-author of a new Greenpeace report, on the relationship between fossil fuel companies and data centres, and Australia’s vulnerability in the AI race.

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Guest: Climate expert Ketan Joshi

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Earlier this year, authorities found something extraordinary inside a Cambodian scam compound: a fake Australian Federal Police office.

There were Australian flags, AFP-style logos, and desks staged to look official – all part of a six-storey compound used by scammers impersonating police forces from around the world.

It was a reminder that the scam messages Australians receive are often connected to a far more sophisticated and exploitative criminal industry.

New figures show Australians reported more than $2 billion in scam losses last year, and a recent UN report has detailed how people are trafficked into scam centres, held against their will, and forced to target strangers online.

In early 2024, Ben and his wife were kidnapped and trapped inside one of these Cambodian scam factories. This is the story of how they escaped – and why so many others can’t.

This episode was originally published in March 2025.

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Guest: Ben Yeo, ambassador for the Australian International Counter Slavery Alliance (AICSA)

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Tony Abbott is back at the centre of Liberal Party politics. 

The former prime minister has been elected unopposed as federal Liberal Party president – a role that sounds administrative, but carries real political weight at a moment of deep trouble for the Coalition.

The Liberals are watching voters drift to One Nation, while Abbott argues the answer is to take the fight directly to Labor. But his return sharpens a deeper question inside the party about whether the Liberals can rebuild by reviving the politics of the Abbott era, or whether that only deepens the crisis they’re trying to escape. 

Today, press gallery veteran Paul Bongiorno, on Tony Abbott’s comeback, the future of the Liberal Party and how the government is trying to turn the opposition’s crisis into a test of its own authority. 

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Guest: Press gallery veteran Paul Bongiorno

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In Melbourne, few names carry the weight of Mick Gatto. 

For decades, he’s been known as a survivor of the gangland wars, a man whose influence has stretched from the city’s underworld into the heart of the construction industry.

This week, police raided his home. Gatto and his wife were arrested, then released without charge. He says it was all over a driving infringement. Police say they’re investigating alleged financial offences. 

But the raid has landed in the middle of a much larger fight over corruption, intimidation and alleged underworld influence inside Victoria’s building sector. 

Today, investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, on Mick Gatto, corruption in the construction industry, and the reckoning now facing the state’s Big Build.

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Guest: Investigative reporter for The Age and SMH, Nick McKenzie

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29 women have been killed in Australia so far this year - most allegedly by their intimate partner. Their names sometimes hit the headlines, but often not. And even then, the outrage seldom lasts. 

We’ve known for a long time that Australia has a problem with violence against women. Little seems to work to change the statistics. For some advocates - a Royal Commission is the only chance at making a difference. 

A petition calling for that - now sits at more than 110-thousand signatures. 

Today, writer and advocate Jess Hill on whether it will ever happen, and what it could achieve, if it did. 

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Guest: Writer and advocate, Jess Hill

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For decades Pauline Hanson has been on the fringe of politics. Sometimes mocked, often ignored, occasionally courted.
 
Even from that position she’s been influential: her presence can be felt in our immigration policies, dating back to Howard. 

But her power and her popularity have never been greater than they are today. A recent poll has one Nation as the most popular party in the country, surpassing Labor in primary support. 

So just how possible is an Australia governed by One Nation? 

Today, host of The Conversation’s The Making of One Nation podcast, Ashlynne McGhee, on the party’s popularity and what it will try to do with it. 

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Guest: Making One Nation podcast host, Ashlynne McGhee

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Five years on from COVID, a new report has found the world is even more vulnerable to new pandemics than it was before. 

The report, by a body linked to the World Health Organisation, has been released as the world grapples with Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, as well as one of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks on record.

The report found that, despite advances in vaccines and diagnostics, climate change, armed conflict and misinformation are undermining global preparedness.

Today, Professor Sharon Lewin from the Doherty Institute, on the risk of a large-scale disease outbreak and what we should be doing to prepare for it. 

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Guest: Doherty Institute Director, Professor Sharon Lewin

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The world is facing a series of large-scale crises – war, declining democracy, climate catastrophe. 

So, is it all a sign that our civilisation is reaching its limits – and that our economic and political systems are nearing collapse?

That’s the question Australian author Sarah Wilson has been interrogating for the last three years for her new book, ‘I Eat The Stars’.

Today, writer Sarah Wilson on what happens when the systems that hold us together begin to fray all at once – and what the future looks like after civilisational collapse. 

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Guest: Author Sarah Wilson

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One year ago this week, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi White, died after being restrained by police inside a supermarket in Alice Springs.

This week, his family was told the officers involved will not face charges. The coronial investigation is still underway, with another directions hearing expected next month.

Kumanjayi White’s grandfather – Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves – had already spent years calling for accountability after the death of another young Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot and killed by NT police officer Zachary Rolfe in 2019.

For Jampijinpa Hargraves, the deaths of Kumanjayi Walker and Kumanjayi White are part of the same crisis: Aboriginal people living under a system that does not make them safe.

Today, Jampijinpa Hargraves, on life under the watch of police, the pressure of systems that were never made to protect his people – and what real safety would look like.

This episode originally aired in May, 2025.

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Guest: Warlpiri elder Jampijinpa ‘Ned’ Hargraves.

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Well, the budget blowback is showing no signs of easing but this week the government doubled down, introducing the legislation for its tax changes to parliament. Albeit with the detail around CGT still TBC and with an inbuilt political booby trap for the Coalition.

At the same time, Pauline Hanson is floating her own negative gearing model - as One Nation surges in the polls.

And while Labor and the Coalition wrestle with how to fend off Hanson’s rise - the Teals are mulling a plan of their own - a teal party combining the power of Independents like David Pocock, Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender. But are they really better together? 

Today, political editor at news.com.au Sam Maiden on Albo’s budget resolve, Pauline’s proposal, and teal party power.

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Guest: Political editor at news.com.au Sam Maiden

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