Correspondents Report

The ABC's overseas reporters give their interpretation and analysis of the week's major events.

  • 12 minutes 21 seconds
    The European Super League debacle

    The attempt by 12 of Europe’s biggest football clubs to form a breakaway super league collapsed within 48 hours after a furious reaction from fans and players. So what was it all about?

    24 April 2021, 9:15 pm
  • 13 minutes 39 seconds
    It's the end of Hong Kong as we've known it

    Beijing’s security laws, the expulsion of pro-democracy legislators, and an ongoing police crackdown on opponents has effectively killed off the notion of one country-two systems.

    12 December 2020, 8:10 pm
  • 15 minutes 11 seconds
    How Taiwan is dealing with disinformation on social media

    In Taiwan the government and the biggest social media app have formed a public-private-partnership to tackle disinformation, predominantly from China, through the use of AI and fact checking.

    5 December 2020, 8:10 pm
  • 12 minutes 22 seconds
    Angela Onwuachi-Willig's 'The fire this time' - balancing personal and professional responses to the murder of George Floyd

    Angela Onwuachi-Willig is Dean of the Boston University School of Law. As the first African-American to hold that position she grappled with how to speak to her students about the murder of George Floyd and the broader issue of racial inequality in the US.

    13 June 2020, 9:10 pm
  • 16 minutes 10 seconds
    A true story of slavery and restitution in America

    The story of former slave Henrietta Wood who successfully sued the man who abducted her and sold her into slavery has won the 2020 Pulitzer history prize.

    23 May 2020, 9:30 pm
  • 19 minutes 10 seconds
    Under fire WHO meets at a critical time in the pandemic

    The World Health Organisation is holding its annual assembly at a critical juncture in the COVID 19 pandemic and while facing sustained criticism over its response

    16 May 2020, 9:10 pm
  • 13 minutes 40 seconds
    Concerns over new mothers and babies during COVID 19

    Giving birth alone, without pain medication and forced separation from the baby is every pregnant woman’s worst nightmare. How the pandemic has changed birth practices 

    9 May 2020, 9:10 pm
  • 10 minutes 13 seconds
    Blue Mountains charity feeding 18,000 daily

    A charity in the Blue Mountains is feeding 18,000 people a week during the COVID 19 crisis.

    25 April 2020, 9:15 pm
  • 6 minutes 21 seconds
    Coronavirus pandemic creates a dilemma for ABC correspondents

    The coronavirus pandemic has forced the ABC's Jakarta correspondent to evacuate.

    28 March 2020, 8:15 pm
  • 6 minutes 54 seconds
    In Israel the coronavirus is adding to a political and legal crisis

    The coronavirus has overshadowed an unprecedented political and legal crisis that has left Israel without a government and with an un-elected prime minister who is now ruling by decree.

    28 March 2020, 8:10 pm
  • 6 minutes 27 seconds
    America's prepper culture kicks in

    Americans know how to prep and they've stocked up to bunker down as Coronavirus takes hold.

    21 March 2020, 8:15 pm
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