The COP26 summit is set to take place this November to address the global climate emergency and discuss commitments to tackle emissions. Australia remains a laggard on climate action due to its unambitious emissions targets and is facing mounting international pressure to commit to net zero by twenty fifty. 4ZZZ Journalist Thomas Hawker spoke to Climate Council spokesperson and contributor to five previous IPCC reports Professor Will Steffen about climate action and policy in Australia.

Trigger Warning: sex and nudity

Art has always been used as a tool to communicate ideas and opinions; art is thought-provoking and emotional.

Erotic art is no different.

Erotic art empowers sex, sexuality and body positivity, normalising traditionally taboo or what some would call confronting subjects like the sex work industry and kinks.

With the ever-changing status of restrictions, there is one thing that has kept constant. Film. Over the past 12 months Australian films have increased in share by more than double since 2019, prompting questions about what Australia and South East Queensland's filmmaking scene may look like in the future. 4ZZZ journalist Samuel O'Brien investigates.

As the world begins to emerge from its COVID-19 lockdowns, the Middle East is once again in the grip of mass protests against inequality and government incompetence. In countries like Tunisia, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Algeria, these movements had begun long before the pandemic saw them grind to a halt, and COVID-19 has only exacerbated the public’s grievances.

On the 25th of July, Tunisia’s populist president Qais Saied dismissed the country’s prime minister and suspended parliament following widespread protests against the government’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many in the West have been quick to brand the move a coup, casting doubt on the future of the Arab Spring’s one democratic success story. Tom spoke to Dr William Lawrence, non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute and former United States diplomat in Tunisia, about the evolving political situation in the country.

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Australian South Sea Islanders (ASSI) were trafficked in the 1860s Blackbird trade… tricked or kidnapped as “Indentured Labourers” to work our sugarcane fields and clear land for cropping.

4ZZZ’s Eliot Rifkin spoke with Starrett Vea Vea the chairman from MADASSIA (Mackay and District Australian South Sea Islander Association) about Queensland’s Australian South Sea Islanders' hidden history and what’s up with their community today

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This week in gaming news:

Microsoft’s Edge Hosted Potentially Illegal Copies of Games
The extensions store on Microsoft’s Edge was found to be hosting copies of games such as Pac-Man, Tetris, Super Mario Bros, and even Minecraft. However, the developers listed with the titles weren’t the original developers, such as Microsoft or Nintendo, making it likely that these listings were not official copies of the games.