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NouveauRussell Brand’s fake Christianity and the showbiz protection racket13 novembre 2026 · 15 min
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The Front brings the unrivalled journalism of Australia’s national broadsheet to audio, featuring each day’s essential page-one stories, journalists’ candid take on the issues that matter, and behind-the-scenes insights from our newsrooms.

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Épisodes 1 574

  1. Russell Brand’s fake Christianity and the showbiz protection racket

    15 min

    Russell Brand is a convicted sexual predator. Hiding in plain sight, he boasted of his behaviour for decades – while the world laughed along. Brand’s crimes are heinous, cementing him as what The Australian’s …

  2. Cummins v Khawaja and Warner: what the cricketers say

    9 min

    Pat Cummins says Usman Khawaja is “100 per cent wrong” about his allegations that the entire Australian test team knew that three members were using sandpaper on the field to tamper with the ball in 2018. The …

  3. After Jensen Huang: why the honey trap is every boardroom's new problem

    11 min

    Jensen Huang has resigned effective immediately from the world's most powerful company, Nvidia, after alleged affairs with an employee and a woman American officials believe is a Chinese spy. But the so-called …

  4. Cricket captain Pat Cummins finally speaks on fresh ‘sandpapergate’ claims

    3 min

    Australian test cricket captain Pat Cummins will on Friday address allegations made by his former teammate Usman Khawaja about a notorious ball-tampering saga on Friday. Plus, The Australian reveals plans to …

  5. Pants down, stolen kisses: The fall of David Walliams

    16 min

    After fighting all the way to the UK’s High Court to protect his identity and warning he was suicidal, the world’s most successful living children’s author and wildly popular entertainer David Walliams has lost …

  6. Revealed: the David Jones stores to close

    3 min

    David Jones has announced the closure of 19 stores and the shedding of thousands of jobs as FTI Consulting attempts to navigate the retailer's difficulties. Also in The Front’s afternoon headlines, documents …

  7. Usman, where’s the proof? Khawaja’s sandpaper bombshell unpacked

    18 min

    Usman Khawaja has re-opened Australian cricket's deepest wound, revealing in his new autobiography Sabr that the entire team knew about the 2018 Sandpaper-gate ball-tampering plot in Cape Town. With former …

  8. Judge’s powerful condemnation of rapist Russell Brand

    4 min

    Entertainer Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison following his convictions for rape and sexual assault. Meanwhile, Qantas is cutting 850 jobs and outsourcing backend technology …

  9. Sex, spies and Nvidia: the Jensen Huang bombshell

    15 min

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an affair with a woman American investigators allege is a Chinese spy. As tech stocks slide and Washington faces calls for a congressional investigation, what does this …

  10. What’s Usman Khawaja’s end game?

    3 min

    Today on The Front’s afternoon headlines: Usman Khawaja opens up about the 2018 sandpaper scandal in his new autobiography, accusing teammates and Cricket Australia of dodging responsibility. Plus, food prices …

  11. JD Vance vs Kamala Harris: Could this nightmare come true?

    16 min

    JD Vance thought he had a Donald Trump-endorsed golden ticket to the White House - but after the Republicans got hammered in the midterms, it looks more like golden handcuffs. So can JD still be president? And …

  12. John Malkovich, the CIA, and Easter Island: inside Wild Horse Nine

    15 min

    Inside Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine: the ‘bloody buddy comedy’ taking on the Oscars.Senior reporter Sarah Elks joins host Claire Harvey on The Front to break down one of the most talked-about films of the …

  13. ‘Killer cop’ says he’s ‘responsible’ for ex’s death – but ‘didn’t want to kill him’

    4 min

    Accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon admits he’s responsible for his ex-boyfriend’s death – but claims it was a tragic accident. He’s pleaded not guilty to two counts of domestic violence-related murder …

  14. Who killed David Jones? Inside the butchering of a beloved brand

    13 min

    Private equity, foreign owners, terrible service, real estate missteps, angry landlords and bemused customers: David Jones died a slow and ugly death and now we’re asking: can anyone revive this 18-year-old …

  15. ‘I’m not a little creep’: Beau Lamarre-Condon in the witness box

    10 min

    Accused killer cop Beau Lamarre-Condon is giving evidence in his own defence in his double-murder trial. He’s pleaded not guilty to murdering TV presenter Jesse Baird and Baird’s partner, flight attendant Luke …

  16. Billionaire’s brutal Canva shakeup: 1200 out, everyone else back in

    13 min

    Tech heroine Melanie Perkins calls Canva’s massive 1,200-person layoff a "refounding" of the tech unicorn. But behind the PR spin and a strict new return-to-office mandate lies a harsher reality: the threat of …

  17. Not my fault: Trump reacts to midterm walloping

    3 min

    Donald Trump has lost control of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the United States midterm elections, with results flowing in throughout the coming hours. The Democrats have easily retaken the …

  18. Learjet 60 crash: The incredible composure of 20-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras

    17 min

    Why did a Bombardier Learjet 60 plunge 32,000 feet a minute into a Florida road? Aviation writer Robyn Ironside joins Claire Harvey to break down the final, chilling air traffic control audio and examine the …

  19. Dissent inside the RBA board about rate rise

    4 min

    Point of Law won the Melbourne Cup by a country mile - and rates went up just as everyone expected them to. In fact the only surprise this afternoon is that three members of the Reserve Bank Board voted against …

  20. Why do Democrats keep choosing the wrong candidates?

    17 min

    The midterms are on in America - and you’d expect voters to give the widely unpopular Donald Trump the kind of walloping presidents can usually expect in congressional and state elections. But the Democrats are …

  21. Pauline Hanson’s lieutenant rules out a run in 2028

    2 min

    Pauline Hanson’s lieutenant James Ashby turns down a run for parliament, as National Party leader Matt Canavan heads to the House of Representatives. Plus, the 27-year old Afghan refugee who will stay in …

  22. BMWs and broken promises: Inside the specialist fee war

    13 min

    With specialist out-of-pocket costs surging by 73% since 2010, the Albanese government is pushing ahead with a mandatory website requiring medical specialists to display their fees upfront. But can price …

  23. The smart women fantasising about dragon sex

    16 min

    This week’s bookshop frenzy for a new romantasy title - A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J Maas - prompts some big questions. Why are romantasy plots so silly? Why do smart women love them anyway? And …

  24. Mushroom killer likely to die in jail after freedom bid rejected

    4 min

    Mushroom killer Erin Patterson will likely die in jail after the Victorian Court of Appeal rejected her bid for freedom and increased her sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Plus …

  25. Israel’s Arab kingmakers: Which PM will blink first?

    16 min

    Israel’s gloriously messy democracy has thrown up a real doozy: parliamentary elections that have two potential prime ministers both saying the other guy lost. The Australian's Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says …

  26. ASIC to probe banks behind failed Firmus float

    3 min

    The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is making “targeted inquiries” into the actions of the bankers behind the canned multibillion-dollar stock-market float of data-centre builder Firmus. Plus …

  27. Inside a casino crime wave: bags of cash, Rolexes and a $250m fine

    14 min

    Breathtaking criminality - and a penalty that could have been much, much higher. The casino operator Star has had a huge judgment in the Federal Court with huge implications for the rest of the gaming sector …

  28. Did Israel just re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu?

    3 min

    Huge claims and no clear winner - yet: that’s the state of play in the high-stakes Israeli elections that have seen Arab Israeli parties emerge as the potential power players. Also in the Front’s afternoon …

  29. The Australian ISIS bride accused of enslaving a 9-year-old

    13 min

    Among the many revolting crimes of the failed Islamist movement ISIS was the enslavement and mistreatment of women and girls. They are Yazidis, a long-persecuted ethnic minority. Now, a Yazidi woman says she …

  30. Did the ABC hire a Hamas terrorist?

    3 min

    Senior ABC brass have told a Senate committee they’re investigating whether or not a journalist they used to help cover the Israel-Hamas conflict was in fact a Hamas operative. Also in today’s afternoon …

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