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Anna Henderson's Canberra, and Helen Clark on the UN's missing senior women

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David Marr interviews SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson on Australian politics, followed by conversation with former NZ PM Helen Clark on UN leadership. Anna breaks down Angus Taylor's new Liberal opposition framing of Australian values, focusing on immigration policy, the 11 women ISIS detainees in Syria, and One Nation's climate denial agenda. Second segment explores gender gaps in global institutions, specifically why no woman has ever been UN Secretary-General despite 80 years of selections.

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A dry, forceful political hour that turns a UN succession fight into a question of authority.

Late Night Live shifts from Canberra into a broader argument about power, institutions, and who gets to sit inside them. The Helen Clark interview carries the hour: it is pointed on the UN's gender imbalance, alert to great power pressure, and blunt about how a woman…

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You want politics with institutional memory and a proper argument about power.

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